IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR, DECORATIVE ADVERTISING AND TRADE MARK ILLUSTRATING
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alphonse Delcour and Jean Baptiste Admant, both of the
City of Paris, in the Republic of France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOTTLES FOR, DECORATIVE ADVERTISING AND TRADE MARK ILLUSTRATING."
Sealed the 2nd January 1880, and dated the 7th July 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alphonse Delcour and Jean
Baptiste Admant at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th July
1879.
ALPHONSE DELCOUR and JEAN BAPTISTE ADMANT, both of the City of Paris, in the
Republic of France. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR DECORATIVE ADVERTISING
AND TRADE MARK ILLUSTRATING."
The object of this Invention is to decorate bottles with illustrations, designs, trade
marks, or for advertising. For instance, the mark of the firm of wine, spirit, beer,
or other merchants, as the case may be, is artistically arranged, and the trade mark
displayed in a manner to enhance the appearance of the bottle, and obviate the
present mode of employing labels, which are frefuenty removed by wet or accident.
By our method the mark, design, advertisement, or so forth is permanently
connected with the bottle, decanter, or flagon by being in a manner incorporated
with it.
This is effected as follows:-The trade mark, design, advertisement, or so forth
is fixed on the bottle by the process known as decalcomanie, on an enameled base
or ground, and then vitrified.
Impressions in chromo are effected by employing vitrifiable colours.
By this method the inscriptions, designs, or otherwise are perfectly adherent to
the glass, and by vitrification become part and parcel thereof, showing clearly even
the minutest detail.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alphonse Delcour and Jean Baptiste Admant in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th January 1880.
ALPHONSE DELCOUR and JEAN BAPTISTE ADMANT, both of the City of Paris, in the
Republic of France. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR DECORATIVE ADVERTISING
AND TRADE MARK ILLUSTRATING.”
The object of our Invention is to utilize as a medium of publicity and illustration
of trade marks the bottles, decanters and such like articles employed in cafés and
Price 927

page_text: other establishments for the sale of drinks, and also generally bottles to which labels
or inscriptions are applied, this publicity being such as to shew, for example, the
name, profession, manufacture, trademark, or address of any tradesman.
We may observe that the idea of the application of the advertising bottle as a
means of publicity-is-not-new,-but-that-it has been impossible to utilize it fully
because-the-advertisement-or trade-mark-has heretofore been placed upon paper
attached to the bottle, this paper frequently becoming detached when the bottle
was cleaned. This serious inconvenience has caused the use of the advertising
bottle to be almost, if not quite, abandoned. All other means substituted for the
paper advertisement or trade mark have also been abandoned on account of the
difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory industrial result.
Our researches have enabled us to overcome all these difficulties, and to utilize
bottles, decanters, and such like articles for purposes of publicity and illustration of
trade marks, by employing a special means of fixing the inscriptions or illustrations
on the said bottles or decanters whereby they cannot be removed.
For this purpose we first form on the part of the bottle or decanter where the
inscription or illustration is to be placed a more or less opaque ground of enamel, by
any suitable process of enamelling, and we then apply upon the surface of the said
enamel ground, by the means known and practised in the art of decaalcomanie, or
by other suitable process, the inscriptions or illustrations prepared in vitrifiable
materials, and we then vitrify the same by heat on to the enamel, whereby the
adhesion to the glass is complete, and the inscription or illustration is perfectly
clear in the smallest details. By means of this process any design, trade mark, or
inscription may be easily reproduced, and impressions in chromo made by the
employment of vitrifiable colours.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to or may be carried into effect, we would have it understood that what
we claim as our Invention is,―
The application to and- use upon bottles, decanters, and such like articles of
inscriptions or illustrations for the purpose of advertising and trade mark illustrating,
produced by forming on the surfaces of the said bottles, decanters, or such like
articles suitable grounds of enamel, upon which are deposited by the process of
decalcomanie or other suitable process the inscriptions or illustrations prepared in
vitrifiable materials, which are subsequently vitrified by heat as herein before
described..
In witness whereof, we, the said Alphonse, Delcour and Jean Baptiste Admant,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
ALPH.
DELCOUR.
(L.S.)
JEAN BAPTISTE ADMANT. (L.S.)