Improvements in Advertising Tablets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 30th Apr.,
1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Tablets.
I, WILLOUGHBY HAMILTON POWER, of No. 20 Versailles Road, Anerley, in
the County of Surrey, Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in advertising tablets. In carrying it
into effect I make the tablet of some volatile solid disinfectant or odorant.
The letters or other signs constituting the advertisement are either of the same
material as the tablet, but of course differentiated therefrom as to colour, or they
may be of different material and be let into the tablet.
propose to use glass.
letters suitably coloured either by stamping or by being made hollow and filled
with a coloured fluid.
I may also use a tablet made of any suitable material, e.g., plaster of paris, in
the same way.
Dated this 4th day of June 1891.
PHI
& LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Tablets.
I, WILLOUGHBY HAMILTON POWER of No. 20, Versailles Road, Anerley, in
the County of Surrey, Electrician, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in advertising tablets. In carrying it
into effect, make the tablet of some volatile solid disinfectant or odorant.
The letters or other signs constituting the advertisement are either of the same
material as the tablet, but of course differentiated therefrom as to colour, or they
may be of different material and be let into the tablet. I propose to use glass.
letters suitably coloured either by stamping or by being made hollow and filled
with a coloured fluid.
I may also use a tablet made of any suitable material, e.g. plaster of paris, in
the same way.
In order that my invention, and the means by which the same is to be carried
into practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, 1 will now describe them in
detail referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken.
as part of this Specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a tablet made according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a section of a new or nearly new tablet.
Fig. 3 is a section of the same tablet after it has been in use for some time.
a is the frame; b, the disinfectant or odorant; and c, the letters.
The action of the invention is as simple as the invention itself is useful. As
soon as the tablet is hung up, e.g., in a public convenience, the disinfectant begins
to evaporate, setting the letters in relief accordingly and increasing their
advertising efficiency pari passu. It should be noted that the letters may be as
heretofore of non-volatile and durable material. They are if so made fast by any
convenient method to the back of the frame. Or they may be made in one piece.
with a back plate of plaster of paris.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The combination in an advertising tablet of letters constituting the advertise-
ment and a volatile disinfectant or odorant, as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 4th day of March 1892.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH..
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.