Improved Means for Advertising.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Advertising.
I EDMUND NICO:.As of 22 Booth Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Designer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to utilize in a new manner the enamelled iron
plates or tablets now extensively used for advertising purposes, and which are now
usually nailed or otherwise affixed to existing walls buildings or hoardings, thereby
considerably increasing the load or strain on such erections.
According to my invention I not only use the said enamelled iron plates for
advertising purposes but I actually utilize them in the construction of the building
or erection itself. thereby greatly reducing the cost thereof.
I construct a light metal skeleton frame-work, say for a temporary or permanent
office, room, warehouse, or other building, to be used for commercial or other
purposes, using angle iron or steel, or similar metal of other convenient section
rivetted or bolted together and I arrange this framework in such a manner that the
said enamelled iron advertising plates or tablets can be used as pannelling for
filling in the spaces of the said framework thus forming actually an integral part
of the building itself and economizing the cost of erection as the advertisers will
not only supply the plates gratis but also pay for their utilization in this manner.
The plates or panels are preferably so fixed that their horizontal edges overlap
slightly in the manner of tiles or slates so as to be weather proof, and they are by
preference so attached to the framing by bolts or otherwise that any one or more
of them can be removed at any time and exchanged for others without disturbing
the other parts of the building or in any other way disarranging its stability.
The framework also will be preferably so arranged that the buildings can be
readily taken to pieces, transported to another situation and re-erected as desired.
Dated this 16th day of December 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Advertising.
I EDMUND NICOLAS of 22 Booth Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Designer, 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 :—
The object of this invention is to utilize in a new manner the enamelled iron
plates or tablets now extensively used for advertising purposes, and which are now
usually nailed or otherwise affixed to existing walls buildings or hoardings, thereby
considerably increasing the load or strain on such erectious.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
According to my invention I not only use the said enamelled iron plates for
advertising purposes but I actually utilize them in the construction of the building
or erection itself thereby greatly reducing the cost thereof.
I construct a light metal skeleton framework as shown at a Fig. 1 on the annexed
drawings say for a temporary or permanent office room warehouse, or other building
to be used for commercial or other purposes, using angle iron or steel or similar

page_text: metal of other convenient section rivetted or bolted together as shown by the
detached views Figs. 2 and 3 preferably with a wooden foundation as shown
at a Fig. 1, and I arrange this framework in such a manner that the said enamelled
iron advertising plates or tablets can be used as pannelling for filling in the
spaces of the said framework a thus forming actually an integral part of the
building itself, and economizing the cost of erection as the advertisers will not only
supply the plates gratis but also pay for their utilization in this manner.
The plates or panels are preferably made with notches c at their ends to fit the
bolts or rivets and so fixed that their horizontal edges overlap slightly in the
manner of tiles or slates as shown at Fig. 2 so as to be weather proof, and they
are by preference so attached to the framing by bolts or otherwise that any one
or more of them can be removed at any time and exchanged for others without
disturbing the other parts of the building or in any way disarranging its stability.
The framework also will be preferably so arranged that the buildings can be
readily taken to pieces, transported to another situation and re-erected as desired.
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 :-
The improved means for advertising consisting in forming a skeleton framework
for a temporary office or other similar building or structure of light angle iron
steel, or other metal and filling the same in with panels formed of enamelled iron
advertising plates or tablets so that the latter form an integral part of the building
itself but can be readily detached therefrom and changed at pleasure, substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 16th day of September 1892.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.