IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER LIKE TICKETS TO ADAPT THE SAME AS MEDIUMS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Thomas Hall, of Gray's Inn Square,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER LIKE TICKETS
TO ADAPT THE SAME AS MEDIUMS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS."-A communi-
cation from abroad by Edouard Heit, of Paris, in the Empire of
ATTA
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER LIKE TICKETS
TO ADAPT THE SAME AS MEDIUMS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS."-A communi-
cation from abroad by Edouard Heit, of Paris, in the Empire of
France.
Sealed the 3rd November 1868, and dated the 6th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic Thomas Hall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th May 1868.
I, FREDERIC THOMAS HALL, of Gray's Inn Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER LIKE
TICKETS TO ADAPT THE SAME AS MEDIUMS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to utilise as a vehicle for the
distribution of advertisements in the manner herein-after described the
tickets or cards issued to passengers by railway, steamers, omnibuscs,

page_text: hackney carriages, or other conveyances, or to the frequenters of
theatres or other establishments of public resort. For this purpose the
ticket or card instead of being formed as at present of a single thickness
of cardboard is composed of two superposed slips of cardboard, stiff
paper, or other suitable material, presenting together about the thickness
of an ordinary ticket, and pasted or otherwise joined at their extremities
so as to form a species of miniature pocket or portfolio. In the free
space thus reserved between the two slips is inserted a slip or small
sheet of paper or other suitable material containing the advertisements,
the same being so folded or otherwise arranged as to be guarded against
accidental displacement. A semicircular slot cut in one of the side
edges of the ticket presents the enclosure to view, and while inciting
the curiosity of the ticket holder facilitates the withdrawal of the
advertisement sheet from its case.
The return or other tickets intended to be divided into two parts may
be provided with a central separation, so as to transform the larger free
space of the single ticket into two small pockets, each of which should
be capable of receiving an advertisement sheet; or again, the junction
of the parts of the ticket may be so arranged as to permit of the
insertion of the advertisement sheets from each end, the side edges
being in this case joined together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederic Thomas Hall in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERIC
THOMAS HALL, of Gray's Inn Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Frederic Thomas Hall, Her special
licence that I, the said Frederic Thomas Hall, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederic Thomas Hall,

page_text: my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER LIKE TICKETS TO ADAPT THE
SAME AS MEDIUMS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS," being a communication to me from
abroad by Edouard Heit, of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederic Thomas Hall, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederic Thomas Hall, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say) :-
The object of this Invention is to utilise as vehicles for the distribution
of advertisements in the manner herein-after described the tickets or
cards issued to passengers by railway, steamers, omnibuses, hackney
carriages, or other conveyances, or to the frequenters of theatres or other
establishments and places of public resort. For this purpose the ticket
or card, instead of being formed as at present of a single thickness of
cardboard, is composed of two slips of cardboard, stiff paper, or other
suitable material connected together at their edges so as to form a species
of miniature pocket or portfolio, into which the advertisements desired
to be distributed may be placed.
In order that the nature of the Invention may be clearly understood
I will illustrate its application to railway tickets, premising that the
details of carrying out the same admit of considerable modification.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 shews a railway ticket made
according to this Invention, and Fig. 2 shews a ticket with a folded
paper of printed advertisements (or it may be a sample of paper or other

page_text: fabric) partially inserted therein; Fig. 3 represents the paper adver-
tisement unfolded.
A practicable way of making railway tickets to receive advertisements
is to take two strips of pasteboard or stiff paper of any given length and
to fold down their side edges, as shewn in the side and edge views,
Figures 4 and 5, and secure the folds by paste or other adhesive
substance. The folded down parts of the two strips are now to be
damped by paste and brought together, and pressure being applied
thereto a kind of flattened paper tube is produced similar to that
shewn in edge view at Fig. 6. The tubular lengths thus prepared have
when dry merely to be cut up, as indicated by the transverse lines of
Fig. 4, and the tickets are completed ready for printing; or the printing
of the paper to form the face of the ticket may be effected prior to the
manufacture of the ticket as described if thought desirable. The free
space reserved between the two connected strips of pasteboard it will
be seen is capable of receiving and retaining a slip or small sheet of
paper or other suitable material containing or forming the advertisement
desired to be distributed, the same being so folded or otherwise brought
to the required thickness to sufficiently fill the cavity in the ticket
to prevent accidental displacement. A curved indent cut in one of
the side edges of the ticket presents the inclosure to view, and while
inciting the curiosity of the ticket holder facilitates the withdrawal.of
the advertisement from its case.
In manufacturing return or other tickets intended to be divided into
two parts a central separation may be provided for by inserting a narrow
central filling strip between the main strips of pasteboard. Thus the
larger free space of the single ticket will be transformed into two small
pockets, each of which should be capable of receiving an advertisement
shect; or again, the junction of the parts of the ticket may be so
arranged as to permit of the insertion of the advertisement sheet from
each end, the side edges being in this case joined together. The way
of producing this modification will be obvious, the breadth of the joined
strips providing for the depth of the ticket instead of the length, as in
the first example.
When manufacturing the above-described hollow tickets on a large
scale it may perhaps be best to attach together sheets of pasteboard
bearing the required devices for tickets by means of intermediate strips
pasted on both sides of such width and so arranged that they will when

page_text: the sheets are divided up form the closed ends (or closed sides) of the
tickets.
Figs. 7 are diagrams showing the manner of arranging these inter-
mediate filling and attaching strips. To complete the formation of the
tickets from these joined sheets it is only necessary to cut up the sheets
first into strips in line with the centre of the intermediate strips, as
shewn by the red lines, and then to sever the tubular strips transversely,
as illustrated at Fig. 4.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "Improvements
in the Manufacture of Railway and other like Tickets to adapt the
same as Mediums for Advertisements, and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the
above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, so forming railway and
other like tickets as to adapt them to receive detachable substances, in
the manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic Thomas Hall, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fifth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.