Improvements in Apparatus for Exhibiting Advertisements, the Names of Stations, and other Information in Railway Carriages and other places.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1891.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Exhibiting Advertisements, the
Names of Stations, and other Information in Railway Carriages
and other places.
I, ERNEST CLUSE HAINES, of Hygeia House, Staines in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to exhibit the names of the stations and other
information in railway and other carriages, to display advertisements and the like.
The apparatus is provided with two chains or bands which pass over two pulleys
on a common axis or it may be over two or more pairs of pulleys on common axes.
These chains or bands are connected by a series of parallel bars from which are
hung plates carrying the announcements in such a manner that they always hang in
vertical planes, one side of them being displayed on one side of the apparatus
during their downward movement and the other side being displayed from the other
side of the apparatus during their upward movement. A step by step motion is
given to the pulleys in any convenient manner.
Dated this Ninth day of December 1890
E. C. HAINES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Exhibiting Advertisements, the
Names of Stations, and other Information in Railway Carriages
and other places.
I, ERNEST CLUSE HAINES, of Hygeia House, Staines, in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to exhibit the names of the stations and other
information in railway and other carriages, to display advertisements and the like.
The apparatus is provided with two chains or bands which pass over two pulleys
on a common axis or it may be over two or more pairs of pulleys on common axes.
These chains or bands are connected by a series of parallel bars from which are
hung plates carrying the announcements in such a manner that they always hang
in vertical planes, one side of them being displayed on one side of the apparatus
during their downward movement and the other side being displayed from the
other side of the apparatus during their upward movement. A step by step motion
is given to the pulleys in any convenient manner.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure is a front elevation of an apparatus constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 2 is a similar view in which the front casing and the upper set of plates
are removed.
Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section.
The apparatus as shown displays announcements on both sides so that when put
in the partition between two compartments of a railway carriage it will serve for
both compartments.
A is the outer case and B B are openings in it. C C and D D are two pairs of
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page_text: chains passing over pulleys C¹ C and D D₁ respectively. The chains CC
and DD are connected by bars E carrying plates E¹ the upper set of which
contain advertisements whilst the lower set have upon them the names of the
stations: The axis C of the lower roller C is driven by the spur wheel F gearing
with a pinion upon it. The wheel F gears with an equal wheel upon the axis Di
of the upper pulley D. In this manner the chains are driven faster than the
chains D. The pulley -D' has a step by step motion given to it by the mechanism
shown at Figures 4 and 5. G is a right and left ratchet wheel fixed upon the
axis. H H are two pawls in gear with its two sets of teeth respectively. These
pawls are pivotted at H' to two rocking pieces H" H" pivotted at J. According
to the direction in which the train is travelling one or other of these two rocking
pieces is caused to rise and fall by forcing air into and allowing it to escape from
one of the air bags K K. L L are pawls fixed to the rocking pieces H" H" each
of these gears with the other ratchet to that with which the pawl H on the same
side gears and they serve as retaining pawls to prevent overrunning. M M are
helical springs whose ends rest against the pawls H H and keep them up to their
work. N N are stops to prevent them from turning too far back.
The apparatus is worked by an air pipe from the engine or the guard's van two
pipes being provided one or other being used according to the direction in which
the train is moving. As it may be convenient to employ air at a considerable
pressure I adopt the following arrangement in order to prevent damage to the
apparatus. O are branches from the main air pipes leading into vessels PP
having fixed in them the elastic balls Q each of which communicate by the pipes R
with one of the air bags K which therefore are not worked by the direct pressure
of the main air pipe but indirectly by the compression of the ball Q.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood
that I do not make any claim under this application to the above described method
of driving the apparatus as this forms the subject of another application, but what
I claim is :-
1. Apparatus for exhibiting advertisements,, the names of stations and other
information in which there are two parallel chains or bands connected by a series
of parallel bars from which are hung plates carrying the announcements sub-
stantially as described.
2. Apparatus for exhibiting advertisements, the names of stations and other
information substantially as described and shown in the drawings. E
Dated this 3rd day of September 1891.
ERNEST CLUSE HAINES.