Improvements in connection with Advertising.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Advertising.
I, JAMES RALPH, of 53 Wellington Road, Bilston in the County of Stafford,
Wrought Iron Hollowware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to enable advertisement to be effected, in a
peculiarly attractive and interesting manner, by means of games.
The above object is attained, according to this invention, by constructing puzzles
which when properly put together or made up shew on the face the desired adver-
tisement. The puzzles may consist of blocks or slabs of wood or other suitable
substance cut to any shapes around their edges which will cause them to form when
properly put together a symmetrical shape, such as a rectangle, triangle, round, or
star, or other desired shape, and such blocks or slabs are each covered on one face
with portions of an advertisement which will shew as a complete whole when all the
blocks or slabs are properly put together; and such blocks or slabs may have each
a portion of different advertisements on their upper and lower faces, respectively, in
which case each puzzle formed in this manner may be used to make up cither of
two different advertisements as desired. If the blocks are constructed as square-
sided cubes they will each have six faces capable of being covered, respectively,
with portions of different advertisements, and the same set of blocks may be used
to make up, alternatively, any one of such advertisements as desired.
Dated this 10th day of September 1892.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Advertising.
I, JAMES RALPH, of 53 Wellington Road, Bilston in the County of Stafford,
Wrought Iron Hollowware 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 has for its object to enable advertisement to be effected, in a
peculiarly attractive and interesting manner, by means of games.
The above object is attained, according to this invention, by constructing puzzles
which when properly put together or made-up shew on the face the desired adver-
tisement. The puzzles consist of blocks or slabs of wood or other suitable
substance cut to any shapes around their edges which will cause them to form
when properly put together a symmetrical shape, such as a rectangle triangle,
round, or star, or other desired shape, and such blocks or slabs are each covered on
one face with portions of an advertisement which will shew as a complete whole
when all the blocks or slabs are properly put together; and such blocks or slabs
may have each a portion of different advertisements on their upper and lower faces,
respectively, in which case each puzzle formed in this manner may be used to make
up either of two different advertisements as desired. If the blocks are constructed
as rectangular-sided cubes they will each have six faces capable of being covered,
respectively, with portions of different advertisements, and the same set of blocks
may be used to make up, alternatively, any one of such advertisements as desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The means hereinabove described for effecting advertisement in a peculiarly
attractive and interesting manner, that is to say, by the use of puzzles which when
properly put together or made up shew on the face the desired advertisement,
substantially as described.
2. As a means for effecting advertisement in a peculiarly attractive and
interesting manner, sets of blocks or cubes of which each block or cube has two or
more faces thereof covered or marked, respectively, with portions of different
advertisements so that the same set of blocks or cubes may be used to make up,
alternatively, any one of such advertisements as desired, substantially as described.
Dated this 11th day of July 1893.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicant..