Apparatus for Advertising by Luminous Letters or Designs on a Revolving Wheel.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Advertising by Luminous Letters or Designs on a
Revolving Wheel.
We, HENRY FOOTE and LEONARD MILNE both of No. 68 Victoria Street in
the County of London, Electrical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to apparatus for advertising by exhibiting luminous letters
or designs on a revolving wheel. For this purpose we arrange on parts of the sides
or periphery of the wheel a number of incandescent electric lamps grouped in the
form of letters or other designs, these when illuminated exhibiting words sentences
or other devices. We divide the side or periphery of the wheel into a suitable
number of segments and connect all the lamps in each segment to one conductor ;
we lead these conductors to corresponding segments of a commutating switch so
arranged that the circuit for the lamps in each segment is closed only during the
time that the segment is passing through the upper part of its revolution, so that
the matter on each segment is illuminated during that time, but there is no
illumination or expenditure of electricity while the segment is passing through the
other parts of its revolution when the matter upon it would appear upside down.
Dated this 27th day of September 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
Apparatus for Advertising by Luminous Letters or Designs on a
Revolving Wheel.
We HENRY FOOTE and LEONARD MILNE both of 68 Victoria Street in the
County of London, Electrical Engineers 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 :-
Our invention relates to apparatus for advertising by exhibiting luminous letters
or designs on a revolving wheel. For this purpose we arrange on parts of the sides
or periphery of the wheel a number of incandescent lamps (electric) grouped in the
form of letters or other designs, these, when illuminated, exhibiting words sentences
or other devices. We divide the side or periphery of the wheel into a suitable
number of segments and connect all the lamps in each segment to one conductor ;
we lead these conductors to corresponding segments of a commutator fixed at the
axle of the wheel and so arranged that the circuit for the lamps in each segment or
a desired number of segments is closed only during the time that the segment or
segments is or are passing the upper part of its or their revolution, so that the
matter on each segment is illuminated during that time, but there is no illumination
or expenditure of electricity while the segments are passing through the other
parts of their revolution when the matter upon them would appear upside down.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The combination of luminous letters or designs formed of incandescent electric
lamps placed on the sides or periphery of a wheel, and of a commutator at the axle
of the wheel arranged so that only the letters words or designs appearing at the
upper portion of the wheel shall in turn be illuminated substantially as herein
described.
Dated this 26th day of June 1896.
HENRY FOOTE.
LEONARD MILNE.