Year: 1897

page_text: Pop 10 Auvertising.
We, FREDERIC RANDAL CRESSWELL, ERNEST JOSEPH JOHN CRESSWELL, ALFRED
GEORGE CRESSWELL, and THEODORE CASSIUS SCHMITZ, trading together as Cresswell
Brothers and Schmitz, of 1 and 2, Red Lion Square, in the County of London,
Sponge Importers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to manufacture articles wholly or partly from
sponge and in such a way as to attract the attention of the public thereto and
thus to advertise the sponges or sponge goods for sale by the person or firm
exhibiting the articles.
The articles which we prefer to make are representations of birds, animals and
human figures, but we may make any article or representation which lends itself
to an attractive form of display or advertisement.
When the article is a comparatively small one we may make it wholly of sponge
cut and trimmed to shape or configuration as required. But where it is of large
size, we provide the article with an interior or body made of wood, cardboard or
other suitable stiff material, and affix thereto an outer shell or covering of sponge
or sponge pieces by means of an adhesive or by other suitable means.
Where required we dye or colour the sponge or sponge pieces, and we prefer-
ably do so before they are cut to shape or affixed to the interior or body.
Dated this 20th day of December 1897
We, FREDERIC RANDAL CRESSWELL, ERNEST JOSEPH JOHN CRESSWELL, ALFRED
GEORGE CRESSWELL, and THEODORE CASSIUS SCHMITZ, trading together as Cresswell
Brothers and Schmitz, of 1 and 2, Red Lion Square, in the County of London,
Sponge Importers, 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:-
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The object of this invention is to manufacture articles wholly or partly from
sponge and in such a way as to attract the attention of the public thereto and

page_text: thus to advertise the sponges or sponge goods for sale by the person or firm
exhibiting the articles.
The articles which we prefer to make are representations of birds, animals and
human figures, but we may make any article or representation which lends itself
to an attractive form of display or advertisement.
When the article is a comparatively small one we may make it wholly of sponge
cut or trimmed to shape or configuration as required. But where it is of large
size, we provide the article with an interior or body made of wood, cardboard,
papier mache or other suitable stiff material either solid or hollow, and affix
thereto an outer shell or covering of sponge or sponge pieces by means of an
adhesive or by other suitable means.
Where required we dye or colour the sponge or sponge pieces, and we prefer-
ably do so before they are cut to shape or affixed to the interior or body.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:―
1. For advertising purposes an article made wholly of sponge or sponge pieces
in the shape or form of a bird, animal or human figure or other representation
substantially as described.
2. For advertising purposes an article made with a body or interior of wood,
cardboard, papier mache, or other suitable stiff material, and an outer shell or
covering of sponge or sponge pieces affixed to said body or interior the whole being
made in the shape or form of a bird, animal or human figure or other representa-
tion substantially as described.
3. For advertising purposes an article made of sponge or sponge pieces in the
shape or form of a bird, animal or human figure or other representation and with
or without an interior or skeleton of a suitable stiff material substantially as
described.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicants.