ADVERTISING BY DAY OR NIGHT
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Prisley, residing at No. 7, Townley Place,
Brandon Street, Walworth, in the Parish of Newington, in the County of
Surry. Gentleman, for the Invention of "ADVERTISING BY DAY OR NIGHT."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Prisley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th September 1858.
I, WILLIAM PRISLEY, residing at No. 7, Townley Place, Brandon Street,
Walworth, in the Parish of Newington, in the County of Surry, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "ADVERTISING BY DAY OR NIGHT,"
to be as follows:-
That I purpose (by means of engraved, or painted, or raised letters, of glass
or any other material, placed on plain, or ground, or colored glass in the body
of elongated lamps, of the same construction as the lamps now in ordinary use
for the purpose of lighting the public thoroughfares), so to arrange advertise-
ments as to be equally visible day and night without in any way retarding or
obstructing the light now given; having for its object a great saving of
expense, it will doubtless become, in my estimation, of great public service &
utility, its cost being estimated at one-third the average cost of any other
medium of advertising. The said lamps to be placed in lieu of those now in
ordinary use for the purpose of lighting the public thoroughfares and other
places.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Prisley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th March 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PRISLEY, of 7, Townley Place, Brandon Street, Walworth, in the Parish of
Newington, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Prisley, Her special licence that I, the said William Prisley,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Prisley, my 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 "ADVERTIZING BY
DAY OR NIGHT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Prisley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Prisley, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, and by reference to the Drawing
hereunto annexed and hereafter referred to.
The object of my Invention is to effect a new mode of advertizing by means
of an addition with letters and words thereon to the upper part of lamps or
lanterns now in use for lighting streets, roads, lanes, public thoroughfares,
railway stations, and other places. And in order to carry out my Invention,
I first remove the top or upper part of any of the ordinary lamps or lanterns
now in use for lighting streets, roads, lanes, public thoroughfares, railway
stations, and other places, and affix to the lamp, in the place of its ordinary
top, an addition or elongation, which can be best understood by reference to
the accompanying Drawing, in which the same appears marked with the

page_text: letter "A." This addition need not be of a square form, but it can be round
or of any other form; it can be made of glass or of any other transparent
material properly fastened together by means of tin, zinc, or other metal, and
on which material letters, raised, painted, printed, written, or engraved, or
affixed, are placed, and by means of which letters, notifications, and advertise-
ments can be published and set forth, which being illuminated by the light
within the lamp can be seen at night, and by the light of the sun can be
seen by day.
I do not claim the exclusive use of letters and words to be raised, painted,
printed, written, engraved, or affixed on any part of any ordinary street or
other lamp; but I do claim the use of such letters and words when used in
connection with the addition to the lamp which I have before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Prisley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILLIAM PRISLEY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named William Prisley in the presence of
JOHN WARD,
THO. THEOBALD,
Clerks to Messrs. Moseley & Co.,
9, Old Jewry Chambers.