Improvements in Letters and Numerals Applicable for Marking or Numbering Houses and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters and Numerals Applicable for Marking or
Numbering Houses and the like.
ARTHUR GREENWOOD, Upholsterer, 63, Percival Street, Bradford, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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(First) The improvement consists in making letters and figures in iron brass
steel earthenware china or other compositions with feet sockets or projection to
stand on independent of any other stay or support to keep them in right positions.
(Second) This improvement is made more specially to allow the figures and
letters to rest on transon rail of fanlight inside houses & shops over door way
entrance.
(Third) These improved figures and letters differ from all others by not re-
quiring any cementing to panes of glass or other stays or supports to keep them
in a right position.
(Fourth). These improved figures and letters differ from all others by being
made detachable and easey to remove by aney servant or housewife for dusting
and cleaning.
Dated this 14th day of January 1809
Improvements in Letters and Numerals Applicable for Marking or
Numbering Houses and the like.
I, ARTHUR GREENWOOD, of 63, Percival Street, Bradford, in the County of
Yorkshire, Upholsterer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:--
This invention relates to the use of letters and figures made of iron, brass,
steel, earthenware, china, enamel, or other suitable material for the purpose of
numbering houses, shops and other buildings and premises by fixing them in
a prominent position on the transom rail or other part of the wood framework
of fanlight over the entrance door, in such a way that they may be distinctly
visible through or before the glass window of the fanlight & easily be removed
and replaced in their original position after dusting, cleaning polishing or other
purpose.
In fixing letters numerals and figures for a similar purpose it is usually the
custom to fasten them by means of glue, paint, cement or other adhesive material
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page_text: to the glass of fanlight in a permanent way, but according to my invention I make
the figures with feet, slots, projections, and the like of convenient shape which
may be fitted so as to slip in or on to sockets screws brackets or pins suitably
formed to receive them and fixed to the transom rail or other framework of fan-
light whether the position be inside or outside of the entrance doorway and so
that they may be fixed either permanently or detachably and be removed by any
one in a simple way and replaced in exactly their former position, vertically, or
otherwise. This position may be on any part of the surface of the transom rail
or frame or it may be projecting from or above the surface so as to give the
figures a suitable prominence near the centre of fanlight or other position as
desired.
It will be understood that I do not confine myself to any particular mode of
fastening which may be in one or more parts, or to any particular design of
letter or figure; but in order to make my invention the better understood I will
describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings which show how the
invention may be practically applied.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and side view of a figure with foot and slot hole as it
might be fixed to stand on transom rail and have sliding adjustment whilst pre-
serving an upright position.
Figs. 2 and 3 show arrangements for fixing when the figures and numerals
are desired to be elevated to near the centre of the fanlight window. One or more
arms may be adopted and the ends made to suit each other for fixing permanently
or otherwise as shown at A Fig. 2 and A, A, Fig. 3.
Fig. 4 shows another arrangement whereby the figures may be made to stand
upright by means of a pin B attached to the back of the figures or letters and
dropping into a socket sunk in or fixed upon the surface, either at the top or
side similar to C in figure the pin or figures being suitably shaped to prevent
twisting out of position.
Fig. 5 shows a figure having a slotted projection for the purpose of making
them stand uprightly by means of a screw or screws to the surface of transom rail
as shown at D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The improved method of arranging and mounting letters, figures and
numerals of various suitable materials consisting in providing them with feet,
sockets, projections, or sconces so arranged as to make them sit or stand on the
transom rail or other framework of fanlight, inside or outside houses, shops and
similar premises over door way entrance substantially as described.
2. An improved method of numbering houses shops and other similar premises
by means of detachable appliances other than cements and other adhesive sub-
stances substantially as hereinbefore described and as shown in the accompany-
ing drawings.
TAYLOR & FIRTH,
Osborne Chambers, 48, Sunbridge Road, Bradford,
Agents for the Applicant.