An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Illuminating Advertisements Carried by Persons Employed for the Purpose.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Illuminating
Advertisements Carried by Persons Employed for the
Purpose.
We, ARTHUR MANARD-HUBNER, and JAMES FREDERICK TOWNEND, both
of 7, Dean Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates more especially to the apparatus for displaying
advertisements for which Letters Patent were granted to Arthur Manard Hubner
dated November 23rd A.D. 1889, and numbered 18,798.
In the Specification of the said Letters Patent is described and shewn apparatus
for displaying advertisements consisting of a light framework having parts padded
to rest upon the shoulders of the man carrying it, and parts extending downward
and held to his body by a strap or belt surrounding him.
Extending upward from the shoulder parts are rods to which is attached a
rectangular or other suitable canvas covered frame, on either side of which placards
or advertisements can be affixed.
A frame is also described rotatory on a vertical axis and provided with vanes or
surfaces for displaying advertisements the frame being made to turn round by the
person carrying the apparatus.
In the arrangement first described, it is said that the frame may be made of
double form to receive a light or lights between its two exposed surfaces so that
they can be illuminated when being paraded in the dark. It is also said that
within the rotary frame lights may be placed for illuminating the advertisements
exhibited, and both methods are illustrated.
The present invention consists of novel methods of arranging and operating
apparatus by which advertizing apparatus of the kinds described, or of like kinds,
can be illuminated by means of electricity.
For this purpose, assuming that the invention is to be applied to the form of
advertizing apparatus first described, we make the frame which carries the
advertisements sufficiently deep to receive two advertizing sheets of paper or other
sufficiently transparent material, separated by a space sufficient to receive between
but preferably four, incandescent electrical lamps of the
ordinary well known kind. These lamps are fixed to the inside of the frame, the
edges of which are preferably lined with plain or corrugated mirrors, or other
bright reflecting surfaces, to increase the effect of the light.
them one or more,
The advertizing sheets are held in position by light frames which fit into and
are fastened to the sides of the main frame, so that the advertisement sheets can be
readily removed replaced or changed and so that access is easily provided to the
interior space for the purpose of fixing and adjusting the electric lamps.
Supported upon the padded frames behind the man's shoulders, is carried an
electrical storage or other battery or accumulator, of sufficient size and capacity to
light up the electric lamps for the required time, and from this accumulator are
led insulating conducting wires connected with the electric lamps, so that when
desired the latter are lighted up and brightly illuminate the interior of the upper
frame, and the transparent advertizing sheets.
A switch is arranged in a convenient position so that the man carrying the
apparatus can instantly and easily turn the current of electricity on and off from
the lamps, and the conducting wires are as far as possible concealed from view.

page_text: The apparatus described is equally applicable to the revolving arrangement
described in the former Specification already referred to, and to other forms of
such advertizing apparatus.
Apparatus constructed according to this invention is very effective for the
purpose of night advertizing and it is not expensive or likely to get out of
order.
The details of the apparatus, and of the electrical conducting wires and
connections, may be varied more or less as may be found desirable in differeut
circumstances.
Dated this 28th day of March 1893.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicants.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Illuminating
Advertisements Carried by Persons Employed for the
Purpose.
We, ARTHUR MANARD-HUBNER, and JAMES FREDERICK TOWNEND, both of
7, Dean Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, 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 and accompanying
drawing, that is to say :-
The present invention relates more especially to the apparatus for displaying
advertisements for which Letters Patent were granted to Arthur Manard Hubner,
dated November 23rd A.D. 1889, and numbered 18,798.
In the Specification of the said Letters Patent is described and shewn apparatus
for displaying advertisements consisting of a light framework having parts padded
to rest upon the shoulders of the man carrying it, and parts extending downward
and held to his body by a belt or strap surrounding him, with rods extending
upward from the shoulder parts to which is attached a rectangular or other suit-
able canvas covered frame, on either side of which placards or advertisements can
be affixed.
A frame is also described rotary on a vertical axis and provided with vanes or
surfaces for displaying advertisements the frame being made to turn round by the
person carrying the apparatus.
In the arrangement first described, it is said that the frame may be made of
double form to receive a light or lights between its two exposed surfaces so that
they can be illuminated when being paraded in the dark. It is also said that
within the rotary frame lights may be placed for illuminating the advertisements
exhibited, and both methods are illustrated.
The present invention consists of novel methods of arranging apparatus by which
advertising apparatus of the kinds described, or of like kinds, can be illuminated
by means of electricity.
For this purpose, assuming that the invention is to be applied to the form of
advertising apparatus just described, we use the method of arrangement illustrated
in the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front view shewing the apparatus carried by a man,
Figure 2 is a side view, and Figure 3 a front view of the apparatus separately,
with the front of the advertising frame removed.
The frame a which carries the advertisements is sufficiently deep to receive two
vertical advertising sheets of paper or other sufficiently transparent material,
separated by a space sufficient to receive between them one or more, but

page_text: preferably four, incandescent electrical lamps b, b, b, b, (Figure 3) of the ordinary
well known kind. These lamps are fixed in suitable positions so that the light
may be most effective, to the inside of the frame a, the edges of which are prefer-
ably lined with plain or corrugated mirrors, or other bright reflecting surfaces, to
increase the effect of the light.
The advertising sheets are held in position by light frames which fit into and
are fastened to the sides of the main frame a, so that the advertisement sheets can
readily be removed, replaced, or changed, and so that access is easily provided to
the interior space for the purpose of fixing and adjusting the electric lamps b.
On suitable supports upon the padded frames c, c, which rest upon the man's
shoulders, is carried an electric storage or other battery or accumulator d, of
sufficient size and capacity to light up the electric lamps 6 for the required time,
and from this accumulator are led insulated conducting wires e, e, connected with
the electric lamps b, so that when desired the latter are lighted up and brightly
illuminate the interior of the upper frame a, and the transparent advertising sheets
upon the front and back of the latter.
A switch is arranged in a convenient position so that the man carrying the
apparatus can instantly and easily turn the current of electricity on and off from
the lamps, and the conducting wires e may be as far as possible concealed from
view.
An advertising board g may be carried at the back of the supports c, c.
The apparatus described is equally applicable to other forms of advertising
apparatus, such for instance as a revolving arrangement.
Apparatus constructed according to this invention is very effective for the
purpose of night advertising and it is not expensive or likely to get out of order.
The details of the apparatus, and of the electrical conducting wires and con-
nections, may be varied more or less as may be found desirable in different
circumstances. For instance, the battery d may be arranged in any convenient
position instead of in that shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The method of illuminating advertisements by means of electric lamps,
situated in the frame carrying the advertisements, and operated by an electric
storage battery or accumulator, carried by the man who carries the advertisements,
substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In combination with the apparatus described in the first claim the switch f
by which the electric lamps 6 can be put in and out of action as desired by the
man who carries the apparatus, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 28th day of December 1893.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.