A NEW OR IMPROVED ADVERTISEMENT AND NEWSPAPER HOLDER
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED ADVERTISEMENT AND NEWSPAPER HOLDER." A communication
from James Schueur, of Bucharest, in the Principality of Roumania.
Sealed the 27th September 1878, and dated the 11th April 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1878.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent. "A NEW OR IMPROVED ADVERTISEMENT AND NEWSPAPER
HOLDER." A communication by James Schueur, of Bucharest, in the Principality
of Romania.
This Invention relates to the combination of a newspaper holder and an adver-
tisement holder, and to the new application of Spanish rush or reed, on account of
its lightness, for the manufacture of the said advertisement and nowspaper
holders.
The Invention consists in uniting to the little rod or board now forming the
newspaper holder a plate or surface made of Spanish reed, and arranged so as to
place or paste manuscript, printed, drawn, or other kinds of advertisements upon
the said plate or surface, or to insert them therein. The newspaper is fixed in the
ordinary way to the little rod or board, and the advertisements may be inscribed
on or pasted or inserted in the surface or plate. The latter may be divided into
divisions or compartments on which the advertisements may be inscribed or pasted,
or so arranged as to be able to insert the advertisements therein by sliding them
between a double surface, like photographs between the double leaves of an
album.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henri Adrion Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th October 1878.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Ruo
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent. "A NEW OR IMPROVED ADVERTISEMENT AND NEWSPAPER
HOLDER." A communication by James Schueur, of Bucharest, in the Principality
of Roumania.
This Invention relates to the combination of a newspaper holder and an adver-
tisement holder, and to the new application of Spanish rush or reed, on account of
its lightness, for the manufacture of the said advertisement and newspaper
holders.
The Invention consists in uniting to the little rod or board, now forming the
newspaper holder, a plate or surface made of Spanish reed, and arranged so as to
place or paste manuscript, printed, drawn, or other kinds of advertisements upon
the said plate or surface, or to insert them therein. The newspaper is fixed in the
ordinary way to the little rod or board, and the advertisements may be inscribed
on or pasted or inserted in the surface or plate. The latter may be divided
into divisions or compartments on which the advertisements may be inscribed or
pasted, or so arranged as to be able to insert the advertisements therein by sliding
them between a double surface, like photographs between the double leaves of an
album.
But more commonly the new combined newspaper holder and advertisement
holder consists of a frame with a handle made of Spanish reed, rattan, or other
similar light and pliant material, the inside of the said frame being divided into a
greater or less number of compartments, in each of which is inserted a piece of
cardboard of the same size as the partial frame, and on each side of which is pasted
or printed an advertisement.
The side of the newspaper holder, against which the newspaper is to be placed,
is providod, in addition to the reed or rattan forming one of the sides of the frames,
with a second rattan or reed hollowed out longitudinally, and in this longitudinal
slot is inserted a strong wire, hinged at the top and caught at the bottom by any
means of fastening. The newspaper is held between the said wire and the additional
hollowed rattan or reed.
For illustrated newspapers the newspaper and advertisement holder is double or
formed by uniting two single newspaper and advertisement holders by means of
a leather hinge or otherwise. The illustrated newspaper is supported between the
two newspaper holders, which open like a book, by a rod or a thick wire hinged
and fastened as above stated, or by a string or any other suitable means of
fastening.
Having thus described the said Invention and the manner of carrying it into
effect, what I claim is, a newspaper and advertisement holder made of Spanish
reed, rattan, or other similar light and pliant material, and divided into a greater
or less number of frames and compartments, in which are inserted pieces of card-
board, on the two faces of which advertisements are pasted or printed, substantially
as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Honri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.