An Improved Combined Receptacle for Matches and other articles, and Advertising Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1891-4ccepted, 8th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Receptacle for Matches and other articles,
and Advertising Apparatus.
I DAVID ADAMSON of 19 Thavies Inn in the City of London Advertising
Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the combination of advertising apparatus and of
receptacles for matches or other small articles used or consumed in places of public
resort or elsewhere, and consists in the combination, with such receptacle, of an
advertisement-exhibiting device in such manner as to be mechanically operated
thereby in the act of taking a match or other article so as to cause attention to be
drawn to the advertisement by the change produced by each operation.
The combined apparatus consists of a tray or receptacle for the matches or other
articles, mounted to rock on pivots in such proximity to the advertisement-exhibiting
device that access can only be had to it by rocking it on its axis the receptacle
being so geared to the advertising apparatus that the act of rocking it will actuate
the said apparatus.
The advertising apparatus consists of a drum bearing on its periphery the
advertisements to be exhibited and mounted to revolve within a casing having
apertures at which the advertisements are exhibited in succession, the rocking tray
being geared with the drum by pawl and ratchet gear whereby a step by step
motion is imparted to the drum at each oscillation of the tray which is also
caused to engage with the drum when in the tilted position so as to limit the
motion and ensure accurate register of the advertisements with the apertures of the
casing.
The preferred construction and arrangement is as follows:-The tray or
receptacle is pivoted on the base of the apparatus beneath the drum which is
mounted to revolve on a fixed vertical axis and is in the form of a hollow conical
drum of sheet metal having clips stamped up in its periphery for holding the
advertisement tablets.
This drum has a central ratchet-toothed boss fitting on the vertical spindle with
which engages a pawl carried by an arm pivoting on said spindle and connected
by a universally-jointed link with a bell crank lever connected by pin and slot with
the oscillating tray.
The drum also has a ratchet-toothed inwardly projecting base flange with which
the tray, which rises within the drum when rocked, engages to limit the motion of
the drum.
The casing is also fixed upon the spindle and its peripheral portion enclosing
the drum bas equidistant apertures corresponding in dimensions to the advertise-
ments to be exhibited thereat.
The advertisement tablets are removably affixed by means of the clips above
referred to around the periphery of the drum in such positions with regard to the
ratchet teeth as to register with the apertures in the casing and be exhibited thereat
after each oscillation of the tray.
The openings in the casing are preferably glazed or covered with sheets of
isinglass or other transparent medium.
The apparatus may be provided with a pair of receptacles arranged diametrically
opposite to one another and each adapted to act on the drum and cause it to
revolve.
Dated this 10th dox of November 1891
D. ADAMSUN,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents,

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Receptacle for Matches and other articles,
and Advertising Apparatus.
I, DAVID ADAMSON of 19, Thavies Inn, in the City of London, Advertising
Agent, 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:.-
This invention relates to the combination of advertising apparatus and of
receptacles for matches or other small articles used or consumed in places of public
resort or elsewhere, and consists in the combination, with such receptacle, of an
advertisement-exhibiting device in such manner that the latter will be mechanically
operated by the former in the act of taking a match or other article so as to cause
attention to be drawn to the advertisement by the change produced by cach
operation. The combined apparatus consists of a tray or receptacle for the matches
or other articles, mounted to rock on pivots in such proximity to the advertisement-
exhibiting device that access can only be had to it by rocking it on its axis, the
receptacle being so geared to the advertising apparatus that the act of rocking it
will actuate the said apparatus. The advertising apparatus consists of a drum
bearing on its periphery the advertisements to be exhibited and mounted to revolve
within a casing having apertures at which the advertisements are exhibited in
succession, the rocking tray being so geared with the drum that a step by step
motion will be imparted to the drum at each oscillation of the tray which also
engages with the drum in such manner as to limit the motion and ensure accurate
register of the advertisements with the apertures of the casing.
The preferred construction and arrangement of the apparatus is illustrated in
the accompanying drawings, forming part of this Specification, wherein Figure 1
is a front clevation, Figure 2 a central vertical section, and Figure 3 a horizontal
section, of the combined apparatus, whilst Figure 4 shews an elevation of the
rotating drum separately. The same letters of reference denote like parts in all
the figures.
The tray or receptacle A is pivoted on end gudgeons a supported by the base B
of the apparatus and is situated beneath the drum C so that access cannot be had
to the tray without rocking it, the tray being weighted so as to normally assume
a horizontal position. The drum C is mounted to revolve on a fixed vertical axis D
and is in the form of an inverted conical cup of sheet metal having clips e stamped
up in its periphery for holding the advertisement-tablets. This drum has a central
boss fitting on the vertical spindle D and provided with ratchet teeth E with which
engages a spring-pressed pawl carried by an arm F pivoting on said spindle D
and connected by a link with one arm of a bell crank lever H whose other arm
has a longitudinal slot in which works a stud on the end of the oscillating
tray A so that ench oscillation of the latter will rotate the drum C to the extent of
one tooth E. It will however be obvious that instead of a stud and slot a link
connection might be used. The connection of link G with levers F and H is by
ball and socket joints g g so as to allow of the motion of said link in two planes.
The drum C also has an inwardly-projecting ratchet-toothed flange C₁ with which
a stop A' on the tray A engages when rocked, as shewn in dotted lines Figures 2
and 3 to limit the step by step motion of the drum and ensure accurate register of
the advertisements with the apertures in the casing. The casing I is fixed upon
the squared top of the spindle D and its peripheral portion enclosing the drum has
an aperture or several equidistant apertures i corresponding in dimensions to the
advertisements to be exhibited thereat. The advertisement-tablets are removably
affixed, by means of the clips c above referred to, around the periphery of the
drum C in such positions with regard to the ratchet-teeth E as to register with the
apertures in the casing and be exhibited thereat after each oscillation of the tray A.

page_text: The openings in the casing are preferably glazed or covered with sheets of
isinglass or other transparent medium. Two rocking trays A may be arranged
diametrically opposite to one another and each adapted to act on the drum C and
cause it to revolve by independent sets of pawl operating connections, as above
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In a combined advertising apparatus and match-holder, the combination, with
an advertisement-bearing drum mounted to revolve within a stationary apertured
casing, of one or more rocking trays or receptacles each geared with the said drum
in such manner that at each oscillation of each tray a step by step rotary motion
will be imparted to the drum, as specified.
2. In a combined advertising apparatus and match-holder, the combination, with
an advertisement-bearing drum mounted to revolve within a stationary apertured
casing and provided with inwardly-projecting ratchet teeth, of one or more rocking
trays or receptacles each geared with the said drum by pawl and ratchet levers
and links so that at each oscillation of each tray a step by step rotary motion will
be imparted io the drum.limited by the engagement of the tray with the ratchet
teeth on the drum, as specified.
Dated this 9th da
Dreambox 1901
D. ADAMSON,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.