Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Displaying Notices, Communications, and for similar purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Displaying Notices,
Communications, and for similar purposes.
A communication from ALFRED LÜTTGE, of 31, Am See, Dresden, in the
Empire of Germany, Engineer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent 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 apparatus for displaying notices, communications
and for similar purposes, its chief object being to enable one person to com-
municate with another, the person wishing to transmit a message writing it on
a paper, cardboard or like card, which may be preferably obtained from an
automatic selling machine placed near, and dropping it into a glazed box. These
boxes are to be placed at various public places such as railway stations, theatres,
concert rooms, hotels, cafes etc., and are arranged so that the cards dropped
into them are placed side by side and one above another and can be seen free
of charge by all passers by.
Suppose two travellers wish to meet in a strange town but cannot decide on
the exact time and place beforehand. Then the first arrival writes on a card
"staying Hotel Metropole No. 14 going to-night to the theatre" and places
the card into the apparatus at the station.
The second traveller arriving subsequently, reads this card and goes in the
" a second card:
evening to the theatre. There he finds on the "notice board
"Have
"Could not get a ticket will meet you Cafe Central at 10 o'clock" or
a ticket for you, stall 140" etc.
Doctors, civil servants and business people will thus be provided with a
means for indicating where they can be quickly found. The device can also
be utilised for announcements such as The representation of....
....does
not take place to-night" or "To-night a grand display of fireworks at the
Crystal Palace" etc.
A "notice board" according to this invention is illustrated in the accompany-
ing drawings in which:-
Figure 1 shows it in front elevation in combination with an
machine from which cards may be obtained.
Figure 2 is a plan,
Figure 3 a section on the line -y of Figure 1, and
Figure 4 a side elevation.
automatic
The apparatus consists of a flat wall board or surface A arranged so as to
enable it to be suspended and provided with instructions for use.
To this wall
are secured I-shaped bars b. The upper and lower ends of the latter are
respectively covered by angle-bars af pivotted at one end on hinges c and
secured at the other end by locks d. Between each two bars b is placed a pane
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page_text: of glass whereby a channel is formed closed on all sides into which the cards h
obtained from the adjoining automatic machine B can be introduced from the
top through slots or recesses e in the upper angle bar a. The cards drop by
their own weight, each card after the first resting on the one beneath it. By
unlocking and turning the bar f the apparatus can be emptied, the cards falling
out at the bottom.
The glass panes 9 can be removed for cleaning purposes after opening both
angle-bars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
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1. Apparatus for displaying notices, messages and announcements and for
similar purposes comprising a support A provided with longitudinal flanged
bars and cross bars a f which are adapted to be locked, the channels thus
produced serving to receive notice cards introduced through recesses in the
upper bar substantially as described.
2. Apparatus for displaying notices, messages and announcements! and for
similar purposes substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 26th day of September 1898.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.