US1176451A - Advertising device. - Google Patents

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ITED ,STATES PATENT GFFICE.

HARVEY HUBBELL, 0F BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY HUBBELI., a citizen of the United States, residin at Bridgeport,A county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Advertising Devices, of which the following 'is a specification. Y

This invention has for its object to provide an inexpensive and attractive adver-l tising Ydevice in the form of a card, sheetv or folder, adapted. for use inconnection with a number of articles comprising two interchangeable parts adapted for sale singly or in combination7 which shall illustrate the articles independently, give catalogue indie cation, list price,` standard package number, &c., of the articles independently, and shall also illustrate combinations of saidarticles and give catalogue indication, list price, standard package number, &c., of the various combinations likely to Vbe called for by the trade, without the Ause of movable or interchangeable parts.

`With this end in view I have devised the novel advertising device which I will 'now describe, referring to the' accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, which is a plan view of a portion of the sheet, card 0r folder and illustrates the principle of the invention. c

10 denotes the sheet, card or folder which for convenience I will hereafter call the card, and which may be made of any suitable material, as metal, Celluloid or paper.

As a convenient embodiment of my novel invention, I have illustrated it as applied to electrical fixtures, as sockets,'switches, rosettes and the various styles of capstherefor, which are standard and interchangeable. By preference, although not necessarily, the i'ace or the card is divided, by equidistant lines crossing each other at right angles, into squares. Across the top of the card is a series of pictures or representations or' one set of the interchangeable parts, the parts illustrated in the present instance being different styles of caps for electric fixtures, the series being indicated by 11. Across the left end of the card and atright angles to the other series is a series of' pictures or representations of the other set of interchangeable parts, the parts illustrated in the present instance being different styles of electric fixtures and the series being indicated by 12. The rest of the surface of the card bears pictures or representations of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed July 29, 1 915. Serial No. 42,521.

combinations of iixtures caps, `th'e rep.- resentations being in vertical columns and in horizontal lines in alinem'ent with the pic# tures or representations in the two series indlcated by 1l and 12. An essential feature of the/invention is that at the intersection tion of cap a in combination with the lxture b. v A It will be noted that each capand each fixture has its own catalogue indication, the catalogue indications of the caps being HA, HB, &c.,` and of the fixtures 50, 51, &c., the two indications combined forming the catalogue indications, thus: 53-HD indicates the catalogue indicationv of the combination of fixture 53 with cap HD. Below each tixture or representation, I place the price of each article in cents, as, 23 for the article bearing the catalogue number 53, 7c for the cap bearing the catalogue indicationHD, and 30 for the combination bearing the catalogue indication {i3-HD. I also place under each article a letter to indicate the schedule, as B, and a number indicating the standard package number, as 500.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. An advertising device for series of articles comprising two interchangeable parts, consisting of a card having across'the top a series otrepresentations of one set lof the interchangeable parts and across one end at lright angles thereto a series of representa.-V "tions of the other set of interchangeable parts, the rest of the surface of the card ,100

bearing representationsof combinations of articles/from the tw'o series, said rcpresenl tations' of combinations being so arrangedv that the representation at the intersection of imaginary lines extending inward from an article in each series will show the two articles combined.

2. An'advertising device for series of articles comprising two interchangeable parts, consisting of a card having across the top a series of representations of one set'of the interchangeable parts with catalogue indi= cation, list. priceantl package number, and across one end at right angles thereto a series of representations of the other set of interchangeable `parts with catalogue indication, list. price" and package number, the restiif the surface of the card bearing representations of combinations of articles from the two series with combined catalogue indication, list price and package number,

said representations of combinations being 10 s0 arranged that the representations at the intersection of imaginary lines extending inward from an article in each series will show the two articles combined and give catalogue indication, list price and package number of the combination.

I n testimony whereof I affix my signature. HAli'VEY HUBBELL.

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