AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING PLACARDS, POSTING BILLS, AND OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Casimir Sipriot, of Milan, in the Kingdom of
Italy, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
EXHIBITING PLACARDS, POSTING BILLS, AND OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS."
Sealed the 3rd June 1870, and dated the 9th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Casimir Sipriot at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th December 1869.
I, CASIMIR SIPRIOT, of Milan, in the Kingdom of Italy, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING PLACARDS, POSTING BILLS, AND OTHER ADVERTISE-
MENTS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
The Invention consists in the construction or arrangement of an
apparatus whereby an intermittent motion is given to rollers on which
bills, placards, or other advertisements are placed, by which they are
brought successively before the eyes of the spectator, and a better
publicity is obtained.

page_text: To carry out this Invention a spring or weighted mechanism is
'employed, which gives motion to two perpendicular rollers placed at the
required distance apart, and carrying an endless band of paper to which
the bills or placards are attached. The spring is worked by a clock
movement, and is made to stop the rollers at short intervals of time
sufficient to allow the reading of a placard or advertisement when
brought in front of the spectator. After a short interval of stoppage
motion is again given, and a length of paper equal to the height of a
placard is rolled up. The apparatus then stops again, exhibits the
succceding advertisement to view, and so on successively.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Casimir Sipriot in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CASIMIR
SIPRIOT, of Milan, in the Kingdom of Italy, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters, Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
aud grant unto me, the said Casimir Sipriot, Her special licence, that I,
the said Casimir Sipriot, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Casimir Sipriot, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING
PLACARDS, POSTING BILLS, AND OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Casimir Sipriot, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed;
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Casimir Sipriot, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
. My Invention consists in the construction or arrangement of an
apparatus whereby an intermittent motion is given to rollers on which
bills, placards, or other advertisements are placed, and by which they
are brought successively before the eyes of the spectator, and a better
publicity is obtained than by the ordinary means.
The means I prefer for carrying out my Invention is to stretch an
endless band of cloth or paper between two rollers, and to cause one of
the rollers or both to move intermittently by any suitable motive power.
The accompanying Drawing shews a section of the apparatus I prefer
employing.
A, B, C, D, is a metal or wood case placed vertically, the part C being
turned towards the spectator, and is open so as to shew the placards or
other advertisements which are painted or printed on the endless band
of cloth or other textile fabric or paper P, P, P. The rollers E, E, E, on
which the endless band passes are more or less in number, and serve to
contain a great length of band, and consequently a great number of
advertisements. The roller F serves to guide the endless band towards
the bottom of the apparatus. In the centre of the case is placed a large
motive roller I, above which is a roller H for regulating the adherence
and speed of motion of the endless band. The motive power, which may
be a clock movement placed at M, gives a regular motion to the roller I
by means of two bevil wheels, one of which is keyed on to the axis of
the roller, the other on to a horizontal axis L, K, the other extremity of
which enters at N a space containing a click movement for stopping the
rotation of the rollers at certain intervals of time previously determined,
and during several minutes at a time so as to allow the placard or other
advertisement which is then in the vertical front A, C, to be seen. This
click motion and the motive apparatus need not be described, as they
are in common use for other purposes. The placards or other advertisc-
ments may be so placed as to be illuminated at night by transparencies
or otherwise as usually practised.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner of carrying the
same into effect what I claim is. the construction of annaratus for

page_text: exhibiting during a certain time at regular intervals placards or other
advertisements placed on an endless band of cloth or paper, substan-
tially as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
.Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Casimir Sipriot, have hereto set 5
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
CASIMIR SIPRIOT. (L.s.)