Improved Methods for Advertising and Means for Performing the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1888
Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Methods for Advertising and Means for Performing
the same.
We BOYDELL GRAVES of Beckenham County of Kent Gentleman and ROMAINE
DE LA TORRE of Queen Street Place in the City of London Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be por-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to utilize as a cheap and extensive medium for
advertising or other purposes the side or sides of card-board boxes, slips, and the like,
or wooden matches, splints, pipe and cigar lights or other similar articles of any given
size or shape for indicating their quality, name of maker, or any other indication or
advertisement such as "Coleman's Mustard is the best," hy printing stamping or
impressing such side or sides in type or letters in one, or more colors preferably, and
in order that such printing, stamping impressing or other like method of utilizing the
sides of cardboard boxes, slips, and the like, or matches, splints, pipe, and cigar lights
may be clearly understood we proceed to describe the method and means by which
the object hereinbefore mentioned is accomplished. We take thin slices, or slips, or
pieces of cardboard or wood and pass them in succession through a press in which
type is arranged, at such distances apart as to print between where the slices, slips, or
pieces of cardboard or wood are to be cut suitable for boxes, matches, splints pipe and
cigar lights. For curled tapered matches, splints, pipe and cigar lights or similar
articles made of cardboard or wood (shavings, we print the surface of the cardboard
or wood with type gradually diminishing in size from one end of the press to the
other so that when the shaving is cut off from the piece of cardboard or wood the
broadest part or largest diameter of the shaving when curled has a printed
impression of large type and the narrowest part or smallest diameter the impression
of the smaller type, the intermediate type between said respective parts of the shaving
being graduated and in spiral form so that the impression may be easily read by any
person using the slip, match, splint, pipe or cigar light. When the cardboard or
wood is already cut into pieces or slices we arrange the same and so dispose the type

page_text: in the press that such pieces or slices shall take the impression, and when more than
one color has to be printed we pass the pieces or slices through a second press for
the purpose of imprinting them with that color. When no color has to be impressed
upon the cardboard or wood sharp edged embossing type can be used, the surface of
the cardboard or wood being thereby indented to such a depth that the impression can
be easily distinguished and understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The method and means herein before described of printing on cardboard and
wooden matches, splints pipe and cigar lights and other similar articles substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned.