Year: 1886

page_text: I PERCY HEAD BAILY of 10 College Crescent Belsize Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Foreign Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows
My Invention relates to what may be termed perambulating advertisements,
that is to say, to vehicles travelling along the public thoroughfares and bearing
signs, placards, or announcements of a character to attract the attention of the
public, and my Invention has for its object to produce such effects as will more
effectually constrain the passers by to observe the announcement carried by the
vehicle and render it more attractive than is at present the case with such class
of advertisements.
"
To this end my Invention consists essentially in the combination with a vehicle,
which may be for instance a carrier tricycle, (ie, a tricycle used for the transport
of goods) of a mechanical advertisement which is operated by the movement of the
travelling wheel, or wheel axle of the vehicle so as to produce the effect desired
without any adventitious aid. Under the term "mechanical advertisement
I intend to comprise any advertisement or announcement which is movable in
relation to its support, or, in which one part of the advertisement or announce-
ment is movable in relation to the other part in contra-distinction to a fixed
advertisement or announcement.
The movement would be communicated to the advertisement & or to the movable
part thereof, through the medium of a crank or equivalent mechanical arrangement,
or by a simple strap or band as will be readily understood.

page_text: Improvements in Advertising Apparatus.
I PERCY HEAD BAILY of 10 College Terrace Belsize Park in the County of
Middlesex Foreign Agent, 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 what may be termed perambulating advertisements,
that is to say, to vehicles travelling along the public thoroughfares and bearing
signs, placards, or announcements of a character to attract the attention of the
public; and my Invention has for its object to produce such effects as will more
effectually constrain the passers by to observe the announcement carried by the
vehicle and render it more attractive than is at present the case with such class of
advertisements. To this end my Invention consists essentially in the combination
with a vehicle which may be for instance a carrier tricycle (i.e. a tricycle such as
used for the transport of goods) of a mechanical advertisement which is operated
by the movement of the travelling wheel or wheel axle of the vehicle so as
to produce the effect desired without any adventitious aid. Under the term
"mechanical advertisement" I intend to comprise any advertisement or announce-
ment which is movable in relation to its support or in which one part of the
advertisement or announcement is movable in relation to the other part in contra-
distinction to a fixed advertisement or announcement. The movement would be
communicated to the advertisement etc or to the movable part thereof through the
medium of a crank or equivalent mechanical arrangement, or by a simple strap or
band, as will be readily understood.
I do not claim any of the several parts necessary for the construction of apparatus
according to my Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what
I claim is;-
The construction of mechanical advertisements (as above defined) in combination
with a vehicle and connected mediately or immediately with one or more of the
wheels or a rotatory axle of the vehicle substantially as above described, so that
the motion of the vehicle shall impart motion to the movable part of the
advertisement.
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