Improved Means for Indicating the Arrival of Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Indicating the Arrival of Vehicles.
J, EDWIN GEORGE WILLSONNE BROWNE of Beechfield Melksham in the County
of Wilts, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to indicators, and has for its object the facility of
exhibiting to the public view when leaving places of entertainment or assembly the
names or numbers in succession of conveyances arriving at the place of exit-by
means of tablets or tablet-preferably made of wood colored black-mounted in
a suitable frame for support and exhibition, so that they may be easily removed or
move freely in any direction-or a single tablet may be used, upon which the
names or numbers in succession of the conveyances may be written or printed in
chalk or other suitable material-& is intended to work with & in combination
with telephones or other speaking appliances by means of which the names or
numbers of the vehicles can be communicated from an attendant in the street or
carriage approach to an attendant within the building where the tablets or tablet
may be erected.
Dated this 17th dow of October 1901
proto for ivating the Arrival of venues.
I, EDWIN GEORGE WILLSONNE BROWNE of "Beechfield " Melksham in the
County of Wilts, 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 :-
In carrying out my invention I employ a series of tablets of wood-slate metal or
other suitable material colored in any color-preferably made of wood colored
black mounted in a suitable frame or case to afford bearings or support for
the aforesaid tablets so that they may be moved freely in any direction or be
independent of their fellows.
Instead of the foregoing arrangement a large tablet made of wood, slate, metal,
or other suitable material colored in any color preferably wood colored black may
be used.
In combination with the above arrangement I employ a telephone speaking tube
telegraph or other well known speaking appliance by means of which the names or
numbers of the vehicles can be communicated from an attendant in the street or
carriage approach to an attendant within the buildings or other convenient &
conspicuous place where the tablets or tablet may be erected.
Upon these tablets or tablet the names or numbers of conveyances as they arrive
at or near the place of exit or other appointed place are written or printed in chalk
or other suitable medium by the attendant within the building-or they may be
reflected from one set of tablets to another by the aid of reflectors in the ordinary
way such names or numbers being erased or changed as each vehicle is occupied or
passes on.

page_text: 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-
The combination of tablets or tablet with speaking appliances by means of which
persons when leaving places of assembly may ascertain if their conveyance is at
the door.