Improvements relating to the Display of Advertisements in Public Vehioles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Display of Advertisements in
Public Vehioles.
I ALFRED DE LA ROSE, Proprietaire, demeurant à (residing at) Paris
(18 Avenue Carnot), France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The object of this invention is principally to provide for the display of
advertisements on the dashboards of Hansom cabs.
In carrying out this invention, the dashboard may be formed of light sheet
metal arranged to provide a frame or frames for holding advertisements.
The metal may be turned over at the edges, to form a kind of clip, to hold the
advertisements, and division strips may also be provided, so that two or more
advertisements may be displayed in one frame.
The frames may be secured to the frame-work of the cab, or applied to the
dash-board in any convenient manner, provision being made to prevent the removal
or insertion of advertisements without authority.
The parts may be hinged together, so that they may follow the contour of the
frame-work, and may be made very ornamental in appearance, and may be made
to open and close to receive the advertisements, which, for convenience, may be
printed on one sheet of material of any kind, in order to give uniforinity. Other
kinds of advertisements may however be applied in the improved dashboard frames.
Dated this 7th day of June 1892.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Display of Advertisements in
Public Vehicles.
I ALFRED DE LA ROSE Propriétaire, demeurant à (residing at) Paris
(18 Avenue Carnot), France, 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 object of this invention is principally to provide for the display of
advertisements on the dashboards of Hansom cabs.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is the outline of a Hansom cab, with the invention applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the "advertising dashboard."
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line x, x, Fig. 2, and
Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line z, z, Fig. 2.
The dashboard consists of a sheet of canvas or other strong and flexible
material A, which is cut to the shape shown in Fig. 2, and forms not only a
backing, but also acts as a hinge for the several parts of the advertising dashboard.
To this backing are secured, by screws, rivets, sewing, or in any other convenient
manner, metal or other panels B 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, and upon these panels are
produced, by printing or otherwise, the advertisements as indicated by the cross
lines, and beadings of wood or metal C are secured round the edges of the panels
by the panel screws or rivets, in order to give a finished appearance.
The panels B 1, 2, and 3, will be situated above the shafts of the cab, and the
panels B 4, 5, and 6 below the shafts.

page_text: The parts between the upper and lower panels which correspond to the places
where the shaft frame will come, are formed of half round plates, as shown at D,
and will be secured to the canvas or other backing in the same manner as the panels.
These half round plates will admit of the shaft frame fitting therein, and the
panels being separate from one another, and capable of bending in any direction,
the whole advertising dashboard will lie snug and flat against the main dash board,
without strain on any of the parts.
The canvas A and the beads C may be arranged to form so many frames into
which the advertisement plates may be slipped, and conveniently secured.
The open space between the flaps or panels B1 and B3 wil lbe filled up by
the fare plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is :-
The improvements relating to the display of advertisements in public vehicles
substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 24th day of October 1892.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.