Improvement in Playing Cards.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Playing Cards.
I, EDWARD SEEDHOUSE, of Abington Place, 12 Clifford Street, Glasgow,.
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement in playing cards constituting this invention has for its object
to facilitate the shuffling or mixing of the cards of a pack, and it consists in
imparting to the individual cards a greater thickness at or near their middle
parts than at their edges by embossing such parts or by adding an extra layer or
thickness of paper to the cards, or by both embossing and adding a layer or layers
at the part to be increased in thickness.
By this means, on dividing a pack of cards and firmly grasping each portion at
the edges, the opposite edges of the cards are separated and the cards are easily
shuffled or intermixed.
In carrying out the invention the extra thickness is given to the cards by applying
adhesive sheets, strips or wafers of paper, of less size than the cards to the backs or
faces of the cards, either before or after printing them, or the cards may be
embossed so as to bring out the middle parts on one side in relief, the corresponding
part in intaglio on the opposite side being preferably filled up by suitably shaped
pieces of paper or other material, to prevent flattening of the embossed part.
under pressure.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of May 1891.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Playing Cards.
EDWARD SEEDHOUSE, of Abington Place, 12 Clifford Street Glasgow,
Engineer, 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:-
The improvement in playing cards constituting this invention has for its object to
facilitate the shuffling or mixing of the cards of a pack, and it consists in imparting
to the individual cards a greater thickness at or near their middle parts, than at
their edges by embossing such parts or by adding an extra layer or thickness of
paper to the cards, or by both embossing and adding a layer or layers at the part
to be increased in thickness.
By this means, on dividing a pack of cards and firmly grasping each portion at
the edges, the opposite edges of the cards are separated and the cards are easily
shuffled or intermixed.
In carrying out the invention and as illustrated at Figures 1, 2 & 3 of the
accompanying drawings, the extra thickness is given to the cards by applying
adhesive sheets, strips or wafers a of paper of less size than the cards A, to
the backs or faces of the cards either before or after printing them, or the cards
may be embossed, so as to bring out the middle parts on one side in relief, the
corresponding part in intaglio on the opposite side being preferably filled up by
suitably shaped pieces of paper or other material, to prevent flattening of the
embossed part under pressure.

page_text: 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 :-
:―
Playing cards having a greater thickness at or near their middle parts than at
their edges and produced by embossing or adding thickening layers thereto,
substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of May 1891.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.