Year: 1888

page_text: We JOSEPH WILLIAMS of 43 Drake Street Sewing Machine Agent and JOHN
TAYLOR MILNES 23 Drake Street Solicitor both of Rochdale in the County of
Lancaster, 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 :-
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Our invention relates to an advertising medium which invention we term the
Zephyr."
The chief object of this our invention is to provide an automatic advertising
contrivance, which may be operated by the action of the wind, which contrivance
we provide with a convenient number of rollers or drums, on the surfaces of which
rollers or drums may appear various trade advertisements or characters which rollers
we adapt so that each shall have an intermittent motion in order that the various
advertisements or characters provided thereon may in consecutive order, and at
regular intervals or periods be presented to public view, the rollers being so operated
that the same periodically remain stationary, so as to allow time in which the adver-
tisements or characters may be read or observed as the case may be. We provide the
said rollers with mechanism necessary to operate the same in a suitable enclosed
receptacle or casement which we preferably cause to be situated at a convenient
altitude in connection with any advertising or posting hoarding or may be located in
a convenient position at any prominent or public place.
In order that our invention may be better understood we have reference to the
accompanying 4 sheets of drawings in which like letters of reference indicate like
parts throughout the figures therein shewn :-
Figure 1. is a back elevation of our invention shewing the mechanism for operating
the rollers.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of Fig. 1 through ³, x².
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page_text: igure 4 is a front elevation of our invention.
Figure 5 is an end view of Fig. 1 through 7, 8.
Figure 6 is an end elevation of the mechanism for operating the rollers.
Figure 7 is a front elevation of Fig. 6.
We provide in a casement a-which casement is to be placed at a convenient height
or altitude which may be in connection with a posting station or may be situated in
any prominent position and which casement may be made of metal or other suitable
material-two vertical spindles or shafts bb, the said spindles at their lower
extremities are situated in foot steps c, c', and are surmounted at their upper extremities
by caps or hoods, d, having vanes or deflectors, d'; the spindles 66 are retained in
their proper position by means of adjusting screws e e¹ which pass through at the
upper parts of conveniently. formed standards ff', the wind striking against the
surfaces of the deflectors causes a rotary motion to be imparted to the spindles b, b',
the said spindles are provided at any convenient part thereof within the casement
with wharves g g¹, from the wharve, g¹, to the wharve g, passes a driving band, h,
the spindle b¹ we term the auxiliary spindle as we employ the same to assist or
accelerate the motion of the spindle b.
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b
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j
At a convenient part of the spindle 6 we provide the bevel wheel i which works into
a corresponding bevel wheel which wheel, ¹, is carried on a shaft ; supported by
standards kk', on the shaft j is also provided a pinion gear wheel, 7, which wheel
gears into a corresponding gear wheel m carried by a spindle n, supported by
standard, the spindle is also provided with a pinion gear wheel, o, which works into
a corresponding gear wheel, p, which is carried on shaft r and supported between
standards k, k¹; the shaft is also provided with a segment wheel t having a portion
of its circumference provided with teeth t¹, the teeth t₁ of the segment wheel t during
its revolution gear respectively with the pinion or carrier gear wheels u, u¹ carried on
studs, v, vl, supported on standard k¹, the carrier wheels gear respectively with gear
wheels, provided on the shafts, y, y, which said shafts are supported by means of
suitable brackets attached conveniently to the casement a see Fig. 3, the said
shafts carry rollers or drums a¹ a³, on the other extremity of the roller shafts y y¹
we provide ratchet wheels or circular pieces c2 c³, their circumferences serrated c',
we conveniently provide in connection with the pieces c² 3 pawls or catches e c
which engage with the pieces c² c³, the object of such ratchet wheels or pawls is to
prevent the rollers a¹ a² moving otherwise than in the direction urged by the segment
wheel, t. We would have it understood that any number of rollers may be employed
but we preferably shew two in the drawings herewith.
The operation of our invention is as follows:-
:-
The casement, a, is provided with slots or openings 62 6³, opposite to and admitting
to view a portion of the surfaces of the rollers a a²-the front surface of which
casement may also be utilised for advertising purposes,-upon the surfaces of which
rollers may appear any desired number of advertisements which number vary
according to the diameter of the rollers or drums, and which rollers may be made of
any suitable material.
When motion is imparted to the spindles, b, b¹ by the action of the wind on the
surfaces of the deflectors a rotary motion is consequently imparted to the shaft r by
the agency of the train of wheels intervening between the shafts 6 and r and which
wheels are before referred to; accordingly motion is imparted to the segment wheel, t,
the consequence being that an intermittent motion is imparted to the rollers a¹ a² at
different times accordingly as the teeth t¹ of the segment wheel t, gear with the
carrier wheels u u¹ thus any advertisement which may be provided on the rollers is
presented to view as for example see Figure 4, which advertisement or characters
may if desired be formed on the rollers by means of luminous paint or other
substance.
We would have it further understood that we do not confine ourselves to the exact
details of mechanism for operating the advertising rollers as shewn in the drawings as we
may find it necessary to deviate from the details as shown without departing from the
principle of this our said invention.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
1st. In an advertising medium actuated by the wind the use and application of
rollers situated in a horizontal position and their axes parallel to each other sub-
stantially as.and for the purposes herein fully set forth and described in the drawings
hereunto annexed.
2nd. The combination of the vertical spindles 6, 61, the casement, a, provided with
slots 62 68 the hoods d with vanes or deflectors d' the segment wheel t, the rollers a¹ a²
the gear wheels and the gear wheels intervening between the gear wheels xx¹
and the spindle b and the standards kkas and for the purposes herein fully set forth
and described in the drawings hereunto annexed.
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