IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ORNAMENTING IN COLORS THE SIDES OF METALLIC CAPSULES.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Betts, of Wharf Road, City Road, in
the County of Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ORNAMENTING IN COLORS THE SIDES OF
METALLIC CAPSULES.'
"
Sealed the 23rd September 1878, and dated the 1st August 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Betts at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st August 1878.
I WILLIAM BEATS, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ORNAMENTING IN COLORS
THE SIDES OF METALLIC CAPSULES," to be as follows:—
This Invention consists in the application and use to and in the
ornamenting in colors the sides of champagne and other metallic
capsules, where they have been previously embossed, of a peculiar
stencil plate of thin metal, made with a double curve to fit accurately

page_text: over the curved surface of the capsule to be ornamented. Each of the
curved or bent parts of the said stencil plate has an opening cut therein
of a form or contour to suit the general contour of the embossed portions
on the side of the capsule. The capsule having been previously embossed
on the side is placed upon a wooden or other mandril, mounted loosely
on a stud in a bracket secured to the work bench; and one of the curves
or bent portions of the stencil plate is placed or adjusted thereon, so
that its opening shall accurately fit round or enclose the embossed part
to be colored of the side of the capsule; colour is then applied to the
raised parts of the capsule left exposed by a small hand roller, after
which the mandril with the capsule is turned half round and the second
curved or bent part of the stencil plate is similarly adjusted and the
color applied as before.
When designs of more than one color are used a separate stencil plate
will be required for each color. Thus both sides of a capsule are colored
without removing it from its mandril, whereby great rapidity of action
is obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Betts in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BETTS, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Capsule
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the 37th
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Betts, Her special license, that I, the
said William Betts, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Betts, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed; should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle

page_text: of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ORNAMENTING
IN COLORS THE SIDES OF METALLIC CAPSULES;" upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Betts, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what-
manner the same was to be performed; and cäuse the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said- William Betts, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to a peculiar construction of apparatus for
ornamenting in colours the sides of metallic capsules in an economical
manner.
Capsules being used in great numbers for securing the tops of bottles,
and frequently for beer and inexpensive liquors, and therefore necessarily
having to be made at a very low cost, the ornamenting of them in
colours must be done at the smallest possible expence of labour and
time compatible with certainty and perfection of workmanship; other-
wise the loss by spoiled and imperfect capsules would stop the manu-
facture, or the price at which they could be made would be too high for
the useful application of them to the bottles.
My improved apparatus is to be employed for colouring the letters or
marks on both sides of the cylindrical part of the capsule which have
been raised of impressed thereon, and this colouring is to be done in one
operation, without femoving the capsule from the mandril on which it is
placed. The die being carefully engraved, so that the letters when
raised on the capsule are of the same height, it may be supposed that
this capsulë baš on one side of it some letters of marks occupying a
spice represented by an oval, and on the other side by a square or any
other cognate form. I then take a piece of thin flexible brass or steel,
about free inches wide according to the size of capsule and about nine
intiles long, and I cut two orifices about the middle of it exactly corres-
potting to the oval and the square, and at such a distance apart that it
isitief more than the distance between the oval and square'us impressed

page_text: Of course any number of colors may be applied by using a corresponding
stencil plate for each colour.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
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First. The application and use of the peculiar curved stencil plate
attached to a handle or holder, substantially as and for the purpose-
) herein-before described.
Second. The use in conjunction with the above of a loose mandril
mounted on a fixed bracket or holder, and a hand coloring roller, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein-before described.
Third. The general arrangement and combination of apparatus for
5 coloring the raised or embossed parts on the sides of soft metal capsules
for bottles or other like vessels, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of
January, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.