Improvements in Name Plates and other similar Tablets for Adver- tising, such as Facias, Swing and Fixed Signs, Stall Plates, Church Tablets, Advertisement Tablets, and for General Decorative Purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Name Plates and other similar Tablets for Adver-
tising, such as Facias, Swing and Fixed Signs, Stall Plates, Church
Tablets, Advertisement Tablets, and for General Decorative
Purposes.
WILLIAM THOMAS WATERS, 65, Goods Station Road, Tunbridge Wells, SAMUEL
ALBERT WATERS, 30c, Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, and ALFRED ARCHIBALD
WATERS, 30c, Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, all Decorators, trading as
S. Waters & Sons, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A stout cardboard or other material is affixed to a slab of wood, metal or other
material & is painted one or more coats. A suitable design is painted or stencilled
thereon with Japan gold size, oil or varnish of a proper consistence. This design
is then dusted over with sawdust which becomes saturated with the medium of
the design & thus becomes an embossed or raised ornamentation. This orna-
mentation is then painted and may be guilded or silvered or it may be enamelled
with any suitable colour wood, metal, or other suitable make of letters are then
affixed to this prepared background in any ordinary way & the whole is suitably
framed & fronted with glass.
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1000.
WILLIAM THOMAS WATERS.
SAMUEL ALBERT WATERS.
ALFRED ARCHIBALD WATERS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Name Plates and other similar Tablets for Adver-
tising, such as Facias, Swing and Fixed Signs, Stall Plates, Church
Tablets, Advertisement Tablets, and for General Decorative
Purposes.
We, WILLIAM THOMAS WATERS, late of 65, Goods Station Road, but now of
30c, Grosvenor Road, SAMUEL ALBERT WATERS, and ALFRED ARCHIBALD
WATERS, each of 30c, Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, in the County of Kent,
Sign Writers, 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 a new method of constructing name plates, or other
similar advertisements, such as facias, swing and fixed signs, stall plates, church
tablets, advertisement tablets, and for general decorative purposes.
It consists of a stout card board or other substance which is affixed to a slab
of wood, metal, or other material, and is painted one or more coats. A suitable

page_text: design is then painted or stencilled thereon, with Japan gold size, oil, or varnish
of a proper consistence. This design is then dusted over with saw-dust, which
becomes thereby saturated with the medium of the design, and thus becomes an
embossed or raised ornamentation. This ornamentation is then painted and may
be gilded or silvered, or it may be enamelled with any suitable colour. Wood,
metal, or other make of letters are then affixed to this prepared background in
any ordinary way, and the whole may be suitably framed and fronted with glass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
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1st. A background of card board, wood, metal, or other substance painted to
receive a painted or stencilled design upon it as above described.
2nd. A design painted or stencilled on a prepared surface, the medium of the
design being composed of Japan gold size, oil, or varnish, and the design dusted
over with saw-dust till it produces an embossed or raised ornamentation as above
described.
3rd. An embossed or raised ornamental design having the whole or parts of
the surface covered with gold, silver, or other metal leaf, or metallic powder, or
enamelled in any colour as above described.
4th. An embossed metallic or enamelled faced ornamental background, having
wood, metal, or other make of letters suitably prepared and affixed thereon, and
the whole may be framed and glazed as above described.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1898
WILLIAM THOMAS WATERS.
SAMUEL ALBERT WATERS.
ALFRED ARCHIBALD WATERS.