Improvements in Vehicles Employed for Advertising Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Vehicles Employed for Advertising Purposes.
I, WILLIAM BARNES, of 34 High Street, Northwich, in the County of Chester,.
Letter-press Printer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improvements relate to vehicles employed for perambulating advertising
purposes, and have for objects the attraction of attention, and the presonting to view
of various advertising surfaces in succession.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I construct a vehicle having
two, three, or more wheels, in such a manner that it is capable of being fitted with
one or more upright shafts, spindles, or studs, for the purpose of being revolved.
The said shaft or shafts or equivalents are fitted in suitable journals, and pass through
or below any flooring or platform the vehicle may have, or the vehicle may be
constructed in skeleton form.
The bottom or lower end of this upright shaft is fitted with a largo toothed or
slotted or other driving wheel or friction pulley. This toothed wheel or friction
pulley is geared up with a pinion mitre or other gearing, on the axlo-tree of the
vehicle, or by means of a friction wheel thereon, or by like means on the nave of the
wheel of the vehicle, or by belt or cord from one or other of these points passing
over antifriction pulleys attached to the framing or vehicle body.
Placed upon the upright shaft spindle or stud, or attached thereto is a framing of
any suitable form circular, square, polygonal or otherwise in plan, upon the sides of
which the advertisements are affixed or formed thereon; and they may be trans-
parencies or opaque in structuro for the purposes of illumination from within
or without.
By this means as the vehicle travels along, the framing aforesaid is caused to
revolve at any desired speed, according to the proportions of the gearing or driving
wheels emploved.

page_text: The vehicles may be constructed to be drawn or pushed by manual labour, or by
animal or other power, and variations in detail may be made without departing from
the peculiar character of the invention.
Dated this 8th day of March 1888.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vehicles Employed for Advertising Purposes.
I, WILLIAM BARNES, of 34 High Street, Northwich, in the county of Chester,
Letter-press Printer, 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 :-
The improvements relate to vehicles employed for perambulating advertising
purposes, and have for objects the attraction of attention, and the presenting to view
of various advertising surfaces in succession.
To accomplish this and to effect my improve.nents, I construct a vehicle having
two, three, or more wheels, or it might be only one wheel, in such a manner that the
vehicle is capable of being fitted with one or more upright shafts, spindles, or studs,
for the purpose of being revolved. The said shaft or shafts or equivalents are fitted
in suitable journals, and pass through or below any flooring or platform the vehicle
may have, or the vehicle may be constructed in skeleton form.
The bottom or lower end of this upright shaft is fitted with a large toothed or
slotted or other driving wheel or friction pulley. This toothed wheel or friction
pulley is geared up with a pinion mitre or other gearing, on the axletree of the
vehicle, when such axletree is a revolving one, or by means of a friction wheel
thereon, or by like means on the nave of the wheel of the vehicle when the axletree
is a fixed one, or by belt or cord from one or other of these points passing over
anti-friction pulleys attached to the framing or vehicle body.
Placed upon the upright shaft, spindle or stud, or attached thereto, is a framing of
any suitable form, circular, square, polygonal or otherwise in plan, upon the sides of
which the advertisements are affixed or formed thereon; and they may be trans-
parencies or opaque in structure for the purposes of illumination from within or
without. By this means as the vehicle travels along, the framing aforesaid is caused
to revolve at any desired speed, according to the proportions of the gearing or
driving wheels employed.

page_text: But that the improvements may be better understood, I will by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, shews a front elevation, and Fig. 2, a plan view, of apparatus arranged in
accordance with my invention, while Fig. 3, is a plan showing the arrangement of
more than one revolving framework, and Fig. 4, shows one modification of detail.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a, is the framing of the vehicle, which may be provided with a solid flooring, or
may be in skeleton form, and may or may not be provided with a receptacle for packages
or parcels as at a¹.
b, b, is the revolving axletree fitted with the bevil toothed wheel c, c, which takes
into the larger bevil toothed wheel d, d, attached either to the shaft, stud or spindle e, e,
when such is constructed to revolve with the vertical frame f, f, or to the frame fif
itself when the stud or spindle is formed as a fixture.
By this means, as the vehicle is pushed or drawn forward, the vehicle frame f, f, is
caused to revolve.
In place of toothed gearing, friction or other bevil or right angular gearing may
be employed, or where the wheels of the vehicle revolve on a fixed axletree, a grooved
or other pulley 9, g, may be fixed on the nave of a wheel as shown in Fig. 4, and by
passing a cord or belt around the same and over the carrier pulleys h, h, and round a
grooved or other pulloy j, j, at the base of the vertical frame, motion may be given
thereto.
In the case of large and heavy vertical frames, anti-friction pulleys may be added
at the base of the upright frames and near the periphery, or at other points, to ensure
their smooth running.
The vehicles may be constructed to be drawn or pushed by manual labour, or by
animal or other power, and variations in detail may be made without departing from
the peculiar character of the invention.
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 1
claim is
Perambulating vehicles mounted on one or more wheels and fitted with one or more
upright frames for advertisements which frames have revolving motion given to them
as the vehicle is pushed or drawn forward, for the purpose and in manner substantially
as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 5th day of November 1888.