Improvements in Lamps and Signs for Advertising Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lamps and Signs for Advertising Purposes.
I FRANK ABBOTT of 71 St. Helens Road in the Town of Swansea and County
of Glamorgan Tobacconist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
In so constructing a lamp that it may be caused to revolve by clockwork or any
other suitable means, I prefer to form the lamp with three or more sides fitted
with glass or any other suitable transparent material of various colours, or in some
cases I make the said lamp of a circular form with various coloured glass, I prefer
to so construct the shell or body of the lamp with an open bottom and to so carry
the light for the lamp that it will not revolve with the shell or body of the lamp,
the said shell or body may be carried upon a spindle fixed to a support below the
lamp, the said spindle being carried up to or near the crown and encircled and
steadied by a tube affixed to the inside of the crown of the lamp, or the lamp may
be suspended and caused to revolve from above. Another part of my invention
consists in so constructing a larger case or shell or receptacle having glass sides on
which advertisements or designs may be shewn, and I affix and revolve the
aforesaid lamp inside the larger shell or case, in such a manner that the various
colours will be shewn alternately upon the aforesaid advertisements, or instead of
the said larger shell or case I affix the apparatus so as to shew the various colours
alternately upon one sheet of glass and its advertisements, or further in some cases
instead of forming a lamp of three or more sides I form the coloured squares of
glass into an endless chain or band which I cause to travel round a fixed light or
lights.
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I FRANK ABBOTT of 71 St. Helens Road in the Town of Swansea and County
of Glamorgan Tobacconist 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 :-
My invention relates to the construction of lamps and signs in such a way that
the transparent advertisements upon them may be shown in various colours at
intermittant periods by means of a lamp of 3 or more transparent sides which
I cause to be slowly revolved by clockwork or any other suitable means so that the
various sides of the lamp will pass between the light in the lamp and the
advertisement shown on the outer case or body.
Fig. 1 shows a section through the case and lamp on line A B Fig. 2 also
through the iron frame A A A A A the same letters refer to both Figures 1
and 2, the letters AA show section through the three sided lamp A, B on
Figures 1 and 2 shows elevation and plan of a fan, which is caused to revolve by a
current of air which passes up through the open ends of the lamp A', and is heated.
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page_text: by the gas jet A" the same jet being used to illuminate the lamp BI shows
a tooth pinion carried upon a spindle B which is fixed in the centre of the
fan B B and pivoted in the frame A A. at B B B shows a tooth wheel geared
to pinion B the said tooth wheel being fixed upon a spindle D the upper end of
which is pivotted to the frame at DI and its lower end carried in a socketted
pillar D which is supported upon the frame A at AV, the three sided lamp A' is
carried by and affixed to the spindle D at DX in a triangular bracket A B at the
upper open end of the lamp, E shows the section of the case with openings in the
bottom at E' E' E' and a covered ventilator at E, F shows the glass in one side
of case, the number of sides in the lamp may be varied. In this case I have
shown three, marked, red, blue, green, in some cases instead of using the fan B
for revolving the lamp, the well known works of an ordinary clock may be used,
which I place in the position now shown, to be occupied by the said fan B, with a
pinion on the clockwork as now shown at BI, or in some cases, I place the clock work
at the bottom instead of the top, and in some further cases instead of making a
lamp of one or more sides, I form a number of squares of glass or other transparent
material into an endless chain, which said chain I carry on vertical rollers, equal
to the width of the panes of glass or other material, and I cause the said rollers to
revolve by any suitable means.
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
An apparatus on which transparent letters, pictures or other matter may be
shown in various colours, the said colours being changed automatically by a lamp
or clock work, and constructed substantially as described by me, and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of April 1896.
FRANK ABBOTT.