Improvements in the Manufacture of Embossed or Raised Plates or Sheets for Advertising-boards, Wall-panels, and other uses.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 11th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Embossed or Raised Plates or
Sheets for Advertising-boards, Wall-panels, and other uses.
We THE ARTISTIC SIGN COMPANY, LIMITED, of 78 Turnmill Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Show Card Manufacturers and WALTER JOHN MICHELS of the same
place, Manager of the said Company, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
The object of this invention is the production of sign boards, wall panels, signs and
other articles with embossed or raised pattern, which shall be capable of being used
for exterior advertising and other uses where they will be exposed to atmospheric
influence and damp.
For this purpose the composition such as is described in the Specification of Patent
No. 7728 dated 27th May 1887, is rolled, spread or pressed onto wire gauze or
perforated zinc or like metallic surface which during the process is completely or
substantially embedded in the composition, giving a substantially waterproof
material.
The tablets, panels or raised surfaces thus made, possess great rigidity and can be
nailed onto walls and other surfaces and will not be liable to warp or chip under
changes of weather.
Dated the 20th dove of Nam 1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Embossed or Raised Plates or
Sheets for Advertising-boards, Wall-panels, and other uses.
We, THE ARTISTIC SIGN COMPANY LIMITED, of 78 Turnmill Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Show Card Manufacturers, and WALTER JOHN MICHELS of the same
place, Manager of the said Company 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 object of this invention is the production of sign boards, wall panels, ornamental
and advertising surfaces and other articles with embossed or raised pattern, especially
designed to be capable of use for exterior advertising and other purposes in situations
where they may be exposed to atmospheric influence and damp.
For this purpose composition such as is described in the Specification of Patent
No. 7728 dated 27th May 1887, is rolled, spread or pressed onto wire gauze or
perforated zinc or like metallic surface which during the process is completely or
substantially embedded in the composition, giving a substantially waterproof
material.
The raised or sunk patterns or signs may be produced on the plastic surface during
rolling or pressing by means of depressions or projections on the rolls, plates or dies
corresponding to the patterns to be produced.
The tablets, panels or raised surfaces thus made, possess great rigidity and can be
nailed onto walls and other surfaces and will not be liable to warp or chip under
changes of weather.

page_text: 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:-
In the manufacture of embossed or raised plates or sheets for advertising boards,
wall panels and other uses, the combination of the plastic composition referred to with
wire gauze or perforated metallic surfaces into a sheet or plates and the impression
thereon of patterns or designs by means of rolls, plates or dies, substantially as set
forth.
L 1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.