Improved Hat-ticket.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
TRUVIDIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Hat-ticket.
I, ERNEST SENIOR, of Denton, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, also of
London, in the County of Middlesex, Printer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to hat-tickets or those tickets which are pasted to the crowns,
on the inside of felt hats bearing the makers name, address, or trade-mark.
Hitherto such tickets have been chiefly made with the name, address, or trade
mark, printed thereon in gold leaf as other metallic preparation soon looses its
colour.
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I propose to make the ticket from a closely woven silk fabric-though other closely
woven material, or paper may be employed-and use what is known in the trade as
metallic-leaf for the printed characters coating the whole when completed with a
suitable varnish or size which will protect the face of the ticket and prevent the action
of the air upon the lettering to discolour it.
In carrying out the invention I print or emboss the name, address, or trade mark
on a thin closely woven silk fabric or other woven material or paper. The letters or
characters are formed on the groundwork of the ticket in a metallic leaf, in colour
closely resembling gold leaf. When the printing is finished the ticket is varnished on
the printed side with a suitable stiff varnish or size which will resist the action of the
atmosphere. This varnish covers and protects the metal of which the characters are
composed preventing it being discoloured by the action of the atmosphere which
would otherwise take place. Such a ticket will be less costly and equally durable as
those in which gold leaf is applied to the letters and the varnish will also prevent it
being readily acted upon by damp or moisture and thus render it less liable to
be removed from its place when fixed.
Dated this 20th day of September 1888.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Hat-ticket.
I, ERNEST SENIOR, of Denton, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, also of
London, in the County of Middlesex, Printer, 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 hat-tickets or those tickets which are pasted to the
crowns on the inside of felt-hats bearing the makers name, address, or trade mark.
Hitherto such tickets have been chiefly made with the name, address, or trade
mark, printed or impressed thereon in gold leaf. Gold leaf, although very much
more expensive than leaf prepared from other metals, has been almost exclusively
used for this purpose, as other preparations soon become tarnished or loose their
color.
The object of this invention is to provide a hat ticket with name, address, trade
mark, or other lettering or figuring printed or impressed thereon in yellow metal
leaf, in appearance equal to one printed with gold leaf, at considerably less cost.
propose to make the body of the ticket from a closely woven silk fabric-though
other closely woven material or paper may be employed-and use what is known in
the trade as "
metallic-leaf" for the printed or impressed characters, coating the
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whole when completed with a suitable varnish or size which will protect the face of
the ticket and prevent the action of the air upon the lettering to discolour it:
In carrying out the invention I print, iinpress, or emboss the name, address,
trade-mark, or other lettering or figuring on a thin closely woven silk fabric (or
other woven material or paper). The letters or characters are formed on the
groundwork of the ticket in a metallic leaf, in colour closely resembling gold leaf.
The printing may either be done by machine or by hand, by one of the methods at
present well known.
When the printing is finished I coat the ticket on the printed.
side with a suitable stiff varnish or size which will resist the action of the atmosphere.
The varnish I prefer to use is what is known as white paper varnish, though copal
or other varnish may be used preferably one with quick setting or drying properties.
This varnish covers and protects the metal, of which the characters are composed,
preventing it being discoloured by the action of the atmosphere, which would otherwise
take place.
Such a ticket will be less costly and equally as durable as those in which gold
leaf is applied to the letters, while the varnish will also prevent it being readily acted
upon by damp or moisture, and thus render it less liable to be removed from its place
when fixed.
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 :-
A hat ticket having a body of closely woven silk fabric (or other closely woven
material or paper) lettering or figuring of yellow metal leaf or other metallic
preparation (not gold) and a coating of white paper varnish or other suitable varnish
or size, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 12th dow of T...
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.