IMPROVED METHODS OF COMBINING THE POSTING OR PUBLICATION OF TELEGRAPHIC OR OTHER NEWS OR INTELLIGENCE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE
DEECIFICATION.
I, CHARLES JOHN CHUBB, of 2, Frederick Place, Clifton, in the County of
Gloucester, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
"IMPROVED METHODS OF COMBINING THE POSTING OR PUBLICATION OF
TELEGRAPHIC OR OTHER NEWS OR INTELLIGENCE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS" and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention has for its object to employ telegraphic or other news or
intelligence as a medium for attracting attention to advertisements in proximity
thereto.
One method of carrying my said Invention into effect consists in affixing
telegrams or sheets of news or intelligence to hoardings, walls, or other places
situated in public thoroughfares or in other exposed situations and placing
advertisements in proximity thereto. The telegrams or sheets of news, which
may, if desired, be placed in a case having a glass front and controlled by lock
and key, are removed and replaced by others at such intervals as may be
desirable.
Under a second method, the telegrams or other sheets of news or intelligence
are placed in a central or other conspicuously situated compartment of a case or
frame, and tablets or placards of advertisements are placed in other compartments
of the frame and arranged about the news compartment in any desired manner.
Or the advertisements may be contained in separate compartments, either singly
or in combinations of two or more, and so disposed as, with the news compartment,
practically to constitute one medium of publication. The case or frame is exposed
to public view.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings is shown one form of construction of
a case or frame by the adoption of which the second method of carrying my said
Invention into effect may be accomplished.
Fig. 1 represents a front view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of the case. On
the board or boards A forming the back of the case are secured the plinths a by
which the face of the case is divided into compartments. Stiffening or binding

page_text: battens A¹ are secured to the back of the board or boards A. The central
compartment B is intended to contain telegrams or other sheets of news or
intelligence. The tablets or placards b on which are depicted the advertisements
are placed in the compartments C and may be held in place by means of the strips
or bands of metal or other material c secured to the plinths a by the screws or
pins e, as represented at Fig. 2.
Access to the news compartment B is obtained by means of the glass door D,
conveniently designed to open outwards at the front, and governed by lock and
key. Other means of obtaining access to the compartment B may be employed.
Having now, particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is*:-*
The combination of the posting or publication of telegrams or other sheets or
documents of news or intelligence with advertisements, substantially as hereinbefore
described.