Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 17th Aug., 1888
I, EDWARD JOHN BARNES, of Mile End, in the County of Middlesex, Account
Book Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to certain Improved means of displaying advertisements.
In accordance with the present improvements I construct a suitable carriage or
vehicle mounted upon suitable travelling wheels preferably fast on a rotating axle,
with an upper closed framework intended to contain the apparatus hereinafter
described, and made with transparent sides of glass or other suitable substance through
which the advertisements are intended to be displayed.
Within such framework I mount on suitable supports, and longitudinally of the
vehicle a shaft adapted at or towards each end, and if required at intermediate parts
with series of radiating spokes the outer ends of which are adapted with spring
extensions adapted to project into contact with the said glass sides and such
extensions may if required be connected by longitudinal bars running parallel with
the shaft.
The shaft and said radiating spokes, and longitudinal bars if applied thereto, form.
an exhibiting frame upon which I mount one or a series of transparent screens or
sheets upon which the desired advertisements are printed or displayed in any suitable
manner, dividing or spacing out such screen or sheet longitudinally and vertically as
may be desired for large or small advertisements. I cause such exhibiting frame to
receive intermittent rotatory movements by suitably connecting it with the axle or by
other suitable means from which it derives its actuation, and I so arrange such
connecting or actuating mechanism that I cause such exhibiting frame and its screen
or screens to be rotated at each movement to any desired degree or extent.

page_text: Within the exhibiting frame or otherwise within the surrounding frame, I apply
one or more lamps or means of projecting light outwardly through the exhibiting
screen so as to cause the matter exhibited thereon to be illuminated, and I increase
the attractive effect by causing by suitable appliances such lamp or illuminating
apparatus to illuminate the screen in any desired colors in any desired sequence so
that while any advertisement or advertisements are for the time stationary and on
view it or they shall be illuminated and caused to appear in a great variety of colors
in one or more colors at a time.
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DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, EDWARD JOHN BARNES, of Mile End, in the County of Middlesex, Account
Book Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 certain improved means of displaying advertisements or
the like, and consists, essentially, of a van constructed with transparent sides through
which intermittently shifted advertisements are displayed, and with transparent ends
through which set or intermittently shifted advertisements are displayed, and which
van is adapted with an inner arrangement of mechanism of the nature hereinafter
described for shifting the said advertisements and which mechanism is automatically
operated by means dependent for their actuation upon the forward movement of
the van.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1. repre-
sents a side elevation of a van constructed and adapted in accordance with the present
improvements; Fig. 2. represents the rear end of the van in elevation, the same being
shown partly in section as hereinafter set forth. Fig. 3, is a plan view of means for
transmitting motion from the van to the hereinafter described shifting mechanism ;
and Fig. 4. is a sectional plan view through one of the corner supporting posts
hereinafter described.
In accordance with the present improvements, I construct a suitable carriage or
vehicle, 5, by making the same with glazed or transparent side sashes, 6, and with
glazed or transparent end sashes, 7. The front sashes, 7, may be fixed, but they are
preferably suspended in a usual manner so that they may be raised and lowered in the
manner of window frames so that the advertisements intended to be displayed there-
through can be conveniently placed and removed and so that the inner sides of the
glass can be conveniently cleaned. The rear sashes, 7, are preferably hung upon
hinges, as at, 8, and open centrally so as to provide for the convenient placing and
removal of the advertisements displayed there, and for ready access into the interior
of the van between the opposite side parts of the hereinafter described shifting
mechanism for the purpose of arranging and adjusting such mechanism if and as
required. The advertisements intended to be displayed at the front and end of the
van may be affixed or secured or removably applied to the inner sides of the said
sashes, 7, in any suitable manner, or may be displayed on a shifting screen supported
by top and bottom rollers carried by bearings secured to the framework of the van
and to which screen motion may be given by cords, straps, or equivalent means
deriving their motion from the hereinafter described double grooved pullies, 37, and
passing round grooved pullies on the ends of the said top and bottom rollers, or in any
other suitable manner. The side sashes, 6, may also be fixed, but for facility in
cleaning the glass they or some of them are preferably hinged as at, 9, so that they
may be readily opened as and when required, at other times being secured by suitable

page_text: locks.or fastenings, 10, which may also be applied to such of the end sashes as are
movable. The van may otherwise be constructed in a usual manner with a watertight
roof, 11, a strong floor, 12, a seat, 13, for the driver; a footboard, 14, a treadle, 15,
for actuating a brake-block, 16, by suitable connections, 17, a foot step, 18, for enabling
the driver to easily mount to his seat, shafts, 19, for a draught animal or animals';
front travelling wheels, 20, adapted to a fore carriage, 21, and rear travelling wheels, 22,
one of which or suitable means applied thereto or to the axle thereof are, however, in
accordance with the present improvements operativo in imparting the required move-
ments to the hereinafter described shifting mechanism contained within the van. The
wheels, 22, may rotate on a fixed axle, 23, as in the accompanying drawings, or may
be fast on a rotating axle supported in bearings connected to the body of the vehicle
in any usual or suitable manner.
The hereinafter described mechanism for shifting the advertisements displayed
through the sides of the van occupies nearly the full width length and height of the
van. It is constructed with duplicate reverse sets, for the opposite sides of the van
such sets being spaced apart as represented in Fig. 2. for permitting of access
between the same for the purposes bereinbefore stated or for any other necessary
purpose.
Each of such duplicate sets of shifting mechanism consists of a series of any
convenient number of like or similarly arranged shifting systems which are independent
of each other, but are actuated by means common to the series and which depend
for their actuation upon the forward movement of the van or vehicle as hereinbefore
stated.
In Fig. 2, of the accompanying drawings the positions of each of such sets of
shifting mechanism and of each of the series of such systems constituting such sets
is clearly represented, but in order to avoid confusing the drawings only one of such
systems is fully illustrated as hereinafter described.
Each of such side sets of shifting mechanism may be made as a self-contained
structure removable in whole from the van or it may be built in position within the
van.
It is constructed with corner supporting posts, 24, of timber or other suitable
material which are adapted to serve as supports for opposite sets of pullies, 25, freely
turning on pins, 26, and of which pullies each four (a, b, c, d,) constitute a set, and each
opposite two sets constitute the supporting part of one of the said shifting systems,
one of which is represented in detail in Fig. 2. at, e,. and around each set of
pullies, 25, (a, b, c, d.) there is arranged a strap, 27, or its equivalent carrying a series
of bars, 28, extending longitudinally of the van (parallel with the transparent sides, 6,)
from one end set of posts, 24, to the opposite end set thereof, and at about the
junction of each of such bars, 28, with each of such opposite straps, 27, there is
provided a projecting catch, 29, the purpose of which is hereinafter described.
Between each vertical pair of pullies, 25, tliere projects from the posts, 24, a part, 30,
and between each horizontal pair of pullies, 25, there is arranged an angle iron or
other suitable transverse support, 31, (such supports, 31, also serving, as stays to the
opposite end posts, 24,) and such parts, 30, 31, act as means for supporting and guiding
the straps, 27, and ends of the bars, 28, both vertically and horizontally in the course
indicated by that of the said straps, 27.
Each series or system, (f, g, h, i, j,) of longitudinal bars, 28, carries a translucent
sereen, 32, of any suitable fabric or material forming an exhibiting frame upon which,
between each adjacent pair of bars, 28, the desired advertisement or advertisements is
or are printed or displayed in any suitable manner, such screen sheet or exhibiting
frame being divided or spaced out longitudinally and vertically as may be desired for
large or small advertisements.
The whole of such shifting systems of each such side set are actuated in common
by a strap, 33, or its equivalent, which is supported by pullies, 34, working freely on
pins, 35, carried by the posts, 24, or stay pieces, 36, the two straps, 33, at each end
passing partly around double grooved pullies, 37, on a common shaft, 38, from which
they receive the desired motion. The pins or spindles, 35, of one or more of the
pullies, 34, may be carried in slotted bearings containing a helical or other spring so

page_text: arranged in a usual manner as to tend to keep the straps, 33, always taut. Tho
shaft, 38, is supported by bearings, 39, bolted to the floor of the van and is
actuated by bevel gearing 40, from a shaft, 41, supported by bearings, 42, bolted to
the floor of the van, and having keyed thereon a grooved or studded pulley, 43, or
its equivalent, to which motion is communicated from the hub, 44, of the driving
wheel; 22, during its revolution, or from any equivalent part on a rotating, axle, by.
means of a strap, 45, or its equivalent.
When the body of the vehicle rests upon springs, as in the modification illustrated,
and there is liability of slight variation of the distance between the pulley, 43,
and actuating hub, 44, or their respective equivalents, the bearings, 42, may advan-
tageously be bolted to a bed-plate pivotted on the shaft, 38, and normally resting
on the floor of the van, being slotted and guided by bolts projecting therefrom
and being constantly borne down towards the floor by spring washers adapted between
the top of the plate and the heads of such bolts; the said plate resting on other and
more powerful springs arranged between it and the floor of the van and having a
constant tendency to keep the straps or means connecting the pulley, 43, and
hub, 44, taut.
As thus arranged, a continuous motion is given to the straps, 33, during the
progress of the vehicle, and an intermittent motion is communicated therefrom to
each of the said shifting systems by projecting catches, 46, which engage with the
catches, 29, of the straps, 27, and which catches, 46, may be arranged on the
straps, 33, at any required intervals, so that, for instance only one of such systems
(of cach side set) will be actuated at a time, the screens being actuated successively,
or so that any two or more alternate systems may be actuated simultaneously, or so
that after the series of such systems is actuated there may be a pause before the next
actuation thereof, or the gearing or actuating parts may be so proportioned or may bo
so arranged by the use of toothed sectors or interruptedly toothed gearing or other-
wise in any suitable manner as to give a pause between the movements of each
adjacent pair of screens.
The opposite end posts, 24, may also be stayed apart by bars, 47, running in the
direction of the length of the van, and the opposite bars, 47, may be connected by
webs, 48, every few inches apart, such webs being arranged between the adjacent
screens and tending to prevent the same from coming into rubbing contact.
Within each of such exhibiting frames or at the front ends of or otherwise within
the surrounding van frame, I may suspend or apply one or more lamps or means of
projecting light outwardly through the exhibiting screens so as to cause the matter
exhibited thereon to be illuminated, and I can increase the attractive effect by causing
by suitable appliances such lamp or illuminating apparatus to illuminate the screen
in any desired colors in any desired sequence so that while any advertisement or
advertisements in or are for the time stationary and on view it or they may be
illuminated and caused to appear in a variety of colors in one or more colors at a
time. This may be conveniently effected by surrounding the lamp, (suspended at, e,
from a diagonal frame extending from the opposite pairs of corner posts, 24, and
provided with a flue for carrying off the products of combustion) by a vertical
polygonal screen of various colored glasses provided with radiating extensions to
which motion can be imparted at the passage of each bar, 28, by an inner projecting
arm so as to partly rotate the polycolored screen at the passage of each bar, 28.
Or the adjacent sections of each screen or the series of screens may be made of
differently colored fabric or material so that practically the same attractive effect can
be obtained with an ordinary illuminating lamp giving a white light, and with the
advantage of chameleonizing by day as well as by night.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is;
1. The hereinbefore described improved means of displaying advertisements or the

page_text: 2. The application and use in combination for the purpose of the Invention, of a
travelling van constructed in the manner hereinbefore described, with contained
mechanisin constructed and operated in the manner hereinbefore described.
3. The application and use for the purpose of displaying advertisements or the like,
of a van or vehicle constructed with glass sides and ends substantially as hereinbefore
described.
4. The application and use for the purpose of displaying and shifting advertise-
ments or the like, of shifting mechanism constructed and arranged substantially as
hereinbefore described.
5. The construction of shifting mechanism for displaying and shifting advertise-
ments, substantially in the improved manner hereinbefore described.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.