Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
1. THOMAS CORSER of 56, Deansgate, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Hairdresser do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide means to mitigate the tendency to
deface the walls, windows, facings and other parts of buildings in places of public
resort, and of public conveyances, by striking matches on such parts and to utilise
such means for the displaying of advertisements and notices.
The invention consists in the improved manufacture of tablets for displaying
advertisements and notices provided with a striking surface for matches.
In carrying out this invention I make the tablet of any suitable material
preference being given to such as can be cheaply worked and finished with a
glazed surface, enamelled iron, glass and glazed porcelain being specially suitable.
I make the tablets in various shapes and of various designs.
That part of the face of the tablet prepared for striking purposes is suitably
roughened in any convenient manner. This part may be made separately of any
suitable material and secured to the tablet in any convenient manner or it may be
produced in the tablet in the process of manufacture.
The surface of the tablet is also suitably formed to display advertisements and
notices. These are in some cases produced by printing, embossing, sinking or
otherwise during the process of manufacture of the tablets and preferably before
the glazing process.
In other cases the tablet is suitably formed to receive plates or smaller tablets on
which the advertisements or notices are displayed, and which are secured to the
tablet in any well-known manner.
The tablet may be pierced or sunk during the process of manufacture. Into the
piercings or sinkings are fitted the plates displaying the advertisements, and they
are secured in any convenient manner.
An inscription suitable to the purpose of the roughened surface is also indicated.
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1, THOMAS CORSER of 56 Deansgate, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Hairdresser do hereby declare the nature cf 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 obiect of this invention is to provide means to mitigate the tendency to deface

page_text: the walls, windows, facings and other parts of buildings in places of public resort,.
and of public conveyances, by striking matches on such parts, and to utilise such
means for the displaying of advertisements and notices.
The invention consists in the improved manufacture of tablets for displaying
advertisements and notices provided with a striking surface for matches.
In carrying out this invention I make the tablet of any suitable material
preference being given to such as can be cheaply worked and finished with a glazed
surface, enamelled iron, glass and glazed porcelain being specially suitable.
I make the tablets in various shapes and of various designs.
That part of the face of the tablet prepared for striking purposes is suitably
roughened in any convenient manner. This part may be made separately of any
suitable material and secured to the tablet in any convenient manner or it may
produced in the tablet in the process of manufacture.
be
The surface of the tablet is also suitably formed to display advertisements and
notices. These are in some cases produced by printing, embossing, sinking or
otherwise during the process of manufacture of the tablets and preferably before
the glazing process.
In other cases the tablet is suitably formed to receive plates or smaller tablets
on which the advertisements or notices are displayed and which are secured to the
tablet in any well-known manner.
The tablet may be pierced during the process of manufacture. Into the piercings
or sinkings are fitted the plates displaying the advertisements and they are secured
in any convenient manner.
An inscription suitable to the purpose of the roughened surface is also
indicated.
On the drawing appended hereunto two of my improved tablets are shewn as
specimens, in front views and sections.
Figures 1 and 2 represent a tablet having an ornamented surface and three
openings into which three plates a, b, and c, containing advertisements are inserted.
This may be done by forming these plates with bevilled edges and bevilling the
inner edges of the recesses correspondingly, as shown, so that when the tablet is
fixed by the screws d or otherwise to a flat surface the inserted plates are held
in their places. The part e for striking the matches may be formed on the tablet
or inserted in a similar manner as the advertising plates, and is roughened and
A direction to use
preferably arranged to project above the surface of the tablet.
this part e for striking the matches is preferably displayed on the tablet as shewn.
The striking part may be formed of metal, glass, or china, while the tablet may be
made of enamelled iron, porcelain, flashed or coloured glass, compressed paper pulp
or any other suitable material.
Figures 2 and 3 shew a tablet of thin metal having two metal advertising
tablets and g fixed to its face by screws which also serve to fix the tablet to
the surface to be protected. The part i for striking the matches may be fixed in
the same way or produced on the tablet by stamping. A direction to use the
tablet is placed in the parts k or m of the tablet.
Preferably the main tablets are got up in bright and attractive colours so as
to draw the attention of persons intending to strike a match on the wall to
them and prevent the defacement of paint. By placing the advertisements upon
separate tablets secured to the main tables, the latter cau be manufactured
wholesale and at small cost, considerably reducing the expense of the entire
tablet.
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 :
1. The manufacture and use of combined match striking and advertising tablets
for the purpose herein before set forth substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The manufacture of combined match striking and advertising tablets with
separate tablets containing the advertisements secured to the main tablets.
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated the 6th day of January 1897.
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,.
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.