Improvements in Wall and other Portable Advertising Tablets.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept, 1850
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 20th Dec.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wall and other Portable Advertising Tablets.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM HEMBRY of 16 Newgate Street in the City of
London Manager to the firm of B. Hembry & Co. Linoleum Merchants do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I produce large or small advertizing tablets such as are now commonly used on
walls and in railway stations by using a sheet of wire gauze or perforated metal and
upon which I cause to be rolled or pressed a thin layer or coating of linoleum,
kamptulicon or other such like plastic or semi-plastic composition which material
by pressure will be forced through the meshes of the wire gauze or holes in the
metal thus rivetting itself on the back forming a solid whole, this can be further
covered on the back by canvas for the sake of extra support, this advertizing
material can be made in long rolls or in sheets of any required dimensions.
Upon these tablets or sheets print the desired matter to be advertized, by
means of wood or metal blocks, finishing them off with a good coat of varnish, this
forms an advertisement both durable and cheap, they are easily fixed by nails to a
wall and can at any time be readily removed or cleaned, this form of advertisement
is entirely free from the objections raised against iron tablets inasmuch as they
cannot chip by frost or rust by moisture and by mailing are not disfigured except
by dirt which can be easily washed off.
These advertizing tablets or sheets can be bent round corners to any extent being
flexible.
Dated this Ninth day of Sameombian 1200
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wall and other Portable Advertising Tablets.
FREDERICK WILLIAM HEMBRY Manager to B. Hembry & Co. 16 Newgate
Street London, E.C. 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 :-
I produce large or small advertisement tablets such as are now commonly used on
wall and in railway stations by using a sheet of wire ganze or perforated metal
upon which I cause to be rolled or pressed a thin layer or coating of linoleum (the
composition of which is well known as being of oxydised linseed oil, ground cork &c.),
kamptulicon or other such like plastic or semi-plastic composition which material
by pressure when passing through the heated calenders will be forced through the
meshes of the wire gauze or holes of the metal thus riveting itself at the back
forming a solid whole, this can be further covered by a "backing" of canvas for the
sake of extra support but by preference I apply a waterproof coating of paint
preventing thereby any chance of the metal becoming oxydised by the moisture of
the atmosphere should any of the metal be exposed. "This advertising material can
be made in long rolls or sheets of any required dimensions. Upon these tablets or
sheets print the desired matter to be advertised by means of wood or metal blocks,
finishing them off with a good coat of varnish, this forms an advertisement both
durable and cheap and can at any time be readily removed, cleansed or re-varnished,
this form of advertisement is free from the objections raised against iron tablets
inasmuch as they cannot chip by frost or rust by moisture these tablets I fix to the
walls by nails or hooks, and being very flexible they can be bent round corners to
any extent.
I also make use of this material as a covering for floors, finding it

page_text: specially useful where ordinary linoleum or other floorcloth with canvas bucking is
of but comparative or little value through the dampness of sneli floors,
For this purpose I roll upon and through the wire gauze or metal a thicker
facing of the linoleum or similar composition, coating the back as before stated
with thick paint or cement obviating the necessity of jute or other canvas which
besides becoming rotten itself, causes linoleums and other similar floor-coverings to
expand or contract forming bulges or "buckles" over a room when laid with these
materials.
This form of floorcloth | print with designs in the usual manner of floorcloth
printing or use it quite plain.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what !
claim is
First—The manufacture of advertising tablets composed of linoleum or other
plastic or semi-plastic material rolled upon and through the meshes of wire gauze
or holes of perforated metal, substantially as described.
Second The printing of such and upon such tablets by means of wood or metal
blocks the matter to be advertised, substantially as described.
Third-The manufacture of floorcloth by rolling a linoleum or similar com-
position upon a wire gauze or perforated metal through the meshes or holes of
which the composition is pressed as it passes through a calender or heated rolls
substantially as described.
Fourth-The application of thick paint or similar waterproof" "backing” to
floorcloth produced with metal foundation substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of November 1890,
FREDK, WM, HEMBRY.