Improvements in the Manufacture of Show Cards, Window Cards, Advertisement Tablets and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 26th Feb., 1898.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Show Cards, Window Cards,
Advertisement Tablets and the like.
I, SHARMAN CRAWFORD WILSON, of 34, Maitland Park Road, Hampstead, in the
County of London, Manufacturer's Representative, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of show cards, window cards, adver-
tisement tablets and the like the invention having for object to render the letters,
ornaments or the like transparent in a novel, simple and cheap manner.
For this purpose in the manufacture of a show or advertisement card for placing
against a window for instance I employ two sheets of card, paper or other suitable
material the letters.or ornament forming the advertisement or its equivalent being
cut out of the two sheets and between the two sheets I place coloured gelatine or
like translucent material. It will be obvious that the colour of the translucent
material may be varied for different parts of the tablet.
In order to improve the effect the letters or ornaments on the card may be out-
lined, shaded or otherwise treated according to the effect desired to be produced.
Show cards and the like manufactured as above stated have practically as
attractive an effect and appearance as if coloured glass were employed to form the
transparent parts of the card or tablet.
Dated the 06th day of Tuna 1907
Improvements in the Manufacture of Show Cards, Window Cards,
Advertisement Tablets and the like.
I, SHARMAN CRAWFORD WILSON, of 34, Maitland Park Road, Hampstead, in the
County of London, Manufacturer's Representative, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
This invention relates to the manufacture of show cards, window cards, adver-
tisement tablets and the like, the invention having for object to render the letters,
ornaments or the like, transparent in a novel, simple and cheap manner.
For this purpose in the manufacture of a show or advertisement card for placing
against a window for instance I employ two sheets of card, paper or other suitable
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material the letters or ornament forming the advertisement or its equivalent being
cut out of the two sheets and between the two sheets I place coloured gelatine or
other suitable translucent material.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure
represents an elevation; and,
Figure 2 a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, of a show-card or tablet
made according to my invention.
a and b represent the two sheets of material, with the letters or ornament cut
out of the same and c represents the translucent material placed between the
sheets a and b and shewing through the cut out parts of the said sheets as indicated
by the shaded parts in Figure 1.
It will be obvious that the colour of the translucent material may be varied for
different parts of the tablet.
In order to improve the effect the letters or ornaments on the card may be out-
lined, shaded or otherwise treated according to the effect desired to be produced,
and the translucent material may be suitably embossed.
Show cards and the like manufactured as above stated have practically as attrac-
tive an effect and appearance as if coloured glass were employed to form the trans-
parent parts of the card or tablet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
Fclaim is:
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A show card, window card, advertisement tablet or the like manufactured from
two sheets of suitable material perforated with the required advertisement or
ornament, a sheet of coloured translucent material being placed between the per-
forated sheets, substantially. as, and for the purposes; described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 24th day of November 1897.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
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