Improvements in Wind Wheels used for Advertising and Ventilating Purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wind Wheels used for Advertising and Ventilating
Purposes.
I, WILLIAM MASON, of 72, Sheffield Road, Barnsley, in the County of York,
Boot and Shoe Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
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My present invention relates to wheels which are caused to rotate or revolve
by the action of the wind upon sails or wings made therewith or fitted thereto
and the object of my invention is to construct a simple and efficient form of
wheel with wings in combination with its mountings that it may be most easily
revolved by the action of the wind, and to so arrange and form the wings or sails
thereon that they may display in themselves any form design or shape of manu-
factured or natural articles for advertising purposes, by which means the said
sails or wings secure a twofold object, namely they act as the sails for the move
ment of the heel and simultaneously display by their shape or design the
articles required to be advertised.
My invention may also be used as a ventilating wheel by revolving (by the
action of the wind) vertically over a ventilating shaft or chimney top.
My improvements will be clearly understood by the aid of the accompanying
sheet of drawings and the following description thereof.
Fig. 1 is a front view of my improved wheel and mountings for the same
arranged as a means for advertising and Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation of
the same and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my improved wheel and mountings
applied to the top of a ventilating shaft or chimney.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view.
I use a bicycle or other or similar wheel B which I mount by ball bearings on
a fork C.
The stem c¹ of said fork C I extend down a tube D which has a thumb screw f
at its lower part upon which rests steel or other balls y arranged one above the
other. The lower end of the stem c¹ is preferably enlarged and bears on the
uppermost ball g. The tube D has clamps or brackets whereby it may be
firmly secured to a sign board or other place required.
Upon the rim of the cycle wheel B I mount wings or sails H which may either
be in the shape of boots as shown at Figs. 1 and 2 or in any other shape pattern
or design corresponding to the particular shape of the articles required to be
advertised or displayed. These wings H are preferably soldered to the rim bi
although they may be otherwise fastened as desired, and in some cases I fix to
said rim between the sails H intermediate sails preferably of heart or pear
shape as shown in dotted lines at Fig. 1.
Referring to Fig. 3 it will be obvious that the wings or sails H revolving with
the wheel immediately above the chimney top or top of ventilating shaft S will
lift the air from said shaft S and so acts as a ventilator or in other words the
rapid movement of the sails H create a partial vacuum between the top of shaft S
and the wheel B, the air therefore in the said shaft S is caused thereby to ascend.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
(1) The combination of a cycle or similar wheel with patterns designs or
shapes of boots or other articles secured to the rim of said wheel in order to
answer as sails or wings for the revolving of said wheel by the action of the wind
and simultaneously for displaying or advertising.
(2) The combination of a cycle or similar wheel mounted on ball bearings and
likewise carried or mounted on a fork with a stem to said fork bearing in a
vertical tube or its equivalent upon two or more balls placed one above another.
The rim of said bicycle or similar wheel having wings or sails secured thereto in
order that the same may be revolved vertically by the action of the wind.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1898
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Patent Agent, Barnsley... 1