AN IMPROVED ADVERTISING VEHICLE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Denton Abel, of Southampton Buildings, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ADVERTISING
VEHICLE" A communication from abroad by Jules Payenneville, of Rue de
la Fontaine, Auteuil, near Paris, France.
Sealed the 29th October 1878, and dated the 29th May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Denton Abel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th May 1878.
CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex.
"AN IMPROVED ADVERTISING VEHICLE." [A communication from abroad by
Jules Payenneville, of Rue de la Fontaine, Auteuil, near Paris, France.]
This Invention relates to a construction of vehicle intended to circulate through
streets and public thoroughfares for the purpose of shewing advertisements, and
has for its object means of exhibiting a large number of such advertisements
within moderate space, and at the same time attracting attention to them.
An advertising vehicle according to this Invention consists of a platform or
framing mounted on four wheels, with two or more drums of the form of square,
hexagonal, or polygonal prisms or cylinders, mounted so as to revolve on vertical
axes working in bearings situated in the middle line of the vehicle.
The surfaces of these drums may be of any material on which advertisements
can be painted or printed, or on which placards can be pasted or otherwise secured.
It is of advantage to make them of frosted or otherwise dulled or enamelled glass
sufficiently translucent for an interior light to shine through, so that the vehicle
can be employed for advertising at night. Each of the drums has on its axis a

page_text: pulley, and these pullies are connected by straps or bands with a pulley on one of
the wheels or on a revolving axle of the vehicle, so that as the vehicle is drawn
along the street or thoroughfare the drums are caused to revolve, slowly presenting
their sides successively to the public.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Denton Abel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
November 1878.
CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex.
"AN IMPROVED ADVERTISING VEHICLE." A communication from abroad by Jules
Payenneville, of Rue de la Fontaine, Auteuil, near Paris, France.
This Invention relates to a construction of vehicle intended to circulate through
streets and public thoroughfares for the purpose of shewing advertisements, and
has for its object means of exhibiting a large number of such advertisements within
moderate space, and at the same time attracting attention to them.
An advertising vehicle according to this Invention consists of a platform or
framing mounted on four wheels, with two or more drums of the form of square,
hexagonal, or polygonal prisms or cylinders, mounted so as to revolve on vertical
axes, working in bearings situated in the middle line of the vehicle.
The surfaces of these drums may be of any material on which advertisements can
be painted or printed, or on which placards can be pasted or otherwise secured.
It is of advantage to make them of frosted or otherwise dulled or enamelled glass,
sufficiently translucent for an interior light to shine through, so that the vehicle
can be employed for advertising at night. Each of the drums has on its axis a
pulley, and these pulleys are connected by straps or bands with a pulley on one of
the wheels or on a revolving axle of the vehicle, so that as the vehicle is drawn
along the street or thoroughfare, the drums are caused to revolve slowly, presenting
their sides successively to the public.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews a sectional side elevation of the vehicle, and Fig. 2 shews a plan of
the mechanism for imparting rotary motion to the drums.
The motion is taken from the hind axle A of the vehicle; a pulley B keyed on
the axle transmits its motion by a pitch chain C to a pulley D fixed on a horizontal
shaft o in front of the vehicle. The motion of this shaft is communicated by bevil
wheels G, G¹, to a horizontal shaft O, having three worms V, V1, V2, gearing with
three worn wheels R, R', R2, fixed on the shafts of the revolving drums or kiosks
K, K¹, K⁹
The worms, V, V1, V2, may either be all right or left handed, or alternately
right and left handed, so as to rotate the drums either all in the same direction or
in contrary directions. Should the vehicle be moving along at a rapid pace it may
be desirable to stop the rotation of the drums. For this purpose the gearing G, G¹,

page_text: is thrown out of gear by arranging the wheel G to be slid back on its shaft by a
lever, so that the motion of the pulley D is not imparted to the shaft O, and con-.
sequently the drums remain stationary.
Instead of imparting a continuous uniform motion to the drums, the mechanisın
may be so arranged as to impart to them an intermittent motion, so as more readily
to attract the attention of the public.
At night the surfaces of the drums may be illuminated by means of lamps or
other illuminating apparatus inside the drums, and they may be fixed or move-
able so as to produce the effect of periodical eclipses on the panels, and they may
be provided with glasses of different colours.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, I
claim the before-described improved construction of advertising vehicles, consisting
of revolving drums or kiosks actuated by toothed gearing in combination with
worms and worm wheels, receiving motion from the axle of the vehicle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Denton Abel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
CHAS, D. ABEL. (L.S.)