An Apparatus for Exhibiting Advertisements.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept. 1890-Accepted, 8th Nov., 1890.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Exhibiting Advertisements.
I CARL OTTO RADDE of No. 39 Catharinenstrasse Hamburg in the Empire of
Germany Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention consists in an apparatus for exhibiting advertisements in which a
high upright frame covered with the advertisements, pictures, &c. to be exhibited is
brought into intermittent rotary motion for exhibiting the advertisements in an
effectual manner. The advertisements are arranged suitably in mounts which are
fastened to the above named frame and which can be stretched by suitably arranged
screws with thumb nuts in order to expose the advertisements in a smooth and tensioned
condition.
The apparatus is represented in its main features in the accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the frame with its bearings and motor.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the motor with the disengaging device for the inter-
mittent motion of the frame.
Fig. 3 shows another position of the disengaging mechanism.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the frame and
Fig. 5 is a view of a mount (half cut off) for receiving the advertisement.
The whole apparatus is mounted on a frame which is constructed weather proof
being provided with large panes of glass for showing the apparatus within and
illuminated by electric or gas light. The outer case may have exterior ornaments
according to taste and requirements and as it is not essential for setting forth the
invention it is not shown in the drawings.
The frame A is made of steel or forged iron of triangular square or polygonal shape
and is carried by means of pins w and w¹ in a vertical position; said pins may be
hollow for receiving the wires for the electric light: The lower pin w is prolonged
and connected with a clock work I by bevelled wheels u'u². The clock work I would
keep the frame in continual rotation if it were not stopped during certain intervals by
a stopping device which can be disengaged and is described hereinafter.
The shaft of the clockwork I carrying the bevelled wheel u¹ is provided with a
toothed wheel which gears with the pinion t rotating loosely on the shaft h. With
the motor t is securely connected a lever d which carries at the upper end the pin o
and at the lower end a counter weight g. This pin o stops the process of the clock-
work I as soon as the pin touches the projection of a lever as seen by Figs. 1
and 2.
In this position the clock-work I stops and accordingly also the frame A. When a
rotating advance of the frame is to take place, the pin o must be released from the
projection of the lever, this being done in the following manner. A second clock-
work II, drives a cog-wheel y on the circumference of which rests the tooth i of a
lever x.
The free end of the lever touches the lever underneath and raises the
latter as soon as the lever is raised by the cog-wheel y which takes place upon the
advance of each tooth of the wheel y. As soon as the lever is raised completely, as
shown by Fig. 3, the pin o moves from the projection and the former falls then
against a second projection q attached lower to the lever f. When now upon further
motion of the wheel p, the lever falls again, the lever falls also and the pin o
arrives over the projection q, when the clock-work I can move, as now the lever & is
detained no longer.
The lever d with its motor t makes now a complete revolution in the direction of
the arrow 2, Figs. 2 and 3, until the pin o, as shown by Fig. 2 arrives again on the
projection of the lever f and stops the clock-work 1.

page_text: The second projection 9 on the lever f is of importance, because the same detains
the arm d for so long, until the lever f has descended so far that the projection v
catches the rotating pin o of the arm d on its return.
By regulating the cog-wheel p of the clock-work II to advance by one tooth within
a certain interval, one can regulate correspondingly the disengaging device and thus
the intermittent rotation of the frame A.
For fastening the advertisements to the frame, suitably large mounts K are used
to which are attached the sheets, pictures etc. These mounts are suspended on screw-
pivots n arranged above and below on the frame and are kept by thumb-screws. The
hook-bolts c serve for tensioning the sides of the frames, these being inserted into the
mounts as seen in Fig. 4, and kept and tightened in the ribs m of the frame by means
of thumb screws.
The ribs m are provided with projecting cheeks at those places
where the screw bolts are to be inserted, said cheeks being provided with holes for
the bolts c. Instead of iron ribs, iron tubes may also be used.
Dated this 28th day of April 1890. ·
HERBERT & Co.
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Exhibiting Advertisements.
1 CARL OTTO RADDE of No. 39 Catharinenstrasse, Hamburg in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described in and by the
following statement :-
'
This invention consists in an apparatus for exhibiting advertisements in which a
high upright frame covered with the advertisements, pictures, etc. to be exhibited is
brought into intermittent rotary motion for exhibiting the advertisements in an
effectual manner. The advertisements are arranged suitably in mounts which are
fastened to the above named frame and which can be stretched by suitably arranged
screws with thumb nuts in order to expose the advertisements in a smooth and
tensioned condition.
The apparatus is represented in its main features in the drawings left with the
Provisional Specification.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the frame with its bearings and motor.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the motor with the disengaging device for the
intermittent motion of the frame.
Fig. 3 shows another position of the disengaging mechanism,
Fig. 4 is a plan of the frame and
Fig. 5 is a view of a mount (half cut off) for receiving the advertisement.
The whole apparatus is mounted in a frame which is constructed weather proof
being provided with large panes of glass for showing the apparatus within and
illuminated by electric or gas light. The outer case may have exterior ornaments
according to taste and requirements and as it is not essential for setting forth the
invention it is not shown in the drawings.
The frame A is made of steel or forged iron of triangular, square, or. polygonal
shape and is carried by means of pins wand w¹ in a vertical position. Said pins
may be hollow for receiving the wires for the electric light. The lower pin wis
prolonged and connected with a clock work I by bevelled wheels n¹ n. The clock-
work would keep the frame. in continual rotation if it were not stopped during
certain intervals by a stopping device which can be disengaged and which is described
hereinafter.
The shaft r of the clockwork I carrying the bevelled wheel n' is provided with a
toothed wheel p which gears with the pinion t rotating loosely on the shaft h. With
the pinion t is securely connected a lever d which carries at the upper end the pin o
and at the lower end a counter weight g. This pin o stops the process of the

page_text: clockwork
Figs. 1 and 2.
as soon as the pin touches the projection of a lever f as seen by
In this position the clockwork I stops and accordingly also the frame A. When a
rotating advance of the frame is to take place, the pin o must be released from the
projection of the lever f, this being done in the following manner. A second clock-
work II drives a cogwheel y, on the circumference of which rests the tooth i of a
lever x.
The free end of the lever touches the lever f underneath and raises the
latter as soon as the lever x is raised by the cog-wheel y which takes place upon the
advance of each tooth of the wheel y.
As soon as the lever is raised completely as shown by Fig. 3, the pin o moves
from the projection and the former falls then against a second projection 9 attached
lower to the lever f. When now upon further motion of the wheel y the lever x falls
again, the lever falls also and the pin o arrives over the projection 9 when the clock-
work I can move, as now the lever d is detained no longer.
The lever d with its pinion t makes now a complete revolution in the direction of
the arrow 2, Figs. 2 and 3, until the pin o as shown by Fig. 2 arrives again on the
projection of the lever and stops the clockwork I.
The second projection 9 on the lever is of importance because the same detains
the arm d for so long until the lever has descended so far that the projection v
catches the rotating pin o of the arm & in its return.
By regulating the cog wheel y of the clockwork II to advance by one tooth
within a certain interval, one can regulate correspondingly the disengaging device and
thus the intermittent rotation of the frame A.
The
For fastening the advertisements to the frame, suitably large mounts K are used to
which are attached the sheets, pictures etc. These mounts are suspended on screw
pivots n arranged above and below on the frame and are kept by thumb screws.
hook bolts c serve for tensioning the sides of the frames, these being inserted into
the mounts as seen in Fig. 4 and kept and tightened in the ribs m of the frame by
means of thumb screws. The ribs m are provided with projecting cheeks at those
places, where the screw bolts are to be inserted, said cheeks being provided with holes
for the bolts c.
Instead of iron ribs, iron tubes may also be used.
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. In an apparatus for exhibiting advertisements the combination of a frame A
rotating preferably on a vertical axis with a double clockwork 1 and II and the
disengaging mechanism consisting of the lever f the two projections and q thereon,
the arin d of the clockwork I and the lever adapted to be raised by the clockwork IÍ
the whole adapted to operate substantially as set forth to give an intermittent
movement of rotation to said frame A.
2. The combination with the frame A of the mounts K which carry the advertise-
ments and which may be tensioned by the bolts c which engage with the projecting
lugs m on the frame substantially as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of September 1890.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.