Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Pictures, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Applicati. 6th Oct., 1896
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Complete Specification Left th July, 1897--Accepted, 7th Aug., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Pictures,
and the like.
, JOHN EDWIN GARRATT, of 120 Southwark Street, Southwark, in the County of.
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
. According to this invention advertisements pictures and the like or parts of them
are placed on each side, of strips or boards hung one beneath the other with their
edges adjacent.
The boards are connected to each other by two or more sets of tapes each tape
being fixed to the edge of one board, passing across its width or face and being fixed..
to the adjacent edge of the next board.
The number of. tapes in each set is such that each board has one passing across
each face, these two-tapes having their ends fixed respectively to the adjacent edges
of the boards above and below.
The upper board is supported in bearings and is caused to oscillate through 180°
byla clockwork or other motor.
The result of the method of suspension is such that when the upper board is
reversed the other boards are successively reversed also thus displaying in turn their
two faces.
Dated this 5th day of October 1896.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Apparatus for Displaying Advertisements, Pictures,.
and the like.
I, JOHN EDWIN GARRATT, of 120 Southwark Street, Southwark, in the County of
Surrey, 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 :-
According to this invention advertisements pictures and the like or parts of them
are placed on each side of strips or boards hung one beneath the other with their
edges adjacent.
The boards are connected to each other by two or more sets of tapes each tape
being fixed to the edge of one board, passing across its width or face being fixed to
the adjacent edge of the next board.
The number of tapes in each set is such that each board has one passing across
each face, these two tapes having their ends fixed respectively to the adjacent edges
of the boards above and below.

page_text: The upper board is supported in bearings and is caused to oscillate through 180°
by a clockwork or other motor.
The result of the method of suspension is such that when the upper board is
reversed the other boards are successively reversed also thus displaying in turn their
two faces.
The annexed drawings shew an apparatus made in accordance with this invention.
Figure 1 is an end elevation, Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2, Figure 3 is a
section on the line 3-3, and Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4. Figure 5 shews
the mechanism for driving the apparatus.
The upper board a is connected to the succeeding board a' by the tapes bb
and c c. The tapes bare secured to the back of the board a pass across its face
and are secured to the back of the hoard a'. The tapes c c' are secured to the back
of the board a pass across the face of the board a' and are secured to its back.
Similarly the board a¹ is secured to the succeeding board a2 by the tapes d d
and e e'. The tapes d d are secured to face of the board a', pass across its back, and
are secured to the face of the board a², and the tapes e el are secured to the face of
the board a' pass across the back of the board a² and are secured to its face; and so
on for the remaining boards.
The upper board a is fixed to au axle f carried in bearings (not shewn) and to
which is keyed a toothed wheel g. The toothed wheel is caused to oscillate
through 180° by a rack h, shewn in Figure 5.
A shaft i continuously driven by clockwork or other motor carries a crank k
connected to a link whose end slides in the slot h¹ of the rack. When the crank
is in the position shewn in Figure 5 it is about to push the rack from left to right
until it is in a straight line with the rack; then as the shaft i revolves the end of
the link moves from right to left but does not operate the rack until it has travelled
the length of the slot h¹.
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: -
Apparatus for displaying advertisements, pictures and the like, substantially as
described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated thin 5th day of Tul.. 1007