Gallery of Clean Energy Inventions Exhibit - with setup details

The bottom 28” high signboard is blue. Printed on the blue signboard in large letters is the title of the
water inventions display – “20 Technical Solutions to Water Shortages”. The font and size of the
letters are to be determined in consultation with the Freeman sign shop. The Freeman sign shop is
capable of high-quality high-resolution printing of the bottom signboards in all the displays.
An alternative to attaching to the middle white signboards laminated printed invention descriptions is
for the Freeman sign shop to print the invention descriptions with 1/16-inch gray borders around and
between the 8.5” x 11” panels.
Displays can be joined together by sharing 8’ high black aluminum poles. For example if two displays
are placed against a wall, a P50 half-circle pole would be used to lock them together with the pole’s
flat side either facing the wall or away from the wall.
If two displays are to be placed at right angles to each other, they would share a P30 quartercircle
pole. Note that a display placed with one edge at a corner should have a border a few
inches wide separating the corner from an edge of its matrix of invention summaries.
In all cases displays must be supported from tipping over in some manner such as locking them
together as right angled pairs or triplets. The extra slots on the poles that are 45 degrees apart
from two other slots are often used for attaching diagonal overhead H45 bars for bracing against
tipping over.
The seven displays plus small introductory displays are configurable to a room by an experienced
booth designer.
The Clean Energy Inventions list, shown on pages 35 and 36, should be duplex printed as many
times as needed for Gallery visitors to pick up and take home.
A visitor’s register could have columns for the date of their visits to the Gallery of Clean Energy
Inventions, name, home state or country, number in party, and comment. Page 20 shows the Gallery
of Clean Energy Inventions Guest Register form.
A three-ring binder would hold a laminated copy of the “Guest Submitted Comments or Questions
(with Answers)” and “Inventions and Images Credits” – see their respective sections at the end of
this exhibit setup file. A few blank sheets of paper would be inserted in the front of the binder to allow
visitors to write comments and questions.
For many years Gary Vesperman has had a part-time job building or tearing down conventions in Las
Vegas as a Convention Journeyman with Teamsters Local 631. Gary often works part time for the
Freeman convention company. Gary is intimately familiar with Freeman booth components. Gary is
able to design the Gallery of Clean Energy Inventions exhibit for suitable rooms. Compared to the
sometimes huge Las Vegas conventions, the Gallery of Clean Energy Inventions is a relatively tiny
exhibit.
The following pages show Gary’s generic design of the exhibit for a typical building.
First familiarize yourself with the two floor maps below. The first floor map shows the approximate
dimensions of the floor spaces allocated for the two separate groups of displays plus a counter
assembly which together comprise the Gallery of Clean Energy Inventions.