Improvements in the Means for Displaying Signs and Advertisements.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1893—Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means for Displaying Signs and
Advertisements.
I, EDWARD Clarke Hazard, of No. 117 Hudson Street, City and State of
New York, United States of America, Merchant, 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 consists in securing detachable disks or plates upon which signs
or advertisements are to be printed or painted to the ends of the axletrees of
vehicles, and to remain in a fixed or stationary position so that the inscription
thereon may be read while the wheel is in motion.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation of a wagon to the ends of the axletree of
the hind wheels thereof are secured disks or plates upon which signs or
advertisements are to be printed or painted.
Figure 2, represents a central section of a wheel, and fragment of an axletree in
elevation, the advertising disk also being in section to represent one practical
method of securing these detachable disks or plates to the ends of axletrees.
Figure 3, is a side elevation or face view of one of these advertising disks or
plates detached from the axletree.
Figure 4, is a sectional view of a paper disk provided with a metal rim for the
purpose of stiffening and maintaining this disk in shape.
Figure 5, represents a central, sectional view of a disk of fibrous material or
metal as preferred punched or pressed into the proper shape to be placed over the
hub of a wagon wheel and secured to the end of the axletree, and provided with a.
stiffening rib of corresponding contour as will be described.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several
figures.
In the accompanying drawings A, represents a disk or plate mounted upon and
firmly secured to the end of the axletree B, of a vehicle in a fixed position so
that the inscription thereon may be maintained in an upright position to be read,.
or a painting properly displayed while the wheel is in motion.
As a convenient means of securing these disks or plates to the axletrees in
common use, braces or supports C, are provided which receive the ends of the
axletrees and extend therefrom in opposite directions over the hubs and behind the
disks A, and to which supports or braces C, the plates or disks A, are secured by
being riveted as shown in Figure 2, or in any other convenient manner.
The central parts of these supports or braces C, are perforated to receive the
ends of the axletrees and are maintained in position thereon by means of the
bolts E and strap D, secured to the nut G, by which the wheel is retained upon
the axletree.
By this method of securing advertising disks or plates upon the ends of axletrees.
of vehicles, said disks become detachable without disturbing the wheels thereon,.
and may be quickly replaced by new ones, or the inscription thereon changed as
the case may be without injury to or disfiguring the wheels or axletrees, or
removed to lubricate the axletrees, and while the wheels are in motion, the
disks being stationary or in a fixed position, the inscription thereon may be
easily read.
In order to render these disks as light as possible and to materially cheapen the
cost of manufacture, they may be made of paper board and stiffened by means of
metal rims F, which rims, for convenience of construction, and to exclude the
moisture from the edges of the board. are folded over and around the edges of the
disks as represented in Figure 4.

page_text: In Figure 5, the disk A, is punched or formed so as to admit and extend
backward over the hub and approach as near as may be and not to interfere with
the spokes of the wheel, the braces or supports C, conforming to the contour of the
disk as represented.
It is not material that these disks A, be secured to the ends of the axletrees so
as to maintain them in a fixed or stationary position thereon by means of the straps
and nuts as shown, any other method of attaching them may be substituted if
preferred, but utilizing the nuts with which the great majority of axletrees are
fitted to retain the wheels thereon in position is believed to be preferable because
no new device or attachment is required, no extra expense added, and may be
readily fitted to almost any axletree in present use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
ticu, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:
First In combination with an axletree and wheel of a vehicle a detachable
plate or disk adapted to be secured to the said axletree in a fixed position and upon
which plate or disk signs or advertisements are to be displayed substantially as
herein set forth and shown.
Second In combination with an axletree and wheel of a vehicle a detachable
plate or disk of fibrous material adapted to be secured to said axletree in a fixed
position and upon which plate or disk signs or advertisements are to be displayed,
said plate or disk being provided with a metal rim substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Third In combination with an axletree and wheel of a vehicle a detachable
plate or disk adapted to be secured to said axletree in a fixed position and upon
which plate or disk signs or advertisements are to be displayed, said disk or plate
being punched or formed so as to extend over the hub of a wheel substantially as
herein set forth and shown.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1893
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.