Improvements in Letters for Forming Inscriptions on Panes of Glass.
Year: 1898

page_text: - Date of Application, 30th July, 1898-Accepted, 4th Mar.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters for Forming Inscriptions on Panes of Glass.
We, KARL GAUDIG, Lithographer, of 212, Schönbach Strasse, Leipzig-Stötter-
itz, and JOSEF BECHYNE, Bookbinder, of 18, Peterstein weg, Leipzig, both in the
Empire of Germany, 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 letters hitherto made for affixing separately to panes of glass are unsuitable
so far as they have to be fixed to the outsides of the panes of glass, or windows,
and are too thick, therefore easily knocked off and in the evening only imperfectly
fulfil the object for which they are intended, being made of solid non-translucent
material.
This invention has for its object to obviate these disadvantages by the pro-
duction of suitable letters.
In the accompanying drawing:-Fig. 1 is a combined arrangement of letters,
figures and ornamental illustrations constructed according to this invention,
Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line R R of Fig. 1,
Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a letter, and
Fig. 4 a front view thereof.
The letters S are made translucent and quite thin, being manufactured out of
good thin paper which is made impervious to damp, and translucent like glass
by steeping it and covering it several times with the finest varnish, by which the
inscriptions to be affixed to panes of glass G or windows, and formed by the com-
bination of these letter can be read at night when the windows, rooms or shops
are lighted up. The letters are not liable to be knocked off as being very thin
they project only slightly from the surface of the glass, and can be fastened on
the inside of the window without any of the adhesive material being visible. For
this purpose an adhesive substance is made use of which is transparent and in
the nature of a varnish and having the capacity of attaching itself to glass as is
used in connection with diaphanous and other objects which are attached to
glass. The main feature of the invention lies in the thin separate translucent
letters S, the nature of the production and the size as well as any ornamentation
of which, may be different and selected according to the purpose in view.
In the forming of inscriptions, illustrations of objects F and figures Z pro-
duced in the same way may be combined with the letters.
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. Separate letters for forming inscriptions on panes of glasses, more particu-
larly on windows, the distingushing feature of which is that such letters are
made quite thin and translucent, so as to prevent their being knocked off and to

page_text: enable them to be read at night time from outside, when the windows, rooms or
shops as the case may be, are lighted up.
2. The improved thin translucent letters for forming inscriptions on panes of
glass substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of July 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.