A NEW AND IMPROVED AND DURABLE METHOD OF LABELING BOTTLES, AND SUCH LIKE
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William John Bisseker, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW AND
IMPROVED AND DURABLE METHOD OF LABELING BOTTLES, AND SUCH LIKE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William John Bisseker at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th October 1854.
LIKE
I, WILLIAM JOHN BISSEKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A New
AND IMPROVED AND DURABLE METHOD OF LABELING BOTTLES, AND SUCH
VESSELS OR ARTICLES AS REQUIRE OR MAY REQUIRE LABELING," to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists in makeing labels of metal, such labels haveing
the name or design impressed upon it by dies or any other method, and for
such labels to be bent to the form of the bottle or vessel or any other article,
or put on flat if the bottle or article should require it flat, and for such labels
to be fastened on by cement or any other necessary process; and I sometimes
make an indenture in the bottle, vessel, or article, in which indenture or
depression the metal label is inserted and fastened so that the metal label may

page_text: be flush with the bottle, vessel, or article, and also that the metal label shall
be, if required, painted or enameled, such metal labels being a beautifull,
durcable, and cheap method of labeling.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William John Bisseker in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th January 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JOHN BISSEKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS. Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred, and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William. John Bisseker, Her special licence that I, the said
William John Bisseker, my executors, adininistrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William John Bisseker, 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 Inven-
tion for "A NEW AND IMPROVED AND DURABLE METHOD OF LABELING BOTTLES,
AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS OR ARTICLES AS REQUIRE OR MAY REQUIRE LABELING,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William John Bisseker,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 William John Bisseker, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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) :-
This Invention consists in manufacturing metal labels for bottles and similar
purposes, curved or otherwise formed to fit to the contour of the bottle or other.
vessels for which they are intended, the form, inscriptions, and devices upon
such labels being pressed, indented, engraved, or marked by dies or any other

page_text: convenient method; also such metal labels may be painted or enameled, suit-
able to what may be required, and the aforesaid metal labels are fastened on
by cement or any other convenient process; and I sometimes make an inden-
tation in the bottle or vessel in which the metal label may be inserted, so that
the surface of the label may be flush with the general surface of the bottle,
vessel, or other article.
CLAIM. The manufacture and construction of metallic labels for bottles, and
such like vessels or articles as require or may require labeling, such labels
being shaped so as to fit the surface of the bottle or other vessel.
In witness whereof, I, the said William John Bisseker, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JAMES MURDOCH.
WILLIAM JOHN BISSEKER. (L.S.)