Improvements in Advertising Tablets.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Jan., 1893—Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Tablets.
I, JAMES FORREST, of Bourtree Bank, Gourock, Renfrewshire, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to advertising tablets.
The improved tablet consists of a casing having a glass window or front.
Secured to the back of the casing and in the inside is a thermometer which shows
through the glass front. The degrees of temperature are or may be engraved on
the glass front.
The glass front is made wide enough to allow of advertisements being embossed,
gilded, embellished or lettered on its back or inside and so as to show through the
glass. The thermometer may be put to one or other side or at the centre of the
glass front and the remaining blank space or spaces at the side of or around
the temperature markings be occupied with advertisements.
The casing is suitably framed, and can be hung up and exhibited in any public
position.
Dated this 21st day of September 1892.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Tablets.
I, JAMES FORREST, of Bourtree Bank, Gourock, Renfrewshire, Manufacturer,
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 :-
This invention relates to advertising tablets.
The improved tablet consists of a casing having a glass window or front.
Secured to the back of the casing, and in the inside, is a thermometer or barometer,
which shows through the glass front. The degrees of temperature and other markings
are or may be engraved on the glass front.
The glass front is made wide enough to allow of advertisements being embossed,
gilded, embellished, or lettered on its back or inside, and so as to show through the
glass. The thermometer or barometer may be put to one or other side, or at the
centre of the glass front, and the remaining blank space or spaces at the side of or
around the temperature or other markings, be occupied with advertisements.
The casing is suitably framed, and can he hung up and exhibited in any public
position.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood, I have here-
unto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon:-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a show tablet combined with a barometer.
Fig. 2 is a front view of a show tablet combined with a thermometer.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the tablet, Fig. 2.
Referring to the drawings:-a is the frame of the tablet, which may be of any
suitable and well-known construction, and is fitted with glass b. The glass is, in
the usual manner, embellished, gilded or lettered, on its back or inside, with
advertisements, which show through on the front. A clear space is left on the
glass, or a hole or space is cut in it, at either side, or in the centre, or other part,
and into, or at the back of, this space or hole, a barometer or thermometer is fitted.

page_text: The thermometrical or barometrical graduations or markings, which show on the
front, may be made or cut on the glass of the tablet, if so desired.
The tablet is neatly framed and finished, so as to be suitable for hanging up at
shop doors or other places.
The public, when looking at the barometer or thermometer, as the case may be,
cannot fail to observe the advertisements.
In the improved tablet, the barometer or thermometer is always so combined
with the tablet as to form a part thereof.
The combination tablet can be hung or nailed in any place, just like an ordinary
show-card or picture.
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, in one, of a suitably framed glass show-card or tablet, and a
thermometer or barometer, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, with reference to
the drawings annexed.
Dated this 10th day of January 1002
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.