Improved Means for Advertising and Making Public Announcements, and an Improved Method of Drawing Attention thereto.
Year: 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Advertising and Making Public Announcements,
and an Improved Method of Drawing Attention thereto.
We JOHN HALL and GEORGE SMITH of Paradise Square Sheffield in the County of
York Advertising Contractors, and JAMES FREDERICK BENNETT of Wrights Hill London
Road Sheffield Mathematical Instrument Maker 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, in writing, that is
to say:
This Invention relates to and consists in the application and use of the Phonograph
or the Graphophone, or any other suitable talking or sound producing instrument in
hotels, or in other public places where it is desirable or required to announce or
repeat advertisements, or speeches, or musical or other sounds to the public,-a
particular object of this invention being to attract attention to such advertisements as
are or can be displayed on glass, or on other suitable substance or material, and which
will be placed near to or on the Phonograph or other talking or sound producing
instrument or apparatus.
The Phonograph, Graphophone or other talking or sound producing instrument
or apparatus will be so placed and fitted as to be in connection or combination with
the advertisements which will be displayed either on glass or on other suitable
substance or material. The advertisements can be placed either round the talking
or sound producing instrument, on it, or on any side or sides of it, or either at the
top or the bottom of it, or at any suitable place near the instrument or apparatus.
The instrument or apparatus will either announce or repeat the advertisements which
are displayed on or near it, or any other required advertisements, and also speeches,
songs, or musical or other sounds, to serve as an attractor or means of drawing
attention to the advertisements or announcements.
The phonographic or other sounds can be arranged to be produced continuously
or intermittently as may be convenient or desirable. The instruments will be worked
by suitable mechanism to effect such results, but such mechanism does not form part
of our present invention.
The Phonograph or other talking or sound producing instrument or apparatus,—
when used for the purposes of this invention, can either be fixed in one place or it
can be made portable when required.
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
The application and use of the Phonograph, the Graphophone, or other suitable
talking or sound producing instrument or apparatus, for publicly announcing and
repeating advertisements, or speeches, or musical or other sounds, where and when
required, in connection or in combination with,-advertisements placed on or
surrounding or contiguous to the Phonograph or other talking or sound producing
instrument, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 24th day of August 1889.
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Aldine Chambers, High Street, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicants.