IMPROVEMENTS IN SEATS, BENCHES, AND CHAIRS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVERTIZING IN PARKS, PRO- MENADES, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Garrett Tongue, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck
Patent Agents and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEATS,
BENCHES, AND CHAIRS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVERTIZING IN PARKS, PRO-
MENADES, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES." A communication from abroad by
Jean Marie Auguste Lacomme and Louis Jules Casimir Marvillo, both of Paris,
France
Sealed the 29th December 1876, and dated the 9th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Garrett Tongue at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1876.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEATS, BENCHES, AND CHAIRS FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ADVERTIZING IN PARKS, PROMENADES, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES." A com-
munication from abroad by Jean Marie Auguste Lacomme and Louis Jules Casimir
Marville, both of Paris, France.
This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
seats or benches for use in public parks, gardens, promenades, streets, and other
public places, and in the method of displaying or exhibiting advertisements in
combination therewith. For this purpose according to these improvements seats,
benches, or chairs are constructed with a seat on one or both sides of a support for
the back of the sitter to rest against. This back is formed hollow, and with com-
partments closed with moveable plate glass panels, and in these panels the adver-
tizements are placed, or they may be delineated upon the glass so as to be clearly
seen at night. The advertizements may consist of photographic, lithographic, or
other transparent views or tablets, so as to be seen either day or night.
A gas pipe with gas jets placed opposite each pannel is arranged within the hollow
back of the seat or bench, in order to illuminate and thus exhibit the advertizements
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page_text: at night. The hollow back or chamber is furnished with a hinged cover on each
side.
These improved public seats or benches may be made of cast iron or of any other
suitable metal or material, the seats, supports, and backs being advantageously
coated or covered with copper or bronze. On the sides or ends of the seat trans-
parent medallions are placed, which impart elegance to the ornamental seat, besides
adding to the lighting power.
A gas pipe passes through the lower side of the hollow back of the seat, and_on
this gas piperhéomètre" gas burners are fixed at suitable distances apart. The
light is distributed over the whole seat, and the ventilation which takes place at
the sides or ends of the hollow back, and the perforations at the base of the gallery
or chamber is so complete that the back of the seat, the plate glass, and bench
remain constantly cool.
The lighting apparatus placed in the hollow back may be quite invisible, the
lower part of the gallery or chamber being closed by wire gauze.
The connection for the gas is effected by means of a pipe passing through one of
the legs or supports of the seat, and attached to the main gas pipe which supplies
the street or road lamps with gas.
Another hollow chamber lighted with gas may be mounted on suitable supports
considerably above the heads of the sitters, and having advertizements exhibited
therein or thereon in like manner to that previously described, and this upper hollow
chamber may be used for illuminating and displaying devices on public holidays.or
on other occasions if desired.
An electrical or other clock with arms or other devices may also be mounted on
public seats of this character.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the Conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Garrett Tongue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th
February 1877.
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JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN SEATS, BENCHES, AND CHAIRS FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ADVERTIZING IN PARKS, PROMENADES, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES." A com-
munication from abroad by Jean Marie Auguste Lacomme and Louis Jules Casimir
Marville, both of Paris, France.
This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
seats or benches for use in public parks, gardens, promenades, streets, and other
public places, and in the method of combining, displaying, or exhibiting advertise-
inents in combination therewith. For this purpose according to these improvements
seats, benches, or chairs are constructed with a seat on one or both sides of a support
for the back of the sitter to rest against. This back is formed hollow, and with
compartments closed with moveable plate glass pannels, and in these pannels the
advertisements are placed, or they may be delineated upon the glass so as to be
clearly seen at night. The advertisements may consist of photographic, litho-
graphic, or other transparent views or tablets, so as to be soen either by day or
night.
A gas pipe with gas jets placed opposite each pannel is arranged within the
hollow back of the scat or bench, in order to illuminate and thus exhibit the adver-
tisements at night. The hollow back or chamber is furnished with a hinged cover
on each side.
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These improved public seats or benches may be made of cast iron or of any other
suitable metal or material, the seats, supports, and backs being advantageously
coated or covered with copper or bronze. On the sides or ends of the seats trans-

page_text: the seat, and is connected to the main gas pipe which supplies the lamp posts of
the public road.
Figures 3 and 4 show the ordinary or small bench (Figures 1 and 2) surmounted
by means of two hollow columns E, E, with an upper gallery (Figure 4). B, B, B,
are the moveable glasses behind which and at the interior are fixed the advertise-
ments; His the gas pipe passing through the upper gallery; G, G, are the gas
burners; J and I are the gas cocks; ☐ represents the opening or holes for venti-
lation along the upper gallery; K, a perforated gas pipe to be used for festival days
or illumination of the town; N represents the armorial bearings of the town or city
in which the seats are placed, which may be illuminated when required; L is an
electric (or ordinary) clock, of which the electric wires enters by one of the hollow
columns, and passes out by the other column.
Figure 3 represents the section of a luminous bench surmounted by an upper
gallery.
Figure 5 represents a seat or bench with an upper gallery, the lower gallery
being in this case replaced by a bar or board W, which serves as a back to the seat,
and is a substitute for the lower gallery of Figure 4.
Figure 6 represents a glass bell P, which absorbs the heat caused by the gas
burners, and this heat is carried out at the lower part of gallery under the bench by
means of two glass tubes S¹, S¹, Figure 6.
Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 represent chairs having metallic medallions and
advertisements printed on both sides, or painted or enamelled.
Figure 14 represents a chain with a medallion articulated, with hinges at the
lower part, in order that it may be closed (lowered) or displayed.
Figure 15 represents a small metallic bench with advertising medallions suitable
for being placed at the entrance to establishments of various kinds, such as hotels,
theatres, or other public buildings.
Figure 16 represents a luminous gallery, with a gas apparatus inside; this gallery
has moveable glass plates, upon which are fixed the advertisements, and this gallery
or frame is suitable for being placed upon the walls of railway stations and other
public places.
Figure 17 shows another form of single or double public seat or bench arranged
in accordance with this Invention. A is an ordinary or an electric clock; Bare
supports for the medallions or frames in which advertisements are mounted; E, gas
pipe; O, electric wire; P, gas burners.
This improved method of advertising will contribute to the comfort, embellish-
ment, and aspect of the principal roads, promenades, and public places of great
cities.
The lighting of the public roads will thus be increased, and will become by this
improvement more safe, and consequently more frequented, and will stimulate and
generalise the local and general trade by means of a variety of transparent adver-
tisements, simple, elegant, and regular, constantly exhibited (night and day) before
the inhabitants of the town and the foreigners visiting it. It will also tend to
familiarize the minds of the people with the principle houses of commerce of the
locality and of the entire kingdom. It will indicate and show more generally
the time of day and night by the means of ordinary or of electric clocks. It will
add to the decoration in the illumination of towns on local and national holidays or
festevities. In point of morality these improvements in luminous seat benches
lighted during the night constitute a marked progress. The seats will afford a
secure place for honest and respectable people, who will be ablo to sit and read 5
without difficulty or annoyance. The gallery or frame which serves for the back
of the seat, and separates the two seats, prevents the contact of the sitters situated
back to back, and also protects them against pickpockets or contagion.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of performing
or carrying the same into practice, what I claim under the above in part recited 5
Letters Patent is, the improved arrangement and construction of seats, benches, and
chairs in combination with improved means and apparatus for exhibiting advertise-

page_text: ments in parks, promenades, and other public places, substantially in the manner
and for the purposes herein-before described and represented in the Drawings here-
unto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Garrett Tongue, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE. (L.S.)