An Improved Advertising Device.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 1st Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Advertising Device.
I, GEORGE HENRY Line, of 53 Thorpe Street, Forest Gate, London E., Engraver,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in advertising devices, and has for its object
a means whereby advertisements prepared according to my invention can be read at
night as well as by day, the only illuminant necessary for displaying said advertise-
ment at night being the ordinary light needed to illumine the shop, warehouse, store,
or other apartment wherein the device is suspended or otherwise placed.
In carrying out my invention I paint, print, emboss or indent upon metal sheet,
wood, cardboard or any other opaque substance the lotters or device intend to
form the desired advertisement, and puncture said letters or device with any number
of holes, in or upon each of which I place a semi-spherical shaped piece of colored
glass and fix it thereto by means of any suitable transparent cement. By an artistic
arrangement of the said holes and pieces of colored glass the letters or device
forming the advertisement has an attractive appearance during the day, by reason
of the reflection of light radiating from the glasses, while at night the advertisement
is equally well displayed from the fact that the pieces of glass are the only part that
is transparent.
The pieces of glass may be of any color or colors according to the taste of the
designer.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
An Improved Advertising Device.
I, GEORGE HENRY LINE of 53 Thorpe Street, Forest Gate, London, E., Engraver, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in advertising devices, and has for its object
a means whereby advertisements prepared according to my invention can be read at
night with the same ease as by day, and the only illuminant necessary for displaying
said advertisement at night being, the ordinary light needed to illumine the shop,
warehouse, store or other apartment where the device may be suspended or otherwise
placed.
For the purpose of rendering my invention more easily understood I have appended
the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a finished device forming the subject of my invention.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of same shewing one of the methods adopted by me of
forming the glasses, and attaching them to the opaque substance and
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of one of the type, or shape of glass used in the case
illustrated by Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is also a vertical section of Fig. 1 shewing a second or alternative method of
affixing the glass to the opaque substance and
Fig. 5 is a sectional view of one of the glasses used in the method illustrated by
Fig. 4.
The views 3 and 5 are drawn to an enlarged scale to render the same more easily
read.

page_text: In carrying my invention into effect I paint, print, emboss, or indent upon sheet
metal, wood, cardboard, earthenware or any other opaque flat substance the letters
or device intended to form the desired advertisement, and puncture said substance
through the letters, or device, with any number of holes, so that the holes so made
delineate the letters or device of the advertisement. Within or upon each of these
holes I fix by means of suitable transparent coment a semi-spherical shaped piece of
plain or coloured glass a, either of the shape shewn by the cross sectional view
Figs. 3 or 5. In the former case a shoulder is formed upon said pieces of glass so
that the stems may fit into the holes previously mentioned said stems being of a length
corresponding to the thickness of the punctured opaque substance. The manner of
attaching these is shewn by Fig. 2. In the latter case I dispense with the stem
upon said glasses and fix them in the manner shewn by Fig. 4, or I may in certain
cases form said pieces of glass pyramidical, or faceted, instead of semi-spherical, and
either with or without the shoulder and stem previously mentioned, and attach them
to the opaque substance by the same cement, and in the same manner as before
described, by a judicious and artistic arrangement of the before mentioned holes
and pieces of glass the letters or device forming the advertisement has an attractive
appearance during the day by reason of the reflection of light radiating from the
glasses, while at night the advertisement is equally well displayed from the fact that
the pieces of glass are the only parts that are transparent.
The pieces of glass may be of any colour or combination of colours and of any
size, and the opaque material employed moulded, pressed or otherwise formed to
suit the taste of the designer and the subject of the advertisement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In an improved advertising device the use and application of pieces of plain or
coloured glass, formed either semi-spherically, pyramidically or faceted, and attached
by a suitable transparent cement to a punctured opaque surface substantially
as and for the purposes herein described and shewn by the accompanying
drawings.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Little Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.