US1090172A - Advertising device. - Google Patents

Description

E. B. SHANKS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14,1913.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

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i FFIQ- EDWARD B. SHANKS, 0F SPRINGWOOD, VIRGINIA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

Application filed January 14, 1913. Serial No. 742,027.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD B. SHANns, a citizen of the United States, residing at bpringwood, in the county of Botetourt and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates generally to an improved time and sign advertiser, comprehending a construction in which the correct hour and minutes past the hour become automatically visible, changing each half minute, and at each successive change of time indication a distinctive advertisement is displayed.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a time and sign advertiser in which cards bearing the hours and minutes past the hour, with a card for each half minute period, are automatically and correctly operated to render visible the correct time, the minute card being utilized for advertising purposes so that in the display of a particular minute card the advertisement on the next succeeding minute card will be in view.

A further object of the invention is the provision of trip means for controlling the release of the hour cards by the appropriate movement of the particular minute card, whereby to insure a proper operation of the hour and minute cards for time indication.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a structure involving few parts of simple construction with such parts par ticularly arranged and correlated to accomplish a desired object.

The invention in its preferred form of details will be described in the following specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of the mechanism. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a detail elevation showing the means to permit winding movement of the weight shaft. Fig. 5 is a broken elevation of a detail illustrating the release of the time card from their elevated position. Fig. 6 is a sectional view partly in elevation of one of the drums. Fig. is an elevation of the final limit card.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, the improved device oomprises a casing 1, which preferably through not necessarily is in the form of a stand or hall clock. The casing is arranged at the upper end to provide an enlarged head section 2 in which the operating parts are housed, the relatively forward portion of the head section, as 3 being hingedly connected to the main portion of such section at 4.- to afford access to the mechanism when desired. The face or forward surface of the hinged section 3 of the head constitutes the display surface and has the lower portion 5 thereof arranged approximately vertical and the upper portion 6 forwardly and upwardly inclined. The vertical portion of the face is formed with what may be termed an hour opening 7 in which the cards indicating the hour are displayed and with a second opening 8 in which the cards indicating the minutes are displayed, the inclined surface 6 being formed with an opening 9 in which is displayed a more or less permanently positioned sign plate appropriately labeled, as with Hours and a second opening 10 to which the advertising surfaces of the minutes cards are displayed. The remaining portions of the face of the hinged section are closed by fixed plates 11 which may be inscribed with any appropriate or suitable data.

lVithin the head section is arranged a supporting frame 12 comprising a metallic strip having uprights 13, 1a, 15 and 16 rising therefrom in spaced relation, this frame supporting the operating mechanism of the device. Mounted in the uprights 1 1, 15 and 16 is a main shaft 17, on which between the uprights lt and 15 is mounted what will be hereinafter termed the minute drum 18. This drum comprises a hollow cylindrical body having the ends 19 thereof of greater diameter than the similar dimension of the drum to provide circumferential edge flanges 20. In longitudinally alined openings 21 in these flanges are loosely mounted rods 22 which between the flanges support minute cards 28. The minute cards, which are strictly speaking half minute cards, are one hundred and twenty in number and equally spaced circumferentially of the drum, each card bearing on one surface any desired type of advertising and on the opposite surface the minute indicating insignia, the cards being successively and increasingly marked for half minute periods. The drum ends 19 are centrally formed with appropriate bearing openings 24 to which the drum may be secured upon the main shaft.

Secured between the uprights 13 and 14 and forwardly offset from the main shaft is an auxiliary shaft 25 which will be hereinafter termed the hour shaft. On this shaft is mounted a drum 26 having ends 27 in which are mounted hour cards 28, the arrangement of the drum and the mounting of the cards being similar to that described in connection with the minute drum. Of course in the instance of the hour drum there are but twelve hour cards, and each is suitable and successively inscribed to indicate the hour.

Secured to the uprights 13 and 1.5 is an overlying frame 29 including a comparatively narrow upper bar 30 which overlies and is spaced from the respective drums. Secured to the bar 30 immediately above each drum is a holding finger 31 comprising an L-shaped strip having one arm slotted to rest upon and be adjustably secured to the bar 30 and a depending strip 32 which lies in the path of the cards in their movement under the influence of the revolution of the respective drums.

From the details so far described it will be obvious that the drum in rotation will bring the cards into contact with the respective holding fingers 31 so that upon a predetermined movement or position of the drum the particular card will ride past the finger and gravitate to a lowered position, the cards when held upright by the finger, that is the minute card, displaying the advertisement on one face thereof through the opening 10 and when released by the finger and dropped to the lowered position will display the minute indication on the opposite face thereof through the opening 8.

As the hour cards revolve comparatively slow, and one card only is released for the cotiperation with the release of one hundred and twenty minute cards, it is obvious that means must be provided for controlling the accurate release of the hour cards to accord with the release of the minute cards. For this purpose I so time the device that a particular hour card will be released from the finger 31 overlying such card a short time previous to the time required for its display, and combined with this operation a specially constructed trip including a U- shaped member 33 having one arm formed to provide a hook 34 to rest in the path of the hour card and receive the upper edge thereof immediately succeeding the release of the particular card from its finger 31 The opposing arm 35 of the trip member depends alongside of the adjacent edge of the minute card and is outwardly and downwardly curved. One of the minute cards, hereinafter termed the final minute card, bears in the usual minute indicating space the word oclock, corresponding to sixty minutes, and this card is provided on one edge with a projection 36 which operates in the path of the arm 35 of the trip so that as this final minute card gravitates to operative position it will actuate the trip and release the particular hour card for simultaneous movement into display position.

In the space 9 I arrange what may be termed a permanent card 37 preferably a thin metallic plate which is visible at all times and may be suitably inscribed as with the word Hours. This plate is movably secured in place through rod like hangers 38 movably connected or hinged at their upper ends in the face plate 39 overlying the openings 9 and 10 and weighted at 40 to normally hold the rod in contact with said plate. The permanent card 37 is arranged at an angle to the rods 38 so that when in normal position the inclination of the card corresponds to the general inclination of the upper surface of the display case of the section 3. The permanent card is freely movable on the connections described and is displaced or swung out of the way by each successive hour card so that the latter may gravitate to display position while the permanent card returns to normal position as described.

The device is operated by suitable clock train mechanism including a winding shaft 41 mounted in the uprights 15 and 16 and carrying a drum 42 upon which is wound a cord 43 carrying a weight 44. A gear 45 is loosely mounted upon the winding shaft and provided with a pawl 46 to cooperate with the ratchet 47 secured on one end of the drum to permit a rewinding of the shaft through a key receiving projection 48 without operating the train. The gear 45 meshes with the gear pinion 48 on the main shaft whereby to impart motion to the latter. A large gear 49 is fixed upon the main shaft immediately adjacent the minute drum and meshes with a pinion 50 secured upon a stub shaft 51 mounted in the upright 15. A gear 52 is secured to and operating with the pinion 50 and operatively meshes with a pinion 53 arranged on a shaft 54 suitably mounted below the minute drum, the end of the shaft remote from the pinion 53 having a beveled gear 55 meshing with a beveled gear 56 arranged on an appropriately mounted stub shaft 57, said latter beveled gear having fixed thereto an ordinary escapement wheel 58 cooperating with an escapement 60 carried by the usual pendulum 61. The end of the main shaft adjacent the hour drum is provided with a pinion 62 meshing with an appropriately mounted idler pinion 63 which latter in turn meshes with a gear 64 secured on the hour drum shaft.

To provide for setting the cards in the event such becomes necessary I arrange the pinion 53 on the shaft 54: to be held by frictional engagement, and mounted upon said shaft a disk 65 held against the face of the pinion by a spring 66. This insures a proper control of the movement of the gear train under the influence of the escapement and yet permits an independent rotation of the pinion 53 with respect to the shaft 54 under a considerable power applied to one of the main wheels of the train, so that both drums may be revolved by hand when desired without afi'ecting the escapement mechanism.

As shown and described it will be obvious that the device will at all times indicate the hour, minute and half minute of time and will at the same time display above the minute indicating space an advertisement of any appropriate type. The parts are of simple construction and there is little liability of disarrangement in continued use. The automatic trip will control the hour card so that they will be accurately displayed by the movement of the final minute card and will be held against possibility of display until such movement.

Nhat is claimed is 1. A time and advertising display apparatus including hour and minute drums, means for appropriately operating said drums, hour and minute cards carried by the respective drums, said minute cards bearing advertising data on one face and minute indicating insignia on the opposite face, said hour cards bearing hour indicating insignia on one face, means for holding the respective hour and minute cards in elevated position, and a permanent movably mounted card overlying the hour cards when in elevated position.

2. A casing, hour and minute drums rotatably mounted therein, said casing being formed with upper and lower display openings adjacent each drum, hour and minute cards mounted on the respective drums, the hour cards bearing hour indicating insignia on one face, the minute cards bearing advertising data on one face and minute indicating insignia on the opposite face, means for holding the minute cards in position to display the advertising data through the upper display opening adjacent the minute drum, said drum operating the minute cards to withdraw them from said means to permit them to gravitate to display the minute indicating insignia through the lower display opening, a permanent card movably mounted to be normally displayed through the upper display opening adjacent the hour drum, and means for movably supporting the permanent card to permit the hour cards to move said permanent card beyond their path during the gravical movement of the hour cards.

3. A casing hour and minute drums rotatably mounted therein, said casing being formed with upper and lower display openings adjacent each drum, hour and minute cards mounted on the respective drums, the hour cards bearing hour indicating insignia on one face, the minute cards bearing advertising data on one face and minute indicating insignia on the opposite face, means for holding the hour cards against gravitation to display position, said hour drum operating to withdraw the hour cards from said means prior to the period at which they are to be released, a trip to receive the hour cards succeeding their release from said means, and means operated by a minute card to operate the trip to release the particular hour card, means for holding the minute cards in position to display the ad vertising data through the upper display opening adjacent the minute drum, said drum operating the minute cards to withdraw them from said means to permit them to gravitate to display the minute indicating insignia through the lower display opening, a permanent card movably mounted to be normally displayed through the upper display opening adjacent the hour drum, and means to hold the hour cards against engagement with-said permanent card.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDl/VARD B. SHANKS.

Vitnesses:

DAVID lV. GOULD, BENNETT S. J onns.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent Washington, D. C.

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