Improvements in Advertisement Tablets or Window Plates for Shops and other Places.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th June, 1896-Accepted, 18th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertisement Tablets or Window Plates for Shops
and other Places.
FREDERICK WILLIAM WILLETT 26, Bath Street, Bristol, Engraver, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A wood, metal or other base, upon which is fixed a non-metallic material, having
an embossed- -or raised-floriated or other ornamental surface, upon which is fixed
raised or embossed-metal, wood or other letters-and the purpose for which it
is to be applied-or used-viz.-for fixing to stall-boards-or window sills of shops
or other buildings, as outside advertisements.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Advertisement Tablets or Window Plates for Shops
and other Places.
I, FREDERICK William WilleTT, of 26, Bath Street, Bristol, Engraver,
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 :-
This invention relates to advertisement and name and number tablets of the kind
usually displayed along the lower edge of the exterior of shop windows and like
places. This invention consists in an improved construction of such tablets or
window plates. According to this invention the tablets or window plates consist
of a base of wood, metal, or other suitable material which is faced with a non-
metallic material. The substance known as lincrusta-walton used for wall
coverings and like purposes is a material well adapted for the facing. The
inaterial employed for the facing is ornamented on the front by embossing,
stamping or otherwise. It forms a back-ground for the letters composing the
words which the tablet or window plate bears. The letters, which are of wood,
metal or other suitable substance, are secured by screws or rivets, or by other
suitable means, preferably driven from the back of the base.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 represents in front view, and Fig. 2 in vertical section, part of a window
plate or tablet made in accordance with this invention.
The base a is of brass, wood, or other suitable material. On the front of the
base a is cemented or otherwise made to adhere a facing b of non-metallic material
which is capable of ornamentation by imparting thereto, by stamping, embossing or
other means, a pattern preferably raised. The material known as lincrusta-walton
is a substance well adapted as a facing for the base of the tablet and bed for the
letters. Other like material may be employed for the facing.
The letters composing the words to be displayed are situated in frout of the
facing. In the drawing, one letter only is shown as an example, namely, the

page_text: letter M." The letters are secured, as in the example illustrated, by screws
such as c, preferably driven in from behind the base. The letters may, however,
be secured by rivets, or by other suitable means.
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 :
―:
Window plates and advertisement tablets, consisting of a base or foundation of
metal, wood or other suitable substance, faced with lincrusta-walton or the like
material ornamented by embossing, stamping or other method; said facing being
the background for the letters composing the words constituting the matter
displayed.
Doted this 15th dor of June 1808
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.