IMPROVE- MENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES."-A communication from abroad by William
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Sealed the 23rd September 1864, and dated the 15th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th April 1864.
I, JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES," a communication to me from abroad
by William Betts, at present residing at Bordeaux, in the Empire of France,
Gentleman:-
This Invention relates to the application of trade marks to metallic capsules,
and consists in the employment of a peculiar system whereby I am enabled to
produce a trade or other device in two, three, or more different colors on the
same capsule in a simple and economical manner.
In applying a three-color trade mark to an embossed capsule according to
this Invention I proceed as follows:-Supposing, for example, that a capsule
be required having a raised or embossed trade mark in the centre colored red,
and the name of the firm surrounding such red trade mark is required to be
in raised yellow letters with a blue, bronzed, or other colored ground for the

page_text: whole, I first color that portion of the end of the plain capsule in red where
the trade mark is to be embossed, and I color that part where the name will
have to be embossed in yellow. The embossing die to be employed is the
ordinary die having the name and trade mark sunk or engraved thereon in
intaglio. Before bringing the capsule and die, however, into contact, I coat
the plain surface of the die with blue or any good thick body color which will
contrast favorably and distinctly with the red and yellow on the capsule; or if
the ground is required to be bronzed or silvered by the usual bronze or silver
powders, I coat. the surface of the die with an adhesive varnish. The die and
capsule being thus prepared, I stamp the capsule, the effect being to raise or
emboss the name and trade mark, and to simultaneously transfer the blue or
other third color, or the varnish contained on the face of the die to the ground
or unraised surface of the capsule: The letters and trade mark will then
appear raised and of their original colors, namely, yellow and red respectively,
whilst the ground will be of the same color as that applied to the surface of
the die, the colors previously applied to the surface of the capsule being
obliterated by the third color excepting at the raised or embossed portions of
the capsule, and consequently the end of the capsule will present an embossed
red trade mark, yellow letters, and a blue or other colored ground. If varnish
has been applied to the surface of the die metallic powder must be sprinkled
over the wet varnish which has been transferred to the capsule, the result
being a bronzed, silvered, or other metallic ground. . It is obvious that any
number of different colors may be employed, according to the taste or design
of the manufacturer. By this system an entirely novel effect in capsule trade
marks is obtained with a most effectual guarantee against fraud.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters. Patent, filed.
by the said John Henry Johnson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the,
12th October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex, 3
Gentleman, send greeting.
3.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord. One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did; for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the: 3
said John Henry Johnson, Her special license that I, the said John Henry

page_text: Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I; the
said John Henry Johnson, 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, usė, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland; the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-:
PROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES," a cominunication to me from abroad' by -
William Betts, at present residing at Bordeaux, in the Empire of France,
Gentleman, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry
Johnson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said: Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar. months next and immediately.
after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE," that I, the said John Henry Johnson, do hereby -
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and--by the>
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
The said Invention relates to the application of trade marks to metallic
capsules, and consists in the employment of a peculiar system whereby I.am
enabled to produce trade marks or other devices in three or more different
colors on the same capsule in a simple and economical manner.
In applying a three-color mark to a capsule, according to this Invention,
I proceed as follows: Supposing, for example, that a capsule be required
having for its distinctive features a raised or embossed trade mark, or device of
any kind, in the centre colored red, and the name of the proprietors or other
words, letters, or characters; surrounding such red trade mark; is required to
be in raised yellow letters with a blue, bronzed, or other colored ground for the
whole, as shown by the end view of a capsule in its complete state at Fig. 1
of the annexed Sheet of Drawings, I first color, by hand or otherwise, that
portion of the end of the plain capsule in red where the trade mark is to be
embossed, and I color that part where the name will have to be embossed in*
yellow, as shown in the end view of an uneinbossed capsule at Fig. 2. The
embossing die to be employed is the ordinary die having the name and trade
mark sunk or engraved thereon in intaglio. Before bringing the capsule and
die, however, into contact, I coat or cover the plain surface of the die with
blue or any good thick body color, as shewn in the face view of the die at

page_text: Fig. 3, which will contrast favorably and distinctly with the red and yellow on
the capsule; or if the ground be required to be bronzed or silvered, by the
usual bronze or silver powders, I coat the surface of the die with any suit-
able adhesive varnish. The die and capsule being thus prepared, I stamp the
capsule, the effect being to raise or emboss the name and trade mark, and to
simultaneously transfer the blue or other third color, or the varnish contained
on the face of the die, to the ground or unraised surface of the capsule. The
letters and trade mark will then appear raised and of their original colors,
namely, yellow and red respectively, whilst the ground will be of the same
color as that applied to the surface of the die, the colors previously applied to
the surface of the capsule being covered and so effaced by the third color
excepting at the raised or embossed portions of the capsule, and consequently
the end of the capsule will present an embossed red trade mark, yellow letters,
and a blue or other colored ground, as shown in Fig. 1. If varnish has been
applied to the surface of the die metallic powder must be sprinkled over the
wet varnish which has been transferred to the capsule, the result being a
bronzed, silvered, or other metallic ground. It is obvious that any number
of different colors may be employed and distributed over various parts of
the end of the capsule, according to the taste or design of the manufacturer,
thereby producing an entirely novel effect in capsule trade marks and affording
a most effectual guarantee against fraud.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the 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 system or mode of producing
multicolored trade marks or other devices on metallic capsules, substantially
as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Johnson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twelfth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.S.)