Improvements in Show-tablets, Panels, and the like for Display and Decorative Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 20th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Show-tablets, Panels, and the like for Display and
Decorative Purposes.
I, JOSEPH REYNOLDS, of 28 Faunce Street, Kennington Park, County of
Surrey, Glass Frame Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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My invention relates to show-tablets panels and the like for display and decorative
purposes.
The important feature of my invention consists in mounting tin foil sheet lead
or other soft metal, or cloth, satin or other suitable material intended to constitute
the face of the show tablet or the like, on a card or other suitable support in such
a manner that a design impressed in the said metal foil, cloth, satin or other
material will be permanently retained therein.
This I effect by means of a suitable medium placed between the metal and the
card or other support, such medium being chosen as is plastic when fresh or when
being worked and which will subsequently set permanently hard.
I find that paste, plaster of paris, sealing wax and flake white are suitable for
the purpose of my invention but I do not limit myself to these substances as there
are many others which will answer the purpose.
In carrying my invention into practice I sometimes cover the card or other
support intended to form the back of the show-tablet or the like with paste or with
any one of the above mentioned substances in a plastic state, or with any other
suitable plastic substance and I then cover this substance with the tin foil, sheet
lead, or other soft metal, or cloth, satin or other material forming the face of the
show card or the like. On this metal or other material I then impress by suitable
dies the design which is to form the feature of the show tablet. During this
operation the plastic medium beforenamed is distributed by the pressure of the
dies and flows into the recesses of the design. The show-tablet or other piece of
decorative work is then allowed to stand for some time until the plastic medium
has become thoroughly set. The foil or other metal or material may be lacquered
or otherwise coloured either before or after being mounted upon the card or other
support.
The lacquer or colour may be of a uniform tint over the whole of the surface of
the metal, or it may be variegated. In some cases I first lacquer the foil or metal
then mount it on the support and impress the design therein, and lastly apply a
further coating of lacquer or colour to either the raised or depressed surfaces.
When the material intended to constitute the face of the show tablet or other
decorative work is of cloth, satin or the like, the colouring may be either woven,
dyed or printed therein or thereon previous to mounting the same, and a further
colouring may be applied either to the raised or depressed surfaces after the design
has been impressed. In some cases where cloth or the like is used for the face of
the tablet I colour the medium any desired tint so that the pressure of the dies may
force the colour through the cloth in parts to the surface, a suitable resisting body
being printed or stamped on the back of the cloth to prevent the medium showing
through where not required.
In a modification of my invention I impress the design in the sheet metal and
then fill up the depressious in the back thereof by a suitable medium such as one
of those above described, I then apply the metal to the card or other support.
In this case the metal should be thicker than is required in the first method
described.
I sometimes also mount the sheet foil or metal directly that is to say without the

page_text: plastic intermediate substance upon a card or other support which is capable of
receiving the impress of a die 'to form the design for the show card or label. The
foil or metal or other material may be coloured or lacquered as above described.
Dated this 13th day of June 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Show-tablets, Panels, and the like for Display
and Decorative Purposes.
JOSEPH REYNOLDS 28 Faunce Street Kennington Park County of Surrey
Glass Frame Maker 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 :-
My invention relates to show tablets panels and the like for display and
decorative purposes. The important feature of my invention consists in mounting
tin foil sheet lead or other soft metal or cloth satin or other suitable material
intended to constitute the face of the show tablet or the like on a medium in such a
manner that a design impressed in the said metal foil cloth satin or other material
will be permanently retained therein. This I effect by means of a suitable medium
such medium being chosen as is plastic when fresh or when being worked and which
will subsequently set permanently hard. I find that paste plaster of paris sealing
wax or flake white are suitable for the purpose of my invention but I do not limit
myself to these substances as there are many others which will answer the
.purpose.
In carrying my invention into practice 1 sometimes employ a layer of paste or
any one of the above mentioned substances in a plastic state or any other suitable
plastic substance. To any of these substances I may add a color or colors which
may be uniform in tint or may be so mixed as to produce the effect of streaking or
marbling. I then cover this substance with tin foil sheet lead or other soft metal
or cloth satin or other material forming the face of the show tablet or the like.
On this metal or other material I then impress by suitable dies the design which
is to form the feature of the show tablet.
In some cases the die may have sharp angles in conformity with any desired
design so that when pressed upon the foil or other soft material it would cut through
the same simultaneously with impressing the design, the parts so cut may then be
removed where desired before the medium has quite set, the medium so exposed
presenting a marbled or other effect according to the color or colors mixed with the
medium or the whole of the foil or material may be removed leaving the medium
exposed in which case the sharp angles could be dispensed with. During this
operation the plastic medium before named is distributed by the pressure of the die
and is forced into the recesses of the design.
The show tablet or other piece of decorative work is then allowed to stand for
some time until the plastic medium has thoroughly set the foil or other metal or
material may be lacquered or otherwise colored either before or after being pressed
by the die into the design the lacquer or color may be of a uniform tint over the
whole of the surface of the metal or it may be variegated. When, the material
intended to constitute the face of the show tablet or other decorative work is of cloth
satin or the like the coloring may be either woven dyed or printed thereon or
therein previous to mounting the same and a further coloring may be applied either
to the raised or depressed surfaces after the design has been pressed. In some
cases where cloth or the like is used for the face of the tablet I color the medium
any desired tint or tints or colors so that the pressure of the die may force the color
through the cloth or the like in parts to the surface a suitable resisting body being

page_text: printed or stamped on the back of the cloth or the like to prevent the medium
showing through where not required.
In a modification of my invention I impress the design in the sheet metal and
then fill up the depressions in the back thereof with a suitable medium such as one
of those above described. When the medium is not sufficiently stout to support itself
I mount the whole on a card or other support. I sometimes also mount the sheet
foil or metal directly that is to say without the plastic intermediate substance upon
a card or other support which is capable of receiving the impress of a die to form
the design for the show tablet the foil or metal or other material may be colored or
lacquered as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
(1) Impressing by means of a die or dies a surface of soft metal cloth satin or
other suitable material having a plastic medium beneath.
(2) Impressing simultaneously by means of dies two or more. sides or faces of
soft metal cloth satin or other suitable material having a plastic medium between.
(3) The application of dies having sharp edges in parts to soft metal or other
suitable material having a plastic medium beneath such sharp edges cutting the
metal or other suitable material enables parts to be removed.
(4) The application of dies to a plastic body with a soft metal or other suitable
material between said metal or other material being removed from the plastic body
after the impression has been made.
Dated this Twelfth day of April 1893.
JOSEPH REYNOLDS.