US500939A

US500939A - obbinson

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Publication number: US500939A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-07-04
Anticipated expiration: 1910-07-04

Description

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ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

No. 500,939. Patented July 4, 1893.

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T; oBBINsoN. ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

No. 500,939., Patented Ju1y`4, 1893.-

Umrrnn STATES PATENT Ormea.

THOMAS OBBIN SON, OF MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.

ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,939, dated July 4, 1893.

Application filed April 29,1892. Serial No. 431,3 70. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beitknown thatI, THOMAS OBBINsON,agent, a citizen of Melbourne, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Mentone, near Melbourne, in the Oolony of Victoria, have invented a certain new and useful Apparatus for Distributing Advertisements, Tickets, or Cards, of which the following isa speciiication.

This invention has been devised for the purpose of providing a convenient, and, at the same time, a popular means of distributing advertisement cards at a moderate cost while on the other hand the public is rewarded for its trouble in noticing such advertisements by having some desired information given to it in return.

The invention consists in an improved machine or apparatus for holding cards, tickets, or advertiseing cards. The method of advertising which can be carried out by this machine consists in having cards with, say, a railway time-table printed on a portion of their surface and attractive advertisements printed on theremainingportion thereof, and placed in packs in the machine or apparatus so that in pulling a particular knob one of the cards will be ejected from the apparatus so that it may be taken away by the operator.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Figure l. is a front View of the pedestal box showing an arrangement of spaces set apart for particular sets of cards and their pull-knobs, and also showing the spare portions of the surface arranged to contain xed advertisements. Fig. 2. shows an internal section of the said pedestal and its internal mechanism. Fig. 3. is a sectional detail view of one of the operating card boxes, and Fig. 4. a plan of such box. an enlarged sectional view of one ot' the operating card boxes while a card is being taken out of same by an operator.

In the drawings A is an upright pedestal box on the face of which is arranged a series of knobs B, each knob having a separate box O to its own particular set of cards, and the whole of such boxes being set in a hinged frame D centeredat D (see Fig. 2). This said hinged frame can be lowered to the dotted position, shown on the drawings, which will allow the attendant to charge the Fig. 5. showsV is not taken up by the card boxes C may l be divided into spaces for any desired advertisements. These spaces are marked F.

I would now direct attention to Figs. 3,4 and 5 which show the operative mechanism for removing a card, and in which G is the card. B is the pull-knob to which is attached a rod B around which is encircled a spiral spring in a state of compression. Attached to the other end ofthe said rod B" is a small sliding blockH of wood, or other material, whichv is grooved to slide horizontally backward and forward along metal guide plates or rails H arranged on either side for the purpose (see Fig. 5). On top, and at the end of, the said sliding block H is afxed a smallwedge shaped thumb piece of india-rubber f H2 which is set in such amanner that on the forward motion of the sliding block l-I the thumb piece H2 pushes the card G forward (as shown in Fig. 5), and when the lingers of the operator loosen their hold on knob B the latter with the block and the said thumb-piece H2 slide backwardinto a recess L The operator maythen pull out the projecting card G which ac-V tion will allow the pack of cards K to fall, the bottom one now occupying the position just vacated by the withdrawn card. The pack will then be resting upon the two supporting limitation plates of metal Lf7 and the thumb piece H2 will be again ready to push forward the bottom card. (See Fig. 3).

The modus operandi' of my invention is as followszuPresume that a person is at a railway station or other public place and desires to know when the next train leaves for say Pau. He may step u p to the machine, and on pulling the knob B under the word Pau and then releasing the said knob he will find a card produced (as shown on Fig. 5) and on removing such card will find the IOO 1 thereon.

I am aware of United States Patent to Austin, No. 256,534, dated April 18, 1882, and to what is therein shown and described I lay no claim.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said'inventiona'nd in what manner the same is to be performed,

I declare that what I claim is- An apparatusY for distributing cards, tickets, or advertisements, consisting ofa case provided witha'f receptacle for holding cards and' havinga discharge outlet in the front opposite the lowest card, a slide moving in side guides and arranged below said receptacle and outlet and provided with a rubber thumb piece or pusher having an inclined rear face which lthumb, piece in its normal position rests behind thelowest card in the card receptacle, a rod for operating said slide provided with a Eknob' extending outside of the case, and a springsurrounding said rod for retracting the same, substantially as described.

In* witnesswhereof I have hereunto set my 'hand in presence of two witnesses.

THOS. OBBINSON. Witnesses:

A. O. SAoHsE,

0. E., Melbourne, C.' W'. WADE,

Assistant 150A. O. Sachse, GIE.