US12674A - Wright duryea - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR, l0, 1855.y

I W, DUBBEL GARD EXHIBITOR AND' MSTMBUTER" N www.

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Ma 1% MSF L {VZQ 1u: Norams PETERS ca wA H 'UNITED isi-ms PATENT- Fm linvented` a new and. useful Improvement in the city, county, and State of New York, have erenc'e being had tothe accompanying draw?v ings, yforming part of thispspecicatiomin Whichf f vIiiggure l4 is afront "eleva-tionV of a card vexhibitor anddistributer constructed after my `o caoin1 `igs. land. o

Similar letters of vreferenee indicate corre`v invention, Fig. 2 isa back view ofthe same.

Fig. 3 isa horizontal section through the'line Spending parts in tlle'several figures.

. v'lhis'im'fention relates 4to `that description of'cardexhibitors and distributers'which are n oonstruetedwith a `box to receive a large nu mber ofcards and with certainniechanismfor discharging said cards "separately wheneverv necessary or desirable, and is designed to -render thesame capableof receiving," anddis; 'tributing a greater .number of Cards'without;v

the necessity oinereasing their size, and also to avoid all chanceof afailure'in the discharge of a card when necessary. andglikewise keep' `the cards free from' dust. 'c

` 'Thenature of my invention Consists, first,

`in providing` a roller inthelower part of 4the case and printingthecardsat suitable intervals'apartonjja longstripiof paper and winding them upon said roller; seeon`d, in provid` `fing afguide forlthe cards orv` printed slip of paperffroni the rollerfto the opening Where the discharge iseifected; third, in providinga hinged springplate or holder at erover the dis.l

eharge-op'eningfor retaining 'the end of the printed `strip always at 4 the discharge-opening, vso 'that i t` may be conveniently laid hold of and pulledoutthe-required distance when L c plate-or holder also-serving for holding; the

stripl afterl ithasbeen drawn vout far enough andas a guideftov-'tear voftheucards by.

To enable others to fnllylunderstand the f l'construetionfand operation ofniy invention, -Iwillproceed podescribethesame.,lf`

1 *A represents a case.inade?with an upper! Specification formingpar't of Letters `Patent. 'No. `12,6921,dated A iqrlhi, 18cm villustrated in liig'. 1.

are-transparent;

printed strip ofpaper is wound.V It is arrangedV and 3,

l, v E is'the erankby Whiclrly is turned when the-'printedstrip isjbeing wound upon it;

, F is the guidepassage through which they printed strip-passes asit isdraivn out through the discharge,the partlcl foifnnng said-guide 'beingarranged so vaste yield incase the print- 'ed strip isof unequalthickness;` n

G is the hingedfpl'ate orholder arranged at or over the discharge Il, as shown. v

G and serving for renderh'lg-i'tselt-closinr. J is the printed strip which is substituted 'for separate cards.l This strip hasfthename,

da., exhibited on the card" or sign opposite the transparent-fronti) of theupper el1amber-C, printed'upon it'from en d te cndfaty suitable intervals'ap'art, and'is Wound uponthe roller ,D in -thefmannen shown lin v the drawings, its lastjendib'eing `carried to'thfe discharge and held-by the spring-holder and the part. betweenl the 'roller andthe discharge4 II kept even bythe guide d.. f i Y Y The operation is .as follows;.'lheprinted stril'jbeinf.;1 arranged as just'si'atedthe ex` hibitor an'd'distribut-er is-plaeed in some con-i spicuous place. Now if. a; stranger happens vto pass and be attracted by the sign` or `erilarged eard in the upper chamber C, having read it and being directed thereby to draw a card from below, vhe raises one -end of' the hingedph'iteor holder with one hand to the positionshown 'in' blue in Fig. 23. and takesv -flioldpof'the printed strip-and' ,draws it out to the position shown in full vrcdli'nes in. Fig: 1 and dottedred vlines in jFig. 4the holder assume its original position, so'that git shallih'old theprinled st1ip1firmly,and also ,serve asa guidetotear off the card by, as

v Itis'` byv-printing' 'the cards on alongf'strip fotpaper that'a grea'tcrnumber can'be inserted' inv an ordinary-sizcd 'casey andalso by\vind ing them compactly upon the.1 'oller-tliatthey` are Vkept clean yand l'reelj from dust; 'mdflko` and lower ohamher, thfe fronts 1.).: .c 7of which I I are springs'attached to thehfingedp'late.

'I'Ic thien lets wise by providing the guide 'd and self-elossubstantially asv and for the purposes herein ing spring-holder that;` the failure in the disdescribed.

tribution' of a, card is entirely prevented. 2.- The -use of e printed strip for the pur- `What I elai'mas my invention, and desire pose herein described. Jro-s'eel'rr'e by Letters lefcenis, isv e v l; The Qvithin-deseribed improvement in f WRIGHT DURYEA. card exhibitors and distributers, consisting in Witnesses: l

'the application of. the roller D, printed strip G. MASON, I

J, guided, and self-closing spring-holder G,l I. W. COOMBs.

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