IMPROVE- MENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS IN CABS, OMNIBUSES, TRAMCARS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hill Banyard, of 41, St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors
Commons, in the City of London, Gentleman, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS IN
CABS, OMNIBUSES, TRAMCARS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES." ▲ communication
from abroad by Josef Isidor Czettel, of Vienna, III. Heumarkt, No. 3, Austria.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hill Banyard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th June 1881.
HENRY HILL BANYARD, of 41, St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors Commons, in the City
of London, Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR
DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS IN CABS, OMNIBUSES, TRANCARS, AND OTHER
CARRIAGES." [A communication from abroad by Josef Isidor Czettel, of Vienna,
III. Heumarkt, No. 3, Austria.]
My Invention relates to improvements in means and apparatus for displaying
advertisements in cabs, omnibuses, tram-cars, and other carriages, and the chief
object of my Invention is to render advertisements more useful and attractive to
the passengers of such carriages. To effect this I attach to any suitable parts of
the interiors of carriages visible to the passengers apparatus constructed substan-
tially in the following manner:-(1). I pass an endless band of cloth or other
suitable material round two rollers placed a convenient distance apart; on the
spindle of one of these rollers I secure a ratchet-wheel which is in gear with a
ratchet attached to an arm which works loose on the said spindle. To the end of
the arm I fasten a cord which can be pulled by the passengers, and by connecting
the arm to a convenient part of the carriage by means of an clastic or spiral
spring, I cause the arm and ratchet to return to their normal position when the
cord after having been pulled is released. When more convenient, in place of an
endless band I fasten each end of a band to a pulley, so that it may be wound
from one on to the other, and when I adopt this plan I employ two arms, ratchets,
and cords, one set on each side of the ratchet-wheel, or some modification thereof

page_text: having similar effect, and so arranged that the pulling of one cord will cause the
band to travel in one direction, and the pulling of the other cord will cause the
band to travel in the other direction. I prefer to enclose the band, pulleys, ratchet-
wheel, and ratchet in a casing of wood, tin, or other suitable material, the said case
having an aperture which exposes a portion of the band between the pulleys. To
the band I either attach advertisements, or I print or depict the advertisements
upon the band. A passenger desirous of changing the advertisement exhibited
through the aperture pulls the cord connected with the ratchet which actuates the
ratchet-wheel that imparts the requisite motion to the pulleys and band, and
another portion of the band is exhibited through the aperture. On releasing the
cord the spring causes the arm and ratchet to return to their normal position, the
ratchet being inoperative during such return motion.
When convenient I combine in one case two or more of the above described
apparatus.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Henry Hill Banyard in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th December 1881.
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HENRY HILL BANYARD, of 41, St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors Commons, in the City,
of London, Gentleman. IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR
DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS IN CABS, OMNIBUSES, TRAM-CARS, AND OTHER
CARRIAGES." [A communication from abroad by Josef Isidor Czettel, of Vienna,
III. Heumarkt, No. 3, Austria.]
My Invention relates to improvements in means and apparatus for displaying
advertisements in cabs, omnibuses, tram-cars, and other carriages, and the chief
object of my Invention is to render advertisements more useful and attractive to
the passengers of such carriages.
To effect this I attach to any suitable parts of the interior of carriages, visible to
the passengers, apparatus constructed substantially in the following manner :-
(1). I pass an endless band of cloth or other suitablo material round two rollers
placed a convenient distance apart; on the spindle of one of these rollers I secure a
ratchet wheel which is in gear with a ratchet attached to an arm which works
loose on the said spindle.
To the end of the arm I fasten a cord which can be pulled by the passengers, and
by connecting the arm to a convenient part of the carriago by means of an elastic
or spiral spring I cause the arm and ratchet to return to their normal position
when the cord after having been pulled is released.
When more convenient, in place of an endless band I fasten each end of a band
to a pulley so that it may be wound from one on to the other, and when I adopt
this plan I employ two arms, ratchets, and cords, one set on each side of the ratchet
wheel, or some modification thereof having similar effect, and so arranged that the
pulling of one cord will cause the band to travel in one direction, and the pulling
of the other cord will cause the band to travel in the other direction.
I prefer to enclose the band, pulleys, ratchet-wheel, and ratchet in a casing of
wood, tin, or other suitablo material, the said casing having an aperture which
exposes a portion of the band between the pulleys. To the band I cither attach
advertisements, or I print or depict the advertisements upon the band. A passenger
desirous of changing the advertisement exhibited through the aperture pulls the
cord connected with the ratchet which actuates the ratchet-wheel that imparts the
requisite motion to the pulleys and band, and another portion of the band is
exhibited through the aperture. On releasing the cord the spring causes the arm
and ratchet to return to their normal position, the ratchet being inoperative during
such return motion.
When convenient I combine in one case two or more of these apparatuses.
Reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, a modification of the above
described apparatus is shewn by Fig. 1 and L, Fig. 3. A is a cord passing through
the groove of a pulley B, and attached to a spring C. On the said cord being pulled
the pulley B and roller are made to revolve and actuate the advertisements wound
round the said pulley and roller, and the pulley and roller D. A ratchet E in gear
with a ratchet wheel attached to the pulley B prevents a return movement of the
pulley when the cord is released. Fig. 2 shews another modification of the
apparatus. In this case the ratchet wheels are dispensed with, and the pulleys F
and G attached to the spindles carrying the rollers H and I are outside the casing,
and connected by a cord J which passes round them, and which can be actuated
in either direction by a passenger. (2). I attach advertisements to leaves or sheets
of tin, card, or other suitable material, or the said leaves or sheets may form the

page_text: advertisements, and I hinge or otherwise attach the leaves or sheets to a wire or
spindle in such manner that the leaves may be turned over and other advertise-
ments exposed by the action of a passenger. The said apparatus is illustrated by
K, Fig. 3.
I sometimes attach to the said leaves or sheets a number of advertisements placed
over each other in the form of a block, and secured only round the edges so as to
onable a passenger to remove and retain an advertisement from any of the said
leaves or sheets. I would have it understood that I do not claim as my Invention
each means of displaying an advertisement illustrated in Fig. 3, which shews a
compartment furnished with two portions of my Invention, viz., K and L, among
others which I do not claim as my Invention, but I claim each of the hereinbefore
described apparatuses substantially as described, and in respect of those illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hill Banyard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
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