IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC LETTERS AND NUMERALS
Year: 1884

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WO, BENJAMIN WILLIAM HORNBLOWER of Clifford Street Aston in the county
of Warwick General Engraver, and HENRY FRANKLIN of Summer Lane, Birming
ham, in the county of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC LETTERS
AND NUMERALS, to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object the construction of separato metal letters of
numerals each letter or numeral being upon a separate plate so as to adapt them
for readily being fixed in rotation to form any required word, name or number,
and these letters or numerals are made as follows. We take a dio cut or sunk out
in the form of the metal plate and lettor or numeral required to be made and place
over it a thin metal blank and bring down upon it a stamp which drives the metal
into the die and thus forms a raised or embossed letter or numeral upon a small
metal plate. These letters or numerals may then be slid into a grooved frame of
any suitable material or they may be pierced on their flat surface to enable them
to be screwed or nailed on to any hard material or sewn on to cloth or other
fabric so as to form any desired word or number.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
4 and 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.

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We BENJAMIN WILLIAM HORNBLOWER of Clifford Street Aston in the County
of Warwick General Engraver and HENRY FRANKLIN of Summer Lane Birming-
ham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of our
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC LETTERS
AND NUMERALS and in what inanner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say :—
This invention has for its object the construction of separate metal letters or
numerals each letter or numeral boing upon a separate plate so as to adapt them
for readily being fixed, in rotation to form any required word name or number
and these letters and numerals are made as follows. We take a dio cut or sunk
out in the form of the letter or numeral required to be made and place over it a
thin metal blank and bring down upon it a stamp which drives the metal into the
'die and thus forms a raised or embossed letter or numeral upon a small metal
plate.
These letters or numerals may then be slid into grooved frames of wood metal
or other suitable matrial or they may be pierced on their flat surface to enable
them to be screwed or nailed onto any hard material such as a metal plate or
wooden board.
To either of the above named arrangements letters may be set up for sign boards,
shop windows plates or innumerable other similar purposes. Or small letters may
be made and put up in alphabetical sets in boxes with frames in which to slide
them for childrens use.
Or they may be used when pierced as above described for attaching to wearing
apparel such as uniform or livery.
Another use of these lotters is to attach them to the patterns used for metallic
casting whereby names or numbers can readily be varied.
Or they may be constructed for use as window tickets in the following way
large numerals may be made on say six inch plates pierced for attachment by
wire or string to goods for sale and smaller numerals or letters constructed so ns
to be attached to the larger ones and thus the reading of the prices attached to the
goods can readily be altered.
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Or a pin or spike may be attached to the window tickets to fix them to
the goods.
These arrangements will be casily understood by reference to the drawings in
which Fig. 1. is the front view of a raised or embossed letter and Fig. 2 a sido
view of the same (a) is the outer edge of the blank (b) the point at which it will
be cut off by an ordinary punch which being done and the holes having boen
pierced (when the letters or numerals are required to be screwed nailed or sewn
on) the metal plates with their letters upon them will be as shown at Fig. 3.

page_text: Fig. 4 represents a window ticket with the figure 4 embossed upon it, this figuro
may be made to indicate 4 pence by attaching another smaller plate upon it
carrying a D, as shewn at Fig. 4 or the same large plate may indicate 4 shillings
and 5 or other number of pence by adding instead other small plates as shewn at
Fig. 5 The large plates have three or more holes (C) pierced through them top
and bottom and corresponding holes (O') are pierced through the smaller plates,
so that by passing wire or string through these holes the plates are readily
attached together and to the goods to be marked (X) is a pin which may be
attached as shown or in any other way to the plate when it is required to be stuck
into the goods.
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
The construction of separate metal letters or numerals each being upon a
separate plate so as to adapt them for readily being fixed in rotation to form any
required word name or number substantially as herein set forth and specified.
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Dated this 29th day of June 1885.
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PAYNE & TALBOT,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.