IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING ADVERTISEMENTS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Raimondo Felix Manetti, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in
the County of Northumberland, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS
AND APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING ADVERTISEMENTS."
Scaled the 6th October 1877, and dated the 11th April 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Raimondo Felix Manetti at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1877.
RAIMONDO FELIX MANETTI, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the County of Northum-
berland. "IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING ADVERTISE-
MENTS.
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This Invention relates to improved means and apparatus for exhibiting advertise-
ments in public streets and highways, either by day or by night. For this purpose,
according to my Invention, I employ a travelling van or carriage of any suitable or
convenient size, advantageously constructed with windows or transparent sides and
back end, although I do not intend to limit myself to this arrangement, as the
number of windows or openings may be varied and be open on unglazed.
The advertisements to be exhibited may be mounted upon rollers or otherwise,
and be actuated so as to be brought in succession opposite to the transparent or open
sides and end of the travelling vehicle, and remain at rest for a time so as to be
seen and read by the public; or the advertisements may be displayed at night upon
a transparent screen or surface by means of a magic lantern or other method of
exhibiting them by night.
The advertisements may be changed from time to time by mechanical means or
by manual labour, as may be found most convenient.
And in order that my Invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice, I will proceed to describe the Drawings annexed, which show several

page_text: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section; Figure 2 a plan in section; Figure 3 a side
elevation; and Figure 4 an end elevation of a travelling advertising van or carriage
arranged and combined with apparatus for exhibiting advertisements in accordance
with my Invention.
A represents the framework constituting the body of my improved advertising
carriage or travelling panoramic street car, which can be run as any ordinary
vehicle, or upon tramways at present in use. B, B', B3, B³, are divisional uprights
or columns, as desired, forming pannels C, C¹, C, C, with horizontal bars D, D',
D2, D3, which form smaller pannels e, e¹, e², e³, at top of sides, which can be used for
fixed or moveable transparent show cards, indicative of all classes of business;
E and E¹ are vertical rollers revolving in suitable bearings_or_steps E and E³,
which are adjustable to admit of the removal of said rollers E, E, and replaced by
others when needed. Upon these rollers are fixed the transparency that is to be
exhibited, capable of being wound thereon at stated intervals of transit, first upon
one and then the other, said transparency reaching along the sides and rear end of
carriage, being guided by means of two smaller vertical rollers, E, E³, and also, if
needed, by friction rollers inserted in framework at convenient distances apart,
thereby facilitating the movement of said transparency, the rollers E, E¹, being
actuated by means of spindles a, a', and hand wheels b and b'. These hand wheels
being within reach of the driver from his seast F, enables him to shift the pano-
ramic surfaces from time to time as desired, displaying different advertisements,
first at one pannel, and then at another, and so on ad libitum. This carriage
being of light construction it can be run with equal facility upon three or four
wheels.
In the annexed Drawing it will be noticed that only one wheel & is shown at
front working on a fifth wheel principle, which will enable the driver to turn said
carriage within its own length by means of two adjustable links or shafts, f, f',
attached to journals on hubs of wheel d, the rear wheels d¹, d³, being attached to
body of carriage in the usual manner, with or without springs.