Programmes, and Invitation Cards, suitable also for Note Paper, Circulars, Improvements relating to Menu Cards, Almanacks, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Ball
Programmes, and
Invitation Cards, suitable also for Note Paper, Circulars,
Improvements relating to Menu Cards,
Almanacks, and the like.
MARY WALLACE UTTING, St. Anns Hill Anfield Liverpool Matron do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
By having an open space, or spaces, left, for the insertion or attachment, of, "A
photograph, or view," transparances, or the like, they can be made to take, any form
or shape, such as oval, square, shield shape, the view, or iransparancies, can be inserted
through a slit, or not, as necessary.
Dated this 31st day of Cishor 1888
MARY WALLACE UTTING.

page_text: Improvements relating to Menu Cards, Ball Programmes,
and
Invitation Cards, suitable also for Note Paper, Circulars,
Almanacks, and the like.
1 MARY WALLACE UTTING of St. Anns Hill, Anfield Road, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancashire, Gentlewoman, 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 certain improvements in menu or invitation cards, ball
programmes, note paper, trade circulars, almanacks, and to other similar articles of
stationery, the object of the invention being to render them more attractive in
appearance and more useful than hitherto.
The invention consists of placing a transparent or similar view or views or the like
over an open space or spaces in a menu or invention card, ball programme, sheet of
note paper, trade circular, almanack or other similar article of stationery.
The menu or invitation card, ball programme, or other similar article on to which
a transparency is to be placed, is provided with an open space made or cut in any
convenient part thereof, the said open space being of a square, oval, circular, shield or
other shape according to taste or to the configuration of the transparency to be used.
The transparency is placed over this open space, and gummed or otherwise affixed to
the edges thereof, or passed through suitable slits or under strips cut or otherwise
formed upon or around the edges of the said open space after the manner of the slits
or strips used for holding photographs in albums or tho said transparency may be
kept in position by any other retaining device which is found suitable to the material
of which the card &c. is made. The transparency may be a landscape or. other view,
or may consist of a plain background with advertisements or other information
thereon, printed or otherwise. Any number of transparencies may be placed over
corresponding open spaces on the same card or other article as desired.
Cards or other articles with open spaces over which transparencies are placed
will present a pleasing and novel appearance when held between the light, and if
desired can be used as a cheap form of slide for magic lanterns.
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
A menu or invitation card, ball programme, sheet of note paper, trade circular,
almanack, or other similar article of stationery, provided with an open space or
spaces over which is or are placed a transparent or similar view or views or the like,
substantially in the manner herein described, and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 27th day of November 1888.
Dated this 27th day of November 1888.
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office,
54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.