IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS EMPLOYED IN ADVERTISING
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM ALFRED ROBERTS of 7 High Street, Bloomsbury in the County of
Middlesex, Sign Writer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS EMPLOYED IN ADVERTISING to be as follows:-
According to my Invention I construct an advertising sign or carrier of three
or more concave sides connected together so as to form three or more vanes to
catch the wind. This sign or carrier is constructed with capability of revolving
on suitable pivots or axes carried by itself or by the supporting frame. These
concave sides are painted or otherwise provided with the requisite sign announce-
ment or advertisement and if desired all the sides may carry letters or words which
when a number of the carriers are combined in a row or other desired order will
indicate a name or other announcement.
These revolving signs or carriers may be carried by fixed frames or the sup-
porting frames may be provided with means for attaching the same to a mans
shoulders or to other convenient support.

page_text: I, WILLIAM ALFRED ROBERTS of 7 High Street Bloomsbury in the County of
Middlesex, Sign Writer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS EMPLOYED IN ADVERTISING," and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
According to my invention I construct an advertising sign or carrier of three
or more concave sides connected together so as to form three or more vanes to
catch the wind.. This sign or carrier is constructed with capability of revolving on
suitable pivots or axes carried by itself or by the supporting frame. These concave
sides are painted or otherwise provided with the requisite sign announcement or
advertisement and if desired all the sides may carry letters or words which when
a number of the carriers are combined in a row or other desired order will indicate
a name or other announcement.
These revolving signs or carriers may be carried by fixed frames or the sup-
porting frames may be provided with means for attaching the same to a man's ;
shoulders or to other convenient support.
And in order that my said invention may be more clearly understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings.
more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section and Figure 2 is a plan of an adver-
tising sign constructed according to my invention and 'Figure 3 is an elevation
also partly in section and drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2 of an
advertising sign or carrior showing a modified construction.
In all the figures like parts are marked with similar letters of reference. a a are
advertising signs or carriers which are constructed each with three (or it may be
more) concave sides connected together at their edges so as to form three (or more)
vanes to catch the wind: -
The signs or carriers a as shown in the drawings are each provided with
pivots a¹ a² capable of revolving in suitable sockets or bearings formed in the
horizontal bars of the supporting frame b. Or if desired the pivots may be carried
by the supporting frame and suitable sockets or bearings formed in the signs or
carriers a a.
In Figures 1 and 2 these signs or carriers a. a. are supposed to be formed of tin
plate but they may be formed of other suitable material or if desired as shown at
Figure 3 they may be formed with a metal frame fitted with guides a³ to receive
sheets of glass a to complete the formation of the sides and which may be of any
suitable size and shape in which case the upper pivots a³ will each be made hollow
, as shown to allow of the passage of a gas pipe o down the samo to the interior of
the sign or carrier a in order that the latter may be capable of illumination from
the interior at night.

page_text: The concave sides of the signs or carriers à a are painted or otherwise provided
with the-requisite sign, announcement or advertisement and if desired all the sides
may carry letters or words which when a number of the carriers are combined in a
row or other desired order will indicate a name or other announcement.
These revolving signs or carriers may be carried, as shown at Figures 1 and 2,
by fixed frames or the supporting frames may be provided with means for
attaching the same to a man's shoulders or to other convenient support a's will be
well understood.
When employing advertising means constructed in the manner above described
in positions where they could not be rotated by the wind they may be rotated by
any suitable mechanical means, for instance on the upper or lower end of each
carrier a pulley may be fixed, and around these pulleys a band or cord may be
passed which band or cord may be worked by clockwork, electricity or other
suitable motive power.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
.
The improved advertising means consisting of one or more signs or carriers a
constructed with concave sides and supported by pivots a² a² in a supporting
frame b substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 6th day of August 1885.
W. A. ROBERTS.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.