Product Glossary
Product glossary
4SI: Snap-In Retainer for ESP-4 Products.
Architectural: Products that work together as a system to provide a standalone signage solution with everything from mounting legs to connectors and trim.
Bleed Trim: For Flex Face signage, it covers the return of the frame, providing a seamless transition between the frame and the vinyl face.
Changeable Copy: Signage allowing users to alter displayed copy with movable letters.
CLRW (Channel Letter Raceway): Used for mounting channel letters, providing a safe environment for wiring, hardware, and power supplies.
Corner Angle: Used to align Excellart frame pieces.
Custom Miter: An angled cut made across the face, or width, of an extrusion, typically less than 45 degrees.
Divider Bar: Divides cabinet face.
DF (Double Face): Signage with two faces.
Extrusion: Process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile by pushing material through a die of the desired cross-section.
FCO (Flat Cut Out): Typically cut from acrylic or aluminum, affixed to the outward facing surface of a rigid face.
Flex Clip: Used to tension flex face material to the frame.
Flex Face: Flexible vinyl material for digitally printed logos and designs, tensioned to a frame system. Pros include versatility, wind resistance, light weight, and seamlessness.
Flex Frame: Frame designed for flex face material.
F: F-shape retainer (adds 5/8” to cabinet depth per side).
FF: Larger F-shaped retainer (adds 1 5/8” to cabinet depth per side)
FF2: Largest F-shaped retainer (adds 2” to cabinet depth per side)
Frame: The main structure in creating a sign cabinet
Hinged Frame: Incorporates a hinged shape in the profile, allowing retainers to be hinged open.
IDS: Internal retainer system component series.
Integrated Frame: Flex face frames that integrate structure to the profile, allowing standalone use or as a structural member for double face flex frames.
Kerf: The space left in a material equal to the width of a saw blade.
Kerf-Cutting: The process where frames are partially cut, leaving kerfs, allowing flexibility in shaping.
LF: Narrowest retainer (adds 7/16” to cabinet depth per side).
Mill Finish: This is the description of the surface texture (or finish) of metal after the extrusion die process.
Miter or Reverse Miter: An angled cut made across the face, or width, of an extrusion, typically ranging from 0 to 45 degrees.
OD (Outer Dimension): Is the x & y dimension of the sign frame.
Perimeter: The continuous line forming the boundary of the sign frame.
Piano Hinge: A low profile hinge system.
Push-Thrus: Typically acrylic letters pushed through a rigid face sign material and illuminated from behind.
Radius: Refers to the arc size of a corner, measured as the distance from the center point of a circle to the outside circumference.
Raceway: Used as a signage component to house and conceal wires, power supplies, and other electrical components.
Retainer Gusset: Used to align Excellart retainer pieces.
Rigid Face: Materials like expanded PVC, Polycarbonate, and aluminum used for rigid face signs. Pros include dimensional designs, ease of handling, and the ability to incorporate various design features.
SF (Single Face): Signage with one face.Internal retainer system component series.
Splice Plate: Braces a seam on two adjoining pieces.
Standard Frame: Standard components that mate together with flat and square surfaces.
Standard Trim: Trim for Flex Face signage covering the return and a few inches on each side of the vinyl face.
Tension Bar: A textured bar that is wrapped by the flex face of a sign and then inserted into a flex clip in order to tension the sign face.
WM (Wall Mount): Framing solution which mounts to a wall.
