Advertising apparatus.

Application filed November 25, 1905. Serial No. 289,040.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jean Reix, of 33 Boulevard des Batignolles, in the city of Pans, Republic of France, electrician, have 5 invented an Improved Advertising Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description. ’

This invention has for its object a luminous, movable advertising apparatus.

invention is characterized by two parallel wires arranged either around a house forming an island, or on the front of any desired building. On these endless wires, which receive current from any desired 15 source of electricity, are suspended by means or wheels, or rollers:—(1) a carriage or frame m which is mounted a motor which actuates the wheels or rollers in order to cause them to roll on the wires,, and thus produce move20 ment of the carriage; (2) luminous letters suspended from a chain connected to the carnage, which chain is supported by wheels or rollers moving over the wires and transmitting the current for lighting to the letters.

lhe wires arranged parallel to each other constitute an endless aerial track over which the carriage and.luminous letters move round and round continuously and automatically.

Jp order ΐ° ideas, the arrangement 30 which forms the object of the present invention is shown by way of example in the accompanying drawing.

Figure-1 shows in elevation the whole arrangement the carriage being in longitudinal 35 section. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig.

shows separately details of means for transmitting motion to the wheels or rollers of the carriage. Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the application of the advertising apparatus to a 40 building m the form of an island. Fig. 5 is' another diagram showing the application of the advertising apparatus to the front of a budding seen m plan and Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view.

. In these figures, like letters of reference indicate the same parts.

As shown in the drawing, the apparatus comprises an aerial track formed by two endless parallel wires or cables a suitably sup50 ported on brackets or hangers b insulated from each other and receiving the electric current from any suitable source of supply. On this track is suspended a carriage c by means of wheels or rollers d transmitting the 55 current from one of the wires a, which is connected with one of the poles of the electric generator through a wire e to a motor farranged in the body of the carriage c, while the cun ent from the motor to the other wire is conveyed by a wire g.. The current com- co mg to the motor by the wire e, passes through a kind of spring switch or interrupter h arranged in front of the carriage; when pressure is. applied to a buffer i connected with the switch h, the current is interrupted by the θδ separation of the arms of the spring-switch h from each other, the effect of which being to stop the said carriage and consequently to stop the moving of the advertisement during a determined time and variable at will. The 70 motor transmits its motion to pulleys 7 the shafts of which each bear a pinion k gearing with a bevel wheel I fixed on the shaft m which carries the wheels or rollers d. To the carriage c is fixed the end of a chain n, each 75 hnk or element of which is supported on wheels or rollers 0 and receives a letter p forming the advertisement. These wheels 0 rolling on the wires a and electrically connected, with each other only by a conductor so g passing through the letter, conduct the electric current to the electric bulbs x on the letters in order to illuminate them.

It will be understood from what has been said above, that when current is supplied to 85 the motor f, the latter will actuate the wheels d which, by rolling on the wires a will cause the carriage to move round and round the track. The carriage, in its turn draws along the chain n, from which are sus- 90 pended the luminous letters p, in such a manner that the advertisement will move either round a building in the form of an island or over the. front of a house, this taking place automatically and continuously. 95

It is obvious that the forms, dimensions details, and also the materials employed for the construction of the apparatus above described, can be varied within the scope of the claims: ¹₁₀₀