Improvements in Advertising Kiosks.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893*
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Kiosks.
I, JOSEF WRATITSCH, of Eggenbergerstrasse No. 1, Graz, Styria, Director, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of advertising kiosks and of ..the
apparatus arranged in-them for winding off and on rollers placards or other forms
of advertisements so as to present a number of these in succession. The kiosk is of
polygonal form having on all sides, except one where the door is situated, double
windows between which are mounted an upper and a lower roller. Each of these
rollers is fitted free to revolve on its spindle to which it is connected by an internal
helical spring so that when the spindle is caused to revolve in either direction the
roller is elastically driven, and thus a certain strain is put upon the sheet of
placards or the like which is attached to the upper and lower rollers, keeping the
sheet tight. All the upper rollers are connected by bevil gearing to each other
and to an upright spindle and the lower rollers are in like manner connected to each
other and to the upright spindle which is driven by worm gearing from an electro
motor within the kiosk, this electro motor being provided with a suitable stopping
and reversing switch and also with a brake. The electro motors of a number of
the kiosks may be electrically connected to a central dynamo machine driven by
any suitable motor. Instead of electromotors, gas engines or other convenient.
motors may be employed.
Within the kiosk may be situated a telephone accessible to subscribers possessing
a key giving them admittance.
1000
ABEL & IMRAY,.
Agents for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Kiosks.
I, JOSEF WRATITSCH, of Eggenbergerstrasse No. 1, Graz, Styria, Director, 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 the construction of advertising kiosks and of the
apparatus arranged in them for winding off and on rollers placards or other forms
of advertisements so as to present a number of these in succession. The kiosk is of
polygonal form, having on all sides, except one where the door is situated, double
windows between each pair of which are mounted an upper and a lower roller.
Each of these rollers is fitted free to revolve on its spindle to which it is connected
by an internal helical spring so that, when the spindle is caused to revolve in either
direction, the roller is elastically driven, and thus a certain strain is put upon the
sheet of placards or the like which is attached to the upper and lower rollers
keeping the sheet tight. All the upper rollers are connected by bevil gearing to
each other and to an upright spindle and the lower rollers are in like manner
connected to each other and to the upright spindle which is driven by worm gearing
from an electro motor within the kiosk, this electro motor being provided with a
suitable stopping and reversing switch and also with a brake. The electro motors
of a number of the kiosks may be electrically connected to a central dynamo
machine driven by any suitable motor. Instead of electro motors, gas engines or

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other convenient motors may be employed. Within the kiosk may be situated a
telephone accessible to subscribers possessing a key giving them admittance.
The accompanying drawings illustrate a kiosk provided with apparatus according
to my invention.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section on the linea a of Fig. 2 which is a horizontal section.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the lower part of the kiosk on the line y y of
Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a side-view of the dynamo and part of the gearing.
Fig. 5 shews to an enlarged scale the elastic mechanism of one of the rollers.
FF, are double windows between each pair of which are.mounted an upper and a
lower roller R' &c.
Each roller is loosely mounted upon au axis a to which it is connected by a
helical spring f having its one end f¹ fixed to the axis a and the other fi to
the roller R or to its sleeve. Each placard, the one end of which is attached to
the lower roller, the other end to the upper one, is thus uniformly stretched, when
it is wound off or on, and breaking or tearing of the placard is thus avoided.
A dynamo D which may be, situated in a recess in the centre of the kiosk, drives
the shaft W by worm gear S and S¹. The shaft W' by bevil gearing r¹ drives
a vertical spindle w giving rotation by bevil gear to the first lower roller R',
and from this roller the rotary motion is transferred to the other lower rollers by bevil
gear.
The upper rollers are driven in a similar manner with the same velocity and in
the same direction, so that, when the spindle w rotates in the one direction, the
placards are wound off from the upper on to the lower rollers, and, when the
spindle w rotates in the opposite direction, they are wound off from the lower on to
the upper rollers.
For reversing the motion, the dynamo is provided with a switch, which is not.
shewn.
A brake wheel B is fixed to the axis of the dynamo, to retard and stop it when
the dynamo is reversed, and thus to prevent damage to the placards.
The door T on one side of the kiosk may have a lock arranged to be opened by
a.key, which may serve also to bring into use a telephone Z.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In an advertising kiosk, a number of upper rollers and corresponding lower
rollers, each pair carrying a placard, and all being driven by bevil gear from
a common driving shaft, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In apparatus such as is above referred to connecting each roller to its driven
axis by a spring so as uniformly to strain the attached placard.
Dated this 28th day of January 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.