Improvements in Means for Advertising by Out Out Letters and Devices.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Advertising by Out Out Letters and
Devices.
I, THOMAS ELLIS DEAN of 44 Elliot Stroot, Tyldesley, in the County of
Lancaster, Reed Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :—
This invention relates to means for advertising by out out letters and devices,
and my object is to enable such advertisements to be durably and cheaply
constructed.
According to my present improvements I form projections at the tops and at the
bottoms, or at the top or bottom only of the letters and dovices. These projections
are adapted to be engaged or secured within longitudinally grooved tubes, through
the grooves of which the projections pass. If only one end of the letters (top or
bottom) is provided with the projections, only one tube will be required for each
line of the advertisement, and the letters or devices will either be suspended or
stand up from the tube as the case may be. If the projections are formed at each
end of the letters and devices, two of the grooved tubes will be required, one for
the top and one for the bottom.
The projections may be secured within the grooved tubes by various means, only
two of which will be mentioned by way of example. Thus, the projections may bu
olipped between strips of wood or metal, which approximately fill the bore of the
tube. The strips with the projections of the letters between thein are then slid
into the tube, those parts of the projections which lie between the strips and the
lotter passing along the groove. Or in the case of sheet metal, the projections
may be turned or made into the form of short slit tubes so as to spring within
the tubes.
Advertisements produced according to these improvements are especially adapted
for use upon lamp posts and telegraph poles, in tram-cars, or on the tops of
buildings hoardings and walls, and suspended from the beams spars and ties of
railway station and other roofs, and for other situations in which light can pass
through them to the observer.
When they are employed in frout of or behind windows, it is preferred to fix
the ends of the top tubes in sockets or otherwise in such a manner that the tube,
and with it the advertisement, can be turned through part of a revolution to enable
the window to be cleaned.
In the case of there being two lines of advertisement, one single tube may be.
employed for the projections from the bottoms of the letters of the first line, and
those from the tops of the letters in the next line.
Dated this 30th day of January A.D. 1893
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Advertising by Out Out Letters and
Devices.
1. THOMAS ELLIS DEAN of 44 Elliot Street, Tyldesley, in the County of
Lancaster, Reed Manufacturer; do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
and in what manuer the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to means for advertising by out out letters and devices

page_text: and my object is to enable such advertisements to be durably and cheaply
constructed.
In proceeding according to this invention, I form projections at the tops and
bottoms, or at the top or bottom only, of the letter and devices. These projections
are adapted to be engaged or secured within longitudinal grooved tubes, through
the grooves of which the projections pass, the letters or devices themselves being
wholly outside the tube. If only one end of the letters or devices is provided with
the projections, only one tube will be required for each line of advertisement, and
the letters or devices will either be suspended or stand up from the tube as the case
may be. If the projections are formed at each end, two of the grooved tubes will
be required, one for the top and one for the bottom.
'I will more particularly describe my suid invention with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 represents a front view and cross section respectivaly of one form of
the advertisement constructed and arranged according to this invention, only a
small portion of the advertisement being represented. The projections A are
formed upon both the tops and the bottoms of the letters and are passed into the
tubes B B' through the grooves therein as shewn. When the projections are
straight as shewn in Figure 1, some means or device should be employed for con-
necting the tubes together. Such meaus and devices are perfectly well known and
obvious and need not therefore be described but I may for example use two pillars
or the like having holes therein opposite to each other for the reception of the ends
of the tubes. If however, the projections are bent or curved as shewn by
Figure 2, which represents the front elevation and side view of a letter, these pro-
jections will hold the tubes together and it will be necessary only in addition to
provido suitable means for their support.
Instead of bending or curving the projections A, I may clip or secure them
between strips of wood or other suitable material C in such a manner that the strips
with the projections between them may be passed into the tube. This modification
is illustrated by Figures 3 and 4, of which Figure 3 is a front view with the
grooved tube partly removed, and an end view respectively. Figure 4 is a per-
spective view of the two strips C ready for the reception of the projections. It
is preferred that the projections be perforated and that the strips and projections be
secured together by nails screws or the like passing through the strips and the
porforated projectious as shown. The strips may be held in placo in the tubes by
boring the tube transversely and passing a pin through the hole so produced into
or through the strips.
When the advertisement consists of more than two lines, instead of employing
separate tubes for each line, 1 may use a single tube to receive both the bottom
projections of the upper line and the top projectious of the lower line as shewn by
Figure 5 which represents a front elevation and transverse section respectively.
Figure 6 is a separate side view of one of the letters shewn by Figuro 5. The top
and the bottom tubes in this arrangement may have their grooves in the plane of
the letters ng shown by Figures 1 and 3, or they may be at right angles thereto.
The intermediate tubes should have their grooves at right angles to this position
as shown by the sectional view Figure 5.
Instead of merely bending or curving the projections as shewn by Figure 2,
they may be turned into the form of short tubular parts having an outside diameter
slightly larger than the bore of the grooved tubes. By compressing the short
tubular parts they may be passed into the grooved tubes where they will spring
open and hold firmly.
Advertisements produced according to these improvements are specially adapted
for use upon lamp posts and telegraph poles, in tram cars, on the tops of buildings
hoardings and walls, and suspended from the beams spars and ties of railway
station rool's and for other sitnations in which light can pass through the advertise-
mont to the observer.
When they are employed in front of or behind windows, it is preferred to fix