A Combined and Condensed Periodical Announcement or Contents Bill, to be supplied to and others on the of Newspaper, Magazine, Book, and Periodical Publishers.
Year: 1897

page_text: A Combined and Condensed Periodical Announcement or Contents
Bill, to be supplied to Newsagents and others on the behalf of
Newspaper, Magazine, Book, and Periodical Publishers.
I, CHARLES HENRY LEWINS, Publisher, of 196, Strand, London, W.C., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is an arrangement by which newspaper agents, booksellers, or other
exhibitors of publishers' announcements will be able to give effective display to the
announcements and contents bills of a larger number of publishers than their
advertising space now affords. By the combination of various publishers contracting
together to have their announcement sheets or contents bills periodically printed
simultaneously on one sheet and delivered by contract or otherwise to the aforesaid
newspaper agents, booksellers or other exhibitors of publishers' announcements,
thus saving an enormous percentage of waste to the newspaper publisher,
and securing for him at less than ordinary cost a more certain and adequate display
of his announcements, and benefitting the newspaper agent, bookseller or other
exhibitors of publishers' announcements by supplying them with condensed contents
bills equal in value to ordinary ones, thus saving time & labour and enabling them
to more effectively utilise the space at their disposal for such purposes. The
material on which these special contents bills may be printed can be either paper or
other thin material and backed or otherwise by linen or other strengthening
material or otherwise. My improvement is not confined to the adoption of any
particular device or method of arrangement or to the use of any particular number
of such announcements on one sheet.
Dated this Fifteenth day of September 1897.
A Combined and Condensed Periodical Announcement or Contents
Bill, to be supplied to Newsagents and others on the behalf of
Newspaper, Magazine, Book, and Periodical Publishers:
I, CHARLES HENRY LEWINS, of 196, Strand, London, W.C., in the County of
Middlesex, Publisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
This invention is designed to provide for the effective display by newspaper
agents, booksellers and others of the announcements and contents bills of newspapers,
magazines, books and periodicals within a limited space.
Hitherto it has been always customary to print or issue a separate announcement
sheet or contents bill of each paper, periodical, magazine or the like, and it has been
found impossible by many agents or salesmen whose space is limited to display all
the bills they have received or of which they have the paper magazine, or periodical
to dispose of.
This invention consists essentially of an improved arrangement of announcement
or contents bill having printed upon a single sheet a number of facsimile contents
or announcement bills of various newspapers, magazines, periodicals, journals or
the like.
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The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing
in which as an example are represented the contents bills of twelve periodicals, the
facsimile heading of each being printed in miniature.
The improved contents bill is preferably headed with a suitable name or head line
such as "Contents of this Week's Newspapers," and is divided into any suitable
number of spaces, preferably twelve, (more or less) each of which is headed with the
naine of the particular paper, magazine or periodical to which it refers, preferably in
facsimile, and is filled in with the contents of the paper as ordinarily printed on a
large bill or an abstract thereof. Each space is preferably provided with a tinted or
coloured border to render the announcements more distinct. If desired, the contents
may take the form of pictorial representations.
My improvement is not confined to the adoption of any particular device or
method of arrangement or to the use of any particular number of such announcements
on one sheet.
The material on which these special contents bills may be printed can be either
paper or other thin material an 1 backed or otherwise by linen or other strengthening
material or otherwise.
By this combination of contents bill various publishers may contract together or
with the proprietor or licensee of the patent rights, and thus have their announcement
sheets or contents bills periodically printed simultaneously on one sheet and delivered
by contract or otherwise to newsagents, booksellers, or others, thus saving an
enormous percentage of waste to the publisher and securing at less cost a more certain
and adequate display of his announcements, and at the same time benefitting the
newsagent or seller by enabling him to display the announcements or contents of a
greater number of papers, periodicals or the like in the limited space at their disposal
for the purpose.
I consider that the invention will result in the establishment of a new trade with
various publishers for the simultaneous and periodical publication of the contents of
their papers, periodicals, magazines, journals, books and the like, by which for a fixed
sum or contract price they will get a regular, and efficient display of their
announcements or contents bills, and with newsagents, booksellers and the like
whereby they will obtain a regular supply of contents bills of the papers, periodicals
and books in which they deal in a condensed forin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An announcement or contents bill for newspapers, magazines, periodicals, books
and the like comprising a single sheet having printed on the face thereof under a
suitable heading or title the contents or announcements respecting a number of
such papers, magazines, periodicals, books or the like, to provide for their effective
display substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The manufacture or use of announcement or contents bills for papers, periodicals,
magazines, journals, books or the like, substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
Dated this lat day of March 1908
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.