AN IMPROVED METHOD OF EXHIBITING ADVERTISEMENTS, DRAWINGS, DESIGNS, PATTERNS, OR SAMPLES, AND RENDERING IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR FRAUDULENTLY COPYING OF THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS "
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Cooper, of the Firm of Foster and Cooper,
Upholsterers, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, for an
Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF EXHIBITING ADVERTISEMENTS,
DRAWINGS, DESIGNS, PATTERNS, OR SAMPLES, AND RENDERING IT MORE
DIFFICULT FOR FRAUDULENTLY COPYING OF THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cooper at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th August 1881.
JOHN COOPER, of the Firm of Foster and Cooper, Upholsterers, of the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF EXHIBITING
ADVERTISEMENTS, DRAWINGS, DESIGNS, PATTERNS, OR SAMPLES, AND RENDERING
IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR FRAUDULENTLY COPYING OF THE SAME, AND IN
APPARATUS THEREFOR."
This Invention relates to an improved method of exhibiting advertisements,
drawings, designs, patterns, or samples, and it has for its object the exhibiting or
displaying of them in a better and more convenient manner than heretofore, and also
to render it more difficult for fraudulently inclined persons to make copies of the
matter exhibited.
In carrying out the Invention the matter to be displayed or exhibited is printed
or affixed upon a length or endless band of paper, calico, or other suitable material
which is carried by a carrying roller enclosed within a convenient box or case.
This box or case has in one of its sides an opening or glass panel through which a
portion of the exhibited matter may be seen, the exhibited matter being
progressively moved past the opening or glass panel at a speed sufficient for an
ordinary inspection, but without giving time for making drawings or copies of the
exhibited matter. The carrying roller is removable, and is placed horizontally near
the top of the box or case at the side with the opening or glass panel in it, and
receives motion through clockwork or mechanism contained in the box or case. The
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page_text: clockwork or mechanism is arranged to move the roller and endless band at a slow
progressive speed. In some cases the box or case may be provided with more than
one opening or glass panel. Also the mechanism or clockwork may be arranged to
give an intermittent movement to the carrying roller, so as to cause each object or
set of objects on the endless band to pause for a predetermined period when
opposite the opening or glass panel. Provision is also made for moving the
carrying roller out of gear from the clockwork or mechanism when necessary in
order to renew or change the exhibited matter, or when desired for other purposes.
The exhibited matter may be arranged to move in a vertical or horizontal direction
past the opening or glass panel. It is obvious that the apparatus is adaptable for
various purposes, where it is desired to exhibit in continuous succession a number
of objects, and it may be arranged to form a pleasing or instructive toy for children
and others.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Cooper in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th February
1882.
JOHN COOPER, of the Firm of Foster and Cooper, Upholsterers, of the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF EXHIBITING
ADVERTISEMENTS, DRAWINGS, DESIGNS, PATTERNS, OR SAMPLES, AND RENDERING
IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR FRAUDULENTLY COPYING OF THE SAME, AND IN
APPARATUS THEREFOR."
My said Invention relates to an improved method of, exhibiting advertisements,
drawings, designs, patterns, or samples, and it has for its object, the exhibiting or
displaying of them in a better and more convenient manner than heretofore, and
also to render it more difficult for fraudulently-inclined persons to make copies of
the matter exhibited.
In carrying out my Invention the matter to be displayed or exhibited is printed
or affixed upon a length or endless band of paper, calico, or other suitable material
which is carried by a carrying roller or rollers enclosed within a convenient box or
case. This box or case has in one of its sides an opening or glass panel through
which a portion of the exhibited matter may be seen, the exhibited matter being
progressively moved past the opening or glass panel at a suitable speed. The
carrying roller is removable, and is placed horizontally, in one modification, near
the top of the box or case, and receives motion through clockwork or mechanism
contained in the box or case.
The box or case may be provided with more than one opening or glass panel,
and the mechanism or clockwork may be arranged to give an intermittent
movement to the carrying rollers, so as to cause each object or set of objects on the
endless band to pause for a predetermined period when opposite the opening or
glass panel.
The exhibited matter may be arranged to move in a vertical or horizontal
direction past the opening or glass panel. It is obvious that my improved
apparatus is adaptable for various purposes where it is desired to exhibit in
continuous succession a number of objects, and it may be arranged to form a
pleasing or instructive toy for children and others.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a Sheet of explanatory Drawings,
to be hereinafter referred to, and representing various modifications of my improved
apparatus.
Figure 1 on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings is a front elevation of one.
modification of my improved apparatus; Figure 2 is a side elevation with part of
the casing removed; and Figure 3 is a plan on a larger scale with the top casing
removed. In this arrangement a long shallow box or case 1 is made with a portion
slightly wider at its upper part, and it is made with its front to open; its front
being formed by two doors 2, 3, in the lower one 3 of which there is a glass panel 4,
through which when the door 3 is closed, the interior of the case may be seen.
In the upper and wider part of the box or case 1 closed by the door 2 there is a
box 5 fitted containing a suitable coiled clock mainspring connected by a train of
toothed wheels in a well known manner to a toothed wheel 6. This wheel 6.
slightly projects below the box 5, and when the apparatus is in working order
gears with a pinion 7 on one end of a roller 8. This roller 8 (seen in plan and end
view in Figures 5 and 6 on an enlarged scale) is preferably of wood, and has at
each end of it a metal flange 9, to the outside of one of which at one end is

page_text: fixed or formed the pinion 7. The matter to be exhibited is upon an endless
band 10 arranged to move vertically or from bottom to top, and this band 10 is
passed round the carrying roller 8, which is formed octagonally between the flanges
to prevent the endless band slipping. The roller 8 is placed horizontally near the
upper part of the case or box 1, and may be put into gear with the wheel 6 or
removed therefrom conveniently, there being suitable sockets provided in the sides
of the casing 1, the socket at the end opposite to the one having the pinion 7 being
slotted obliquely, so that the roller 8 may be passed into its position from the
front. There is a roller 11 having flanges 9 at its ends and formed octagonally
between them, round which the endless band is passed, and this roller 11 is carried
in sockets similarly to the roller 8 placed near the lower part of the box or case 1.
When the mainspring of the clockwork is wound up it through the train of wheels
causes the roller 8 to rotate and move the endless band 10, causing the matter
thereon to pass successively the glass panel 4. Instead of coiled springs weights
may be employed if found preferable and convenient.
.
Another modification shown in Figure 4, which is a side elevation of my
improved apparatus with the side casing removed, is adapted for displaying a much
greater length of endless band 10. In this arrangement the endless band 10 is
passed round a horizontal carrying roller 8 gearing as in the first modification with
the wheel 6, and the inner side of the endless band 10 passes first round a guide
roller 12 placed near the lower part of the box or case 1, then upwards and round
another guide roller 13 having a pinion on it gearing with the wheel 6, thence the
endless band 10 descends again and passes round a roller 14 placed a little below
the guide roller 12, and round enclosing the roller 14 up to the carrying roller 8.
All the rollers are removably fitted, the sockets for them at one side being suitably
obliquely slotted. By employing more guiding rollers it is obvious that greater
lengths of endless band may be displayed.
Another modification is shown in Figures 7, 8, and 9 on the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, which Figures are respectively a front elevation, a side elevation, and
à plan, parts of the outer casing being removed in each case. The endless band 10
is in this modification arranged to travel from side to side of the apparatus, so that
the objects thereon move horizontally past the opening or glass panel in the door 3
of the casing 1. The endless band 10 is passed round the roller 8 and suitable
guiding rollers 12, 13, 14, which are fitted vertically in the casing. The clockwork
or mechanism for actuating the roller 8 is fixed at the bottom of the casing, being
placed conveniently for its wheel 6 to gear with the pinion 15 on a roller 16 which
is placed between the rollers 8 and 13. The pinion on the roller 8 in this case does
not gear with the wheel 6 but with the pinion 15 on the roller 16. The endless
band 10 is held at the top by a number of small metal travellers placed nearly
close together (shown full size in Figure 12), these travellers being formed with a
jaw having two inwardly projecting bits which fit into grooves formed in the two
sides of a metal guide or railway (shown in section full size in Figure 11). This
guide or railway is fixed to the top of the casing or box 1, and is shown in
Figure 10, which is an inverted plan.
When it is desired to exhibit patterns or samples or the like, and at the same
time to lessen the risk of fraudulently inclined persons copying such patterns or
samples or the like, the clockwork or mechanism is arranged to move them past
the opening or glass panel at such a convenient speed as will admit of their
being seen but only for a time insufficient to allow of copying or making correct
drawings.
Having now particularly described my said Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I have to state that I do not restrict myself to the precise
details herein described or delineated, but that what I believe to be novel and
original, and claim as the Invention secured to me by and in terms of the herein.
before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
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Firstly. The improved method of exhibiting or displaying advertisements and

page_text: the like by moving them past an opening or glass panel in a box or case,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Secondly. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved
apparatus for exhibiting or displaying advertisements and the like, substantially as
herein before described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 on the accom-
panying Drawings.
'
Thirdly. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved
apparatus for exhibiting or displaying advertisements and the like, substantially
as herein before described with reference to Figure 4 on the accompanying
Drawings.
Fourthly. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved
apparatus for exhibiting or displaying advertisements and the like, substantially
as herein before described with reference to Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 on the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cooper, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty third day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.