US274651A - Advertising-windmill - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

T. B..PEAG'0QK. ADVERTISING WINDMILL.

Patented Mar.27,1883.

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WITNESSES:

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,651, dated March 27, 1883.

' a Application filed 0ctober17,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, THOMAS BROWER PEA- COOK, of Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented a new and 1mproved Advertisin g-Windmill, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved windmill which is to be provided with advertisements, and which is to operate musical instruments to attract the attention.

The invention consists in the combination, with a windmill, of revolving disks and drums carrying advertisements, and of bells, a triangle,and musical instruments, all of which are operated by the windmill, so as to call the attention of passers-by to the advertisements on the mill and on the wheels and drums on the same.

The invention further consists in the combination, with the mill, of a figure with movable limbs, which figure is operated and moved by the wind-wheel.

The invention also consists in details and parts of construction and combinations of the same, as will be fully set forth and described hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a longitudinal elevation of my improved windmill, parts being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

- down through the said tube, and is secured on a cross-piece, b, of the rod D. By means of the said rope the vane can be adjusted and held in the desired position. The rod D passes through and is connected with a bar, E, pivoted to and passing transversely across the frame 0, which bar E has a rod, E, attached to its free end, the said rod passing into a triangle, F, or striking a gong which is suspended from a cord attached to the frame t], causing the triangle or gong to be sounded. A disk or wheel, G, is mounted onthe outer end of a horizontal shaft, H, journaled in the upper part of the frame U, on which shaft are mounted a pulley, J, and a ratchet-wheel, K. A rod, L, is

pivoted to the bar E, and to an arm, M, which is drawn downward by an elastic cord or spring,

O, which is fastened to the end of the pawllever and to the rod L, whereby the end of the pawl-lever will be pressed against the teeth of the ratchet-wheel. A cord or belt, P, passes over or through an annular groove in the pulley J ,and overa pulley, Q, which is mounted on the shaftof a barrel-organ, B, or some other suitable similar musical-instrument. A cord or belt, S, passes over the pulley J, in an annular groove in thesame, passes over a pulley, S, and a'pulley, T, mounted on the uppenend of a drum, T, journaled in the frame 0 in such a manner that its longitudinal axis is vertical. A series of gongs or bells, V, forming a chime, are suspended from a cord or wire, d, fastened to the frame 0, and a cord or wire, 1", connects the wire at with the bar E. The front of the frame 0 is covered with boards, and on the same the figure of a man, U, provided with movable ears, arms, and legs, is secured, and the said ears, arms, legs, 860., are connected by cords or wires U '0 with the bar E. Signs are painted on the wheel A and the vane B, and the board cover of the frame 0, the disk G, the figure U, and the drum T are all coveredwith advertisements, pictures, show cards, &c. When the wind turns the wheel A? it works the rod D up and down, and the same in turn works the bar E up and down, thereby causing the rod E to strike the triangle F or gong. At the same time the cords or wiresf and o are drawn taut by the bar E, and thereby the gongs orbells V will be vibrated or shaken and sounded, and the ears, arms, and legs of the figure U will be moved. 7 By the movements of the bar E the rod L will be reciprocated vertically, whereby the pawl lever N, which catches on the teeth of' the ratchet-wheel K, rotates the said wheel when the rod L moves upward, but not when the same moves downward. The pulley J and the disk or wheelG will also be rotated, and the belts or cords P S, passing over the pulley J, rotate the drum T and work the barrel-organ B. As the ratchetwheel K is only rotated when the bar L moves upward, the disk G and the drum T will not be rotated continually, but will stop at certain regular interva1s, so that the signs can be seen and read conveniently.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters -in shown and described, and for the purpose setforth.

scribed, and for the purpose set forth. 4o

5. In an advertising-windmill, the combination, with the wind-wheelA of the rod D, the bar E, the rod L, the pawl-lever N, the ratchetwheel K, the shaft H, the disk G, the pulley J,

the belts or ropes ,P and S, the drum T, and. 5

the organ B, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

6. In an advertising-windmill, the combination, with the wheel A and rod D, of the pivoted bar E, connected to the said rod, and intermediate mechanism for operating the gon gs, triangle, organ, and figure from the said pivoted bar, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. In an advertising-windmill, the combination, with the wind-wheel A of the rod D, the bar E, the figure U, having movable limbs, and the wires or cords U v, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS BROWER PEAGOOK.

' Witnesses:

WM. R. STEINMETZ, (J. H. BARTON.

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