Improvements in Letters for Signs and other Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters for Signs and other Purposes.
I ROBERT FERGUS SMITH of 29 Degby Road, Finsbury Park London, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The letters are formed in pieces of any suitable material the said pieces being
shaped on their bases or foundations square, angular, round, oval, curved or other
form the pieces being such that by the use of a number of two or more shapes any
letter of an alphabet may be constructed, and that as the size or number of the pieces
is increased or diminished so the letters may be made larger or smaller.
London, 7th November 1888.
R. F. SMITH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters for Signs and other Purposes.
I ROBERT FERGUS SMITH of 29 Digby Road, Finsbury Park London 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,
reference being had to the plan views shown on the accompanying two sheets of
drawings
:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in letters for signs and other
purposes the object being to produce letters for signs by putting pieces edge to
edge the said pieces being made of any suitable material and shaped on their bases
as shown in the plans; Figs. 1 to 8 on sheet 1, of the drawings or like any
multiplicate of such forms conjoined.
Fig. 10 illustrates the application of those letter-forming-pieces wherein are shown
the employment or use of the pieces Figs. 2 and 3 of Sheet 1; the dotted lines
showing where the edges of the pieces come together.
Fig. 11, shows the pieces Figs. 7 and 8, of sheet 1, as applied in forming fancy
capitals of an alphabet.
Fig. 12, shows, on reduced scale, the pieces Figs. 7 and 8, as applied in forming
the sinall letters of a fancy alphabet.
It is to be understood that any of the pieces may be of different breadth. The
edges of the pieces are to be right lines or curves.
The said pieces are to have their surfaces flat, raised, concave, convex, round,
curved or angular.
In using this invention, for forming the letters or figures, as the size or number of
the pieces is increased or diminished so the letters may be made larger or smaller and
the pieces may be transposed after use and for reuse.
The pieces will be affixed to the surface, where they will appear as permanent
announcements, by means of cement, white- or red-lead, or other suitable adhesive
medium.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
That by the use of a number of two or more of the said pieces any letter of an
alphabet may be constructed or formed and that as the size of the pieces is increased

page_text: or diminished so the letters will be made larger or smaller, and that the pieces of any
letter or alphabetical sign so formed may be transposed or used interchangeably to
form other letters or signs as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated 14th October 1889
WM. JORDAN,
120, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for R. F. Smith.