IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Betts, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road,
in the County of Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, for the Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER LIKE
RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 4th February 1868, and dated the 14th August 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Betts at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
August 1867.
I, WILLIAM BETTS, of No: 1, Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN, METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER
LIKE RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:---
This Invention relates to what are known as trademark capsules; and,is
intended more particularly for application in those cases wliere a trade mark
is required' on the crown' of the capsule of such a size as to fill up the entire
or nearly the entire area of the crown, leaving consequently little or no room
for the name of the manufacturer or firm, or other words or devices round, the
outside of such trade-mark:-
_ According to this Invention I produce the trade mark in intaglio or sunk
Lupon-the-capsule,-and-in-the-interior-or-upon the body itself of such trade

page_text: mark I produce the name of the manufacturer or firm employing the same, or
other words or devices in relief. The die required for producing the peculiar
description of trade mark above described should of course have the trade
mark engraved in relief thereon, and the name of the manufacturer or firm
using the capsule engraved in intaglio or sunk upon the raised device. By
adopting the method described in the Specification of my Patent bearing date
the 15th of April 1864, No. 953, I am enabled to obtain a multicolored effect,
the trade mark being in one color whilst the name or names of the manu-
facturer or firm using the capsule or any other letters, words, or symbols
raised within such trade mark are of a different color. It is obvious that the
trade mark in lieu of being sunk and having the letters raised within it, may
be raised or produced in relief, whilst the letters thereon are sunk or in
intaglio, the die being made the reverse to the die before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Betts in the Great. Seal Patent Office on the 14th
February 1868.
کرین
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BETTS, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Capsule
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Betts, Her special license that I, the said William Betts,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, 'the said
William Betts, my executors, administrators, or '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: METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Betts, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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

page_text: to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months.next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Betts, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is, to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing, that is to
say:-
My said Invention relates to what are known as trade mark capsules, and
is intended more particularly for application in those cases where a trade
mark is required on the crown of the capsule of such a size as to fill up the
entire or nearly the entire area of the crown, leaving consequently little or no
room for the name of the manufacturers or firm or other words or devices
round the outside of such trade mark.
According to this Invention I produce the trade mark in intaglio or sunk
upon the capsule, and in the interior or upon the body itself of such trade
mark I produce the name of the manufacturer or firm employing the same or
other words or devices in relief. The die required for producing the peculiar
description of trade mark above described should of course have the trade
mark engraved in relief thereon, and the name of the manufacturer or firm
using the capsule engraved in intaglio or sunk upon the raised device. By
adopting the method described in the Specification of my Patent bearing date
the Fifteenth of April; One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, No. 953,
I am enabled to obtain a multicolored effect, the trade mark being in one
color, whilst the name or names of the manufacturer or firm using the capsule
or any other words or symbols raised within such trade mark are of a different
color. It is obvious that the trade mark in lieu of being sunk and having the
letters raised within it may be raised or produced in relief, whilst the letters
thereon are sunk or in intaglio, the dies being made the reverse to the die
before described.
The annexed Drawing represents the crown of a metallic trade mark capsule
having a trade mark and name stamped thereon in accordance with my
Invention.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and
original and therefore_claim-as-the-Invention-secured to me by the herein-
before in part, recited Letters Patent is, the use and manufacture of metallic
capsules for bottles and other-like-receptacles having the name of a firm or

page_text: other words either raised or sunk within the contour or design of a trade mark
produced upon such capsule, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
W. BETTS. (L.S.)