A Combined Advertising Medium and Waterproof Device for the and Outside Seats of Tramcars, Omnibuses, Piers, Steamboats, the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Advertising Medium and Waterproof Device for the
and
Outside Seats of Tramcars, Omnibuses, Piers, Steamboats,
the like.
I, WILLIAM CHANCELLOR HAIGH, of 41 Corporation Street, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a combined advertising medium and waterproof device
for the outside seats of tramcars, omnibuses, piers, steamboats and the like and the
object of the invention is to supply a cover for the seats when wet which shall be
of no cost to the user and of little if any cost to the owner of the seats.
To effect my object I employ a sheet of a waterproof paper or other suitable
material and of a convenient size upon which I propose to print advertisements so
that the income derived from letting the advertisements will more than defray the
cost of the printed waterproof sheets.
In place of employing a single sheet of the waterproof paper, pamphlets,
circulars or catalogues of any description may be bound with a waterproof cover
and used for the purpose of giving a dry seat to an outside passenger on a tramcar,
pier etc.
The waterproof sheets or the pamphlets etc., with a waterproof cover would be
supplied to the tram or other companies gratis or at a very small cost and given
by them to the guards or attendants who could then supply passengers and others
with them as required.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
A Combined Advertising Medium and Waterproof Device for the
Outside Seats of Tramcars, Omnibuses, Piers, Steamboats, and
the like.
I, WILLIAM CHANCELLOR HAIGH, of 41 Corporation Street, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
My invention relates to a combined advertising medium and waterproof device for
the outside seats of tramcars, omnibuses, piers, steamboats and the like and the
object of the invention is to supply a cover for the seats when wet which shall be
of no cost to the user and of little if any cost to the owner of the seats.
To eflect my object I employ a sheet of a waterproof paper or other analogous
material such as strawboard and the like and of a convenient size upon which I
propose to print advertisements so that the income derived from letting the
advertisements will more than defray the cost of the printed waterproof sheets.
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page_text: The waterproof sheets would be supplied to the tram or other companies gratis
or at a very small cost and given by them to the guards or attendants who could
then supply passengers and others with them as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
Sheets of waterproof paper or other analogous material having advertisements
printed thereon, and of a suitable size and shape to cover outside seats substantially
in the manner and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.