Improvements in the Manufacture of Advertising and other Signs, Tablets, Facias, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1899-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Advertising and other Signs,
Tablets, Facias, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE PETHER, of 80, East Road, London, N., Letter Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of advertising and
other signs, tablets, facias and the like and the object is to provide a method
of manufacturing a cheap and effective substitute for those articles of the above
characters which comprise a backing having therein incised letters over which
is placed a glass facing bearing transparent portions through which the incised
lettering is visible. The manufacture of tablets and the like by the method
first mentioned involves the employment of skilled labour which is entirely
obviated by my invention without diminishing the effectiveness of the result.
In carrying my invention into effect I proceed in or in about the following
manner. I provide letters, symbols and ornaments of metal or other suitable
material having a sunk or recessed face surrounded by flat margins, the letters
or like being gilded silvered, or otherwise decorated. The letters or the like
thus provided are laid face downwards on the back of the glass which is to form
the face of the tablet or like, and over the back of the letters is placed plush
velvet or other suitable material, the face of which material is towards the backs
of the letters. Over the plush or other material is placed wadding or other
yielding substances and over that a rigid backing. The whole is held in a
suitable frame and the quantity of yielding material and pressure with which
the rigid backing is held in place is such as to press the plush or other material
into contact with the glass facing. The resulting effect will be that of incised
and gilded or otherwise ornamented lettering surrounded by a flat margin and
backed by a ground of the material placed behind the letters.
Dated thin 12th dox of Tolmin 1800
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Advertising and other Signs,
Tablets, Facias, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE PETHER, of 80, East Road, London, N., Letter Maker,
lo hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
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Improvements in the Manufacture of Advertising and other Signs,
Tablets, Facias, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE PETHER, of 80, East Road, London, N., Letter Maker,
lo hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
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page_text: is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of advertising and
other signs, tablets, facias and the like and the object is to provide a method
of manufacturing a cheap and effective substitute for those articles of the above
character which comprise a backing having therein incised letters over which
is placed a glass facing having transparent portions through which the incised
lettering is visible. The manufacture of tablets and the like by the method
just mentioned involves the employment of skilled labour which is entirely
obviated by my invention without diminishing the effectiveness of the result.
In carrying my invention into effect I proceed in or in about the following
manner making reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 represents
a front view of a single letter and Fig. 2 a cross section of a letter and the
remaining parts constituting the invention. I provide letters, symbols, and orna-
ments such as a of metal or other suitable material having a sunk or recessed
face surrounded by flat margins c, the letters or like being gilded, silvered
or otherwise decorated. The letters or the like thus provided are laid face
downwards on the back of the glass which is to form the face of the tablet
or like and over the back of the letter is placed plush, velvet or other suitable
material e, the face of which is towards the backs of the letters or like a.
the plush or other material e is placed wadding or other yielding substance f
and over that a rigid backing g. The whole is held in a suitable frame and
the quantity of yielding material f and the pressure with which the rigid
backing is held in place is such as to press the plush or other material e into
contact with the glass facing d: The resulting effect will be that of incised
and gilded or otherwise ornamented lettering or the like surrounded by a flat
margin and backed by a ground of the material placed behind the letters.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sai:
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The process of manufacturing advertising signs, tablets, facias and the
like, and consisting essentially in placing in contact with the back surface of a
glass facing, flat margined and recessed faced letters, symbols or ornaments,
gilded or otherwise decorated and covering the back of the said letters or other
articles with plush or other suitable material which is forced into contact with
the backs of the letters or like and the glass facing by pressure of a rigid backing
operating on a layer of wadding or other yielding material placed between the
back of the plush or other material and the said rigid backing, the whole sub-
stantially as described in the above specification and exemplified by the accom-
panying drawings.
2. In the manufacture of advertising signs, tablets facias and the like the
combination of a glass facing with flat margined and recessed letters or the like
having a plush or other backing behind which is wadding or other vielding
material képt in place by a rigid backing, the whole substantially as described
in the above specification and exemplified by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 26th day of June 1899
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents.