Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Notices, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1900-Accepted, 2nd June, 1900
Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements,
Notices, and the like.
I, WILLIAM CREASY, of Clopton, near Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk,
Registrar of Births and Deaths, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide effective means for securely affixing
sheets containing advertisements, notices, and the like to displaying frames,
bill or notice boards and also to facilitate the changing removal or renewal of
such sheets.
In one way of carrying out this invention, a number of fine wires are secured
at their ends in a suitable frame and adapted to run in any desired direction
across the face of the board. The wires are capable of being loosened, raised
from off or pressed down upon the surface of the board which is preferably made
more or less convex in order to ensure close contact of the wires across its whole
width, and is provided with shallow undulating grooves adapted to receive the
wires, such grooves having spikes arranged at suitable distances apart along the
bottom thereof adjacent to the wires. The advertisement sheet or the like is
inserted between the wires and the board and on the wires being forced towards
the board the sheet is pressed on to the spikes in the grooves and held firmly in
position. The grooves are preferably of sufficient depth to allow the wires to
sink below the common surface of the board.
In another way of carrying out this invention the notice board is formed with
a number of grooves crossing each other at right angles and adapted to receive
trough-shaped springs which are sprung into the grooves. In this case the sheets
are preferably held by the margins which are turned down into the grooves and
the springs afterwards inserted.
In another arrangement the two methods of securing the sheets may be com
bined the paper being held in the horizontal grooves by wires and in the vertical
grooves by springs.
Dated this 31st day of July 1899.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements,
Notices, and the like.
I WILLIAM CREASY, of Clopton, near Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk,
Registrar of Births and Deaths, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: 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 provide effective means for securing affixing
sheets containing advertisements, notices, and the like to displaying frames,
bill or notice boards, and also to facilitate the changing, removal or renewal of
such sheets.
In one way of carrying out this invention, a number of fine wires are secured
at their ends in a suitable frame and adapted to run in any desired direction
across the face of the board. The wires are capable of being loosened, raised
off or pressed down upon the surface of the board, which is preferably made
more or less convex in order to ensure close contact of the wires across its whole
width, and is provided with shallow undulating grooves adapted to receive the
wires, such grooves having spikes arranged at suitable distances apart along the
bottom thereof adjacent to the wires. The advertisement sheet or the like is
inserted between the wires and the board and on the wires being forced towards
the board the sheet is pressed on to the spikes in the grooves and held firmly in
position. The grooves are preferably of sufficient depth to allow the wires to
sink below the common surface of the board.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of a
display board constructed according to this invention, Fig. 2 is a side view of
the same, Figs. 3 and 4 are end views showing respectively the clamping wires
in contact, and out of contact with the board, Fig. 5 is a front view of a display
board of slightly modified construction and Figs. 6 and 7 are end views showing
the on and off positions of the clamping wires.
The board a is loosely held between angle irons having perforations c for
securing the wires shown as a continuous wire passing in a zig-zag form, and
preferably formed of a number of twisted wires. The wires d take into shallow
grooves e formed in the front of the board, and provided with spikes f. The
angle irons are connected together by strips to which the board a is also
secured at or near their centres, the strips being preferably slightly bent, to act
as springs, tending to draw the angle irons back, and to cause the wires d to be
pulled tightly down into the grooves in the face of the board. The strips g
may however be straight, and the tightening of the wires effected solely by the
action of a can as hereinafter described.
Mounted in brackets h fixed on the back of the board is a shaft i, provided at
each end with a cam having a slot k, in which works a pin fixed on the angle
irons. The shaft is operated by a hand lever m, to force the angle irons forward
against the action of the springs g to slacken the cross wires d, and raise them
off the front of the board.
To secure a news bill or other notice on the board, the wires are raised off
the board in the manner described, by operating the lever m and the bill paper
slid in between the board and the cross wires. The hand lever is then returned
to its original position, forcing back the angle irons which pull the wires down
tightly into the grooves, forcing the paper over the spikes, and firmly securing
it.
In the modified form of construction shown in Figs. 5 to 7 the cross wires d
are secured on one side of the board to a fixed angle iron b, or to the board itself;
and on the opposite side to a movable bar n operated by cams j on a shaft i¹
to raise the wires off the board or pull them tightly down into the grooves therein
as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An apparatus for displaying advertisements and the like, consisting of a
board with spiked grooves, a frame connected to the back of the board, cross
wires attached to the frame and lying in the grooves in the front of the board,

page_text: and means for operating the frame to clamp the wires tightly against the board,
or raise them off the same substantially as described.
2. An apparatus for displaying advertisements and the like, consisting of a
board with spiked grooves, a movable bar on one side of the board, cross wires
attached to the bar and the board on opposite sides and means for operating the
said movable bar, to raise the wires from or clamp them tightly down in the
grooves of the board substantially as described.
3. The improved apparatus for displaying advertisements, notices and the
like, substantially as described, with reference to Figs. 1 to 4 of the drawings.
4. The improved apparatus for displaying advertisements, notices and the like,
substantially as described with reference to Figs. 5 to 7 of the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of April 1900.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.