Improvements in or connected with Show, Advertising, and Calendar Cards.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Show, Advertising, and
Calendar Cards.
I, JAMES CHALLIS, of Fernbank, 35, Mildenhall Road, Clapton, in the County
of London Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention relates to a simple and cheap construction of show or advertising
cards, and the frames for holding and suspending them.
In forming a frame for such cards, I glue or otherwise fix together several
strips of cardboard, wood, or other light and cheap material, these strips being
of different widths. When four strips are used, the front strip may be ornamented
by a covering of decorated paper; the second strip is somewhat wider extending
inwards beyond the front strip, the inward projection being gilt or otherwise
ornamented to form a border.
The third strip is narrower than the second so as to form with it a rebate to
receive the border of the shew card which is held in the rebate by paper pasted
partly over the backs of the card and of the third strip.
The fourth strip is considerably narrower than any of the others. All the
strips are flush along the outer side, and they give the appearance of a solid
frame.
Instead of four strips, only two may be used, the front wider than the second
so as to form a rebate for receiving the card, and in this case a third narrow
strip may be added at the back. When the card is to have a calendar of the
known kind consisting of a pile of sheets of paper bearing successive dates, I
cut a rectangular hole, somewhat smaller than the calendar sheet, through the
middle part of the card which had been embossed by pressing up the material of
the card so that it presents at the back a recess or rebate around the hole. In
this recess I place the pile of calendar sheets securing them by paper pasted
over the back. Each sheet presents in front a portion of a calendar for day,
week or other period seen through the hole of the card, and when the period has
expired, the front sheet can be torn away leaving the next sheet visible. Obviously
sheets containing other matter may be accommodated in the same way.
In order to stiffen the card and prevent it from warping, I glue or otherwise
cement to its back a sheet of card which is corrugated by an embossing press
or rollers, the corrugations having on the one side of the sheet the surfaces which
are to be cemented quite flat.
For suspending the show, or advertising card I attach to its back two pieces
of sheet metal each stamped to the form of a hollow oval with two holes through
it.
One of these holes is made counter-sunk by punching the metal around it
inwards, this countersink receiving the head of a screw by which the metal piece
is secured to the card or its frame.
The other hole is made with a rounded edge or fitted with an eyelet; through

page_text: this the suspending cord is passed and knotted before the piece is screwed on,
the hollow of the piece accommodating the knot.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
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Improvements in or connected with Show. Advertising, and
Calendar Cards
I, JAMES CHALLIS, of Fernbank, 35, Mildenhall Road, Clapton, in the County
of London, Manager, 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:-
My invention relates to a simple and cheap construction of show or advertising
cards and the frames for holding and suspending them, as I shall describe
referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. I is a section and Fig. 2 is a corner plan of a frame made up of four
strips.
Fig. 3 is a section and Fig. 4 is a part plan of a frame made up of two strips
and provided with fixing for suspending cord.
Fig. 5 is a section of card arranged to hold a number of calendar sheets or
the like.
In forming a frame for show or advertising cards I glue or otherwise fix
together several strips of card-board, wood, or other light and cheap material,
these strips being of different widths. When four strips are used as shewn in
Figs. 1 and 2, the front strip a may be ornamented by a covering of decorated
paper, the second strip is somewhat wider extending inwards beyond the front
strip, the inward projection being gilt or otherwise ornamented to form a
border.
The third strip is narrower than the second so as to form with it a rebate to
receive the border of the show card d which is held in the rebate by paper e
pasted partly over the backs of the card and of the third strip.
All the
The fourth strip f is considerably narrower than any of the others.
strips are flush along the outer side, and they give the appearance of a solid
frame.
I prefer to break joint at the corners of the frame as shewn in Fig. 2. Thus
as the a strip of the side extends through to the end, while the a strip of the
end stops against that of the side, the strip of the side stops against the
strip of the end which extends through to the side, and so on alternately.
Instead of four strips, only two may be used, as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4, the
front wider than the second h, so as to form a rebate for receiving the card,
and in this case a third narrow strip like f may be added at the back. When
the card is to have a calendar of the known kind consisting of a pile of sheets ?
of paper bearing successive dates, I cut a rectangular hole, somewhat smaller
than the calendar sheet, through the middle part of the card which had
been embossed by pressing up the material of the card so that it presents at the
back a recess or rebate 7 around the hole. In this recess I place the pile of
calendar sheets p securing them by paper pasted over the back. Each sheet
presents in front a portion of a calendar for day, week or other period seen through
the hole of the card k, and when the period has expired, the front sheet can be

page_text: torn away leaving the next sheet visible. Obviously sheets containing other
matter may be accommodated in the same way.
For suspending the show, advertising or calendar card, I attach to its back
two pieces of sheet metal each stamped to the form of a hollow oval with two
holes through it.
One of these holes is made countersunk by punching the metal around it
inwards, this countersink receiving the head of a screw by which the metal
piece is secured to the card or its frame.
The other hole is made with a rounded edge or fitted with an eyelet; through
this the suspending cord s is passed and knotted before the piece is screwed on
the hollow of the piece accommodating the knot. Although this fixing is shewn
only in Figs. 3 and 4, it is to be understood that it is applicable to frames such
as are shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A frame for show or advertising cards consisting of superposed strips of
cardboard, wood or the like of suitable widths to form a rebate or a rebate and
also an edging for the card, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1
and 2.
2. A calendar card having a hole cut through its embossed middle to form a
rebate for receiving the calendar sheets, substantially as described with reference
to Fig. 5.
3. For fixing the suspending cord of a show or advertising card, a pair of metal
pieces formed and secured substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3
and
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