US622416A - Advertising device - Google Patents

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No. 622,416.- Patented Apr. 4, I899.

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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

(Application filed July 19, 1897.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR oHERRY, or SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,416, dated April 4, 1899.

Application filed July 19, 1897. Serial No. 645,145. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR CHERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Rosa, in the county of Sonoma and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it most nearly appertains to make, use, and practice the same.

This invention relates to improvements in advertising devices; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same, showing the operating mechanism. Fig. 3 is an end view showing one of the panels in the operation of shifting.

The object which this invention has in view is to provide a simple and attractive means for exposing a succession of business or other cards to view at regular intervals. This object is accomplished by the application of an automatic operating mechanism to the tumbling-panel known as J acobs ladder, and because of its well-known construction not here described in detail.

The display-surface consists of a number of panels so connected together that a halfturn of the end panel, or the one designated in the drawings as No. 1, will lift No. 2 to a position directly behind N0. 1, when by the action of gravity and the peculiar hinging of the panels 2 will fall to a position behind 3,

3 will fall out over4, 4 behind 5, and so on through the length, which may comprise any number of panels. In the next action No. 1 will resume its former position, drawing2 up in front of it, repeating the former action, but exposing the reverse side of each panel, which has shown in the rear of the device in an inverted position.

An operating mechanism for the above action is shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and consists of the sheave A, around which the belt Bis given one or more turns, having the buckets O and O on each end, the standpipe D, having the cooks D and D thereon, the drain-pipes E E and hoppers E and E to carry away the waste water from the buckets O and C released therefrom through the valves 0 in the bottoms of each, the whole device being supported between the upright standards F F.

To start the device, the buckets should be in the position as shown, (see Fig. 2,) or vice versa. It is evident when bucket 0 contains sufficient water to overcome the weight of the panels it will descend, the flow through the cock D being shut off by the weighted lever D as the trip D on the bail of the bucket descends from under it. As the bucket sinks onto the hopper E the stem F. of the valve 0 impinges on the bracket E lifting the valve 0 from its seat and permitting the water to flow from the bucket and off through the drain-pipe, the operation being repeated on the other side when thebucket O has filled sufficiently, the trip D lifting the weighted lever D of the cock D as the bucket ascends, permitting the water to flow into it, this giving the necessary half-turn and return to the position of the panel 1.

It is evident the above mechanism may be operated with sand or other running sub stance instead of water.

Some of the advantages of my invention over devices for a similar purpose are that I am enabled to utilize both sides of my cards and to expose half of the whole number at a time, and, further, an increase in the number of panels will not increase the interval between exposures of any given card. This is not true of any device known to me.

Having thus described this invention, what I claim is A device of the nature indicated, comprising a standard, a shaft journaled thereon, an advertising-panel of the nature of a J acobs ladder suspended from said shaft, a belt about the shaft near the standard, a standpipe below the shaft and the portion of the belt upon the same, said pipe being included in the vertical plane between the belt ends lateral cocks in said stand-pipe, buckets on the ends of the belt,means for operating the cooks by the movement of the buckets, dischargedrain-pipe, and means for operating the disvaives in said buckets, a drain-pipe at one charge-Valves; substantially as described. 10

side of the stand-pipe in the path of the dis- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set charge-opening of a bucket, a second drainmy hand this 2d day of July, 1897.

5 pipe on the opposite side of the stand-pipe EDGAR CHERRY.

and in the path of the discharge-opening of Vitnesses: the second bucket, said second drain-pipe BALDWIN VALE,

communicating with the first mentioned MAYNARD IIARMS.

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