US805028A - Clock-controlled advertising device. - Google Patents

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No. 805,028. 'PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

. H. c. QUICK. CLOCK CONTROLLED ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 25. 1904.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT ii HARRY C. QUICK, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO WVILLIAM S. HURST, OF OOLEGROVE, CALIFORNIA.

CLOCK-CONTROLLED ADVERTESING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed uly 25, 1904. Serial No. 218,177.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY O. QUICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Aneles, in the county of Los Angeles and State if California, have invented new and useful improvements in Clock-Controlled Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means to illuminate the names of streets and street-numbers on street-corners and at the same time provide advertising facilities below the same, and also to provide means whereby the light adapted to illuminate the name of the street and the advertisements may be cutoff at any predetermined time in the night; and the object of my invention being to provide a novel means for advertising, whereby the number of a street and the name of the street may be brilliantly illuminated until certain hours of the night, at which time the illumination is automatically cut off, thereby saving the further waste of the illuminating agent. I accomplish this object by means of the device described herein and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my advertising device for displaying the names of streets and the numbers along the streets. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of means employed to automatically cut off the electrical current, and thereby discontinue the light. Fig. 3 is an end view of the street supportingbracket with the street-sign in place thereon. 1n the drawings, A represents the upright supports of the framework on which my streetilluminating device is mounted. Extending from one support to the other and below the lights is the advertising-surface on the facingboard B, adapted for the reception of advertisements. Secured to the top of the framework is the alarm-clock O. Disposed below the projecting electric lights D in the returnbend of the facing-board B, which extends in a rounded curve and points downwardly in front of the light, is a sign-engaging hook B. Removably secured to this hook is the signplate E, on which are displayed the names of the different streets, the letters indicating the streets being composed of transparent material placed in perforations in the sign-plate in the form of letters, whereby the light can pass through the transparent material and illuminate it during the night-time, the light being in the rear thereof, as shown in Fig. 1. This sign-board is provided with the engaging hook E, adapted for placement upon the hook B of the downwardly-projecting end of the facing-board, providing thereby means whereby the sign-board of any street may be securely fastened thereon. On either side of the clock on the sign-board I have indicated the numbers in the blocks between which the sign-board is placed. In Fig. 1 it would appear that the sign-board therein is placed between the blocks having numbers 800 and 900, showing that the board is placed on the ninth street from the initial point.

Below the clock having the conventional mechanism for giving an alarm and disposed upon the facing-board and beneath the electric lights advertisements may be placed. The back part of this clock is shown in Fig. 2. The projecting ends of the crank F, which winds up the alarm mechanism of the clock, contact with the lug G of the slide G. This slide projects over switch-bar H and holds the same down, making the connection and closing the circuit through the lamps. Now when the time arrives to cut off the electric light, as

indicated by the alarm-pointer I on the clock O, at which it has been set, the crank F will be rotated and carry with it the slide G from left to right. (See Fig. 2.) This will release the switch-bar H and open the circuit. and thereby shut off the electric lights. This would occur at one oclock, according to the alarm-pointer l on the clock, as shown in Fig. 1.

hen it is'desired to put out the light at any time of night, the alarm-pointerI is placed over the number indicating the hour at which it is desired to put out the light, and when that hour arrives the alarm goes off and moves the slide G out of engagement with the switch H, and the spring J will throw the switch out and the current will be. immediately cut off. The novelty of this device will attract the attention of the passers-by and be the means of bringing the various advertisements thereon to their notice.

Having described my invention, what 1 claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

An illuminated advertising device comprising a facing-board adapted to receive advertisement on the bottom part thereof, the said facing-board extending upwardly and formthereon having an alarm mechanism; and means to automatically put out the light at any hour of the night desired.

In Witness that I claim the foregoing .l. have hereunto subscribed my name this 16th day 5 of July, 1904:.

HARRY G. QUICK.

lVitnesses:

E. P. COOK, M. HoLuus.

board, transparent material in the apertures 1n said sign-board; a clock disposed in said 10 facing-board and below the lights dlsplayed It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 805,028, granted November 21, 1905, upon the application of Harry 0. Quick, of Los Angeles, California, for an improve ment in Clock-Controlled Advertising Devices, were erroneously issued to said Quick and William S. Hurst, as owners of the entire interest in said invention; whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued to said Quick and Hurst and Louise J. Ward of Oolegrove, Colorado, said Louise J. Ward being owner of onefourth interest in said invention as shown by assignment of record in this oflice; and

Letters Patent No. 805,02

that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 30th day of January, A. 1)., 1906.

ion in [SEAL] F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

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