IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, AND TRADE ANNOUNCEMENTS USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin George George, of No. 47, Hatton
Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Lithographer and Printer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, AND TRADE
ANNOUNCEMENTS USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 31st March 1864, and dated the 5th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin George George.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th October 1863.
I, BENJAMIN GEORGE GEORGE, of 47, Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, Lithographer and Printer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, AND TRADE
ANNOUNCEMENTS USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows,
that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the application of letters and ornaments in relief.
upon tablets, show bills, and other announcements used for advertising or other:
purposes, such letters or ornaments being formed in moulds or otherwise, and:
composed of plaster of Paris alone, or plaster of Paris combined with ground
cork, sawdust, hemp, tow, wire, or other material; the use of such materials.
being for the purpose of decreasing the weight or specific gravity of such
letters or ornaments; and I carry my Invention into effect by attaching such
letters or ornaments to wood, paper, or metal; or other surfaces by means of

page_text: cement or metal, or other fastenings, either alone or in conjunction with
improved tablets, the Invention of which was secured to me by Letters Patent,
No. 2434, and dated the 30th day of September 1861.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin George George in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th April 1864.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
GEORGE GEORGE, of Number 47, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Lithographer and Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Terself, Ier heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Benjamin George George, IIer special licence that I, the said Benjamin
George George, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Benjamin George George, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, AND TRADE ANNOUNCE-
MENTS USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Benjamin George George, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin George George, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists in the application of letters and ornaments in relief
upon tablets, show bills, and other trade announcements used for advertising
or other purposes, such letters or ornaments being forined in moulds or other-
wise, and composed of plaster of Paris, or a compound of whiting, oil, aud

page_text: glue, in conformity with the Patent granted to me the Seventh day of
December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty, and being Number 3004,
or plaster of Paris combined with ground cork, sawdust, hemp, tow, wire, or
other material; the use of such materials being for the purpose of decreasing
the weight or specific gravity of such letters or ornaments; and I carry my
Invention into effect by attaching such letters or ornaments to wood, paper,
metal, cloth, or other surface, either printed or plain, by means of cement,
glue, metal fastenings, or other means, either alone or in conjunction with
improved tablets, the Invention of which was secured to me by Letters Patent,
dated the Seventh of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty,
No. 3004, and the Thirtieth of September, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, being No. 2434. I afterwards, by preference, frame and glaze the
tablot or show bill in the ordinary manner to protect it from dust or other injury.
Having now described the naturo of my Invention, and how the same is to
be carried into effect, I wish it understood that what I claim is the manu-
facture of letters or ornaments in relief, and the mode of applying them to
tablets, show bills, and other trade announcements, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin George George, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
BENJAMIN GEORGE GEORGE. (LS.)