Improvements in the Production of Show Cards and Tablets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb.. 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Show Cards and Tablets.
I, JOHN ALEXANDER NESS of 37 Derby Street in the County of the City of
Glasgow, Lithographer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is a development of that described in the Specification of Letters
Patent No. 24,1363 and it has for its object the production of show cards or
tablets for pictorial advertising, and other purposes with a gelatine, glass or like
transparent surface through which a coloured printing and bronze backing is
displayed without the intervention of the " transparency described in said
Specification whereby the colouring and bronzing or pictorial effect is brought
out more vividly and clearly.
"
In carrying out the invention to form show cards or tablets having a gelatine
surface a glass or other smooth work-plate is or may be flooded with gelatine
varnish or collodion which is allowed to set and dry. The coated plate is then
flooded with gelatine and dried, and a print of the picture, advertisement, design
or other matter in any variety of colouring is taken on transfer paper from the
printing machine or press and transferred on to the gelatine surface which may be
slightly damped in order the better to cause the print to adhere. The transfer
paper is thereafter moistened and removed and a thin solution of gelatine is flooded
over the design to protect it. After drying, bronze in the form of a sheet or dust
is brought into optical contact with the gelatine and this shows through the
transparent parts of the design or those parts on to which coloured or opaque
printed matter is not transferred. The whole is then backed with millboard and
stripped from the glass or other plate the gelatine varnish or collodion when used
serving as a protective coating on the outer surface of the gelatine.
In forming the tablet of glass or other transparent and hard material, a glass
plate is flooded with gelatine or other clear adhesive mixture on to which the print
taken on transfer paper is transferred, and after removal of the transfer paper the
bronze is applied as before described.
Dated this 11th day of February 1895.
improvements in the Production of Snow Cards and Tablets.
I, JOHN ALEXANDER NESS, of 37 Derby Street, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, Lithographer, 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 is a development of that described in the Specification of Letters
Patent No. 24,136" and it has for its object the production of show cards or
tablets for pictorial advertising and other purposes with a gelatine, glass or like
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transparent surface through which a coloured printing and bronze backing is
displayed without the intervention of the transparency " described in said
Specification, whereby the colouring and bronzing or pictorial effect is brought
out more vividly and clearly.
In carrying out the invention to form show cards or tablets having a gelatine
surface a glass or other smooth work-plate or support is or may be flooded with
gelatine varnish or collodion which is allowed to set and dry. The coated plate is then
flooded with gelatine and dried, and a print of the picture, advertisement, design or
other matter in any variety of colouring is taken on transfer paper from the
printing machine or press and transferred on to the gelatine surface which may
be slightly damped in order the better to cause the print to adhere. The transfer
paper is thereafter moistened and removed and a thin solution of gelatine is flooded
over the design to protect it. After drying, bronze in the form of a sheet or dust
is brought into optical contact with the gelatine and this shows through the
transparent parts of the design or those parts on to which coloured or opaque
printed matter is not transferred. The whole is then backed with millboard
and stripped from the glass or other plate the gelatine varnish or collodion when
used serving as a protective coating on the outer surface of the gelatine.
In forming the tablet of glass or other transparent and hard material, a glass
plate is flooded with gelatine or other clear adhesive mixture on to which the print
taken on transfer paper is transferred, and after removal of the transfer paper the
bronze is applied as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The production of show cards or tablets by transferring a print of the
picture, design or other matter on to a film of gelatine flooded on a varnished or
other suitable support, removing the transfer paper and applying "bronze" in
optical contact with the gelatine to show through the transparent parts of the
design and subsequently stripping from the support before or after backing
substantially as described.
2. A show card or tablet produced by flooding a glass or other transparent
plate with gelatine or other clear adhesive compost, transferring thereto a print
of the picture, design or other matter, removing the transfer paper and applying
"bronze" to show through the transparent parts of the design substantially as
described.
Dated this 8th day of November 1895.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.