Improvements in Hot Air Balloons for Advertising.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hot Air Balloons for Advertising.
HENRY NEWBOLD BALLENI Aeronaut and Balloon Builder 255 Waterloo
Road London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in balloons for advertising purposes illuminated & transparent for
day or night to be inflated with hot air. Also which can be used on the ground
made of balloon shape & grotesque shapes that can be fixed to a moveable object
illuminated & exhibited through the streets, with letters painted on the same as an
advertisement. Also balloons aerial which rise from the ground with hot air &
float over a town free or captive letters being written on or placed on the balloons
as the designer may determine from time to time. This aerial illuminated
transparent balloon I claim as my original introduction & invention. The ground
advertisements by illuminated transparent balloon I also claim as my original
introduction & invention.
The application of the search light can also be used with the aerial balloon, & is
my original application & invention in connection with the same.
Dated this 25th day of October 1893.
HENRY NEWBOLD BALLENI.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hot Air Balloons for Advertising.
HENRY NEWBOLD BALLENI Artist Aeronaut and Balloon Builder 22 Cavoir
Street Penton Place Kennington Park Road London late of Waterloo Road
London 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 :-
Improvements in balloons for advertising. Illuminated transparent balloons to be
used by day or night & float over a town free or captive with or without
passengers equipped with net & car complete & to be inflated & supported with
hot air.
Also balloons to be used on the ground made balloon shape, also figure or
grotesque shapes, human or animal that can be fixed to a movable object or exhibited
from windows & buildings or drawn, or carried through the streets illuminated as
an advertisement. Also balloons aerial which rise from the ground & float with
hot air. This I claim as an illuminated balloon advertising medium, letters being
written on or placed on the netting or on the balloon by means of eyelet holes & laced
on the balloon or secured by composition, or as the designer may from time to time
determine.
This aerial day & night illuminated transparent & electric advertising balloon
supported in the air by a continuous supply of hot air I claim as my original
introduction & invention.
The attachment of the search light to the said hot air balloons I claim as my
original introduction & invention & part of the same, & used for the aeronauts
finding safe landing places at night.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The originality of using hot air balloons free or captive by day & by night,
illuminated as an advertising medium.
2nd. The capability of removing the name or letters or advertisement on & off
the said balloons at will.
3rd. The use & attachment of the search light to the car of the said hot air
illuminated transparent & electric balloons.
May 19th 1894.
HENRY NEWBOLD BALLENI,
Artist, Aeronaut, and Balloon Builder.