US1456124A - Apparatus for movable publicity - Google Patents

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May 22, 1923. 1,456,124 F. E. s. DUSSERIS APPARATUS FOR MOVABLE PUBLICITY:

Filed May 2. 1922 Patented May 22, $23.

x HENRI FRANQOIS ETIENNE SYLVAIN DUtSSaEBlTS, OF PARIS, RANCH.

APPARATUS FOR MOVABLE FU'BLIOIT'Y.

Application filed May 2, 1922. Serial No. 558,024.

To all whom it may concern: The chains may be of the type here shown,

Be it known that I, HENRI FRANQOIS or of any other suitable type.

ETIENNE SYLVAIN Dussnms, a citizenv of No matter what the type employed oi the France, and a resident of Paris,France, have chains and the length oi the same may be,

invented some new and useful Improvements use is always made, according to the inven- 60 in Apparatus for Movable Publicity, 0t tion, of crossbars or the like for suspension which the following is a specification. of the advertisements on them in a suitable The invention relates to improvements in way, the extremities of said crossbars or the apparatus for movable publicity, and more like being provided with special hooking especially improvements in means constitutmeans arranged to assure perfectly the ating the endless, movable element, and in tachment of the crossbars to the chains and means for supporting eiiiciently the adverto render the engagement and disengagetisements or publications upon this movable ment possible even during the operation of element, the purpose of these improvements the apparatus.

being to render the advertisements or the The details of these hooking means are like interchangeable even during the workshown in Figs. 3 to 5. The same consist of ing of the apparatus. projections 5 on the two ends of the cross In order to attain these objects, use is bars and provided with openings 6 in which made, according to the invention, in such hooks 7 may engage. v

0 apparatus for movable publicity, of endless The hooks 7 form parts oi loops provided 7 chains, the movable element consisting preiteach with a bent portion 8 serving to engage erably of two endless and parallel chains a chain link as shown in Figs. 3 to with cross members hooked on to them, the After establishment of the attachment in said cross members serving as carrying the way shown in Figs. 3 and 4c, a sleeve 9 means for the advertisements or the like, is pushed over the loop, its portion 8 tormand the advertisements or the like being ing slightly a spring so that the parts are rendered detachable and interchangeable, at secured in their relative position. Therewill, thus greatly enhancing the efficiency of {ore no casual unhooking can take place durthe apparatus. ing operation of the apparatus, the coacting 30 In the accompanying drawings the imparts being kept together with a certain tenprovements forming object of the present sion by the arrangement described.

invention are represented: In utilizing roller chains such as shown In Flg. 1 1n a schematic View of an endless lll Figs. 6 and 7, the hook or loop 8 is archain servlng as the movable element; ranged to present a profiled shape 10 formed n gn a frontal View Of a complete in a suitable manner to engage chain links movable element, constituting an endless without sliding on the same. The result obband with its chains and alvertisements; tained will be exactly the same as with the The Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are views, on a larger constructional embodiments specified herescale, or means serving to connect the cross before.

40 members carrying the advertisements with The hooking systems here described afiord the chain links; complete surety that the displacement of the The Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show modified forms advertisements will ensue uniformly, withof some essential parts of the invention. out any deformations or other obstacles. The invention relates essentially to the Moreover, the systems described render it 45 utilization of chains 1 of sufficient length, to possible to vary the height or length of the offer a succession of branches 2 led over a advertisements, the only precaution to obplurality of suitable pulleys 3 arranged serve being to pay attention to a strict horipreferably upon metallic tubes, as indicated zontal arrangement of the crossbars of the in Fig. 1. chains. 50 These chains are disposed parallel with The systems described permit further- 1.05 one another and, in practice, are actuated si more to change the advertisements or publimultaneously with the same speed, by an cations during the operation of the apparaelectric motor, with use of suitable and well tus. To effect such change it will sutiice to known intermediate means which are theredisengage the hooks, by pushing, aside the fore not described herein. sleeves and taking off thereupon the hooks projeetions'and from the ehain other into a link of "one of In apparatus of the class described, a plurality of endless chains, gross bars between the chains to act as supporting means for advertisements and having perforations on their extremities, loops engaging partly the said perforations and partlythe neighboring chain links, and sleeves on the crossbars arranged to be pushed overthe loops after engagement to secure the same during the operation of the apparatus.

In Witness whereof I my signature. I HENRI 'FR'ANQOIS SYLVAIN DUSSERIS.

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