An Improved Means for Transmitting Orders, Serving also as an Advertising Medium.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1899 - Accepted, 19th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Means for Transmitting Orders, Serving also as an
Advertising Medium.
FRANK CHORLTON, 24, Corporation Street, Manchester, Chemist, EDGAR
CHARLES LONG, 107, Shrewsbury Street, Moss Side, Manchester, Journalist, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an apparatus (to be hereafter described) by means of
which communication can be effected between two or more persons, and by
means of such apparatus shall designate the article or articles required, and at
the same time act as an advertising medium of such article or articles and if
necessary indicate the price of such article or articles. As for instance a pur-
chaser of an article by means of a disc or other suitable formation which indicates
the article, the maker thereof and the price to the purchaser is placed in some
convenient place & by means of such apparatus the purchaser can communicate
with the seller without an intermediary. To illustrate it in one form. Sup-
posing upon entering an hotel & the purchaser should order some refreshment or
some article wished for, by means of this apparatus he will be enabled to do so,
as he will have before him a diagram with buttons projecting slightly from it
& upon which buttons the prices of the various substances will be marked in
conjunction with the names of the makers of such substances. A wire is
conducted from each button & is actuated by electricity or mechanically & by
touching the button or buttons communication is completed at the other end
and the article wished for is indicated upon a suitable disc or diagram at. the
other end of communcation.
An Improved Means for Transmitting Orders, Serving also as an
Advertising Medium.
We, FRANK CHORLTON, of 24, Corporation Street, Chemist, and EDGAR CHARLES
LONG, of 107, Shrewsbury Street, Moss Side, Journalist, both of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to an apparatus by means of which communication can

page_text: be effected between two or more persons, and which shall designate the article
or articles required, and at the same time act as an advertising medium of such
article or articles and if necessary indicate the price of such article or articles.
As for instance a disc or other suitable formation which indicates the article
required, the maker thereof and the price to the purchaser, is placed in some
convenient place and by means of such apparatus the purchaser can communicate
with the seller without an intermediary.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures, Fig. 1 being an elevation partly
in section and Fig. 2 a plan of a table showing one form in which our invention
may be carried out.
In carrying out our invention and applying same to a table, say in an hotel,
we form in the table top a a number of recesses beach filled with a rubber
disc c having a recess d adapted to receive a disc or button e formed with a
shank and cross piece g at its lower end.
Upon each of the said buttons is marked a certain drink or article and the
price thereof, see Fig. 2, and say near the periphery of the table opposite to
the name of the drink or article, upon a readily removable strip or the like the
name of the brewer, distiller of such drink or maker of the article as the case
may be.
Below the cross piece g are employed wires connected through or down the
table leg to an electric battery and to an indicator such as are now used in
hotels for indicating the number of the bed room where attention is required
but representing the various drinks or articles enumerated on the discs or buttons
on the said table.
Thus a person entering an hotel and requiring refreshment or some article,
he will be able to order it at once by simply depressing the disc or button marked
with the drink or article desired, as by so doing the lower end of the shank
thereof will make contact with the wires g and indicate on the diagram at the
other end the drink or article desired.
When depressing the said button the rubber below compresses so as to raise
the button again to its normal position when relieved of pressure.
In lieu of connecting the said discs or buttons and indicator electrically, such
may be connected by suitable levers cords or wires in the same manner as bells
are in a house connected to the bell knob which will be readily understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
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1st. In means for transmitting orders, one or more discs, buttons or the like
adapted to be depressed and each representing the drink or article desired, in
combination with an indicator such as described, which discs, buttons or the
like and indicator are electrically or mechanically connected so that when
depressing the said disc, button or the like the respective drink or article will
appear on the said indicator all substantially as set forth.
2nd. In combination with the means specified in the preceding claim, a strip
or strips or the like containing the name of the brewer, distiller or maker of the
drink or article to be supplied, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 29th day of June 1899.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.