An Improved Advertising Newspaper Holder.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Advertising Newspaper Holder.
I, GUSTAVE LEPROUX, of No. 21 Boulevard Poissonnière, Paris, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved newspaper holder having a surface or
table capable of receiving advertisements and consists of a board or plate integral
with, or suitably secured to, a handle. The size of this plate is made to corre-
spond to the dimensions of the newspapers, journals, periodicals or the like which
it is intended to receive. The sheets of the paper are retained therein by a
metallic or other suitable rod pivotted at one end of the holder and retained at
the opposite end by any suitable device, such, for example, as a screw engaging
in a recess or groove. The holder-plate is on each side provided with grooves to
admit of the insertion of advertising plates or tablets which, after insertion, are
retained in place by a top-piece or front of the main plate or in any other suitable
manner.
The principle of my invention admits of various modifications of form.
According to one modification the advertising plates or tablets may consist of thin
sheets of zinc or other metal or pieces of cardboard, thick paper, or the like,
having announcements written or printed upon them, simply fixed by cement or
other adhesive material to the somewhat recessed or concave surface of the holder
plate, or they may be secured thereto by tacks, pins, or screws, the number and
arrangement of which, in the longitudinal direction of the holder, may be varied
at will.
According to another modification, the advertising tablets, instead of being
inserted through the top or head piece of the holder-plate and slid along the
grooves provided for the purpose in that plate, may be passed through slots
formed at the upper ends of the said grooves. In this case, as in the form first
above mentioned, the tablets need not be cemented or in any way further secured
to the holder, or, alternatively, the head or front of the plate may be provided
with a separate slot for the insertion of each advertising tablet or card which it
may be required to fit within the grooves.
According to a further modification the head or front of the holder-plate may
be hinged and retained in position by a hook or bolt of any suitable description
after sliding the advertising plates into the grooves.
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Or the advertising plates or cards pasted or cemented together may be inserted
into "compound or joint grooves through longitudinal slots provided in one of
the side-pieces or posts of the holder-plate, and the holder-plate may he
constructed without a bottom surface, that is, in the shape of an open frame
simply consisting of two side posts joined at the top by the head or front piece
and at the lower part by a cross-piece. The side posts may be either solid or
tubular and of cylindrical, prismatic, or other outline and made of any suitable
material.
As will be well understood the various modifications above described may either
be employed in conjunction as suggested or taken separately and so combined as
to form other types of newspaper holders without departing from the spirit of my
invention.
A. F. SPOONER,
124, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Advertising Newspaper Holder.
I, GUSTAVE LEPROUX, of 21, Boulevard Poissonnière, Paris, in the Republic
of France, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say:
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The improved newspaper holder provided with advertising tablets, which forms
the subject of the present invention, is illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
in which;
Figure 1 shews in elevation, and Figure 2 in transverse section, one form of
newspaper holder formed of a frame A A', made in a single piece with, or rigidly
attached to, a handle of any suitable form and dimensions P. Upon this frame,
the height of which depends upon the dimensions of the sheets journals or other
publications which it is intended to receive, are fitted advertising tablets T T'
printed upon zinc, thin sheet metal, strong card-board, or the like, the tablets
being cemented, or fixed by nails screws, or bolts, or simply slid into grooves in
the frame.
Figure 3 shews, for example, an advertising tablet fixed upon each side of the
frame by means of bolts a, the number of which may be varied according to the
height of the frame.
In all cases the changing of the advertising tablets can be effected with the
greatest ease.
In order to hold these tablets in their place, grooves r, in another form of
apparatus (Figure 4), may be made in each side of recesses in the frame in which
the advertising tablets fit, a part b being cut away in the upper part of the frame
to allow of the introduction of the and withdrawal of the tablets. In this method
of arrangement there is no necessity for cementing or otherwise fixing the latter,
so that their changing is greatly facilitated. The cut away part b at the upper
part of the grooves r may be replaced by slits formed in the upper part F of the
frame, as shewn at 6' b in Figure 5.
With the same object the upper part F of the frame may be made separate and
carried upon a hinge, (as shewn in Figure 8), a hook or other suitable fastening
holding the part F in its closed position when the advertising tablets have been
inserted.
Or the tablets may be inserted through slits C formed laterally through one of
the upright edges of the frame A A', and communicating with the groove r
(as illustrated in Figure 7). The frame instead of being solid may consist simply
of the uprights A A', connected together at their upper end by the part F, and
below by a cross piece B'. The advertising tablets in such case may consist of a
single sheet printed upon both sides, and introduced into the grooves 7 provided
for them, in the methods already described.
The frame, whether_solid or framed together as just described, may be either
of wood or of metal. The uprights A and A' may be of any suitable section and
either solid or hollow. Figure 6 shews them as solid cylinders.
In all the different forms which may be modified and combined together so as
to form different varieties of the improved advertising newspaper holder, the
newspaper or other publication is held in place by a rod t jointed either upon the
side (Figure 1), of the frame, or upon the front (Figure 9), its lower end being
beld by a moveable socket v (Figure 1), or by a simple spring catch s (Figure 9),
or by means of a button grooved so as to leave the rods free when the button
is turned.
I do not confine myself to the precise form and arrangement of the apparatus
described, which may be varied and modified more or less as may be found
convenient, but

page_text: 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 :-
In the improved advertising newspaper holder, the combination,
1. Of a solid frame provided with grooves and serving as a newspaper holder
and to receive advertising tablets,
2. Of a frame consisting of solid or hollow uprights provided with grooves and
connected at their upper and lower ends by cross-pieces, and arranged to receive
advertising tablets printed upon both sides,
All substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 11th day of January 1894.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.