Year: 1896

page_text: I, MARSHALL JOHN ALLEN, of 34 Great Ormond Street, in the County of
London, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention has for its object improved means for advertising and relates to
means whereby the wheels of cycles and other vehicles are caused to leave an
imprint of any required advertisement or announcement on the roads over which
they travel.
For this purpose I form on the tyres of such wheels, letters or signs in reverse
corresponding with any required announcement; thus, on the wheels running over
dusty or damp roadways, the desired advertisement or announcement will be
imprinted thereon.
In some cases the tyre may be arranged in connection with a reservoir of ink
or other printing or coloring matter and the tyre be provided with letters or signs
formed by a number of perforations or of some absorbent material, so that when
running over a roadway, say such as asphalte, an impression in ink or color of the
required advertisement or announcement will be left behind.
Dated this 21st day of March 1896
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
1, MARSHALL JOHN ALLEN, of No. 34 Great Ormond Street, in the County of
London, Clerk, do bereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be perfornied, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The invention has for its object, improved means for advertising; and relates to
means whereby the wheels of cycles and other vehicles are caused to leave an
imprint of any required advertisement or announcement, on the roads over which
hey travel.
For this purpose, I form on the tyres of such wheels, letters or signs in reverse,
responding with any required announcement; so that in the case of wheels
ning over dusty or damp roadways, the desired advertisement or announcement
be imprinted thereon.
some cases the tyre may be arranged in connection with a reservoir of ink
er printing or coloring matter; the tyre being, in that case, provided with
or signs formed by some absorbent inaterial, or by a number of perfora-
that when running over a roadway, say such as asphalte, an impression in

page_text: ink or color, of the required advertisement or announcement, will be printed or
stencilled upon the roadway.
Referring to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this
specification and read therewith :-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the rear of a van to which my
invention has been applied.
Figure 2 is a perspective view from the rear, illustrating the application of the
invention to a bicycle.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the rear of a van to which my
invention bas been applied.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the rear tires a have the letters b of the desired
advertisement or announcement, set out thereon in relief, and of course in reverse
order. As the vehicle moves forward, a line of letters c is impressed by each rear
tire in the surface of the roadway d, which is assumed for the purpose of this
specification, to be soft or dusty. As the letters are severally indented in their
proper order, the result is an indented and legible advertisement.
The modification illustrated in Figure 3 includes the combination with the rear
tires, of an automatic inking device adapted, by inking the letters on the tires, to
enable the wheel to leave printed advertisements upon the roadway. Each letter 61
is recessed in the tire a' and filled up flush with soft or absorbent material. e is
an automatic inking device fixed to the vehicle immediately above the wheel
tire a¹ on each side of the vehicle. As the tires a¹ revolve, the absorbent material
takes ink from the device e and leaves it on the roadway during the time it is in
contact therewith. A line of letters e' is thereby printed on the roadway d', which
is assumed for the purpose of this specification, to be smooth and hard, e.g., asphalte.
The ink may be, if preferred, carried in a suitable cavity in the tire or in the
wheel rim-and the letters may be cut through the tire, in which case the line of
letters will be stencilled upon the roadway d¹.
It is obvious that the invention is applicable to the rear tires only of any vehicle
which has wheels following each other, such as a bicycle or a waggon. In the
case of such a vehicle as a Hansom cab, a tricycle, a monocycle, a hand truck or a
wheel barrow, the invention can be applied to all the tires the vehicle has.
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 hereinbefore described combination of tire and line of letters in reverse
order.
2. The hereinbefore described combination of tire, line of letters in reverse
order, and an inking device.
3. The hereinbefore described combination of wheel, ink reservoir, and stencil
tire.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.