An Improved Advertising Device together with a Contrivance for Carrying it into Effect.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Advertising Device together with a Contrivance for
Carrying it into Effect.
I, JAMES LIVESEY SCOTT of Angas Street, Adelaide, in the Province of South
Australia, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN
IMPROVED ADVERTISING DEVICE TOGETHER WITH A CONTRIVANCE FOR
CARRYING IT INTO EFFECT" and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved advertising device and consists in the
impressing, printing, or stamping of advertisements upon the shells of eggs. It
also relates to a special contrivance for carrying out this method of advertisement.
The special features of the invention consist in the construction of a casing of
metal or other suitable material. This casing may be of any convenient form or
shape, such as round, oval, etc. being provided at one end with a flexible stamp of
indiarubber or other material such stamp having embossed thereon certain letters,
figures, or other printing matter as may be desired.
A suitable presser piston button, or other contrivance of a shape corresponding
with that of the casing of the device is also provided, which in use closely fits into
the casing thereby holding the stamp rigidly in position when it is necessary to
receive the ink for use.
In order that the invention may be the more clearly understood, reference may
be had to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of one form of the device and contrivance complete,
the presser being in the required position when desired to ink the stamp.
Fig. 2. is an inverted plan of the same.
Fig. 3. is a cross section of the device.
Fig. 4. is a vertical section of the device more particularly shewing an egg in
position when receiving an impression of the advertisement; the presser being
raised as described so that this impression may be the more clearly received.
Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all figures.
A is the casing of the device. B the flexible stamp, containing the advertisement
or other printing matter. C the presser or button.
D an egg.
In use the stamp B, with button or presser C in position inside the casing A, is
pressed on to a pad or other convenient contrivance containing indelible or other
ink. The pressure on the outer end of the button or presser C, is then removed,
and the stamp B pressed against or brought into contact with the shellfof an egg D.
By this means an impression or advertisement is imparted to the shell of the egg D,
according to the particular device of the stamp in use. This impression being
preferably in indelible ink will not be removed by boiling or in any other way than
by breaking or destroying the shell. As the shells of the eggs are impervious and
the stamp inflexible, no injury is effected to the eggs by such treatment.
stamps being of simple construction can also be easily and readily used.
The
It will be readily perceived that this invention is capable of several modifications
such for instance as the insertion in the casing A, at the bottom of the presser C of
the stamp B arranged to ascend or descend and receive the ink when required by
means of a spring attachment, or, the stamp containing an advertisement may be
placed at the bottom of the presser without the use of the outer casing, without
departing from the original invention, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
First.—The herein described advertising device consisting essentially of printing

page_text: stamping or otherwise displaying advertisements or other like matter upon the
shells of eggs and preferably in indelible ink.
Second. The herein described contrivance for displaying advertisements or
other like matter upon the shells of eggs consisting of a hollow casing (such as A)
provided with a flexible head or stamp (such as B) substantially as herein described
and explained and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Third. In contrivances for displaying advertisements or other like matter upon
the shells of eggs the combination with a hollow casing (such as A provided with a
flexible head or stamp (such as B) of a presser or button (such as C) substantially
as herein described and explained for the purpose indicated and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of January 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.