A GENERAL ADVERTISING MACHINE ON WHEELS
Year: 1884

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ARTHUR WILLIAM HENRY WOOD Dentist and ALFRED SINCLAIR, Manufacturer
of Washing Machines both of Ullesthorpe in the County of Leicester and GEORGE
EDWARD PEAKE Perambulator Maker of No.56 Ash St Leicester do hereby declare
the nature of this our invention for A GENERAL ADVERTISING MACHINE ON
WHEELS, to be as follows:-
This machine is a frame on two or more wheels, to be pushed by hand or drawn
by hand, or horse, or other animal such frame will be made of wood or other
material with canvas or other material stretched upon it to be used for pasting
posters or bills upon or painting the advertisements upon (for different people which
we claim as an original idea) or 2ndly the frame to be filled up with a series of
small frames covered with canvas or other material, working on pivots so as to give
a better view and also to allow the wind to pass through or 3rdly the canvas or
other material to be stretched on rollers for the purpose of showing the advertise-
ments alternately one of which rollers will alide in a slot with the object of
tightening the canvas.

page_text: ARTHUR WILLIAM HENRY WOOD, Dentist ALFRED SINCLAIR Washing Machine
Manufacturer both of Ullesthorpe near Lutterworth in the County of Leicester
and GEORGE EDWARD PEAKE, Perambulator Maker of 56 Ash Street in the
Borough of Leicester do hereby declare the nature of our invention for A GENERAL
ADVERTISING MACHINE ON WHEELS, and in what manner the same is to be!
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:- :
This Machine consists of a large frame (A.) of wood, or other material, on two
or more wheels to be pushed or drawn by hand, or by horse or other animal, such
frame, to be covered with canvas or other material on which will be posted the
posters and other advertisements, for which the said frame is designed and intended
for the display of general advertisements, on each side of frame-and such frame
to have a box (C.) attached to the lower part, or axle (if desired) for the purpose of
holding sand or weights to act as ballast, also to have two iron (D.) rods, from the
top of the frame to the axle, one on each side to sustain the frame in position-or
it may consist of a series of frames (B) single or double, with canvas or other
material on one or both sides, fitted in the large or main frame, either fixed or
removable at will or, the said frames may hang on binges or turn on pivots
horizontally for the purpose of letting the wind escape.
2ndly, or it may consist of a series of frames or (B.) panels, covered with canvas
or other material, turning on vertical pivots (E.) to be worked by levers, or by.
bevel wheels by means of a shaft, along the top of frame, and down the end with
a handle to turn the said panels or frames, partially, or wholly, round, so as to
reverse them, or by means of an endless chain, working on toothed wheels, on
each pivot and driven by an upright rod, with toothed wheel, at top end, to
rotate the chain and a handle at the lower end, such rod to be fixed on the end
of large frame.
3rdly or another plan is to have an endless web of canvas, passing round two
vertical rollers (F.) inside the aforesaid large frame, one at each end-one
roller (F. Fig 4) to move in a slot, so as to stretch the canvas taught-to be
reversed occasionally to show both sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner, the same is to be performed We declare, that what
we claim is
1st. The large frame fitted on an axle and running on wheels with ballast
box and covered with canvas for showing separate advertisements in the streets
as now,

page_text: 2nd. Fitting the said frame with several frames to hold distinct advertisements
on each side either fixed or moveable on pivots but we do not claim any particular
method of moving such frames.
3rd. For an endless web of canvas on two vertical rollers working within the
aforesaid large frame on which to paste separate advertisements.