Improvements in and relating to Show Cards, Pictures, Advertising Trays, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Show Cards, Pictures, Advertising
Trays, and the like.
I, WILLIAM BROWNLIE of James Street, Bridgeton in the City and County of
Glasgow, Lithographer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to produce a front covering for show cards,
pictures, advertising trays, and the like, which shall have the transparent properties
of glass, and be washable and unbreakable and suitable for transit or shipment
abroad, and not subject to deleterious climatic influences.
According to my improvements I use a transparent thin sheet material known in
the commercial market as "Clear base or "Crystalline." A sheet of this is taken
of a size sufficiently large to cover the front surface of the show card and it is
tacked on to or cemented or bound round the edges of show card, so that its body
bulges out in front of the card. The whole is then bound within a wooden or other
frame, and the edges of this frame may be cemented with putty, white or red lead
or the like, to make the same perfectly waterproof.
By this means the show card or picture will be protected by a transparent medium
as good as glass while breakage of same will be impossible.
Dated this 13th December 1895.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Show Oards, Pictures, Advertising
Trays, and the like.
I, WILLIAM BROWNLIE, of James Street, Bridgeton, in the City and County
of Glasgow, Lithographer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement in writing that is to say :--
This invention has for its object to produce a front covering for show cards,
pictures, advertising trays, and the like, which shall have the transparent properties
of glass, and be washable and unbreakable and suitable for transit or shipment
abroad, and not subject to deleterious climatic influences.
According to my improvements I use a transparent thin sheet material known in
the commercial market as 66 Clear base " or "Crystalline," the same being transparent
celluloid. A sheet of this is taken of a size sufficiently large to cover the front
surface of the show card, picture, or tray, and it is tacked on to or cemented or
bound round the edges of show card, so that its body bulges out in front of the
card.
Or the whole inner surface of the crystalline sheet may be covered with
transparent gelatiue or varnish and cemented on to the show card, picture,
or trav

page_text: The whole is then bound within a wooden or other frame and the edges of this
frame may
be cemented with putty, white or red lead or the like, to make the
same perfectly waterproof.
By this means the show card or picture will be protected by a transparent medium
as good as glass while breakage of same will be impossible.
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
I claim is :-
The use of "clear base" or "crystalline" in sheets to form a transparent front
covering for show cards, pictures, trays, and the like, substantially as herein
set forth.
11
1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.