AN ILLUMINATED ROTÁRỲ'ADVERTISING APPARATUS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Haley, of Battersea, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "AN ILLUMINATED ROTÁRỲ'ADVERTISING
APPARATUS."
Sealed the 5th August 1870, and dated the 9th February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Joseph Haley.at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his, Petition, on the
9th February 1870.
I, JOSEPH HALEY, of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN ILLUMINATED ROTARY
ADVERTISING APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
I construct a drum or screen of transparent material, and on this.I
paint or otherwise produce or place in the manner of a transparency
any advertisement that may be required. Within this drum or screen
I use gas or other burners, from between which a stem arises pointed
at top, whereon a curved or other guide or socket arrangement is poised,
such socket arrangement. being secured to a plate of thin metal or
other sufficiently light material surrounded by a number of vanes,

page_text: also of thin metal or other sufficiently light material, the outer circle
of these vanes being formed of wire or light metal rod to which the
drum or screen is attached or placed in connection so as to be moveable
therewith. These arrangements must for practical use be suitably
adjusted to the requirements of cach case. Upon the burners being
lighted the heat therefrom will pass upwards, and acting on the vanes
will cause the rotation of the drum or screen connected therewith, at
the same time the light from the burners will illuminate the trans-
parent drum or screen, and so a rotary advertising apparatus will be
complete and usable in shop windows and other places.
"
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Haley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HALEY, of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Haley, Her special licence,
that I, the said Joseph Haley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Halcy, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “An Illuminated Rotary
ADVERTISING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Joseph Haley, my exccutors or administrators, by an instru-
. ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Haley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
On drums, screens, or draperies of transparent, semi-transparent, or
other suitable material I paint or otherwise produce or place in the
manner of transparencies or otherwise announcements or advertisements
whether by words, signs, figures, or otherwise as may be required.
Within these drums, screens, or draperies I use gas or other burners from
between which for each drum, screen, or drapery a stem is raised
(pointed at top) whereon a guide or socket is poised, such socket 'being
secured to a. plate of thin light metal (brass for instance) or other
sufficiently light and non-inflammable material surrounded by a number
of vanes connected thereto, the outer circle of these vanes being formed
by a circular frame of wire or light metal or non-combustible material
also connected to the said vanes, to which outer circle the drum or
screen is attached or placed in connexion so as to be moveable therewith.
The drum or screen is usually connected by means of thin metal catches
or projections, one part of which passes through the substance, of the
drum, screen; or drapery, and is flattened down in the front. These
arrangements for practical use require to be; suitably adjusted to the
circumstances of each case. Upon the burners being lighted the heat
therefrom will pass upwards, and acting on the vanes will.cause the
rotation of the drums, screens, or draperies (or one drum, screen, or
drapery if only one be desired to be used). At the same time the light
will illuminate the drum, screen, or drapery if of transparent or semi-
transparent material (as I prefer and intend it should be), and so··a.
rotary advertising apparatus will be produced useable in shop windows
and other places.: Sometimes instead of using a drapery whether
transparent or not in lieu of the drum, the same may be used with a
drum by hooking the same on to the drum or on to the outer wire, of
the vanes. Articles for sale of light weight may also be suspended from
the drum or vane frame.
"
1
When required burners or lights. may be used to rotate two or more"
drums; screens, or draperies placed one above the other; as hereafter
described with reference to the Drawings accompanying these-Presents.
But in order to insure proper illumination and rotation a number of
burners should be used in accordance with the number of drums, sörceng,
dannerios

page_text: directions by altering the position of the vanes, which can be done, as
they turn freely on the wires 1, 2. The speed of rotation may be
regulated by closing down (for speed) or opening up (for slowness) the
vanes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim in regard to the
said Invention, the construction of a rotary illuminated advertiser of the
character and description herein-before stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Haley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
JOSEPH HALEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
THOMAS MORGAN,
Secretary to the
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,
21, Cockspur Street,
Charing Cross.