Improvements in Advertising Cabinets.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1899-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Cabinets.
I, CHARLES THOMAS DAILY, residing at 189, La Salle Street, Chicago, Cook
County, Illinois, United States of America, Gentleman, 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:-
My invention relates to certain improvements in advertising cabinets, of the
class which are adapted for use upon a hotel counter or other public place where
a umber of receptacles are desirable for the purpose of holding supplies of
stationary, matches, ink, etc., and where the constant use of these articles brings a
large number of persons continuously within view of the cabinet making the
latter exceedingly desirable as a place for advertisements.
The object of the invention is to produce a cabinet of neat and attractive
appearance which shall combine with a number of receptacles arranged with
reference to the use of the hotel-keeper or other owner, a series of advertising
spaces together with supporting devices for advertisements, of such a nature as to
protect the latter, present them to the best advantage and also enable any
changes to be made with the minimum expense and greatest convenience.
To such end the invention consists in certain novel features of construction
and arrangement which will appear fully in the specific description of the pre-
ferred form of the cabinet and will be definitely pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings, said preferred form of cabinet is shown by means of 4 figures,
of which Figure 1 is a perspective; Figure 2 a vertical section in plane 2-2 of
Figure 1; Figure 3 a detail perspective of the rear of a portion of the cabinet with
one of the advertising drawers withdrawn and Figure 4 a vertical section in line
4-4 of Figure 2.
Referring to these drawings, A, is a preferably hollow base surrounded by
the side walls, which may be of any desired outline and which may be utilized
or not, as the case may be, for advertisements and for the name of the hotel or
other place where the cabinet may be situated. The top of the cabinet is made up
of a series of openings and a series of depressed receptacles to which may be added
any raised or ornamental work as may be desired, as for instance, the envelope or
card holder, B, upon the top of which is the ornamental figure, C. The recep-
tacles may be of any desired number, form and arrangement, depending upon
their use and the nature of the requirements, those shown being intended for a
hotel or similar location. At each of the rear corners, three receptacles, D, D¹, D³,
are shown, of which the receptacle D, is intended for an ink-well and the adjacent
receptacles for shot or a potato, in which the pen may be thrust to clean it and
also to hold it in position. About the central box, B, are two receptacles, E, E¹,
alongside of said box and receptacles, 12, 13, in front of the same.
box are compartments, E, E, and between these two, at the rear of the box,
two smaller compartments E E. Between the latter and the box is a recep-
tacle, E8, in which an ordinary call bell is shown. In the middle portion of the
front of the top is an opening, F, provided with a glass cover and at the front corners
are two panel-shaped openings, F1, F2, also provided with covers of bevelled plate
glass. These three openings are intended for large advertisements or those which
Behind the

page_text: are sufficiently permanent to permit of their being engraved or printed upon a
single plate, the latter being supported by proper means beneath the glass and
protected thereby from dust, dirt or accidental injury. Extending from front to
rear of the cabinet are two rectangular spaces, G, G¹, also covered by bevelled
plate glass and provided with drawers, y, sliding in suitable guides, g', and
capable of withdrawal from the rear side of the cabinet. The drawers are pre-
ferably open at the bottom and provided with a series of transverse partitions, g
between which the side walls are obliquely grooved at g, to provide ways in which
may be slipped a series of advertising cards, the latter being thus given an oblique
position which brings them into better view from the front side of the cabinet.
The oblique position also renders them capable of independent withdrawal, as
cach card has its own set of grooves in which it can be placed or from which it
can be taken without disturbing the rest. The transverse partitions close the
spaces between the ends of the contiguous cards so that the partitions, the cards
and the super-imposed glass will form a close compartment in which the cards
are protected from dirt or injury.
The cabinet shown is of great value to the ordinary hotel-keeper, who will
gladly permit the same to be placed upon his counter and who will allow it to
remain there, in view of the benefit derived from the use of the receptacles
designed to contain articles belonging to the hotel. On the other hand, the
advertiser is enabled to place his card where it will be seen by the constantly
changing guests of the hotel, making the advertisement of much greater value
that in any other location.
The details of the cabinet may be varied almost indefinitely without depart-
ing from the invention, the object of the latter being to so combine advertising
spaces and receptacles as to thrust the advertisements before the notice of persons
who make use of the articles in the receptacles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1: In an advertising cabinet, the combination with a substantially hollow
body, of a top made up of a series of useful receptacles and a series of advertising
spaces provided with means for independently securing advertisements within
the spaces; substantially as described.
2: The combination, in a cabinet of the class described, and with a sub-
stantially hollow body of a top made up of a series of convenient receptacles, a
series of advertising spaces and a removable drawer arranged beneath one or
more of these spaces, said drawer being provided with independent devices for
securing in place a series of advertising cards; substantially as described.
3: The combination with an advertising cabinet, of a drawer guided therein
provided with a series of transverse partitions and sides having oblique grooves
adapted to form guides for a series of advertising cards; substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of December 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.Ɑ.