IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND ORNAMENTATION OF BALLOONS FORMED OF CAOUTCHOUC TO BE EMPLOYED FOR ADVERTIZING PURPOSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, F.C.S., of
54, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND ORNAMENTATION
OF BALLOONS FORMED OF CAOUTCHOUC TO BE EMPLOYED FOR ADVERTIZING
PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Edward Clarence
T
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition and Declaration, on the 18th December 1873, pursuant to
the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PRIMEROSE Howard VaughAN, F.C.S., of 54, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE PREPARATION AND ORNAMENTATION OF BALLOONS FORMED OF CAOUTCHOUC TO BE
EMPLOYED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to:

page_text: grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal
Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that
it has been communicated to me from abroad by Edward Clarence Morse,
of Paris, in the Republic of France.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification,
under my
hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the methods of
imparting inscriptions or designs to the surfaces of balloons formed of
caoutchouc, and also of ornamenting the same, whereby they may be
made available as an attractive and useful mode of advertising and giving
publicity to any desired subject or object.
The balloon is in the first instance manufactured of caoutchouc in the
well-known manner and by the processes which are also well known and
understood, and may be of any desired shape and size. The balloon
having been thus formed is laid in an uninflated condition upon a flat
table or surface, and the desired inscription or design imparted thereto
by means of stencil plates which are placed thereon, any suitable
colouring material or materials being employed for such inscription or
design. The inscription or design so imparted to the surface of the
balloon will obviously be enlarged upon the inflation of the latter; or the
balloon may, if desired, be temporarily inflated or distended before the
application of the stencil plates.
In cases in which it is desired that the balloon should appear to be
formed of segments of different colours or otherwise ornamented or
shaded, it is. turned inside out, and the colouring, ornamentation, or
shading applied to the surface so exposed, after which the balloon is
turned back or reversed, and inflated with air, hydrogen, or coal gas.
It is obvious that this Inventions admits of the production of very
brilliant and striking effects, both in respect of colour and design, and of
embracing and illustrating any conceivable object or subject.
The balloons prepared and ornamented as before mentioned may be
suspended or placed, after inflation, in any desired situations and positions,
and will afford a most efficacious and pleasing mode of making public
announcements.

page_text: Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original and therefore claim
as constituting the said Invention is, the methods of preparing and
ornamenting balloons formed of caoutchouc, substantially as and for the
purposes herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.