Improvements relating to the Production of Letters or Characters on Fillets or Strips of Wood, Chiefly Designed for Picture Frames and Stretchers, and to Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 13th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 14th Jan., 1887.
Improvements relating to the Production of Letters or Characters
on Fillets or Strips of Wood, Chiefly Designed for Picture Frames
and Stretchers, and to Apparatus therefor.
I, CARL ALBERT OTTO TEMPEL, of the firm of W. Kehrberg and Tempel, Manu-
facturers, of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates chiefly to the fillets or strips from which frames and stretchers
for pictures, placards and similar articles are manufactured.
The object of my invention is to provide such fillets with embossed inscriptions or
characters inseparably united with the said fillets or strips.
To obtain this object I provide the wooden fillets or strips of any cross-section
required, with longitudinal notches or grooves, the breadth of which corresponds
approximatively with the size of the letters or characters to be produced upon such
fillets or strips. These notches or grooves are entirely filled with a mixture of
dissolved glue and chalk, or any other plastic mass, used for facing picture frames.
A fillet or strip thus prepared is then placed beneath a roller on the periphery of
which the inscription or character to be produced is engraved.
In order to provide at the place, where the inscription has to appear, sufficient
plastic material to fill the engraved part of the roller, the latter is provided with a
suitable bulge, which entering the notch or groove of the fillet or strip pushes the
plastic mass therefrom to that part of the fillet or strip where the engraved part of the
roller will touch it. That part of the roller, which levels the plastic material behind
the inscription or character is not bulged but upon the surface of the projections
bordering the longitudinal notch or groove.
Where the plastic mass has been previously removed from the notch, new material
is supplied and levelled by means of a scraper or other suitable tool guided by the
bordering projections.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements relating to the Production of Letters or Characters
on Fillets or Strips of Wood, Chiefly Designed for Picture Frames
and Stretchers, and to Apparatus therefor.
1, CARL ALBERT OTTO TEMPEL, of the firm of W. Kehrberg & Tempel, Manu-
facturers, Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, 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 fillets or strips from which frames and stretchers for
pictures, placards and similar articles are manufactured. The object of my invention
is to provide such fillets with embossed inscriptions or characters inseparably united
with the body portions of the same, and to this end it comprises the improvements
hereinafter described.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the figures of which are
hereinafter referred to.
According to the said invention I provide each wodden fillet or strip e, which may
be of any cross-section required, with a longitudinal notch or groove, the breadth of
which corresponds approximately with the size of the letters to be produced upon such
fillet. Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing shows a cross section of such fillet.
This groove is entirely filled with a mixture of dissolved glue and chalk or any other
plastic mass used for facing picture frames.
The fillet thus prepared is next placed beneath a roller b, upon the periphery of
which the inscription to be produced is engraved.
In order to provide, at the place, where the inscription has to appear, sufficient
plastic material to fill the engraved part of the roller b, the latter is provided with a
suitable bulge a, which, entering into the notch of the fillet, pushes the plastic mass
therefrom to that part of the fillet where the engraved part of the roller will touch the
fillet.
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate in longitudinal section and in front elevation respectively
this action of the roller on the fillet c, the latter being placed on the roller d having
a smooth surface and serving as a support. That part of the roller, which levels the
plastic material behind the inscription is not bulged, but runs upon the surface of the
projections bordering the longitudinal notch, as shown in front elevation in Figure 4
and in longitudinal section in Figure 5.
Where the plastic mass has been previously removed from the notch, new material
is supplied, and levelled by means of a scraper or other suitable tool guided by the
bordering projections.
The fillet will thus show a plane surface with the inscription projecting therefrom,
the said inscription forming a coherent body with the covering layer of the wooden
fillet, as shown in Figure 6.

page_text: 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 :-
First. The method of producing framing fillets having embossed inscriptions or
characters projecting therefrom and forming a coherent body with the layer of the
plastic covering mass, by providing each wooden fillet with a longitudinal notch,
filling up the latter with plastic material, and then exposing the fillet to the pressure
of an engraved roller & provided with a suitable bulge a, substantially as, and for the
purpose, specified.
Second. Framing fillets which are provided with embossed inscriptions projecting
therefrom and produced substantially as described.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.