Improvements in Advertising Devices.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Devices.
I CHARLES EISSNER of No. 6 Donegana Street in the City of Montreal, in
the District of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, Restaurant
Keeper do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists firstly of an interiorly illuminated captive balloon located
5 at the top of a building and bearing an advertisement and secondly in the con-
nection with an elevator in a building of a balloon, illuminated or not, which will
move up and down as the elevator ascends and descends.
Dated this 26th day of May 1892.
A ACCND
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Devices.
I, CHARLES EISSNER of 6, Donegana Street, in the City of Montreal, in the
District of Montreal, and Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, Restaurant
Keeper, 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 consists, firstly, of a balloon illuminated by incandescent electric
lamps suitably arranged within it and connected with an elevator in a building so
that the balloon will move up and down as the elevator ascends and descends, any
desired advertisement being carried by the balloon.
For full comprehension however of the invention reference must be had to the
annexed drawings, forming a part of this Specification, in which like letters indicate
corresponding parts and wherein
Figure 1 is a part sectional elevation of a building, shewing the elevator shaft
and balloon attached to the elevator car, and
Figure 2 a detail vertical section of the balloon.
A is the car of an elevator of any of the usual constructions, the operating gear
not being fully shewn as it forms no part of my invention, B being the elevator
cable or cables.
C is a rope or cable which may be any desired length and is suitably connected
at its lower end to the drum of a windlass C¹ situated in the lower compartment
of the elevator car and passing through openings in the floor and roof of same as
well as through an opening in the roof of the building and secured at its upper end
to the floor of the basket D¹ of the balloon D.
The normal position of the balloon will usually be, as shewn in Figure 1, close
to the roof of the building and as the elevator car rises it will ascend a corre-
sponding distance and be drawn down with the descent of the car, but in some
cases, particularly when the weather is fine, I can furnish more cable by operating
the windlass C¹ which will raise the normal position of the balloon to a higher
point from which it will have its corresponding movement with the car.
In very stormy weather the cable can be disconnected from the balloon and
wound sufficiently upon the windlass to prevent its interfering with the elevator in
any way, the balloon being secured by any suitable means to the roof and housed
if necessary.

page_text: Any desired number of incandescent electric lamps F suitably guarded can be
arranged in the balloon and preferably in the manner shewn i.e. on a suspended
ring G carried by a central rope G attached at its top and bottom ends to the
balloon and by guy ropes G2 from such rope G', the feeding wires F¹ being prefer-
ably taken to such lamps from a spring-operated cylinder H round which they are
wound so that as the balloon ascends they will unwind and as it descends they will
be rewound and thus kept in order.
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The gas chamber of the balloon has an insulated base plate J to which the silk
is secured and sealed and this plate in addition to containing a man-hole J¹ suitably
covered, also has the lighting wires F¹ passed through it and is provided with an
inflating cock K.
The advertising matter can be painted on the outer surface of the balloon in
any usual way.
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-
1. As an advertising device a balloon displaying advertisements and connected
with the car of an elevator so as to have a corresponding localized automatic up
and down movement with same, as set forth.
2. As an advertising device a balloon displaying advertisements illuminated by
incandescent electric lamps arranged within it and connected with the car of an
elevator so as to have a corresponding localised automatic up and down movement
therewith, as set forth.
3. As an advertising device a balloon displaying advertisements illuminated by
incandescent electric lamps arranged within it and connected by a cable to a
windlass in the car of an elevator for the purpose set forth.
4. As an advertising device a balloon displaying advertisements and illuminated
by incandescent electric lamps arranged within it in combination with the car of
an elevator, a windlass carried by said car, and a cable between it and the balloon,
electric conductors, and an automatic take-up for such conductors, as set forth.
Dated this 17th day of February 1893.
C. EISSNER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.