Improvements in Means for Ornamenting Cigarette Cases and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Ornamenting Cigarette Cases and the
like.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK WRIGHT of 142* Oxford Street, W. Silversmith, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows,—
This invention relates to an improved method of producing ornamentation
especially intended for use with cigarette and cigar cases, boxes and other fancy
articles, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive arrangement
which will produce an attractive appearance.
In carrying out my invention I employ a silver back ground, the complete
surface of the article to be decorated being of silver. On this back-ground I pro-
pose to form a decorative design of any kind by means of gold wire or gold bands
or strips. This gold wire is laid on the silver back-ground and bent into the
required design or laid in different lengths to form the design. When bands or
strips are used they may be laid in straight lengths or curved in the same manner
as the wire, and to complete the arrangement, they are soldered or otherwise fixed
to the back-ground. The wires or strips are thus fixed on the silver back-ground,
and where solder is employed the complete arrangement may be heated after
placing the wire in position until the parts are thoroughly fixed together.
An attractive form of ornament is thus provided by an inexpensive method,
the arrangement being especially applicable for cigarette, cigar, and other cases.
Dated this 13th day of February 1807
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London. Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Means for Ornamenting Cigarette Cases and the
like.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK WRIGHT of 142^,, Oxford Street, W, Silversmith, 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 an improved method of producing ornamentation
especially intended for use with cigarette and cigar cases, boxes and other fancy
articles, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive arrangement
which will produce an attractive appearance.

page_text: In carrying out my invention I employ a silver back ground, the complete
surface of the article to be decorated being of silver. On this back ground I pro-
pose to form a decorative design of any kind by means of gold wire or gold bands
or strips. This gold wire is laid on the silver background and bent into the
required design or laid in different lengths to form the design. When bands or
strips are used they may be laid in straight lengths or curved in the same manner
as the wire, and to complete the arrangement, they are soldered or otherwise fixed
to the background. The 'wires or strips are thus fixed on the silver back ground,
and where solder is employed the complete arrangement may be heated after
placing the wire in position until the parts are thoroughly fixed together.
An attractive form of ornament is thus provided by an inexpensive method,
the arrangement being especially applicable for cigarette, cigar and other cases.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had
to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig 1 is a plan of a cigar case
showing my improved method of ornamentation and Fig 2 is a cross section.
On the case A which is of metal, preferably silver, or is provided with a silver
covering plate, gold bands B are placed. These in the arrangement shown are
flat bands and arranged in parallel lines but as above described they can be bent into
any decorative form. These bands are laid on the silver back ground and are
then soldered so that there is no danger of their coming off.
Instead of flat bands B, wires 13 may be used as shown.
The invention is shown as applied to cigar cases, but it is equally applicable
to any other article which requires ornamentation such as cases for containing
photographs and the like.
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―
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(1) An improved means for ornamenting, consisting in laying strips or wires
of gold or other suitable metal upon a metal back ground, the strips or wires
forming a decorative design and soldering the said wires or strips, substantially
as described and for the purposes specified.
(2) An improved means for ornamenting cigar and cigarette cases and other
articles, consisting in placing upon a silver case or covering plate strips or wires
of gold bent so as to form a decorative design and soldering the strips or wires
after they have been laid in position, substantially as described, and shown and
for the purposes specified.
Dated this 15th day of Nacombon 1007
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London. Agent for the Applicant.