Improvements in Advertising Apparatus.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1886.
Complete Left, 1st Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd May, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Apparatus.
I PHILIP ROBINSON of 142 Strand in the County of Middlesex Journalist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to advertisements displayed on hoardings either. in the street
or in railway stations or elsewhere; and my Invention consists in the combination
with the placard or advertisement of mechanical apparatus so arranged as to produce
automatically and at pre-arranged intervals of time an audible sound sufficient to
attract and direct the attention of the public to the advertisement. The means I
preferably employ consist of bells or gougs contained within a box attached to the
advertisement hoarding or placard whose hammers or strikers are set in motion by a
spring or other motor in such manner as to strike the bells or gongs either con-
tinuously or intermittently; or the apparatus might consist of a trumpet or other
wind instrument combined with bellows and with the spring or other motor. The box
containing the mechanism might project from the front of the advertisement or it
might be attached to the rear of the advertisement or otherwise arranged so as to
be out of sight.
I PHILIP ROBINSON of 142 Strand in the County of Middlesex Journalist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My Invention relates to advertisements displayed on hoardings either.in the street
or in railway stations or elsewhere; and my Invention consists in the combination
with the placard or advertisement of mechanical apparatus so arranged as to produce
automatically and at pre-arranged intervals of time an audible sound sufficient to
attract and direct the attention of the public to the advertisement. The means I
preferably employ consist of bells or gongs contained within a box attached to the
advertisement hoarding or placard whose hammers or strikers are set in motion by a
spring or other motor in such manner as to strike the bells or gongs either con-
tinuously or intermittently; or the apparatus might consist of a trumpet or other
wind instrument combined with bellows and with the spring or other motor. The box
containing the mechanism might project from the front of the advertisement or it
might be attached to the rear of the advertisement or otherwise arranged so as to
be out of sight.
P. ROBINSON.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I PHILIP ROBINSON of 142 Strand, in the County of Middlesex Journalist 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:
My invention relates to advertisements displayed on hoardings either in the street
or in railway stations or elsewhere; and my invention consists in the combination
with the placard or advertisement, of mechanical apparatus so arranged as to produce,
automatically and at pre-arranged intervals of time, an audible sound sufficient to
attract and direct the attention of the public to the advertisement.
The means I preferably employ consist of bells or gongs contained within a box
attached to the advertisement hoarding or placard whose hammers or strikers are set
in motion by a spring or other motor in such manner as to strike the bells or gongs
either continuously or intermittently, or the apparatus might consist of a trumpet or
other wind instrument combined with bellows and with the spring or other motor.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein figure 1 shows a front view of an advertisement or notice board
provided with a clock work alarum, the front cover being removed to show the
mechanism. Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same. Figure 3 shows a side
elevation and figure 4 a front elevation (with front of the frame removed) of the
clockwork on a larger scale. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in
all the figures.
A is the advertisement or notice board and B is a box containing the mechanism
fixed to the back of the board or elsewhere out of sight. The board A, on which the
placards or notices are posted or affixed in any suitable manner, may be mounted on
any suitable support. The box B is provided with a removable cover to give access
to the mechanism, said cover being in the present example let into the board A so
that it will be covered over and concealed by the placards when affixed thereto.
The mechanism is, in this example, adapted to strike two bells or gongs CD at
certain intervals. This mechanism consists of two spring trains, one E e etc. being
the gong train, and the other F1 etc. being the striking train. The gong train
resembles that of a clock without the dial work and bands, and is controlled by an
ordinary escapement and pendulum. The striking train somewhat resembles that of
a clock except that the bells are always struck the same number of times, the object
being to attract attention and not to denote the hour. The striking train is controlled
by a fly and is released at intervals by the gong train through the locking
levers GH. The lever G is acted on by pins i of a pin wheel I fast on the arbor of
the wheel e and its other end, which is weighted, engages at a certain moment with a
ping on the wheel of the striking train. The lever H is acted on by the lever G
abutting against its tail end and a lug at its other end engages with the notches of
a locking plate or count wheel K fast on the arbor of the wheel f³. The wheel K

page_text: may have one, two, or more notches and upon the face of the rim of the wheel ƒ³
are fixed any suitable number of pins which act on the tails m of the hammers c d
and cause the latter to strike the bells, the operation being similar to that of a clock,
that is to say, the pins I oscillate the levers G H causing the former to stand in the
path of ping so as to hold the striking train when the lever H is raised out of the
notch and caused by a slight motion of the train to ride upon the periphery of
the locking plate K. As soon as pin i ceases to act on lever G it releases the pin g
thereby allowing the striking train to run until lever H again engages in a notch k
when the striking train is again arrested.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
The combination with an advertisement or notice board or placard of concealed
mechanism for automatically producing, at pre-arranged intervals of time, an audible
sound, for the purpose of attracting public attention, as specified.
PHILIP ROBINSON.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.