IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MOUNTING OF TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND DRAWINGS, AND OF PRODUCING EMBOSSED ORNAMENTATION APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin George George, of Hatton Garden, in
the City of London, Lithographer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MOUNTING OF TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND
DRAWINGS, AND OF PRODUCING EMBOSSED ORNAMENTATION APPLICABLE TO
VARIOUS PURPOSES."
Sealed the 25th March 1862, and dated the 30th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin George George
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th September 1861.
I, BENJAMIN GEORGE GEORGE, of Hatton Garden, in the City of London,
Lithographer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
IN THE MOUNTING OF TABLETS, SHOW BILLS, PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS,
AND DRAWINGS, AND OF PRODUCING EMBOSSED ORNAMENTATION APPLICABLE TO
VARIOUS PURPOSES," to be as follows, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of improvements in the processes which were secured
to me by Letters Patent, the Seventh day of December 1860, and being
No. 3004, and relates chiefly to the mounting of tradesmen's show bills
and other similar articles, the object being to prevent the buckling or warping
to which such articles were formerly liable, in consequence of the varying
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page_text: temperature or humidity of the atmosphere, and this I effect by making a
slab of plaster of Paris, or composition of the shape and size required, upon
which I mount the show bill or other article, securing it to the plaster or
composition back by means of any suitable cement. When it is desired that
the tablet should have an ornamental border, I use moulds formed from a
model of the pattern required, and from which casts may be taken in plaster
of Paris or other composition, and these ornamental portions, whichr epresent
the frame or any other part of the show bill or other design, may be gilt or
painted as desired, and the show bill or design mounted upon the smooth
surface or other portion of the cast. By these means engravings, photographs,
lithographs, and designs of all kinds, whether printed or drawn upon cloth,
paper, or other material, may be perfectly and economically mounted.
My Invention is also applicable to the production of embossed or other
designs applicable to panels, ceilings, walls, cornices, rosettes, and other deco-
rative purposes, the object being to obtain a colored or partially colored
surface, partly by the aid of printing in lieu of the more expensive operations
of painting and gilding, as described in the Specification of my former partly
recited Patent.
SPECIFICATION, in pursuance of the condition of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Benjamin George George in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
GEORGE GEORGE, of Hatton Garden, in the City of London, Lithographer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight-hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of. Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Benjamin George George, Her special licence that I, the said Benjamin
George George, my executors, adininistrators, 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 "IMPROVE

page_text: MENTS IN THE MOUNTING OF TABLETS. SHOW BILLS, PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND
DRAWINGS, AND OF PRODUCING EMBOSSED ORNAMENTATION APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin
George George, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in improvements in the processes which were secured
to me by Letters Patent, dated the Seventh day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty, and being No. 3004, and relates chiefly to the
mounting of tradesmen's show bills and other similar articles, the object being
to prevent the buckling or warping to which such articles were formerly liable
in consequence of the varying temperature or humidity of the atmosphere, and
also to produce at a trifling cost the appearance of framing; and this I effect
by making a slab of plaster of Paris, paper machi, or composition of mineral
or vegetable substances of the shape and size required, upon which I mount
the show bill or other article, securing it to the plaster or composition back
by means of any suitable cement. When it is desired that the tablet should
have an ornamental border or framing, or any ornament, or in relief, I use
inoulds formed from a model of the pattern or design required, and from which
casts may be taken in plaster of Paris or other composition; and these orna-
mental portions, which may represent the frame, or any other part of the show
bill or other design, may be gilt or painted or otherwise ornamented, as desired,
and the show bill or design may be mounted upon the smooth or other portion
of the cast, and the whole or any part thereof may then be covered with
varnish,gelatine,glass, or other suitable preserving material. By these means
engravings, photographs, lithographs, and designs of all kinds, whether
printed, drawn, or otherwise impressed upon cloth, paper, or other material
may be perfectly and economically mounted.
My Invention is also applicable to the production of embossed or other
designs applicable to panels, ceilings, walls, cornices, rosettes, and other
decorative purposes, the object being to obtain a colored or partially

page_text: coloured surface, partly by the aid of printing or otherwise, in lieu of the
more expensive operations of painting and gilding, as described in the
Specification of my former partly recited Patent.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin George George, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 29th day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
BENJAMIN GEORGE GEORGE. (L.s.)