Improved Show Card.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug.. 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM RHODES, Engineer, of Newark, New
Jersey, U.S.A.]
Improved Show Card.
MCION JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER 42 Bengeworth Road Loughboro' Junction Surrey
Stationer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
I make a very handsome show card by means of flocking very highly enameled
cards leaving the letters plain & then embossing the letters.
I prefer to cover the whole of the ground with flock leaving the reading matter
plain which will show the enameled card, I then embosse the reading matter, or by
Hocking the reading matter & leaving the ground plain & then embossing, or by
flocking a gold or colored ground leaving the reading matter or ground & thon
embossing.
MCION J. D. CARTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Show Card.
MION JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER 42 Bengeworth Road Loughboro Junction County
of Surrey, Stationer communication from William Rhodes Engineer of Newark New
Jersey United States of America do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVED SHOW CARD and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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My Invention relates to producing a Show card; or sign, by means of flock
printing on plain or various colored paper or cards in combination with embossing the
paper or card.
The printing which can be done either by lithography or letter press, with an ink
composed chielly of any of the oils, gums, or rosins suitable for this work that will
have the property of fixing the flock firmly to the paper.
I have found by experiments that almost any of the gums or rosins will answer
the purpose.
But I find best for lithographic work to boil linseed oil until it will
ignite readily upon the application of a light then allowing it to burn until it becomes
of a thick consistancy the lid of the pot is then put on which extinguishes the flame,
colors are ground with this varnish in an ordinary paint mill until thoroughly
mixed.
For letter press printing I prefer to use any powdered colors ground in soluable
water glass commonly called solution of silicate of soda with sufficient treacle to allow
the rollers to work freely.
But as I mentioned all tacky inks that can be worked by either processes that will
fix the flock, will do.
The embossing is done by metal dies so well known in the trade.
The design for the Show Card is either drawn on stone for lithography or engraved
or type used in the usual manner for letter press printing.
There are several ways of producing various designs in Show Cards by means
of either embossing the flocked work or ombossing the open work showing the
paper or card or varying the colors of the flock and cards.
If I wish the Show Card to represent the well known enamel letters fastened on to
a velvet ground, I print the ground work of the design with the tacky ink on very
highly enamelled paper, or cards, flock of any color is dusted thereon, which leaves the
Price 4d1

page_text: design open showing the enamelled card. The design is then embossed in relief by
dies in the usual way.
The paper or card may be either gold, silver or colored, printed for flocking and
embossed.
Or again instead of embossing the open work left by the flocking, the flocked
matter may be embossed leaving the matter or design concave.
Or the reading matter or design may be printed in flock and the flocked matter
embossed.
I do not claim printing in flock, or the well known art of embossing, but having
now particularly described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1st. In combination a Show Card or sign printed in inks for flocking and
embossed.
2nd. In combination a Show Card or sign printing the ground work of the design
only in inks for flocking on a highly enamelled paper or card and embossing the
design or reading matter.
3rd. In combination a Show Card or sign printed with inks for flocking on a gold
silver or colored paper or card and embossing the open design.
4th. In combination a Show Card or sign the design printed in ink for flocking and
embossing the flocked design.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1890.
MOLON JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER.