A New or Improved Combined Advertising-and-sample Box.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Advertising-and-sample Box.
I, GALLOWAY MACKINTOSH, of 13 South Charlotte Street, in the City and
County of Edinburgh, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved combined advertising-and-
sample box.
I will fully describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Figure 1 shows a longitudinal sectional elevation and Figure 2 a plan of my
combined advertising-and-sample box and throughout the following description
like marks of reference designate like parts.
Referring to the drawings, a is the box for containing samples and a¹ is its case
or frame. By an extension of the box I form a partition a2 in which I mount a
light cylinder or drum d made for example of tough paper or paper pulp. This
drum may be mounted on a light axle a working in bearings at each end; one end
of a sheet of paper or tape of any suitable length, whereon are displayed the
requisite advertisements is then secured to and wound on the drum the opposite
end of the paper being allowed to protrude from a slits in the end of the box o
partition.
The ends of certain elastic bands E are secured preferably to each end of the
axle the opposite ends of the bands being secured in any convenient manner within
the box so that when it is attempted to unwind the paper or tape from the drum
by pulling it out of the slit this shall be done in opposition to the elastic pressure
of the bands. Thus the more the paper whereon the advertisements are displayed
is withdrawn from the drum through the slits the greater will be the tension
brought upon the bands this accumulated force acting to wind in the paper or tape
again when its end is released.
The outsides of the box or frame may be used for advertising and the box for
samples and anyone receiving a sample in such a box it is anticipated will not fail
to utilise the advertising contrivance above described fitted in the box end.
Instead of the elastic bands as above described being wound onto the axle as the
paper is unwound from the drum springs might be coiled round the axle one end
of such a spring being fixed in or to the axle the other end being fixed in or to the
side of the box or this arrangement might obviously be modified to effect the same
result in other ways for example two elastic strings 6, 6ª may be passed through
the hollow body of a reel R (see Figure 3).
The ends of the strings are connected to the box sides as shown and one string 6*
is tied to the reel body at F so that on revolving the reel by drawing off the paper
or tape one elastic string is twisted round the other and this of course has the
effect when the tape is released after being drawn off the reel of revolving the reel
in the reverse direction to wind on the tape again.
The edges of the advertising paper arranged as above may be furnished with
scales for every day use or with calendars to further ensure the effective employ-
ment of the advertisements displayed thereon.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved combined advertising-and-sample box arranged and adapted for
use substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illusti ted in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of January 1894.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.