New or Improved Means and Devices for Exhibiting Changing Advertisements in Connection with Apparatus for Lighting Cigars, Pipes, and such like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 20th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th June, 1889
New or Improved Means and Devices for Exhibiting Changing
Advertisements in Connection with Apparatus for Lighting
Cigars, Pipes, and such like.
I, VITO MODESTE POSSE, of Paris in the Republic of France, Artist do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the application and use of changing or moving illuminated
avertisements in apparatuses employed in tobacconists' shops, restaurants, cafés, hotels
and other public establishments for the purpose of providing means for lighting cigars,
pipes and so forth, and consists essentially in the employment of the inovement of
the lever, button or other instrument, by which the gas or other lighting means is
turned up or increased at the time when it is required to be used to the purpose of
obtaining the requisite movement or change of the advertisement each time the
apparatus is employed.
For this purpose I connect with the lighting or igniting apparatus an endless band
of suitable material passing over rollers and having the advertisement printed or
otherwise produced thereon. This endless band is arranged to pass behind a glazed or
other opening and the roller or rollers operating it is or are so connected by gearing
ratchets, pawls and other suitable mechanical devices with the lever, button, or other
instrument by which the gas or other igniting means is turned on or off, that each
time the said lever, button, or other instrument is actuated it causes the endless band
to be carried forward automatically a certain distance so as to bring a fresh
advertisement opposite the glazed or other opening.
Any other suitable arrangement of mechanical or electrical devices may be employed
for the purpose of bringing a fresh advertisement opposite the opening by the action
of the aforesaid lever, button, or other instrument.
It will be understood that the gas or other igniting means serves also to illuminate
the advertisements on the endless band.
V. M. POSSE.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.,
Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Means and Devices for Exhibiting Changing
Advertisements in Connection with Apparatus for Lighting
Cigars, Pipes, and such like.
I, VITO MODESTE POSSE, of Paris, in the Republic of France, Artist, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the samelis to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying three sheets of Drawings and to the letters
and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My invention relates to the application and use of changing or moving illuminated
advertisements in apparatuses employed in tobacconists' shops, restaurants, cafés, hotels
and other establishments for the purpose of providing means for lighting cigars, pipes
and so forth, and consists essentially in the employment or utilization of the move-
ment of the lever, button, or other instrument, by which the gas flame, or other
lighting means, is turned up, increased or otherwise brought into action at the time
when it is required to be used, for the purpose of obtaining the requisite movement
or change of the advertisement automatically each time the lighting apparatus is
used.
Various means and devices may be employed for transmitting movement from the
aforesaid lever, button or other instrument to the moving or changing advertisements.
The drawings hereto annexed illustrate arrangements of mechanism which I have
found suitable for this purpose. Figure 1 is a front view of one arrangement of
of the mechanism. Figure 2 is a side view of same partly in vertical section on
line 1-2 of Figure 1; Figure 3 is a detail view of part of the mechanism, and
Figure 4 an explanatory diagram.
The apparatus is mounted on a board a of any suitable shape and dimensions. At
the upper part may be placed a clock c and at the lower part the lighting or igniting
apparatus b, the gas burner of which may be masked or hidden in a suitable ornamental
part f. The space between the clock and the lighting apparatus is utilized for the
advertising apparatus which is placed behind the frame e containing a sheet of glass
or other more or less transparent material. The advertisements are printed, painted
or otherwise inscribed on an endless band t passing over rollers g g¹ g g which
receive motion in a definite direction by means of mechanism connected with the
device by which the tap of the gas burner 6 is opened and closed more or less in order
to increase or decrease the igniting flame. The rollers 9 9' 9' 9' are carried in
bearings connected with the vertical edges of an opening in the board a. This opening
is closed in front by the glazed frame e and at the back by a hinged door i. One of
the said rollers, g for example, may be covered with a sleeve or rings of indiarubber j
and communicates the required movements to the endless band t. For this purpose
its axis carries a toothed pinion h which gears with a toothed wheel k fast on an

page_text: intermediate axis o, which carries, loose thereon, a ratchet wheel / fixed to, or formed
with a drum m the boss of which is acted on by a coiled spring which is fixed at
its outer end to the board a. Figure 3 shows that the spur wheel k is furnished
with a pawl which transmits to the said spur wheel the forward movements imparted
to the ratchet wheel by the rod x of the lighting apparatus. A spring retains the
pawl in contact with the teeth of the ratchet wheel. The rod 2 slides endwise in
suitable guides and is connected at its upper end to the drum m by a chain or cord n
and acts during its up and down movements on the lever or handle pl of the gas
tap p in the gas pipes either directly or by means of other intermediate devices.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
When the gas burner 6 is not being used its flame is turned down so as to be very
small; by pulling down the rod x the tap p is opened more or less and the flame is
increased proportionally so as to afford suitable means of ignition to the user.
and
This movement of the rod produces automatically a change of the advertisement
visible at the frame e, that is to say the descent of the rod a draws round the drum m
by means of the chain or cord n; the ratchet wheel acts ou the pawl
thereby forces the spur wheel k to rotate in the same direction, and to turn the
pinion and thereby the roller g whereby the endless band t is moved a certain
distance, causing a fresh advertisement to appear at the frame e, in place of that which
was visible there before the gas was turned up.
When the rod x is released, the spring r returns the drum m, ratchet wheel I and
rod to their normal positions, which has the effect of closing the gas tapp to the
extent necessary for reducing the flame to the required degree.
Figure shows an arrangement of the advertisement band t in which the said band
is unrolled from the roller R to a certain extent each time the apparatus is used and
rolled to a corresponding extent, on the roller R¹. When the band t is wholly unrolled
from the roller R on to the roller R', or before if desired, it is wound back on to the
roller R by any suitable known means.
Figures 5 to 12 of the Drawings show another arrangement of the apparatus which
enables a very long endloss band to be used in a very small space, and in order to
increase the publicity of the advertisements, two openings are arranged in the front of
the apparatus to enable two advertisements to be visible at one time, and to cause each
to become visible a second time after a short interval.
Figure 5 is a front elevation of the apparatus. Figure 6 is a vertical section to a
larger scale showing the mechanism by which the endless band of advertisements is
moved Figure 7 is a cross section to the same scale as Figure 6. Figures 8 and 9
show details to a smaller scale of the acting parts. Figure 10 is a vertical cross
section, to the same scale, as Figure 5, of the box which guides and contains the
endless band of advertisements. Figure 11 is a corresponding horizontal section of
the said box, and Figure 12 shows the actuating roller with the endless band thereon.
ris a spring barrel the toothed wheel k on which gears with the pinion h fixed on
the end of the axis of the roller g which carries forward the endless band t on which
are printed or otherwise inscribed the advertisements it is desired to exhibit. The
toothed wheel k of the barrel r also drives a regulating train composed of a pinion q,
a wheel q fixed on the axis of the pinion q, a pinion q' and a wheel q³ both fixed
on one axis, and a pinion q' on the axis of the regulating flyer q.
The barrel and the various parts above described are placed between two
plates the latter of which v¹ carries one end of the axis of the roller g. The
axis of the barrel carries loosely thereon and between the end of the barrel r and
the plate a lever y to the end of which is connected the draw piece connected to
the actuating lever by a chain x. The lever y carries a pawl y' which takes into
the teeth of a ratchet wheel fixed on the axis of the barrel r; a retaining pawl y'
prevents the ratchet wheel from. turning backward. The lever y is acted on by a
spring which returns it to the top of its stroke inmediately the external lever x is
released. The said lever y is in one piece with a sector 1 which gears with a
pinion 2 fixed on an axis 3, on which is also fixed the tappet 4 intended to raise an
oscillating lever 5; a catch 6 on which stops a disc ' connected with the pinion h
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page_text: which, as already stated, gears with the toothed wheel of the barrel ». A strong
spring 7 constantly tends to press the lever 5 downwards.
The action of this mechanism is as follows:-
When the apparatus is not being used, the spring holds the lever y at the top of
its stroke, pressed against a stop pin 9; the spring 7 presses the catch 6 of the lever 5
against the disc h¹ so as to prevent the barrel from being turned by its spring.
When the lever is pressed down to obtain a light, the lever y is drawn down with
it until the said lever y comes against another stop pin 10 which limits its stroke.
This movement of the lever y causes the pawl y¹ to turn the ratchet wheel 7 one tooth
which winds up the spring of the barrel r to that extent. When the lever x is
released the spring returns the lever y to its highest position as shown in Figure 7;
this return of the lever y effects the rotation of the pinion 2 and of the tappet disc 4
by means of the sector 1. The tappet of this disc raises the lever 5 and releases the
plate or disc h. The barrel r is then turned by its spring and turns the roller g by
the pinion h. The roller g makes exactly a complete revolution, because the lever 5,
under the action of its spring 7, stops the disc 1 immediately the projection on it
comes against the catch 6.
To the plate v is fixed the gas pipe s furnished with the tap p, the key p¹ of which
is connected by a kind of crank handle p' to a pin z of the sector 1. The pin z passes
through a concentric slot in the plate and into a long slot in the crank handle p².
By this arrangement the movement of the sector 1 during the depression of its
lever y, opens the gas tap p and a long flame is produced at the burner b, shown as a
fancy figure in the drawing. The raising of the lever y and the corresponding move-
ment of its sector 1 closes the gas tap. A short flame is constantly maintained at
the burner b by a small bye-pass pipe taking gas from the pipes above the tap p and
returning it to the pipes below the said tap, where the gas may be wholly cut off from
the bye-pass by means of the screw s². is the gas pipe which connects the pipe s
to the burner b.
The roller g is furnished at each end with four pins placed at equal distances round
the circumference. The endless band t, made of woven fabric covered with india-
rubber or of other suitable flexible material, is perforated at its edges with holes,
protected by eyelets and placed at a distance apart corresponding to that of the pins
on the roller g. By these means the roller g carries forward the endless band without
the possibility of its slipping.
From the roller g the endless band t passes behind the two glazed openings F Fi
in the front of the apparatus; it then passes under a guide roller A; then over a
guide roller A¹, and finally under and over two other rollers A' A at the lower end
of a box B. This box is divided into two compartments by a partition G which forms
a long channel G₁ in which the endless band is stored in a greater or lesser number of
folds according to its length.
Figure 10 shows clearly the course of the endless band, and it will be readily
understood that the advertisements inscribed on it pass successively behind the
openings F F as the apparatus is used for its intended purpose. Each advertisement
appears first at the upper opening F and then at the lower opening F¹.
It will be readily understood that if the lighting apparatus is fitted with an
electric igniter instead of a gas burner, the rod or lever x or other analogous instru-
ment will be caused to act upon suitable devices for closing an electric circuit
instead of operating the lever or handle of a gas tap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
First In a lighting or igniting apparatus the combination with the device by
which the gas flame is increased or diminished, or by which an electric igniter is
brought into or thrown out of action, of an endless band on which advertisements
are inscribed and mechanism for transmitting motion automatically from such device
to the said endless band, substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in
the drawings hereto annexed.

page_text: Second-In a lighting or igniting apparatus the combination of changing or moving
advertisements with devices whereby the change or movement of the said advertise-
ment is effected automatically, and simultaneously with the increase or production of
light for the ordinary use of such lighting or igniting apparatus, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Third In a lighting or igniting apparatus with changing or moving advertise-
ments, the mechanism for effecting the intermittent movements of the endless band t
carrying such advertisements, consisting of the draw rod, the chain or cord n, the
spring drum m, the pawl, the ratchet wheel 7, the spur wheel k, the pinion / and
the driving roller g, combined, arranged and operating as hereinbefore described, and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings hereto annexed.
Fourth In a lighting or igniting apparatus with changing or moving advertise-
ments, the mechanism for effecting the intermittent movements of the endless band t
consisting of the winding rollers R R1 and the guide rollers g¹ g* combined and
operating as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figure 4 of the drawings
hereto annexed.
Fifth In a lighting or igniting apparatus with changing or moving advertise-
ments the mechanism for effecting the change of advertisements visible at the
openings F F of the apparatus, consisting of the spring barrel ratchet wheel 1,
lever y, pawls y' and y³, retaining disc h², catch lever 5, tappet 4, endless band driving
roller g and toothed gearing connecting barrel to disc and tappet axis 3, all
combined arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore described, and
illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the drawings hereto annexed.
Sixth In a lighting or igniting apparatus with changing or moving advertise-
ments, the combination of the endless band t, the driving roller g guide
rollers A A¹ A' A³ and the box B containing the said rollers, such box having a
compartment G to receive the loose folds of the said endless band substantially as
herein before described, and illustrated in Figures 10 and 11 of the drawings hereto
annexed.
Seventh In a lighting or igniting apparatus with changing or moving adver-
tisements the combination of the mechanism for actuating the advertisements, with
the devices for opening and closing the gas tap substantially as hereinbefore
described, and illustrated in the drawings hereto annexed.
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11000
Datou
this 10th day of April 1889.
W. H. BECK,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
W. H. BECK,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.