Improvements in Show Cards, Tickets, or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1896--Accepted, 28th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Show Cards, Tickets, or the like.
We, WILLIAM DEVITT and JOHN WILLIAM DEVITT, trading as William Devitt and
Company, of 38 Fountain Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Printers
and Show Card Designers and Publishers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide a simple and effective show card or ticket for
displaying dress goods or other inaterials for the purpose of illustrating the effect of
the material when made up into a garment in a realistic manner.
It consists essentially of a show card or ticket printed with a representation of a
female or other figure (or part of a figure) with the folds of the garment printed
in colours corresponding with the cloth and the flat or other parts stamped out or
cut away to allow the actual cloth or material to appear through the printed parts
representing the folds of the drapery.
In carrying out the invention the card or ticket is printed with a female or other
figure dressed in a costume suitable for the material to which the card or ticket is to
be applied. This is printed in colours and pattern corresponding to the colour and
pattern of the material the folds being depicted in suitable light and shade.
When printed the flat or plane parts of the dress or skirt in the printed representa-
tion are then stamped out or cut away leaving a blank where these occurred and also
leaving an outline of the garment and of the representation of the folds or creases
therein. The ticket or card thus prepared is placed on the piece of material and a
realistic representation of the cloth is presented showing what the effect will be when
in wear.
The tickets or cards may be applied to other garments than dresses and to other
materials than dress goods such as curtains or other articles of furniture in which case
the printing would be modified to correspond and a chair, sofa, window or the like
might be depicted.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Show Cards, Tickets, or the like.
We, WILLIAM DEVITT, and JOHN WILLIAM DEVITT, trading as William Devitt
and Company, of 38 Fountain Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Printers and Show Card Designers and Publisbers, 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 is designed to provide a simple and effective show card or ticket
for displaying dress goods or other materials for the purpose of illustrating the effect
of the material when made up into a garment in a realistic manner.
It consists essentially of a show card or ticket printed with a representation or
portrait of a female or other figure (or part of a figure) with the folds of the garment

page_text: printed in colours corresponding with the cloth and the flat or other parts stamped
out or cut away to allow the actual cloth or material to appear through the printed
parts representing the folds of the drapery.
Our invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which two examples of the method of carrying it out are illustrated as far as can
be in a drawing.
The card or ticket is printed with a female or other figure dressed in a costume
suitable for the material to which the card or ticket is to be applied. This is printed
in colours and pattern corresponding to the colour and pattern of the material the
folds being depicted in suitable light and shade.
The parts of the drawings marked a are printed in any desired colour to represent
the gown or its trimmings and the hat b of suitable shade to match whilst the face
and other uncovered parts are printed in flesh colour and suitably shaded. The flat
or plain parts c of the gown which are shown with cross lines are then stamped out
or cut away leaving a blank or space where these occurred and also leaving an outline
of the garment and of the representation of the folds or creases a therein. The ticket
or card thus prepared is placed on the piece of material and a realistic representation
of the cloth is presented showing what the effect will be when in wear.
The tickets or cards may be applied to other garments than dresses and to other
materials than dress goods such as curtains or other articles of furniture in which
case the printing would be modified to correspond and a chair, sofa, window or
the like might be depicted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. A show card ticket or the like printed with a representation or portrait of a
female or other figure (or part of a figure) with the folds and trimmings of the
garment printed in colours corresponding with the cloth and the flat or other
parts cut away to allow the actual cloth to appear substantially as and for the
purpose described.
2. An improved show card ticket or the like arranged or constructed substantially
as and for the purposes described and shown.
Dated this 29th day of September 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.