Improvements in Enamelled Iron Advertisement-tablets, Name- plates, Wall-plates, and other similar Plates.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Enamelled Iron Advertisement-tablets, Name-
plates, Wall-plates, and other similar Plates.
I JAMES RALPH of the firm of Ralph and Jordan of Bee Hive Works Bilston in
the County of Stafford Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
In the ordinary method of making enamelled iron advertisement tablets name
plates wall plates and other similar plates the letters inscriptions designs and devices
(produced upon a flat enamelled coated ground ordinarily by stencilling enamel
powder upon the said ground) are nearly flat that is they only project above the
surface of the enamelled plate to a distance equal to the thickness of the enamel
producing the said letters inscriptions designs or devices.
My invention consists in producing by a stamping process in the sheet iron plates
from which the advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and other similar plates
are made raised letters or letters in high relief or raised inscriptions designs or
devices and afterwards enamelling the said raised letters inscriptions designs or
devices in the plate instead of producing the letters inscriptions designs or devices
on the flat enamelled ground as usual.
Or instead of producing in the iron plate raised letters inscriptions designs or
devices sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices may be produced by the
stamping process and the said sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices afterwards
enamelled.
The ground of the iron plate in which the raised or sunken letters inscriptions
designs or devices have been produced by the stamping process is enamelled in the
ordinary way.
By the use of my invention the advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and
other similar plates are made more striking to the eye and are more readily read
and seen than enamelled iron advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and other
similar plates of the ordinary kind.
Dated this 7th day of November 1889
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Enamelled Iron Advertisement-tablets, Name-
plates, Wall-plates, and other similar Plates.
1 JAMES RALPH of the firm of Ralph and Jordan of Bee Hive Works Bilston in the
County of Stafford Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In the ordinary method of making enamelled iron advertisement tablets name
plates wall plates and other similar plates the letters inscriptions designs and devices
(produced upon a flat enamelled coated ground ordinarily by stencilling enamel
powder upon the said ground) are nearly flat that is they only project above the
surface of the enamelled plate to a distance equal to the thickness of the enamel
producing the said letters inscriptions designs or devices.
My invention consists in producing by a stamping process in the sheet iron plates
from which the advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and other similar
plates are made raised letters or letters in high relief or raised inscriptions designs or
devices and afterwards enamelling the said raised letters inscriptions designs or

page_text: devices in the plate instead of producing the letters inscriptions designs or devices
on the flat enamelled ground as usual.
Or instead of producing in the iron plate raised letters inscriptions designs or
devices sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices may be produced by the
stamping process and the said sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices afterwards
enamelled.
The ground of the iron plate in which the raised or sunken letters inscriptions
designs or devices have been produced by the stamping process is enamelled in the
ordinary way.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in elevation and Figure 2 in
longitudinal section an enamelled iron advertisement tablet or name plate made
according to my invention in which tablet or name plate raised letters or letters in
high relief are used as shown in the section Figure 2. The said raised letters are
produced in the sheet iron plate by a stamping or raising process conducted in the
ordinary way of raising metals by the stamping process.
have been produced in the sheet iron plate the flat ground of the advertisement tablet
or name plate is enamelled as well as the raised letters the flat ground being enamelled
say of a blue colour and the raised letters say of a white colour but I do not limit
myself to any particular colour of the enamel with which the ground and raised
letters are coated.
After the raised letters
Figure 3 represents an enamelled iron advertisement tablet or name plate in which
a raised device is used in combination with raised letters; Figure 4 represents a
section of the enamelled iron advertisement tablet taken through the raised device
represented in Figure 3. In this tablet the flat ground may be enamelled with a
white enamel the raised letters with a red enamel and the device with a brown
enamel but I do not limit myself to the use of these coloured enamels.
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When sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices are used in place of or
combined with raised letters inscriptions designs or devices the iron plate is treated
in the way already described that is after the sunken letters inscriptions designs or
devices have been formed by the stamping process the flat ground and the sunken
letters or devices are enamelled with different coloured enamels.
By iron I mean either wrought iron or iron containing carbon in such limited
proportion as will permit of it to be shaped by the stamping process.
By the use of my invention the advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and
other similar plates are made more striking to the eye and are more readily read and
seen than enamelled iron advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and other
similar plates of the ordinary kind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention :-
The improvements in enamelled iron advertisement tablets name plates wall plates
and other similar plates hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings; that is to say producing by a stamping process in the sheet iron plates
from which the advertisement tablets name plates wall plates and other similar plates
are made raised letters or letters in high relief or raised inscriptions designs or devices
or sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices and afterwards enamelling the said
raised or sunken letters inscriptions designs or devices substantially as herein before
described and illustrated.
Dated the 2012
T
7000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.