NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE REGULATED DELIVERY OF CARDS, TICKETS, LABELS, BILLS, AND SHEETS OR PIECES OF CARDBOARD, PAPER, METAL, OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR ADVERTIZING OR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Rowland Brown, of Cranbourne Street,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR THE REGULATED DELIVERY OF CARDS, TICKETS, LABELS, BILLS,
AND SHEETS OR PIECES OF CARDBOARD, PAPER, METAL, OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR
ADVERTIZING OR OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 2nd February 1868, and dated the 8th August 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Rowland Brown
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th August 1863.
I, HENRY ROWLAND BROWN, of Cranbourne Street, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE REGULATED DELIVERY OF CARDS, TICKETS,
LABELS, BILLS, AND SHEETS OR PIECES OF CARDBOARD, PAPER, METAL, OR OTHER
MATERIAL FOR ADVERTISING OR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of an arrangements of frames of wood or metal, upon
the first or outside border of which may be fixed barometers, thermometers,
A second
clocks, date boxes, or other serviceable or attractive articles.
frame is also provided of a smaller size than the first and fitted to it, to which
is affixed or card box or series of compartments for the reception of cards,
labels, slips of metal or paper desired to be distributed or delivered without
destroying the uniform surface or original appearance of the frame or board,
and may all be removed at pleasure, except the last one, which remains fixed
for permanent purposes. More than one card or label can be prevented
from being removed at the same time, the remainder being secured by a

page_text: lock, spring, or other fastener, so that when the last card or label is removed
the surface of the board presents the same exterior as before any removal.
To effect this within each compartment, I place an india-rubber, metal, or
other spring, so that a picture, card, or label may be placed thereon; this being
covered by a transparent surface forms a fixed body which forces whatever
is placed therein into one uniform position, over which is a sliding bar
with points, roller, or cog wheels, so contrived that by sliding or turning a knob
or handle placed on either of the sides of the various compartments any
number of duplicates of the fixed picture, card, label, or other advertisement
may be singly removed at pleasuse. An indicator can be used to indicate
the number of the labels, cards, or other things distributed or delivered out.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Rowland Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 8th February 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
ROWLAND BROWN, of Cranbourne Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Ier beirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Rowland Brown, Her special licence that I,
the said Henry Rowland Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Henry Rowland Brown, executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE REGULATED
DELIVERY OF CARDS, TICKETS, LABELS, BILLS, AND SHEETS OR PIECES OF CARD-
BOARD PAPER, PAPER, METAL, OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR ADVERTIZING OR OTHER
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Rowland Brown, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Rowland Brown, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
The objects and purposes of my said Invention consist in providing apparatus
in which a number of tickets, labels, bills, sheets or pieces of cardboard, paper,
metal, or other material to be used for advertising or other purposes may be
deposited, such apparatus being so arranged and provided with contrivances
for the purpose of preventing or hindering more than one (or other given
number) of such tickets, labels, bills, sheets or pieces of cardboard, paper, metal,
or other material being removed or withdrawn at one time or by one action.
To effectuate the objects and purposes aforesaid, I prefer (in accordance
with the experimental trials hitherto made by me) to adopt the arrangements
herein-after described, although I by no means intend to confine or restrict
my Invention to such arrangements, that is, I use arrangements of frames of
wood or metal. Upon the first or outer frame may be fixed barometers,
thermometers, clocks, date boxes, or other serviceable or attractive articles or
designs. A second frame is also provided of smaller size than the first, and
fitted within it, which has therein a card box or boxes, series of compart-
ments for the reception of cards, labels, strips of metal or paper or other
similar articles desired to be distributed or delivered without destroying the
uniform surface or original appearance of the frame or board, and the same-
may all be removed at pleasure except the last one, which may remain fixed
for permanent purposes. More than one card or label can be prevented or
hindered from being removed at the same time, and so that when the last
card or label is removed, the surface of the board presents the same exterior
as before any removal, to which end I use metal, india-rubber, or other spring,.
with a picture, card, or label placed thereon. This being covered by a
transparent surface remains permanent, and fixes whatever is placed thereon
into one uniform position. Over this is a sliding bar with points, rollers, or
cog wheels so contrived that by sliding or turning a knob or handle (or other-
wise) placed on either of the sides of the various compartments, one or other
given number of duplicates or repeats of the fixed picture, card, label, or other
advertizement may be singly removed at pleasure. Indicator arrangements.
can be adopted to indicate the number of labels, cards, or other things
distributed or delivered out, which may be done by numbering each card:
before inserted in the box or boxes, to indicate the exact number of the labels,

page_text: cards, or other things deposited and delivered. Instead of the foregoing
contrivance, a similar arrangement may be effected by inverting the springs,
and causing the transparent surface to be fixed; the cards, labels, or other
things will thus be made to fall from behind by means of a slip or other
contrivance at the back, but I prefer the arrangements above described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS,
which illustrate one method of effectuating my said Invention.
Fig. 1 shews a front view of the complete apparatus; Fig. 2 section
shewing the mechanical arrangements adopted; Fig. 3, front view of a single
frame; Fig. 4, section shewing the mechanical arrangements of a single
delivery box or case; Fig. 5, view of the lock or catch for securing the outer
and inner cases.
A, denotes the outer frame of wood or other suitable material, in which a
barometer is shewn fitted on the one side and a thermometer on the other,
though any other useful or attractive articles or designs may be substituted
for the same.
Within this outer frame is the second or inner frame or holder
B, constructed of metal or other suitable material. This frame is provided
with a number of compartments, openings or recesses, for the reception of
the delivery boxes or cases (C), a complete section of one thereof being shewn
by the view Fig. 4. These delivery boxes or case is or are made of metal or
other suitable material, and consist of two sides and two ends cast in one
piece or firmly secured together, being open at back and front, a loose piece of
metal or material forming the back, which can be fastened to the ends or
sides of the case by one fixed bolt, pin, or stud, fitting into an eye hole or
mortise, and one moveable bolt and spring catch. At or near the opening
for the front, a projecting frame of metal or other suitable material D is
provided, firmly secured to the sides and ends of the delivery box, having
grooves E, E, one in or upon each side of the said frame D, in which grooves
the ends of the sliding bar moves, the said bar being, as I prefer, formed as
thus,―
1
I.
the Figures 1 and 2, denoting the ends which slide in
the said grooves (E, E,) and 3, denoting the knob or handle for moving
the slide, when cards or other things are to be withdrawn or delivered from
the box or case. This sliding bar is on the other side provided with studs,

page_text: denoting the ends and knobs as before mentioned), and x, x, denoting
the two points which may either be sharpened to take hold of the cards, or labels,
or other things, or may fall into notches made in the ends thereof. Instead
of points a scraper may be adopted, but I prefer the former arrangement.
The front opening of the delivery box or case is fitted with a plate of glass
(F) or other transparent material, (or if preferred with a plate or piece of
metal or other material, upon which any writing, device, printing, impression,
or ornament might be made to appear,) the transparent material however is
what I prefer. When for use I would place one card or label or other thing
X, X, at the back of the glass or transparent material between it and the
spiral spring G. This spiral spring should be placed in the centre, as shewn
by the Drawing, as when so placed it draws the card in its place ready for
delivery, but any other spring arrangements which will bring up the label or
card or other thing ready for delivery upon any person moving the sliding bar
as before mentioned, may be adopted if desired. In the full apparatus shewn
by Fig. 1 and 2, the parts B' are rounded or raised thus
to facilitate
the extracting of the cards or other things. The parts marked b (in this
Fig.) are locking bars, locking each row of delivery boxes in proper positions.
The whole apparatus to be securely fastened by spring latch and catch or
lock.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the said is to be performed, I hereby declare
that I desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
arrangements shown and described, but I claim the use of mechanical apparatus
for the purpose of distributing or delivering one (or other given number) of
labels, cards, or other things aforesaid, which apparatus may be provided
with arrangements for keeping one of the labels, cards, or things aforesaid in
a position open to view, or with a board or plate having writing, painting,
printing, any or all of them in imitation of a card or label, or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Rowland Brown, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE MARSHALL,
HENRY ROWLAND BROWN. (L.s.)