Improvements in Advertising Mediums and Appliances.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Mediums and Appliances.
We, PERCIVAL TOWNSHEND LESTER, Agent, and P. T. LESTER AND COMPANY
LIMITED, Advertising Contractors, of Summerdale, Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manner in which we provide for increased publicity
and extended area of display for advertisements, and to the appliances for
attaching and affixing advertising tablets and advertising boards to railway
vehicles.
In carrying our invention into effect we display the advertisement. upon the sides,
panels or ends of ordinary railway trucks, either by securing the tablet or board
to the material or body of the truck, or by painting the matter direct upon the
truck or wagon body.
When employing tablets or boards for attaching to the truck we prefer to
arrange our improved clips or holders constructed as hereinafter set forth, so that
the corners of the tablets or boards may be rigidly held and prevented from
vibrating when the wagon is in motion.
Our mitre or corner clips we construct of metal, wood or any other suitable
material, but when constructing them of wood or like material we employ a metal
screw or spike for the purpose of affixing them in position upon the body of the
wagon. We arrange the corner clips or mitres in the form of a plate or frame
with projecting ears or flanges for holding two sides of the tablet in position, and
when oval or other rounded corners are to be formed upon the tablet or board, we
make our flanges or projections of similar shape. We prefer to construct our clips
of metal with spikes or fangs when it is desired to make permanent attachments,
or we form the plates with holes to receive bolts or ordinary countersunk head
screws.
In order to prevent rattle and consequent wear and tear of the plates, we some-
times make our clips with slots or channels to receive india-rubber pads, washers
or strips of any elastic bedding material, these pads enabling a very tight and
secure attachment to be made even when the surface of the plate or panel is of an
uneven character.
or
We do not limit the application of our improved medium for displaying adver-
tisements upon railway stock to the particular form of clip or fastening device
herein before described, but we employ any well known frame, nail, screw
ordinary system for attaching tablets or boards to other surfaces, for attaching our
advertisement panels or tablets to ordinary railway stock.
Dated this 11th day of November 1905
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertising Mediums and Appliances.
We, PERCIVAL TOWNSHEND LESTER, Agent, and P. T. LESTER AND COMPANY
LIMITED, Advertising Contractors, of Summerdale, Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, 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 relates to the manner in which we provide for increased publicity

page_text: and extended area of display for advertisements, and to the appliances for
attaching and affixing advertising tablets and advertising boards to railway
vehicles.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings,
Figure 1 is a general view of our improved arrangement for advertising,
Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 illustrate the methods we employ for attaching
our advertisements plates and tablets.
In carrying our invention into effect we display the advertisement upon the sides,
panels or ends of ordinary railway trucks, either by securing the tablet or board to
the material or body of the truck, or by painting the matter direct upon the truck
or wagon body.
When employing tablets or boards for attaching to the truck M we prefer to
arrange our improved clips or holders A B C D (Figure 1.) constructed as herein-
after set forth, so that the corners of the tablets or boards E may be rigidly held
and prevented from vibrating when the wagon is in motion.
Our mitre or corner strips or clips A we construct of metal, wood or any other
suitable material, but when constructing them of wood or like material we employ
a metal screw or screws G (Figure 2) or spike or spikes for the purpose of affixing
them in position upon the body of the wagon. We arrange the corner clips or
mitres in the form of a plate or frame A with or without projecting ears or flanges a
for holding two sides of the tablet in position as shown in Figures 2, 3, and 6, and when
oval or other rounded corners are to be formed upon the tablet or board, we make our
flanges or projections of similar shape. We prefer to construct our clips of metal
with spikes a² or fangs as shown in Figure 9 when it is desired to make permanent
attachments, or we form the plates with holes to receive bolts H or ordinary
countersunk head screws.
In order to prevent rattle and consequent wear and tear of the plates, we
sometimes make our clips with slots or channels to receive india-rubber pads,
washers or strips of any elastic bedding material such as K K Figures 4, 5, 6
and 8, these pads enabling a very tight and secure attachment to be made even when
the surface of the plate or panel E is of an uneven character.
When arranging for speedy removal of the plates we sometimes arrange a hinge
plate frame such as D to be held by a bolt K³ on a side bracket L as shown in
Figures 6, 7 and 8.
We do not limit the application of our improved medium for displaying adver-
tisements upon railway stock to the particular form of clip or fastening device
herein before described, but we employ any well known frame, nail, screw or
ordinary system for attaching tablets or boards to other surfaces, for attaching our
advertisement pads or tablets to ordinary railway stock.
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 application and arrangement of independent plates tablets or panels for
attachment to railway rolling stock for displaying advertisements thereon,
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 25th day of February 1893
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.