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Description

(No Model.)

A. J. KELLOGG.

STATION INDICATOR AND ADVERTISING CABINET. No. 394,371. Patented Dec. 11, 1888.

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ALFRED J. KELLOGG, OF CLAY CENTRE, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ()NE-IIALF TO V. K. MOANLIS AND A. A. XVIXOM, ()F SAME PLACE.

STATION-INDICATOR AND ADVERTISING-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,371, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed April 24, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. KELLOGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clay Centre, in the county of Clay and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Station-Indicators and Advertising-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is a combined station-indicator and advertising device; and it consists A in the construction and novel combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claim.

The main object of the invention is, after leaving a station, to call the attention of passengers, while setting the indicator to show the succeeding station, to the advertisements also displayed by the indicator, and which are intended to point out the principal hotels and places of business of various kinds at said station. Other advertisements may of course be used in connection with the device.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective View of the device. Fig. 2 is a central vertical transw'erse section thereof. Fig. 3 is a view of the side of the casing having the bell attached.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the casing of the device, of general rectangular shape, and provided above and below with the extensions (1, having openings through them for the purpose of attaching the casing to the wall of the car at a suitable point.

B O are rollers journaled about in the central vertical line of the sides of the casing, so as to give sufficient room for the winding of the scroll, hereinafter described, and situated, respectively, at proper distances from the top and bottom of the casing; and b c are rollers journaled, respectively, in the sides of the casing above and below the rollers B C and near the front of the device. The said rollers B C are provided with crank-handles b c on one side, and the roller (1 has a pinion, 0 secured on its extended journal 011 the other side from the crank-handle. The front of the casing consists of a hinged door, D, having the upper and smaller transverse opening, (Z, and the lower and larger opening, d.

On the top rail or strip of the door are the Serial No. 271,755. (No model.)

words Next Station, and on the strip below said opening and above the opening (1 are the words Hotels, Etc. A glass plate, covers the inside of the door and stands over the openings therein. The door is kept closed by a hook or lock or other common device.

E is a bell secured to and standing outward from the side of the casing below the pinion; and e is a hammer connected to a shank, e, pivoted about centrally to the side of the easing above the hammer, its upper free end entering between the teeth of the pinion. so that the hammer is vibrated thereby and the bell rung continuously when the pinion is turning.

F is a cloth or scroll of proper dimensions, having its upper and lower ends, resrmctively, attached to the rollers B and between said rollers passing over the rollers I) (r. l'pon said scroll are marked at proper intervals the names of the stations in succession as they are situated along the railway, and intermediately bet ween said names are marked names of hotels and other places of business.

The hotels may have the rate of their charges attached, and the names of business houses may be accompanied by advertisements of Various kinds.

The names of the stations are arranged to come behind the opening d when the names of hotels, &e., come behind the larger opening, (1, the said hotels and business places being located at the station indicated above.

It is evident that when the brakeman brings the name of a station behind the opening (1 the bell will be rung continuously and the attention of the passengers will be attracted thereby, causing them to read the advertisements.

Other advertisementsas those of medicines-may be substituted for the names of hotels and business places, if desirable, so

that the indicator becomes a general advertising device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- The herein-described station-indicator, comprising the casing provided at its back, above and below, with perforated extensions for attachmentwithin a car, and having the openings d d in its hinged door in front, the transbell, with its upper end engaged between the teeth of the pinion and its lower end provided with a hammer to strike the bell when the roller B is turned to show a succeeding station, as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED J. KELLOGG.

W'itnesses:

' W. K. MoANLIs, EDWD. A. SIMES.

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