AN IMPROVED MODE OF GIVING PUBLICITY
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustin Chrysostome Bernard and Jacques
Marie Pierre Albéric de St Roman, of Paris, France, and of 4,
South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF GIVING PUBLICITY."
Scaled the 17th May 1853, and dated the 28th March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustin Chrysostome
Bernard and Jacques Marie Pierre Albéric de St Roman, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on
the 28th March 1853.
WC, AUGUSTIN CHRYSOSTOME BERNARD and JACQUE MARIE PIERRE
ALBÉRIC DE ST ROMAN, of Paris, France, and of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Gentlemen, do hereby declare that the nature of the
Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF GIVING PUBLICITY" to be as
follows:-
The Invention consists in constructing vehicles with transparent
sides for the purpose of rendering more distinct and intellige placards
or advertizements placed therein.
The vehicle may be of any form or dimensions, and constructed in
such wise as to admit of some transparent and waterproof material,
such as glass or impermeable cloth, being set externally to form its
sides. A light is placed in the middle of the interior of the vehicle
when employed at night.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Augustin Chrysostome Bernard and Jacques
Marie Pierre Albérie de S' Roman, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 28th September 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
AUGUSTIN CHRYSOSTOME BERNARD and JACQUES MARIE: PIERRE ALBERIC
DE ST ROMAN, of Paris, France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, Gentlemen, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Iler reign, did, for Ilerself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Augustin Chrysostome Bernard and
Jacques Marie Pierre Alberic do S' Roman, Her special licence that
we, the said Augustin Chrysostome Bernard and Jacque Marie Pierre
Alberic de S Romau, our exccutors, administrator, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Augustin Chrysostome Bernard and Jacques
Marie Pierre Alberic de S Roman, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "An IMPROVED MODE 07 GIVING
PUBLICITY," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Augustin Chrysostome Bernard and Jacques Maric Pierre Alberic de
S' Roman, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands
and scals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Augustin Chrysostome Bernard
and Jacques Marie Pierre Alberic de S' Roman, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:
Our Improvements consist in applying glass, or some transparent
water-tight fabric, for the construction of the parts of advertizing carts
and vans upon which advertizements are set, and which are usually
made of wood, and illuminating by night the letters or figures thereon.
The carriage of the vehicle is constructed in the usual manner, and
the vehicle may be of any desired form. The sides of the vehicle are
made of polished or unpolished white or colored glass, or of transpa-
rent waterproof tissue, and the characters or figures to be advertized
are painted upon their surfaces. A gas or other light is introduced
into the interior of the vehicle at night, which serves to illuminate the
letters on the glass or stuff, and renders them clearly intelligible to the
passers by.
The advertizing carts and vans are applicable by day, but more
especially by night, and at all times will produce the advertizements in
a more intelligible manner than by the usual
process.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood
that what we claim as our Invention, and intend to be protected by the
said in part recited Letters Patent, is,-The application of glass, or
some transparent water-tight fabric, for the construction of the parts
of advertizing carts and vans upon which advertizements are set, and
which are usually made of wood, for effecting perambulating night
publicity, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustin Chrysostome Bernard,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of
Septembre, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
Witness, H. GILBEE.
A. C. BERNARD.
(L.S.)