Improved Indicating and Advertising Apparatus, chiefly for use on Railways.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Indicating and Advertising Apparatus, chiefly for use on
Railways.
I MAX MANUEL Merchant of Taborstrasse 85, Vienna in the Austrian Empire
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
This indicator is mounted in or upon the partition of a railway carriage and the
like.
On each side it presents a glazed surface at one part whereof the name of a
station appears as required, the remaining space being occupied by advertisements.
The whole may be mounted in a sheet metal casing capable of sliding on a suitable
base-plate. In the apparatus there is a band, inscribed with the names of stations,
or with advertisements or with other information and two rollers. The band is
rolled up on one roller as it is unrolled from the other. A clock spring actuates the
rollers, when released as stated. A suitable train transmits motion from the barrel
to the rollers.
A disc connected with train carries a series of pins on its face against
which bears a stop operated by a electro magnet.
When the indication on the
apparatus is to be changed a current is sent through the electro magnet and thus
lifts the stop out of gear with the pins and allows the train to carry the band
forward.
Both rollers are fitted with driving gear capable of being seperately thrown into
and out of gear so that the band may be moved in either direction, corresponding to
that in which the train travels.
Dated this 26th August 1899
BERNHARD DUKES,
226, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Indicating and Advertising Apparatus, chiefly for use on
Railways.
I, MAX MANUEL, Merchant, of Taborstrasse 85 Vienna in the Empire of Austria
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 purpose of this invention is to provide an apparatus chiefly for use in railway
carringes which shall be capable of being operated to indicate the name of the
stations at which the train is stopping or about to stop and also any other desirable
information or advertisements.
The indicator is capable of exhibiting the like information on each of its two
principal faces and may therefore be mounted in or upon the partition between two
compartments of a railway carriage.
The apparatus is mounted in a sheet metal casing having glass windows on each
of its principal faces for exhibition of the above indications. It may be removed
from said casing on opening the door thereof for replacement by another indicating
the route traversed.
Within the apparatus are two rollers on which the band carrying the names of
the stations and the other indications aforesaid is wound, the band passing over
suitable guiding rollers so as to exhibit its two sides respectively behind the two
windows in the case.
A spring barrel and suitable wheel train are arranged to wind up the band on the

page_text: one or other roller but the mechanism is restrained by a suitable detent removed or
actuated electrically so that it is only free to act when the name of the station is to
be changed.
The rollers may be moved in either direction corresponding to that in which the
train travels.
An apparatus of this nature divested of its exterior casing is shown in the annexed
drawings in which
Fig.
is an elevation. Fig. 2 a section on line Fig. 1 and Figs. 3 and 4
respectively elevations of the side plates II and IV with the mechanism thereon.
III IV are vertical frame plates supporting the mechanism W and Ware
the two rollers and the band whose ends are wound thereon and whose inter-
mediate part traverses rollers F F F F F F as shown in Fig. 2 in such a way
the outwardly exposed face on the left hand side (Fig. 2) becomes the inner face or
the right hand side.
In
G is the spring barrel sliding on bolt land in its right hand position it drives the
wheel train TRT RT leading to vanes V₁ and to shaft of roller W
the left hand position of the spring barrel it drives the roller W through the
train T R T R leading to vane V. The hand lever H operates this lateral
shifting of the spring barrel and retains the latter in gear with the one or other of
the said trains by engagement in the one or other of two notches in the plate .
This lever operates also for winding the spring in the known manner.
:
The roller Wis prevented from revolving by the pin a engaging between the
teeth s of the crown wheel S¹ connected with the shaft of said roller through
gear R T and the roller W is similarly restrained by the same pin engaging
between the teeth of the crown wheel S connected with the shaft of the latter roller
through gear RT. The pin a is mounted on the armature of the electro magnet E
and the latter is electrically connected with the guards van or otherwise so that a
current may be caused to traverse the electro magnet and so withdraw the pin a
and suffer the spring in the barrel G to revolve the one or other roller WW2 until
the subsequent interruption of the current releases the armature and again stops
the wheels S S when the next station is indicated at the windows of the
apparatus.
The apparatus is intended to be used so that on leaving each stopping place the
various apparatus in the train are to be set in motion and suffered to move until the
name of the station which is to be the next stopping place is shown whereupon
the current is interrupted and the apparatus show the name of that station and
whatever advertisements there may be in connexion therewith until that station is
arrived at and left.
A separate electrical connection of all the carriages is not needed if the wires are
led along and connections made by the same action by which the continuous brakes
are connected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
An indicating apparatus containing a strip printed on one or both sides with
station names or other indications wound upon rollers to be revolved in the one or
other direction by a spring barrel and train, whose action is restrained by a detent
adapted to be released by electrical action continued through a desired variable
length of time.
Dated this DDM of Mau 1989
R. HADDAN.
Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agent for Applicant.