An Improved Advertising Device, particularly applicable for Hotel Use.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1804
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Advertising Device, particularly applicable for
Hotel Use.
We, ALBERT JOHN MILES, of The Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square London,
Manager Publicity Department, and THE GORDON HOTELS, LIMITED, of
25, Cockspur Street, London, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide an advertising tablet more especially
designed for the rooms and corridors of hotels and other public places where it is
usual to display a number of advertisements of local and other tradespeople and of
hotels in other parts of the country and such like. These advertisements are
usually printed on a single sheet or tablet and consequently, any necessary changes
in the advertisements involve the mutilation, or detract from the appearance of the
tablet and necessitate the replacement of the entire sheet of advertisements or
illustrations by a new one which it is the object of the present invention to avoid.
A further object of the invention is to afford the public the opportunity of readily
obtaining circulars, cards or other printed particulars of the firmns advertising, the
advantage of this from the advertisers' point of view being obvious.
The invention consists of an advertising tablet provided with any convenient
number of symmetrically arranged expanding pockets, the front of each pocket
having an aperture for the exhibition of an advertising card corresponding to those
contained in the pocket. The apertured front of the pocket is hinged at the lower
edge to the tablet or board and is connected thereto at the sides by flexible gussets
and in the capacities or pockets thus formed a number of cards or other printed
matter may be placed so as to be accessible to the public.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming part of this
Specification which shows a perspective view of the tablet.
A is a suitable board which may be covered with leather or other suitable
material and held in a frame B. Care the pockets each formed of a front c of
cardboard or other stiff material covered with leather and made in the form of a
rectangular frame baving an aperture for the exhibition of an advertising card.
The front c is hinged at bottom to the board A and connected thereto at the sides
by gusset pieces d which are stiffened and tend to fold inwardly as shown. The
card to be exhibited at the aperture of the front is slipped between the front c and
a backing piece e which may be attached to the rear side of the front c as seen at c¹,
which shews a card partially inserted in the front.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The herein described advertisement tablet for use in hotels and other public
places, consisting of a board bearing a number of independent expansible pockets
for the reception of circulars and other printed matter, each pocket being con-
stituted by an apertured front or frame of stiff material hinged to the board and
adapted to retain a card to be exposed and flexible side gusset pieces, the top

page_text: portion of each front being slitted and the side portions grooved to permit of the
easy insertion and withdrawal of a card, as specified.
Dated this 19th day of June 1894.
A. J. MILES,
THE GORDON HOTELS, LIMITED,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.