Improvements in Means for Advertising, Display, and similar Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1891-Accepted, 13th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Advertising, Display, and similar
Purposes.
1, ERNST BÖHM, of 42 Little Britain, in the City and County of London,
Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to means for advertising display, and similar purposes
in a novel and attractive manner.
The invention consists of a tube or tubes of glass bent or curved to the desired
shape so as to form a letter, figure, word, or other part of an advertisement or
the like. The tube or tubes may be made of glass of any suitable diameter
silvered on the inside, or partially silvered as desired.
Advertisements or the like made in accordance with this invention are practically
permanent in their appearance, as from this construction, the metal is not subject
to oxidation or other atmospheric influences. Moreover the tubular shape of the
letters, etc., offers a large surface for refractive purposes rendering this form of
display discernible in almost any light.
Dated this 15th day of Ontoba 1800
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Advertising, Display, and similar
Purposes.
I, ERNST BÖHM, of 42 Little Britain, in the City and County of London,
Electrical Engineer, 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 means for advertising, display, and similar purposes in a
novel and attractive manner.
The invention consists of a tube or tubes of glass bent or curved to the desired
shape so as to form a letter, figure, word, or other part of an advertisement or
decorative design or the like. The tube or tubes may be made of white or
coloured glass of any suitable diameter silvered on the inside, or partially silvered
as desired.
Advertisements or the like made in accordance with this invention are practically
permanent, as from this construction, the metal is not subject to oxidation or other
atmospheric influences. Moreover the tubular shape of the letters, etc., affords a
large surface for refractive purposes rendering this form of display discernible in
almost any light.
The tubing may be blown or otherwise formed into the desired letters, words,
shapes, patterns, or designs and the silver may be precipitated on the inside of
the tubes by any suitable and well-known process.
Silvered glass tubing of this description may be employed for decorative
purposes of all kinds.
For the decoration of rooms, halls, and the like a very
artistic effect is produced by one or more rows of silvered glass tubing secured
in position between the flutings or mouldings of ordinary friezes or of ceiling

page_text: ornaments. Care will be required when fixing and also when painting or other-
wise renovating the frieze or the ceiling ornament so as not to fracture the
glass tubing.
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 glass tubing silvered or partially silvered on the inside by any well
known and suitable process, for advertising, display, decorative and similar purposes
substantially as described.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.