Improvements in the Method of Displaying Advertisements.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Displaying Advertisements.
We, JOHN MARSHALL STARLEY and WILLIAM STARLEY, both of St. Johns
Works, Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Cycle Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manner in which we display advertisements upon
the pumps or inflators used for the purpose of pumping the air into the pneumatic
tyres of bicycles or other cycles. Such advertisements may consist of a
combination of words or letters, or of any design or device that we desire to display
upon the pump.
In carrying our invention into effect when displaying a name or names, or other
words or combination of letters upon the exterior of the circular pump barrel or
cylinder we cut or form the words or letters upon a stencil plate. We fix or attach
this stencil plate to the pump barrel or cylinder, and direct upcn it the current or
blast of sand from a sand blast machine. The part of the barrel protected by the
solid portion of the stencil plate is unaffected by the sand blast, but the portion
cut away to form the words or letters allows the current, or blast of sand, to pass
through and cut or form the letters in the metal of the barrel.
We vary the depth of the cutting by adjustment of the current or blast of sand,
and by variation of the time allowed for its action. In general we prefer to cut to
just below the surface of the metal only, sufficient to allow the letters or device
to be clearly displayed, but without appreciably diminishing the thickness of the
metal forming the body or cylinder of the pump or inflator.
When desiring to display a device or design upon the pump or inflator, we first
cut a stencil plate having the design or pattern formned thereon, and fix or attach
Buch stencil plate upon the pump, and cut the pattern thereon by means of the sand
blast as hereinbefore described.
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We do not limit the application of our invention to the displaying of advertise-
ments upon the exterior of the pump barrel only, but employ it with equal
advantage to display words or devices upon the closed end of the barrel, or
upon other convenient parts of pumps or inflators of varying patterns or
descriptions.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Displaying Advertisements.
We, JOHN MARSHALL STARLEY and WILLIAM STARLEY, both of St. Johns
Works, Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Cycle Manufacturers, 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:
This invention relates to the manner in which we display advertisements upon

page_text: the pumps or inflators, used for the
tyres of bicycles or other cycles.
bination of words or letters, or of
upon the pump.
purpose of pumping the air into the pneumatic
Such advertisements may consist of a com-
any design or device that we desire to display
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings-
Figure 1 represents the pump or inflator,
Figure 2 the stencil plate which we employ in the manner hereinafter described,
while
Figure 3 represents the inflator with certain words displayed thereon.
In carrying our invention into effect when displaying a name or names, or other
words or combination of letters upon the exterior of the circular pump barrel or
.cylinder A Figure 1, we first cut or form the words or letters upon a stencil plate
such as illustrated at Figure 2. We fix or attach this stencil plate to the pump
barrel or cylinder, and direct upon it the current or blast of sand from a sand blast
machine. The part of the barrel protected by the solid portion B of the stencil
plate is unaffected by the sand blast, but the portion cut away to form the words
or letters allows the current or blast of sand, to pass through and cut or form the
letters in the metal of the barrel as illustrated at Figure 3.
We vary the depth of the cutting by adjustment of the current or blast of sand,
and by variation of the time allowed for its action. In general we prefer to cut to
just below the surface of the metal only, sufficient to allow the letters or device to
be clearly displayed, but without appreciably diminishing the thickness of the
metal forming the body or cylinder of the pump or inflator.
When desiring to display a device or design upon the pump or inflator, we first
cut a stencil plate having the design or pattern formed thereon, and then fix or
attach such stencil plate upon the pump, and cut the pattern thereon by means
of the sand blast as hereinbefore described.
We do not limit the application of our invention to the displaying of advertise-
ments upon the exterior of the pump barrel only, but employ it with equal
advantage to display words or devices upon the closed end of the barrel, or
upon other convenient parts of pumps or inflators of varying patterns or
descriptions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The improved method of displaying advertisements upon the exterior of an air
pump or inflator substantially as hereinbefore described.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.