Improvements in or in the Production of Name Plates and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 30th Oct., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in the Production of Name Plates and the like.
I, LEOPOLD LÜB of 23, Kurstrasse, Berlin in the Empire of Germany, Merchant,
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 has for its object to enable small name plates, sentences or the
like to be composed of separate letters, figures or marks such for instance as may be
employed for forming small name plates as are attached to umbrellas, sticks or
the like.
The essential characteristic of the invention consists in the separate letters or
the like, which are formed of any suitable material and of any suitable size and
shape, being placed in any desired succession on bars or plates and fixed thereon
by their edges being bent over, or vice versa, by the bars or plates being provided
with bent round edges and the letters inserted therein. A further form of con-
struction consists in providing the letters with suitable projections which are
inserted in openings in the bars or plates and bending the projections then round
the edge of the opening in the plate.
These arrangements are shown in Figures 1-12 of the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 shows a bar such as may be employed for instance for forming a small
name plate to be attached to a stick;
Figure 2 is a separate letter in section;
Figures 3 and 4 show how the separate letters a are arranged in the desired
succession on a bar 6 and are connected with the same by bending round their
edges_c. If desired the edges may also be previously bent round and the letters
passed over the bar 6 from the end.
If necessary in order to prevent the letters slipping off the bar, the latter may
as shown in Figure 3* be bent twice at right angles, or small projections, or the
like, may be attached to the ends. If the bar b be attached to any object or article
by the ends, this mode of fastening the letters is less necessary.
In Figures 5-8 a form of construction is shown, in which the edges of the bar b
are bent into channels or flanges c in which the straight letters a are inserted
from the end. By compressing the channels at the ends the letters may if desired
be fastened in the simplest manner possible.
Figures 9-12 finally show a form of construction in which the letters a are
inserted in a slot like opening d formed in the bar 6 and are secured by bending
down the flanges e provided on the letters.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. Letters, figures or marks (a) to be placed on bars or plates (b) or placed or
inserted in slots (d) in the same for the purpose of forming name plates and the
like, the edges of said letters, figures or flanges being adapted to be bent round

page_text: the edge of the bar or plate (b) or slot. (d) in the same for the purpose of fastening
them on substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A form of construction of the arrangement herein described in which instead
of the edges of the letters, figures or marks being bent round, the edges of the
bar or plate (b) are bent to form channels or flanges in which the straight letters
or the like may be inserted from the end, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 29th day of September 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.