Improvements in Tablets, Panels, and the like for Advertising Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tablets, Panels, and the like for Advertising
Purposes.
I, GEORGE JAMES of 135, Trinity Road, Aston, near Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in tablets, panels, and the like for
advertising purposes and has for its object a means whereby such tablets, panels,
or the like are rendered more attractive and conspicuous than hitherto.
The invention consists in adapting to such articles forming advertising mediums
a set back curvilinear part or parts of any suitable size, shape, or number, in a
manner that the rays of light concentrated on this curvilinear surface shall be
thrown back mirror-like upon letterings, figures, or the like displayed on flat
surfaces standing in front of such curvilinear parts.
This curvilinear surface or surfaces are brightly polished, silvered, or gilt,
rendering them exceptionally brilliant, and may also be embellished and lettered,
and come opposite transparent portions of a glass frontage of the tablet or panel.
In carrying my invention into effect in connection with an advertising tablet
I fit within any suitably shaped frame a panel of glass provided with a transparent
portion or transparent portions of any suitable size, shape, or configuration, and
which said glass panel may be coloured, lettered, or otherwise embellished for
advertising purposes and fitted on its back face with a disc, discs, or the like
concaved or of similar cross-sectional figure, and which said discs or the like are
fixed in a position coincident with the transparent portions on the glass panel as
hereinbefore described.
These said concave discs or equivalents may be embellished, lettered, figured, or
left plain, but with their surfaces highly polished, gilt, or silvered, for the purpose
of throwing up into the foreground any letterings or figures on the surface of
the glass panel.
The presented surface or surfaces of these discs or the like may be coated with
a suitable metallic covering or luminous paint which will render them perfectly
transparent, and any letterings on the glass panel in front of them will be reflected at
different angles to any observer while passing a tablet so fitted.
The discs or said back curvilinear surfaces, which I may make of any suitable
material, may be fitted and held to the glass panel by any suitable means, or they
may be made in one piece with the glass panel, and further the panel and disc or
discs may be stamped and cut out from sheet metal and suitably embellished and
fitted with a plain glass front.
I wish it to be understood that my invention is applicable to panels for windows,
doors, lamps, and similar purposes, and the arrangement or arrangements differ in
no essential respect from that described in reference to an advertising tablet.
Dated this 4th day of December 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 11, Burlington Chambers, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Tablets, Panels, and the like for Advertising
Purposes.
I, GEORGE JAMES of 135, Trinity Road, Aston, near Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :--
This invention relates to improvements in tablets, panels, and the like, for
advertising and ornamental purposes, and has for its object a means whereby such
tablets, panels, or the like, are rendered more attractive and conspicuous than
hitherto. The invention consists in adapting to such articles forming advertising
mediums a set back curvilinear part, parts, background, or backgrounds, of any
suitable size, shape, or number, in a manner that the rays of light concentrated
upon the said curvilinear surface or surfaces shall be thrown back mirror-like upon
any letterings, figurings, or their equivalents, displayed upon transparent flat
surfaces standing in the foreground or in front of them.
In carrying my invention into effect in connection with an advertising tablet
I fit within any suitably shaped frame a panel of glass provided with a transparent
portion or portions of any suitable size, shape, or configuration, and which said
glass panel may be coloured, lettered, or otherwise embellished, for advertising
purposes, and fitted on its back face with a disc, discs, or the like concaved,
convexed, parabolic, or of such curvilinear cross-sectional figure, and which said
disc, discs, or the like, are fixed in a position coincident with the transparent
portions on the panel as bereinbefore described.
These said concave discs or equivalents may be embellished, lettered, figured, or
left plain, but with their surfaces highly polished, gilt, or silvered, for the purpose
of throwing up into the foreground any letterings or figures on the surface of the
glass panel.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings, upon which letters of reference are
used to indicate corresponding parts,
Fig. 1 sets forth an advertising tablet constructed to one form of my invention,
a section of the same upon the dotted line X being shown in Fig. 2. In these
views only one curvilinear part or disc is illustrated disposed centrally at the rear
of a transparent part upon an ordinary glass front, upon which is set forth a scroll
work bearing thereon the word "Smoke."
In Fig. 3, which is a like section as Fig. 2, the display letterings are shown
upon the curved surface of the disc or part itself, instead of upon the glass front,
whilst in Fig. 4 is illustrated a disc or part with its convexed surface presented to
the glass front.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 represent diagrammatical front views of tablets or advertising
panels with the discs or curvilinear parts duplicated and of different shapes.
In Figs. 1 to 8 a is the frame of the tablet constructed and built up in the
ordinary manner, and provided with a rabbet part a³, against which a glass front b
rests.
This glass front b, which is of a suitable size to fit the frame a, is embellished
and lettered with suitable advertising matter upon its back side at 62 63, and 6*;
the letterings and scroll work 6, which are centrally disposed upon the transparent
part 6 of the glass front b, having a concave disc or part c for a background.
This curvilinear-sectioned disc, the front face c² of which is rendered extremely
luminous and mirror-like, is of a size sufficient to embrace the transparent part
of the glass front b, as aforesaid, and the letterings and scroll work in front of it

page_text: will be reflected back by the said polished surface c³, forming a conspicuous and
attractive feature to the panel.
The disc or curved part is held in position by strips of gelatine d, and a covering
of cotton wool d is arranged at the back thereof, the whole of the parts being
enclosed by a back board e, connected in a suitable manner to the frame a.
In Fig. 3 the letterings and scroll work 64 are displayed upon the concave
surface of the disc c, the middle part 6 of the glass front b being left perfectly
transparent.
In Fig. 4 the curvilinear part or disc c is shown with its convexed surface c
presented towards the glass front b, the same being highly polished or rendered
fuminous by silvering, gilding or the like.
The method of connecting the curvilinear part to the glass front or back board
is immaterial, as the same can be accomplished in various ways. The presented
surface of the disc or curvilinear part e may be rendered luminous by polishing or
by a coating of luminous paint, or the said disc may be formed from a piece of
looking-glass, or from any other suitable material.
This disc may also be formed of any suitable shape, such as longitudinal,
elliptical, or square, (shown in Figs. 5 and 7) and a loose display ticket or the like
may be disposed between the transparent part of the glass front and the polished
surface of the disc or part.
My invention is suitable for all kinds of display and ornamental panels for
windows, doors, lamps, screens, and the like, the construction and fitting of which
differs in no essential respect from that described and illustrated with reference to
an advertising tablet.
Instead of a transparent glass front being fitted to the tablet as described an
open-work front of metal or other suitable material may be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. In advertising and decorative signs, tablets, panels, screens, and the like,
the application thereto of concave, convex, parabolic, or other similar curvilinear
discs or parts, for the purposes substantially as described and set forth.
Second. In advertising and decorative signs, tablets, panels, screens, and the
like, the combination with the transparent decorated front thereof of a concave,
convex, parabolic, or other similar curvilinear-sectioned discs or parts, for the
purposes substantially as described and set forth.
Third. The general construction, arrangement, and combination of the curved
discs or parts as set forth in Figs. 1-8.
Dated this 4th day of September 1896.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.