AN IMPROVED DEVICE TO BE USED FOR ADVERTISING PUR=> · POSES.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED DEVICE TO BE USED FOR ADVERTISING PUR=> ·
POSES. "-A communication from abroad by Robert Dixon Bannister;
Gentleman, and Samuel Milligan, Engineer, both of Geelong,
Victoria, Australia.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 18th June 1875, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lako, & Co., Patent Agents,..
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.

page_text: Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declara-
tion that it has been communicated to me from abroad by Robert Dixon
Bannister, Gentleman, and Samuel Milligan, Engineer, both of Geelong,
Victoria, Australia.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming a 1
part of this Specification :-
This Invention consists in a new device to be used for the purpose of
affording facilities for the distribution of advertising cards to those
persons who may desire them, and is suitable for railway carriages, cabins
of vessels, omnibuses, rooms, and other chambers or compartments.
1
For the purposes of this Invention I provide a series of compart-
ments of sufficient area for the reception of any sized cards that may be
required and of sufficient thickness or depth to receive a number of such
cards one behind the other. About the middle of the inside of the back
of each of these compartments I provide a flat metal spring fastened in a
the centre, and with the ends bent forward so that the whole spring
forms a segment of a circle. This spring is for the purpose of pressing
the cards forward to the front of the compartment, so that as one after
another is taken away by persons who may so desire the remainder are
still pressed forward, so that to the last card the advertisement bears the a
same outward appearance as at the first, and the uniformity of the whole
series is thus preserved.
These compartments may be arranged singly or in any required
number in one or more rows, and of any approved material or design,
and although I have described a flat metal spring as the means whereby
the cards are to be pressed forward, I do not confine myself to that kind
of pressure, as india-rubber or other springs might be used for the purpose
if so desired. I prefer, however, to use the flat metal springs as
described, but in every case the springs must be strong enough to press
the cards forward and to prevent their shaking about without holding

page_text: In the accompanying Drawing Figure 1 is a'front elevation of a series
of advertising compartments with my springs attached; Figure 2 is a
plan; and Figure 3 is a perspective view thereof.
The compartments are marked A and the springs B. By the use of
this contrivance the necessity for copying the address of any place or
person desired to be remembered is obviated, as a card can be taken out
of the compartment instead.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I do not claim compartments to contain
advertisements, but I claim making advertising compartments so as to
receive a number of cards, and with a spring to press them forward, as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand. eight hundred and
Seventy-five.
"
Witness,
HY. JA. NoONE.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)