Improvements in Hot Water Bottles and in Advertising in. connection therewith.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left; 14th Apr., 1900-Accepted, 2nd June, 1900
Improvements in Hot Water Bottles and in Advertising in.
connection therewith.
I, ANNIE GERTRUDE O'BRIEN, of Cecil Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to rubber hotwater bottles and a method of advertis-
ing in connection therewith.
I have discovered an excellent method of advertising and displaying adver-
tisements by printing impressing or applying the same on the surface of rubber
water bags.
In carrying out the invention I have the water bag made of rubber of the
usual consistency and either before or after vulcanising print thereon by stencil
or blocks or otherwise a displayed or pictorial advertisement.
The advertisement may be printed on silk or other fabric in any colour and
applied to the rubber surface or it may be printed in any colour in any other
way with any suitable medium either direct onto the rubber or otherwise before
or after vulcanising and may be on the surface or covered with a transparent
covering or layer of rubber."
Doted this 18th day of June-1999
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co..
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Hot Water Bottles and in Advertising in
connection therewith.
I, ANNIE GERTRUDE O'BRIEN, of Cecil Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, 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 rubber hot water bottles which I consider will form
an excellent medium for displaying advertisements provided the rubber surface
can be rendered capable of retaining same under the exceptional circumstances
of heat and friction to which such articles are subjected.
This invention is designed to so prepare the surface to receive the impress
and so to impress the advertisement thereon that it will remain of a permanent
character and not liable to become obliterated.

page_text: The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawing.
The hot water bottle or bag AI make of canvas coated on both sides with
rubber. The rubber on the inner side I make of a consistency to withstand the
action of boiling water. The outer surface I make somewhat softer or of a
consistency to retain the impression-of-type, block or the like when pressed
thereon. The outer surface is thus sufficiently plastic and non-elastic to receive
and retain the imprint below the general surface and thus render it not liable
to be obliterated by the ordinary using or handling to which such an article
is subjected. The surface before being printed or impressed is also prepared
with a coating of farina chalk or other similar powdered material to make it
take and retain the ink or colour.
In another modification the advertisement is printed on silk or other fabric
and affixed to, the surface of the rubber when in a sticky or tacky condition and
then firmly pressed together and caused permanently to adhere by vulcanising
the two, or the fabric is applied to the soft or sticky rubber and impressed with
the block or type the imprint being. maintained as above described. A com-
pound face of the two fabrics is thus produced..
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The imprint thus formed may be printed with black or colour such colours
being if desired applied by a stencil or by a brush or the like.
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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-
1. A rubber hot-water bottle or bag prepared as above described with one or
more advertisements impressed into the surface thereof substantially as described!
2. Displaying advertisements by impressing same as above described into the
surface or covering of a rubber hot-water bottle or bag substantially as described.
3. The combination with a rubber hot-water bottle or bag of a displayed "or
piotorial advertisement impressed or imprinted as above described into a plastic
surface or upon a fabric or covering caused to adhere to such surface substan-
tially as described and shown.
Dated this 12th day of April 1900.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool & London, Patent Agents.