Improvements in and in connection with Means for Advertising,
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1898
Improvements in and in connection with Means for Advertising,
I, JOHN BLACKBURN JOWETT, of 12, Clarendon Road, Leeds, in the County of
York, Advertising Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to combine a distance marking sign with an
advertising sign or signs. I fix upon each advertising board or sign a distance
marking sign, the letters or figures indicating the distances from the adjacent towns
or places being preferably attached separately thereto, so as to be alterable and
adjustable, for instance the distance sign plates may be of enamelled iron plain,
with holes at intervals for detached letters to be fixed thereto.
Or the distance sign may be part of the advertising board and the distances from
the various towns or places of interest marked thereon in any suitable manner to
attract passers by.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in and in connection with Means for Advertising.
I, JOHN BLACKBURN JOWETT, of 12, Clarendon Road, Leeds, in the County of
York, Advertising Contractor, 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 my invention is to combine a distance marking sign with an
advertising sign or signs, so that passers by, on looking for the distance, must of
necessity read the advertisement.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows my application of a distance marking sign to an advertising board.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing a suitable construction of distance marking
sign.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of detachable plate containing number.
I fix upon each advertising board or sign A, in any suitable position but pre-
ferably as shown in Fig. 1, a distance marking sign such as B. The letters or
figures indicating the distances from the adjacent towns or places of interest are

page_text: preferably marked on detachable plates C (see Fig. 3), which are fixed in position
by means of screws or the like at D. By this means the figures are made adjust-
able on the said distance sign B, and the numbers may be varied to suit any
given position in which the advertising board A. is pl: ced.
The said distance sign B may be of any desired sha; 2, and is preferably made of
enamelled iron, with the name of the town or other pace of interest permanently
fixed thereon.
In place of the distance marking sign B being detachable it may form part of
the advertising board A, and the distances from the various towns or places of
interest may be marked thereon in any suitable manner to attract passers by.
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:
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1. The combination of a distance marking sign with an advertisement board,
substantially as shown and described.
2. In a distance marking sign the employment of detachable figures or numbers,
substantially as, and for the purposes, shown and described.
3. In advertising, the combination of the advertisement board A, the distance
marking sign or signs B having holes D), and the attachable and adjustable figure
plates C, substantially as, and for the purposes, shown and described.
Dated this 6th day of October 1800
JON E. WALSH,
Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
gent for the Applicant.
Royal Exchan
Patent