Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
we CHARLES HENRY GUEST and LOUIS BARROW both of 280 Broad Street
Birmingham in the county of Warwick Engineers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to an improvement in that class of advertisements or signs
which are either Automatically, Mechanically or by any other means moved horizontally
with a view of changing or altering the advertisement or sign exposed to view.
In carrying out our invention we employ one or more strips of Steel or other suitable
metal or material fixed by any suitable means to or near the top edge or edges of the
canvass or other suitable material or substance upon which the advertisement or
sign is painted fixed or attached, and the said strips are supported upon or by
projections, ledges or any other suitable supports placed either continuously or at
intervals along the whole or part of the distance it is intended the advertisement or
sign shall move.
The object of this invention is to support the aforesaid canvass or other suitable
material or substance upon which the advertisement or sign is painted fixed or attached
so that it shall be able to move horizontally without dropping from the horizontal
line in any part. In this specification the word horizontal shall be taken to mean any
line running parallel with the horizon or at any angle approaching thereto.
Dated this 22nd day of T1007

page_text: VOLVING AUVOILSUMONES Vr Signs.
We, CHARLES HENRY GUEST and LOUIS BARROW, both of 280 Broad Street
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick Engineers 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 an improvement in that class of advertisements or signs
which are either Automatically, mechanically or by any other means, moved
horizontally, with a view of changing or altering the advertisements or signs, exposed
to view.
In carrying out our invention we employ one or more strips of steel or other suitable
metal or material fixed by any suitable means to or near the top edge or edges of the
canvas or other suitable material or substance upon which the advertisement or sign
is painted fixed or attached and the said strips are supported upon or by projections
ledges or any other suitable supports placed either continuously, or at intervals along
the whole or part of the distance it is intended that the advertisement or sign shall
move.
In making the aforementioned moving or revolving advertisements or signs, in cases
where it is desirable that they shall move horizontally, the difficulty has usually been that
the canvas or other material used would not hang straight, when supported only at each
end or when run round vertical rollers, and the object of our invention is to support
the aforesaid canvas or other suitable material or substance upon which the advertise-
ment or sign is painted fixed or attached, and so that it shall be able to move
horizontally without dropping from the horizontal line in any part.
As an example, take the case of an advertisement sheet travelling horizontally from
one vertical roller to another. In a case where our invention is not employed the
result would be that the sheet would gradually work downwards instead of winding
on to the receiving roller at the same height as it left the delivery roller, whilst if our
invention is employed, the supporting strips slide over or round the aforementioned
supports and so cause the sheet to retain the same height on arriving at the receiving
roller, as it had on leaving the delivery roller.
Although we have described our invention as relating to a horizontal movement
yet it will be obvious that it will be equally applicable for any angle excepting a
vertical.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The application of one or more flexible strips of metal or other suitable material
in combination with a moving advertisement or sign as hereinbefore described.
2. The flexible strip or strips of metal or other suitable material substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described.
3. The improved means of supporting or guiding the aforesaid moving advertise-
ments or signs substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 24th day of November 1887.