Improvements in the Illumination of Flags, Banners and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Illumination of Flags, Banners and the like.
I, CARL ADOLPH HOLLSTEIN, of 21, Neue Gasse, Dresden, in the Empire of
Germany, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the decoration and illumination of flags and banners by
means of electricity and for the purpose incandescent lamps are used and in such a
manner that they may be placed on any part of the material forming the flag or
banner or on the tassels, cross rods carrying ropes, supports or the like in connection
with such flag or banner, the lamps being connected with one another by means of
insulated conducting wires and provided with electric current from any point & con-
veyed by means of insulated conducting wires which will serve to hoist and lower the
said flag or banner provided the same be of sufficient length.
The incandescent lamps used for this purpose are provided with a covering of wire
gauze for protection against breakage when by reason of the flattening of the flag or
banner they knock against each other or against other objects.
Dated this 1st day of July 1807
I, CARL ADOLPH HOLLSTEIN, of 21, Neue Gasse, Dresden, in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to the electrical illumination and decoration of flags and
banners by means of incandescent electric lamps which are arranged at any place or
places on the flag material as well as on the tassels or the like.
The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention and in which Fig. 1 shows a
flag and Fig. 2 a banner with the lamps arranged thereon in the form of a border, but
they can be arranged in any other manner so as to form patterns, letters and devices
of any convenient kind.
The lamps are attached to the flag or the like in any suitable manner and connected
with one another by means of insulated electric wires and are fed with the electric
current from any point. The feed conducting wires must of course be of sufficient
length so as to allow the flag to be raised or lowered as required.

page_text: For the electric decoration of banners the same can also be provided with incandes-
cent lamps on the cross rod and on the supporting ropes as shown in Fig. 2.
The incandescent lamps are provided in any suitable manner with a covering of wire
gauze or the like for protecting them against breakage during the fluttering of the
flag by knocking against one another or against other bodies.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The arrangement of electric incandescent lamps on flags, banners or the like and at
any places thereon the same being connected by insulated wires and conveniently
surrounded and protected by wire gauze or the like substantially as and for the pur-
pose set forth.
Dated this 21st day of March 1898.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicants, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London