IMPRATENING TW MIANO DAD Å DYRDMIST
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Jacob Herbert, of Charterhouse Buildings,
Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPRATENING TW MIANO DAD Å DYRDMIST"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Jacob Herbert
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th May 1875.
I, HENRY JACOB HERBERT, of Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ADVERTISING," to be as
follows:-
:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for adver-
tising. For this purpose I propose to provide at the base and in some
cases to a certain extent on each side of fixed looking-glasses a series of
receptacles, which may be either fixed or moveable. Theso receptacles
are formed to contain cards or other advertising means, whilst their

page_text: fronts are arranged to exhibit similar or other advertisements or
announcements.
These receptacles when made movable may be arranged to slide or to
turn on centres of motion, and they may be acted upon by springs or
weights so as to retain them in their closed or normal position, except
when otherwise acted upon by a person desirous of removing one of the
cards or other contents of the receptacles, or of placing others therein.
These receptacles are by preference so arranged that they form a baso
or foot to receive the looking-glass, and they are by preference orna-
mented in a similar manner or style, so as to form one piece of furniture
therewith.
In the case of fixed receptacles the fronts may be made removable,
or they may be hinged so as to facilitate access to the contents of the
receptacles, and in this latter case springs or weights may be made to
act thereon to keep them closed or in their normal position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Henry Jacob Herbert in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JACOB HERBERT, of Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Jacob Herbert, Her
special license that I, the said Henry Jacob Herbert, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Jacob
Herbert, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-

page_text: tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ADVERTISING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Jacob Herbert, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Jacob Herbert, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for adver-
tising. For this purpose I propose to provide at the base and in some
cases to a certain extent on each side of fixed looking-glasses a series of
receptacles, which may be either fixed or moveable. These receptacles
are formed to contain cards or other advertising means, whilst their
fronts are arranged to exhibit similar or other advertisements or
announcements.
These receptacles when made moveable may be arranged to slide or to
turn on centres of motion, and they may be acted upon by springs or
weights so as to retain them in their closed or normal position, except
when otherwise acted upon by a person desirous of removing one of the
cards or other contents of the receptacles, or of placing others therein.
These receptacles are by preference so arranged that they form a base
or foot to receive the looking-glass, and they are by preference orna-
mented in a similar manner or style, so as to form one piece of furniture
therewith.
In the case of fixed receptacles the fronts may be made removeable,
or they may be hinged so as to facilitate access to the contents of the
receptacles, and in this latter case springs or weights may be made to
act thereon to keep them closed or in their normal position.
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying
Drawings, more fully to describe the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION Ог THE DRAWINGS,
Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figures 2 and 3 are sections of parts
representing the mode in which I prefer to carry my Invention into
effect.
a represents an ordinary pier glass and frame, which is adapted to rest
in a foot or base b, arranged according to my Invention. This foot or
base is arranged with a number of receptacles c, which, as shown in the
Drawings at Figures 2 and 3, are hinged at c', whilst they are weighted
at c³, and are provided with a loop c³, or it may be a knob or projection,
by which means the receptacles may, by pulling the loop c³, be drawn
forward, as shown by Figure 2, and when released will, aided by the
weight c², or it may be by springs, return to the position shown at
Figure 3, a stop & being employed to regulate the action of the recep-
tacle c.
The receptacle c is represented in the Drawing as being
provided with a glass front c³, behind which beads c' are fixed at a slight
distance therefrom so as to form a groove at each side of the receptacle
to enable a card to be held therein just behind the glass front.
The foot or base b may be arranged, as shown in the Drawing, with a
single row of receptacles c at the bottom, and with receptacles c
extending a short distance up each side of the glass; or the side recep-
tacles may be dispensed with, and if desired more than one row of
receptacles may be arranged at the bottom, or at each side, or at both
the sides and bottom, and they are by preference ornamented in a similar
manner or style to that of the glass frame, so as to form one piece of
furniture therewith.
The receptacles, instead of being arranged as shown in the Drawings
to turn on hinge joints, may be arranged to slide, as will be well under-
stood; or they may be fixed, in which latter case the fronts. may be
made removeable; or they may be hinged so as to facilitate access to
the contents of the receptacles, and springs or weights may be caused to
act on the fronts to keep them closed or in their normal position.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode
in which I prefer to carry the same into effect, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is, the improvements in means for advertising,
substantially as herein shown and described, such improvements con-
sisting in the employment of a series of receptacles for cards or other

page_text: advertisements or announcements to form a foot or base to fixed looking-
glasses.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Jacob Herbert, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-fifth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.