Patent GB-191025948-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Advertising Devices.
Inventor: LYON ELIAS ATHERTON
IPC: G09F11/295
Filed: 1910-11-08
Granted: 1911-11-08
Abstract: 25,948. Lyon, E. A. June 10, .[Convention date]. Reel and web apparatus.-In an advertising machine adapted to be set in motion by the actuation of the manually-operated part of an apparatus such as a telephone or c i g a rcutter, it is arranged that the strip bearing the advertising matter shall operate directly a rotary circuit-breaker for the purpose of ensuring that the strip shall be moved forward by a limited extent at each actuation. The circuit - breaker is in circuit with the electrical operating - device, and the reversal of the strip is effected by mechanism which does not require that the current through the motor shall be reversed. The advertisements are carried on a band 85 wound on spools 28, 29, Figs. 5 and 8, which are rotated by means of ratchets 34, 35 carried by levers 40, 41, Fig. 7, the ends of which overlap, and are simultaneously operated by a lever 46. One ratchet is held in an inoperative position by pins 56, 57, Fig. 7, on an oscillating link 53. The lever 46 is rigidly connected to the armature 47, Fig. 5, of an electro - magnet 49 provided with the usual contact-breaker 51. This motor is arranged to be started by the operation of some manually - operated part, for example, the hook supporting a telephone receiver. The attachment takes the form of a box 6, Fig. 4, which is secured to the upright of a table telephone - stand and from which a lever 16 supports and adjustably engages with the hook on which the receiver is hung. In its extreme positions, the lever engages with contacts 14, 15 in the box. The advertisements are brought into view in succession; to effect this, a wheel 82, Fig. 8, is rotated by the band, pegs on the wheel engaging holes in the band, and a spring frame 85<1>, Figs. 5 and 8, maintaining the parts in engagement. The wheel is provided on one face with an insulating-part 86, Fig. 8, the corresponding part 88, Fig. 13, on the other side of the wheel being conducting and the remainder insulating. Spring contacts 78 press against the opposite sides of the wheel. Normally the band stops so that the spring contact 78 rests on the insulating-part 86. If now the telephone receiver is removed from its hook, the contacts 15, 16, Fig. 4, are closed, and the band is moved until the spring contact moves off the conducting-part 88. The band remains stationary, until the receiver is replaced, when the contacts 14, 16 are closed, and the circuit through the motor completed through the conducting-portion of the front of the disk. Stoppage of the band takes place when the contact 78 moves on to the insulating-part 86. The motor may be started at any time by pressing a knob 95, Fig. 8, which completes the circuit through the motor by cutting out the contact disk 82. When the band has been completely wound on either of the spools 28, 29, apertures in the band allow contacts 102, 105, Figs. 5 and 8, to contact with the guide-rolls 30, 31, energizing either of two electro-magnets 69, 71, Fig. 5. The armatures of these magnets are connected by a link 64, which rocks the bar 53 through a lever 58, and allows the other ratchet to be active, rewinding the band on the empty spool. In another form, the apparatus is connected to a cigar-cutter, and in this case, the band only moves .forward one stage at each operation of the cutter. A contact is arranged to engage the hinged top of the cutter as it is pressed down, and it is not necessary in this form to have the second spring contact for engaging the rear face of the contact disk. Specification 15,061/06 is referred to.