An Improved Apparatus for Displaying Public Notices, Advertisements, and the like
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Displaying Public Notices,
Advertisements, and the like.
PATRICK FRANK MURPHY of 164 Tufnell Park Road, London N. Commercial
Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
Causing the sides of a carriage, truck, or other specially constructed vehicle
to revolve by means of bevel, or other cog wheels, worked by, or in connection
with, the wheel, or wheels of such carriage or other vehicle, and thus attracting
attention to reading matter, pictures &c., pasted or painted on sides of said
carriage, by these cog wheels I can impart a perpetual motion to the sides, or
by mutilating one of the wheels I can impart an intermittent motion to the sides,
and by a particular arrangement of the bevel or other wheels I can cause portion
of the sides of carriage to revolve or work in one direction and other portion in
opposite direction or to remain stationary; the sides of carriage may be square,
circular, or other shape desired.
Dated this 12th day of January 1892.
PATRICK FRANK MURPHY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Displaying Public Notices,
Advertisements, and the like.
PATRICK FRANK MURPHY of i64 Tufnell Park Road London N. Commercial
Traveller & Advertising Contractor 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 an improved apparatus for displaying public notices,
advertisements, and the like, and consists of a wheeled vehicle of special con-
struction whereof the sides of the body are formed of a broad endless band or
bands running upon vertical rollers actuated by bevel or other spur gear from the
travelling wheel or wheels, the band or bands bearing the announcements to which
it is desired to give publicity and running either continuously or intermittently in
the same or opposite horizontal directions, or one band being stationary whilst the
other is in motion.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, which illustrate in Figure I a longitudinal section and in Figure 2 a
rear elevation of one form of advertising vehicle.
A, A, are four rollers pivoted on vertical axes at the four corners of the top and
bottom B, C, of the vehicle body which is framed together by suitably stayed
pillars D and mounted on two pairs of travelling wheels and a fore carriage as
usual. The spindle of one of the rearmost rollers A is extended down through
the bottom of the body and carries a bevel wheel E which is geared with a corre-
sponding bevel wheel F on the adjacent travelling wheel so that this roller is
driven thereby as the wheel rotates. Around the four rollers A, passes an endless
band G, extending in breadth the whole height of the body and bearing on its
surface the announcements to be exhibited so that as the geared roller is revolved,
the band is caused to continuously travel around in the same direction.
If it be desired to move the band intermittently, then the bevel wheel F on the
travelling wheel would be mutilated or reduced to a mere segment, as shewn in

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Figure 3, so as to leave the band stationary for a greater or less period during
each revolution of the travelling wheel.
Instead, however, of having a single band on all four rollers I may have two
bands one for each side running upon the two rollers at the same side in which
case both the rearmost rollers would be driven continuously or intermittently by
bevel gear as above described from the adjacent rearmost travelling wheels.
Again instead of the same band, extending the whole length of the vehicle body,
there may be two pairs of rollers at each side and two bands one on each pair of
rollers, each band extending about half the length of the vehicle, the rearmost
band being driven as above described and the foremost band being either stationary
or driven either in the same or the opposite direction by the spindles of the adjacent
rollers of the two bands being geared directly together by spur or belt gear or by
the spindle of the rearmost roller of the front band being geared to the spindle of
the driven roller of the rearmost band by, an open or crossed belt, beneath the
bottom C of the frame. In this case, as before, the bands may either pass across to
and be exhibited at the two sides of the body, in which case they would each run
upon four, rollers, or different bands may be used for the opposite sides each
running on a pair of rollers.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The herein described advertising apparatus consisting of a vehicle having one or
..more bands bearing the advertisements and constituting the sides of the vehicle
body and running upon vertical rollers one or more of which is driven through the
medium of bevel spur gear worked by or in connection with the ordinary running
wheel or wheels.
Dated this 12th day of October 1892.