IMPROVEMENTS IN PROTECTIVE LABELS FOR BOTTLES, JABS, AND SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Betts, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PROTECTIVE LABELS FOR BOTTLES, JABS, AND
SIMILAR VESSELS."
Sealed the 19th September 1865, and dated the 25th March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Betts at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
March 1865.
I, WILLIAM BETTS, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PROTECTIVE LABELS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in making the label a magnified fac-simile or
imitation of the embossed and coloured top of the capsule which covers the
mouth of the bottle or jar. For this purpose the paper is prepared with a
metallic surface to represent the top of the capsule, and is also embossed, so
that the letters or trade mark on the top of the capsule may be represented
on the label; if the trade mark is coloured on the capsule it must be also
coloured on the label.

page_text: The above label combines the advantage of being a caution to the public,
directing them to the examination of the capsule, with the advantage of
bringing before the. public conspicuously the trade mark of the firm on a
much larger scale than can be done on the limited space afforded by the top
of the capsule, and the capsule is so put on the mouth of the bottle that it
cannot be removed without destruction; when, therefore, the label and
capsule are perfect and intact, and also perfect in resemblance, fraudulent
substitution is impossible, and the purchaser is assured of the identity of the
goods so protected or labelled and capsuled.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Betts' in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th September 1865. -
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BETTS, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Capsule
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Betts, Her special license that I, the
said William Betts, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Betts, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at al
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 Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PROTECTIVE LABELS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Betts,
my executors or administrators, 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 Betts, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :---
My said Invention consists in making protective labels a magnified fac-
simile or imitation of the embossed and coloured top of the capsule which
covers the mouth of the bottle or jar to which such label is to be applied.
For this purpose the paper is prepared with a metallic surface to represent
the top of the capsule, and may also be embossed, so that the letters or trade
mark on the top of the capsule may be represented on the label, and if the
trade mark is coloured on the capsule it must be also coloured on the label.
The mode which I prefer to adopt, in practice, for making my fac-simile
labels, but to which I do not confine or restrict myself, consists of what is
known as Kronheim's process. For example, if a label having a metallic
and colored embossed surface is required, I first print from a stereotype or
other suitable printing surface in an ordinary lever printing press those parts
on the sheet which are to be metallized in ordinary gold size, after which the
metal, whether in the form of leaf or bronze powder, is applied in the usual
manner. The colored parts are then printed either by the size and powdered
colors or by colored ink in the well-known manner. The final operation of
embossing is then effected by the aid of "forces" composed of paper, gutta
percha, leather, india-rubber, or other suitable material, which are brought
down upon the paper with considerable pressure, and force it into a sunk
metal block or matrix of the design required, which completes a sheet of
labels.
The above label combines the advantage of being a caution to the public,
directing them to the examination of the capsule, with the advantage of
bringing before the public conspicuously the trade mark of the firm and other
minute characters or devices on a much larger scale than can be done on the
limited space afforded by the top of the capsule, and the capsule is so put on
the mouth of the bottle that it cannot be removed without destruction; when,
therefore, the label and capsule are perfect and intact, and also perfect in
resemblance, fraudulent substitution is impossible, and the purchaser is
assured of the identity of the goods so protected or labelled and capsuled.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the application and use of
protective labels which are a magnified or enlarged fac-simile or copy of the
head of the capsule, and the device or design thereon covering the bottle,

page_text: jar, or other similar vessel to which such label is to be applied with a view to
the prevention of fraud.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have to this my
Specification hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day
of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
WILLIAM BETTS. (L.S.)