Year: 1886

page_text: I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, of the firm of Phillips & Leigh, Engineers &
Patent Agents, of No. 22 Southain pton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C. in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is the introduction of an improved system of
advertising media for streets and other public places.
In carrying this invention into effect I make use of the ordinary gas lamp
pillars and fix thereto, suitable plates upon which the matter of the advertisement
is displayed in any suitable or advantageous way.
These plates are not suspended from the lamp frames or from the ladder-rests, but
are fixed centrally upon the pillars.
These plates may be of any form, but are not wide enough to interfere with the
foot-traffic, and, being aligned with the thoroughfare, will not interfere with the
street traffic.
I extend the top of each lamp into suitably shaped reflectors, which will have
the effect of deflecting a proper amount of light upon both faces of the advertisement
plates.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Advertising Medium.
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, of the firm of Phillips & Leigh, Engineers &
Patent Agents, of No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C., in the
County of Middlesex, 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 my invention is the introduction of an improved system of
advertising media for streets and other public places.
In carrying this invention into effect I make use of the ordinary gas lamp pillars
and fix thereto, suitable plates of any suitable material, such as enamelled iron,
upon which the matter of the advertisement is displayed in any suitable or
advantageous way.
These plates are not suspended from the lamp frames or from the ladder-rests, but
are fixed centrally upon the pillars.
These plates may be of any form, but are not wide enough to interfere with the
foot-traffic, and, being aligned, with the thoroughfare, will not interfere with the
street traffic.
I extend the top of each lamp into suitably shaped reflectors, which will have
the effect of deflecting a proper amount of light upon both faces of the advertisement
plates.
The accompanying drawing shews a perspective view of an ordinary street lamp
adapted to the purpose of my invention. A is a plate or board carrying an
advertisement and attached to the pillar or lamp post. The light of the lamp is
thrown downward so as to illuminate the same by the reflector B¹. The reflector B
on the other side of the lamp throws the light upon another advertisement attached
to the other side of the lamp post. It will be obvious that the form and position of
the reflectors can be varied if desired.
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 combination with a street lamp or lamp used for public illumination of a
plate or plates attached to the pillar or 'stem of said lamp for the purpose of
displaying advertisements, and of a reflector or reflectors attached to the lamp
frame, substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated.
Dated this 6th dev of Databo 1900
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Patent Agents.