IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING NAMES AND DEVICES TO STOPPERS, CAPSULES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Fleming White Templeton, of the City of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Merchant, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING NAMES AND DEVICES TO
STOPPERS, CAPSULES, AND OTHER ARTICLES.”
Sealed the 20th October 1871, and dated the 16th June 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Fleming White
Templeton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th June 1871.
I, JOHN FLEMING WHITE TEMPLETON, of the City of Glasgow, in the
3 County of Lanark, North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING NAMES AND
DEVICES TO STOPPERS, CAPSULES, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows, that
is to say :-
The nature of my said Invention consists in the use of improved
cements (formed of the ingredients and in the manner herein-after
stated), for the new or novel application or purpose of coating and
cementing, or fixing or attaching all manner of labels, as trade marks,

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descriptive or ornamental “ "" tickets or devices, previously printed in
plain or embossed black or pictorial colours on paper, cloth, or sheet
metal, to cork, wood, and other stoppers for bottles and other vessels, or
to metallic and other capsules and coverings for these, and of packets,
canisters, and boxes, or to the lids or cases of these, all with equal case
and simplicity and more securely, with less liability to be loosened or
injured by moisture or the action of the mass of commercial liquids and
substances put up in such labelled bottles and packages than such labels
have been attached by the ordinary means, and gums soluble in water
which have heretofore been used.
And the mode and means of performing my said Invention consists,
first, in making the said cements of the following ingredients; and,
second, in using or applying it to the said special new purpose by
spreading it over either or both the surfaces of the label and article to
be attached or cemented, either with or without the application of heat
to the cement, or to the articles to which it is applied, all substantially
as follows:-I take one gallon of spirits, or pure spirits of wine, or
of mythelated spirits of wine, of the strength of fifteen degrees over
proof (15° o.p.) and upwards; or it may also be of one gallon of naphtha
of a specific gravity of eight hundred and fifty degrees Baume (850°
Baume) and upwards, or of other equivalent mineral or wood naphtha,
benzole spirit, or turpentine, dissolved with rosin (until it becomes of
a sticky or gummy nature) of from one and a half pounds to eight
pounds of pure or common commercial rosin to the gallon of the
dissolvent answering very well. Other rosins or resinous gums may
also be used, as herein-after named, which are only soluble in these
strong dissolving spirits, oils, naphthas, or turpentine, or a mixture of
these which evaporates quickly, and leaves only the hard sticky resinous
gums, lacs, or cements. I then with a small brush or other equivalent
coat the surface of the capsule, or other material or article to which
the label is to be attached, with the thin cementing solution so dissolved,
and catch the label with the brush or otherwise, and apply it to the
coated surface (to which the label is to be attached), then draw or
slightly press the brush over the top of the label, so as to remove or
express any air that may be between the adhering surfaces, which
completes the process; the mere standing exposed for a short timo
evaporates the spirit or solvent, and leaves the labels so firmly attached
that no ordinary usage or the action of ordinary spirits, vinegars, or

page_text: other articles for which the great mass of such labels are used, will
soften, loosen, or remove them.
.
The operation of putting on and cementing the labels can also be
done by coating their under side with or by dipping them into the
solution, and then applying them to the capsules or other surfaces to
which they are to be attached, all otherwise as above described, or by
dipping the tops of the capsules or surfaces of the objects to which
the labels are to be affixed, and then applying. the same on to the
labels, or the labels on to them, as before described; and when the
cement is used thick it may be heated to make it more liquid, and a hot
iron or other metal presser may be used over the label when desired to
affix it more perfectly with the thick cement.
It is to be understood that any of the spirits or naphthas can be used
as a solvent to dissolve the rosins or other gums, or a mixture of these
to form the cement, and to any thickness or glutinous consistency the
operator may consider most suitable for the particular application or
purpose at the time.
:
The following are the gums which I prefer in addition to the common
wood rosin herein-before named, and which are most suitable and capable
of being used and dissolved (individually or conjointly) with the said'
spirits or naphthas to form the cements for my said Invention, namely,
gum shellac, seedillac, mastic, dammer, thus, sandric, ammoniacum,
benzoin, catechu, euphorbia, gulbanum, and guaiacum.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Fleming White Templeton in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 14th December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,. JOHN
FLEMING WHITE TEMPLETON, of the City of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Fleming White Templeton, Her

page_text: special licence that I, the said John Fleming White Templeton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Fleming White Templeton, my executors, administrators, and 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
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING NAMES AND DEVICES
To Stoppers, CAPSULES, AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Fleming White Templeton, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause 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 John Fleming White Templeton, 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, that is to say :-
"
My said Invention has reference to or consists in a new or improved
mode and means of cementing, fixing, or attaching all manner of labels,
as trade marks, descriptive or ornamental "tickets or devices, previously
printed in plain or embossed black or pictorial colours, on paper, cloth,
or sheet metal, to cork, wood, and other stoppers for bottles and other
vessels, or to metallic and other capsules and coverings for these, and of
packets, canisters, and boxes, or to the lids or cases of these with as
much simplicity as attaching such labels with gums soluble in water
in the ordinary manner, while by these improvements they are made
more secure thereto, and not liable to be loosened by moisture or by the
great mass of commercial liquids and substances put up in labelled
_bottles and packages generally, as these have been heretofore.
And the nature and novelty of my said Invention consists substantially
in making and using a cement of the following ingredients, spread over
either or both the surfaces of the label and article to be attached or
cemented: I take one gallon of spirits or pure spirits of wine or of
mythelated spirits of wine, of the strength of fifteen degrees overproof
(15° o.p.) and upwards, or it may also be of one gallon of naphtha of a

page_text: specific gravity of eight hundred and fifty degrees Baume (850° Baume)
and upwards, or of other equivalent mineral or wood naphtha, benzole
spirit, or turpentine, dissolved with rosin, until it becomes of a sticky
or gummy nature of from one and a half pounds to eight pounds of purc
or common commercial rosin to the gallon of the dissolvent answering
very well. Other rosins or resinous gums may also be used.as herein-
after named which are only soluble. in these strong dissolving spirits,
oils, naphthas or turpentine, or a mixture of these which evaporate
quickly, and leave only the hard sticky resinous, gums, lacs, or cements:
I then with a small brush or other equivalent coat the surface of the
capsule, or other material or article to which the label is to be attached
with the thin cementing solution so dissolved, and catch the label with
the brush or otherwise and apply it to the coated surface (to which the
label is to be attached) then draw or slightly press the brush over the
top of the label so as to remove or express any air that may be between
the adhering surfaces which completes the process, the mere standing
exposed for a short time evaporates the spirit or solvent and leaves the
labels so firmly attached that no ordinary usage or the action of ordinary
spirits, vinegars, or other articles for which the great mass of such labels
are used will soften, loosen, or remove them.
"
The operation of putting on and cementing the labels can also be done
by coating their under side with or by dipping them into the solution
and then applying them to the capsules or other surfaces to which they
are to be attached, all otherwise as above described, or by dipping the
tops of the capsules or surfaces of the objects to which the labels are to
be affixed, and then applying the same on the labels or the labels on
to them, as before described. When the labels have been so attached
and dried by the evaporation of the solvents they may be coated over
the surface with common or commercial "crystal" varnish or it may be
other varnishes, as mastic or copal, dissolved as usual in any of the
spirits herein-before mentioned for dissolving the adhesive mixture,
which when dried will give the labels so varnished a brilliant and
transparent appearance or effect.
It is to be understood that any of the spirits or naphthas can be used
as a solvent to dissolve the rosins or other gums, or a mixture of these
to form the cement and to any thickness or glutinous consistency the
operator may consider most suitable for the particular application or
purpose at the time.

page_text: In addition to the wood rosin previously mentioned, the following
are the gums which I prefer, and are most suitable and capable of being
used and dissolved individually or conjointly with the said spirits or
naphthas to form the cements for my said Invention, namely, shellac,
seedillac, mastic, dammer, thus, sandric, ammoniacum, benzoin, and 5
euphorbia.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what
I claim is, the cementing and attaching of trade labels to the capsules,
stoppers, and coverings of bottles, and other vessels, and to packets 1
and boxes, all substantially in the new or improved manner herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fleming White Templeton,
have hercunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 1
and seventy-one.