A New or Improved Method of Producing Inscriptions or Decorations on Tombstones, Monuments, Memorial Tablets and the like, and means therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Producing Inscriptions or Decorations
on Tombstones, Monuments, Memorial Tablets and the like, and
means therefor.
I, CHARLES Foxon of Croft, in the County of Leicester, Builder, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved method of producing
inscriptions or decorations on tombstones, monuments,, memorial tablets and the
like, and to means or apparatus therefor, and is. specially applicable to such as are
constructed or composed of concrete or suitable composition.
The inscription or decoration is. first set up on a board or equivalent, and then
placed face downwards on the tombstone or the like while it is in a plastic
condition, sufficient pressure being brought to bear upon the wood pattern to cause
the letters or decoration to sink the required depth into the material so that when
the pattern is removed the inscription or decoration will be imprinted or impressed
thereon.
The letters or decoration used in the pattern may be of wood, metal, or other
suitable material; and. may be fixed to the wood or other patterns. by screws; nails,
or equivalent means.
Tanted the 31st day of July 1891
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved. Method. of Producing Inscriptions or Decorations
on Tombstones, Monuments, Memorial Tablets and, the like, and
means therefor.
I, CHARLES FOXON of Croft, in the County of Leicester, Builder, 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. has reference to a new or improved method of producing
inscriptions,, or decorations upon tombstones, monuments, memorial tablets head
stones, date stones, foundation stones and the like and to means or apparatus
therefor.
It is well known that tombstones and the other articles hereinbefore mentioned
are generally constructed of stone, granite, slate, or marble and the incriptions or
other matter placed thereon is cut or engraved by hand; a process attendant with
considerable expense.
The object of my invention is to provide a suitable substitute for the materials
mentioned for constructing tombstones and other memorial edifices and also to
dispense with the necessity of engraving or cutting the inscriptions by hand,
thereby considerably reducing the cost of production.
For this purpose, I produce tombstones and the other articles mentioned from a
plastic material, the inscriptions or other matter being moulded thereon.
The plastic materials may consist of what is generally known as "concrete "
any other suitable composition.
or of
A composition which answers admirably for the purpose mentioned may consist
of granite or any other suitable natural rock and cement in the proportions of
three parts of the former to one of the latter.

page_text: I, however reserve to myself the right to vary these proportions and also to use
any other materials as component parts of the composition.
The materials mentioned are then mixed with water and stirred about until the
required degree of plasticity is attained.
The plastic material thus formed is next emptied into a frame of a shape
corresponding with that of the tombstone or other memoriam edifice required.
In order, however, to produce the inscriptions or ornamental design upon the
tombstone or the like, the letters or design is first set up on a board or equivalent
being attached thereto by screws, cement or other means.
die
This pattern board or as it may be termed is then placed face downwards
upon the plastic material and sufficient weight or pressure brought to bear upon it
to cause the letters or decoration to sink the required depth into the material so
that when the pattern board or die is subsequently removed the inscription or
decoration will be imprinted or impressed thereon, or the pattern board or "die" may
be placed at the bottom of the frame hereinbefore mentioned & the plastic
emptied thereon with the same result.
The letters which are fixed to the pattern or die may be of wood, metal or other
suitable material and as will be understood are fixed to read the reverse way, that
is, from the right to the left hand side of the pattern or board.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture of tombstones, monuments or other memorial edifices from a
mixture of natural rock and cement or other plastic material with the inscriptions
or decoration moulded thereon substantially in the manner as hereinbefore
described.
2. Producing inscriptions or other ornamental or decorative matter upon
concrete or other composition tombstones or memorial edifices by moulding the
same thereon substantially in the manner herein before described.
3. In the production of inscriptions or other ornamental or decorative matter
upon concrete or other composition tombstones or other memorial edifices, the use
or employment of a pattern or die substantially as hereinbefore described.
4. The method of producing inscriptions upon concrete or other composition
tombstones or other memorial edifices, by first setting up the matter on a board or
pattern and then embedding in the material while in a plastic condition sub-
stantially in the manner as herein before described.
Dated this 27th dog of Anil 1800
Dated this 27th d
7th dog
Anil 1900
CHARLES FOXON.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.