Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 5th Jan., 1887.
We JAMES MORRIS O'KELLY of Wardour Street, London in the county of
Middlesex, Inventor, HENRY JAMES CARLYLE SOMMERVILLE, of Cannon Street,
Birmingham in the county of Warwickshire, Commission Agent, and CHARLES
HENRY RUSSELL of 137 Maida Vale, London in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus for moving and changing advertise-
ments, and has for its object to provide means of moving advertisements always in the
same direction whether the primary motion is in the same or an opposite direction.
This invention may be used to move advertisements displayed on hoardings and
such like surfaces, but is particularly applicable to those carried upon velocipedes,
cabs, buses, or other vehicles.
According to our invention the advertisements are displayed upon a band capable of
motion or revolution upon rollers, the rollers are actuated and caused always to
revolve in the same desired direction, through suitable connections by the primary
motion of any convenient moving object or part, whether such primary motion be in
one direction or reversed as when a door or window is opened or closed or a vehicle
moved back or forward. The connection may be made by gearing a crown wheel.
fixed on one of the rollers (or both if desired) with a pinion upon a shaft rotating in
suitable bearings or its equivalent; upon this shaft two pullies are placed and
connected the one with an ordinary band and the other with a crossed or co band to
two pullies upon the moving part or revolving axle; one pair of these pullies are only
capable of revolution in opposite directions to each other. The speed at which the
advertisements will move is determined by the speed of the prime mover and by the
diameters of the said pullies. Other suitable connections may be used and such
connection may be permanent, or may be thrown in and out of gear by suitable
clutches.
J. C. CHAPMAN,
70, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: We JAMES MORRIS O'KELLY of Wardour Street, London in the county of
Middlesex Inventor, HENRY JAMES CARLYLE SOMMERVILLE of Cannon Street,
Birmingham in the county of Warwickshire, Commission Agent, and CHARLES
HENRY RUSSELL of 137 Maida Vale London in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman,
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 improved apparatus for moving and changing advertise-
ments, and has for its object to provide means of moving advertisements always in the
same direction whether the primary motion is in the same or an opposite direction.
This invention may be used to move advertisements displayed on hoardings and
such like surfaces, but is particularly applicable to those carried upon velocipedes,
eabs, buses, or other vehicles.
According to our invention the advertisements are displayed upon a band capable
of motion or revolution upon rollers, the rollers are actuated and caused always to
revolve in the same desired direction through suitable connections by the primary
motion of any convenient moving object or part whether such primary motion be in
one direction or reversed as when a door or window is opened or closed or a vehicle
moved back or forward. The connection may be made by gearing a crown wheel
fixed on one of the rollers (or both if desired) with a pinion upon a shaft rotating in
suitable bearings or its equivalent; upon this shaft two pullies are placed and
connected the one with an ordinary band and the other with a crossed or co band to
two pullies upon the moving part or revolving axle ; one pair of these pullies is only
capable of revolution in opposite directions to one another. The speed at which the
advertisements will move is determined by the speed of the prime mover and by the
diameters of the said pullies. Other suitable connections may be used and such
connection may be permanent, or may be thrown in or out of gear by suitable
clutches.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the application of the invention to an
ordinary tricycle and house door. Figures 1 and 2 are respectively an elevation and
plan with top removed of the tricycle and Figure 3 a front elevation of the gearing
connection. Figure 4 is a sectional view and Figure 5 a plan of the invention applied
to a house door and front wall. Similar letters refer to similar parts in all of these
figures.
In the case of the tricycle motion is imparted in the usual manner by the rider
through a treadle to a first motion shaft a and thence by ordinary chain and chain
wheels or any other well known means to the driving axle, and in the case of the
house front by opening or closing the door, to a similar first motion shaft or spindle a
adapted to rotate either synchronously with the hinge pin or at any desired ratio of
speed therewith by multiplying gearing of any usual type. In either case upon the
shaft a pair of pullies is placed, one of the pair say 6 being connected by
an ordinary straight belt c, and the other say by a twisted or figure of eight belt e¹,
to a second pair of pullies d d upon a second motion shaft e; of these two pairs
of pullies, one pair (it matters not which) is arranged so as to be capable of revolution
only in opposite directions to each other, and thus the rotary motion imparted to the
second motion shaft e will be always in one and the same direction regardless of
the direction of motion of the said first motion shaft a. This motion serves to move

page_text: the advertisements which according to our arrangement are displayed upon vertical
movable hand of canvas or suitable material and supported at intervals by strips of
wood wire or other stiffening material. In the case of the tricycle illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3, one end of the band ffis fixed to and wound on a roller g placed
vertically above the shaft e and thence it passes around the frame h in which are
placed any convenient number of suitable rollers g'g', for supporting, guiding, and
changing the direction of its travel, and its other end is fixed to a second roller g².
To drive the band motion is given to one of the vertical driving rollers by means
of a bevel wheel i fixed thereto gearing with a corresponding bevel wheel fixed
upon shaft e. The shaft e is mounted in bearings and fitted with any suitable device
such as is shown at k in the figures, for moving it longitudinally so as to throw the
bevel wheels in and out of gear. A second pair of bevel wheels are fixed
respectively on shaft e and roller g the one i at such distance apart from the one j that
when one pair is in gear the other is out, and constant continuous motion is thus
given to the band in one direction until it is all wound off and on to g² as shown in
figure 3, when the other pair of bevel wheels jjare thrown into gear and the band is
wound back. If it is desired to stop the motion of the band the shaft e may be placed
in the centre of its travel so that neither pair of bevel wheels is in gear.
Any desired speed may be given to the band by suitably apportioning the diameter
of the respective hevel wheels, or instead of the above described bevel gear any
suitable type of gearing may be adopted.
An alarm device of any suitable type is provided to warn the rider when the
winding is approaching the end of the band, so that by reversing the direction of
winding, the risk of undue strain on the band may be avoided.
In the case illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, where the invention is shown applied to
a house door and front wall the hinge spindle or prime mover may be connected to the
roller y by suitable shafting and bevel wheels such as j, j. In this case the band ƒƒ
may be made endless and move round rollers placed vertically in a frame attached to
the house front of a triangular or other suitable shape. By means of the double
pullies b, b, d, d', with their straight and twisted bands e, e', respectively the reversed
movements of the door or doors 1, 1, give rotation always in the same direction to
roller g, and band ff. A lamp or light m may be placed behind the band provided with
panes of different coloured glass and the lamp may be caused to revolve by a "meat
jack or other suitable known device so as to impart to the advertisements the
changing colour of the lamp glasses and thus render them inore attractive at night.
"
Although we have above only described the application of our invention to a
tricycle and a house door, yet it is obvious that it is equally applicable to any other
class of vehicle or case wherein there is a suitable prime mover, be its direction of
motion to or fro, intermittent or constant.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to he performed we declare that what we claim is
1.) The combination with a rotary shaft or prime mover of the arrangement above
described whereby motion in one and the same direction may be imparted to
advertisements displayed on a movable band without regard to the direction of
rotation of such shaft or prime mover.
2.) The improved apparatus for moving and changing advertisements constructed
arranged and operating as herein described with reference to and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
J. C. CHAPMAN,
70 Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.