US844344A - Advertising-cabinet. - Google Patents

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No. 844,344. PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907. E. FLETCHER.

ADVERTISING CABINET.

, APPLICATION FILED MAY24.1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

'PATE'NTED FEB. 19, 1907.

E. PLETGHER.

ADVERTISING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24.1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

' witnesse- I MM I %4 A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER FLETCHER, ()F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR ()F ONE-TH I ItI) TO'EDWARI) DE GROUT ANDONE INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

-THIRD TO ERNEST O. PHILLIPS, ()F

" ADVERTISING-CABINET.

To 11, llf/lJ/HI- Ire/1, I'll/merit:

Be it known that l, I)i.Mn|t Fnn'ronnn, acitizen of the. United States, residin at Indianapolis, Marion county, State of Indiana, have invented certain new amLusefullmprm'cmcnts in 'Advertising-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for displaying devices, such as advertising-cards or the like, and has for its object the provision of improvements insnch devices as will be hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of .a device with one'side removed so that the I interior may be observed. Fig. 2 is an exterior perspective view ofthe upper portion of a cabinet, showing how the advertising-card may be displayed. Fig. 3 is a detail showing how the card-supporting rods are connected to the conveyer-chains, and Fig. 4 is a detail of the gripping device whereby the driving means is connected to the conveyer.

Referring to the drawings, the device consists of acabinet 1, having an opening 2, through which the advertising-cards or other display devices ma be viewed from the exterior, and preferably another opening 3-is provided upon the opposite side of the cabinet, so that signs may be simultaneously displa ed upon both sides.

Nithin the cabinet is located a flexible conveyer, which may comprise a pair of sprocket-chains 4 and 5, located upon opposite sides of the cabinet and connected by a plurality of rods '6, the ends of whichform rivets for connecting together adjacent links of the chain, as shown in Fig. 3. The sprocket-chains are made to assume a series of vertical convolutions by means of suitable guides, as pulleys 7, whereby the length of the conveyer for a given width of the cabinet is increased. Each chain has its ends con nected together, so that it becomes endless, and in returning from the endto the beginning of the series it passes beneath the convolutions.

From each of the rods 6 isswung a frame 8, which may swing freely, and therefore tends to occup a vertical position. These frames are ma e of less length than the distance between the sprocket-chains, so that they swing freely between the chains. Each Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 24,1905. Serial No 261.963.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

tising-card, which maybe changed at will.

The drivin r means for the conveyer is located in the ottom of the cabinet beneath the conveyer and may comprise an electric motor 9, suitably connected to a worm 10, which engages with a worm-wheel 11 on a shaft 12, to which is fixed a crank 13. To

of the frames is adapted to receive an adverthe crank is pivoted a connectin -rod 14, v

, which is also pivoted to the vertica ly-reciprocatin rod 15, which is guided in eyebolts 15 and which carries a device 16, as shown in Fig. 4, whereby the rod 15 is connected to the conveyer-chain when the rod isv moved downwardly, but which is released from the "chain when it is moved upwardly, so that the conveyor is intermittently driven, and the throw of the rod 15 is so adjusted that it is just sufficient to movesigns out of the openings 2 and 3 and move other signs into their places.

If the frames 8 were permitted to hang vertically in passing beneath the convolutions, it is obvious that the driving means would necessarily be located adistance from the conveyer equal to the width of a sign and its supporting means. Otherwise the sign in its passa e would collide with the drivin means. to be made as small as possl lo and avoid the interference of the si ns and drivin means above noted, inclinef guides 17 am 18 are lo permit the hei ht of the cabinet provided, which swing the signs from their vertical positions as the pass from side to side of the-cabinet, an thereby hold the signs clear of the driving means. further benoted thatthat portion of the conveyer beneath the convolutions must be It will located at such a distance below them that the si ns in passing the lower ends of the convo utions will not interfere with theconveyer beneath, and the distance referred to must therefore be made greater than the width of a si and its supporting means.

It is thoug t that the o eration in connection with the foregoing obvious; but i a brief description may be escription will be ioo given as follows: Let it be assumed that a sign is displayed at. eachof the openings 2 and 3 and that the crank 13 is moving upwardly, thereby drawing the rod 15 u wardl'y. Since in its upward movement I; e

gripping device 16 does not engage with the conveyer, the signs will be statioigary. \Vhen, however, the end ofythe crank ti fore the rod 15, reach their highest point s and I have passed the same, the rod 15 will move downwardly, and as when it is moved-in this direction it engages with the chain the signs will be moved forward, those on one side he in moved upwardly and those on the other si e being moved downwardly. This move.

ment continues until the signs previously in position before the openings have been moved out of sight and succeeding signs have taken their places. This having been accomplished, the rod 15 will have reached its downward limitof travel and will begin its upward movement, during which movement the signs will remain stationary, as before. This operation may he repeated inde-Iinitely, the signs changing once for every revolution of the crank 13.

Without being limited to the precise construction shown and described, what I claim 1.. The combination with a cabinet having an opening, of a flexible conveyer therein, guides for causing the conveyer to assume a series of vertical convolutions and to pass beneath said convolutions, from. the end to the beginning of said series, display devices swung from said conveyer so that they tend to maintain vertical positions, meansfor intermittently moving said conveyer mounted) below said conveyer, and a gulde arranged between said convejer and said moving means and adapted & play devicesto move them from vertical positions as the eonveyercariies them beneath and thereengage with said dis the.convolutions, whereby the moving means may be located closer to the sald conveyer.

2. The combination with a cabinet havlng an opening, of an endless oonveyer therein,

adapt ed during part of its circuit to travel in an approximately horizontal path, display devices swung from said conveyer and tending to maintain vertlcal positions, drivir r means tor said conveyer mounted below sea conveyor at a distance therefrom less than the vertical dimenions olsaid display devices, and a guide at .apted to engage said dlsplay devices to move them from vertical po- 'SlliOllS as they are carried by said conveyer in its horizontal path.

3. The combination with a cabinet having an opening, of a suitably-mounted conveyer thereln, driving means tor. said conveyer located below said conveyor, dis lay devices swung from said conveyor am tending to maintain vertical positions, said display devices having vertical dimensions greater than the distance between sald conveyer and said driving means, whereby the devices in their

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