Improvements in Show Cards, Sign Boards, Name Plates, and - such like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Show Cards, Sign Boards, Name Plates, and
- such like.
I, JOHN TAYLOR LEIGHTON, of 20, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to show cards, sign boards, name plates, and such like
and it has for its object to give a brilliant or sparkling appearance and also a
depth or body to such devices.
In carrying out my invention I make the show card, or such like, with a frame
in which is secured a face plate of corrugated, ribbed, pyramidical, rippled, or
like glass. Painted or otherwise formed upon the glass face plate is the name,
wording, designs, or such like to be shown or advertised.
The face plate consists of thin rolled plate or sheet glass cut to the proper size.
The background is formed of any suitable foil capable of giving a scintillating
or lustrous effect, such as tin, silver or gold foil. Instead of using foil silvered
or gilded paper or such like may be used.
The foil or the like is not placed against the glass but at a short distance back
from it, say, in the case of show cards, about 1 or 2 inches.
It is found that by using corrugated or like sheet glass and placing. the foil
at a short distance back from the glass a very brilliant and sparkling effect is
produced and at the same time a depth or body is given to the show card or
the like.
The ribs of the corrugated glass can be either vertical, horizontal or inclined
at an angle.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Show Cards, Sign Boards, Name Plates, and
such like.
I, JOHN TAYLOR LEIGHTON, of 20, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Gentleman, 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:-
My invention is devised with the object of producing novel, striking and
effective means to be advantageously availed. of for the purposes of display and
advertisement.
The device according to my invention assumes the form of either a show-card

page_text: or case, sign-board, name-plate, show-case,
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"exhibition case &c. according to
the requirements of the display purposes intended to be served.
In carrying out my invention, and taking by way of illustration, its application
to enclosed or glazed show cards; I employ, as a face plate, corrugated, rippled,
or ribbed glass of the requisite thickness. Instead however of the glass being
corrugated, rippled or ribbed, as aforesaid, its surface may have pyramidical,
prismatic, or like formations thereupon. Said front or face plate of the device
is enclosed in a suitable surrounding frame. Then, at at a short distance away
from and in rear of, the glazed front plate or face, I dispose on a suitable backing
or "foundation," any suitable "foil" capable of emitting or imparting a scintil-
lating or lustrous effect. To this end I may employ say either tin, silver, or gold,
"foil"; or, in lieu of these, silvered or gilded paper might be adopted. I have
found that by the use of a background such as I have described, placed at a
short distance in rear of the hereinbefore described glass front or face plate, a
very brilliant and sparkling effect is produced, whilst at the same time, the
show card or the like will appear to have a volume, depth or capacity, considerably
in excess of the actually intervening space-of say 2 inches between the back-
ground and face plate.
I wish it to be understood that I do not restrict myself to the direction which
the corrugations may assume, as it might be either vertical, horizontal, or
inclined.
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The front plate or face of the device would have, painted or otherwise formed
or attached thereon, the announcement, design or the like, to be displayed.
With a view to enhance the herein before described scintillating effect, I may,
advantageously supplement the foil" background by the addition thereto-as
a dressing or coating-of metal or other sparkling particles, such for instance as
steel filings; and also introduce in the enclosing sides of the device, mirrors,
which may be of variegated colors, so disposed as to reflect upon the background
aforesaid and likewise to produce the result of peering as it were into distance,
due to the appearance of the increased depth or body imparted to the device.
A further enhancement of the resultant effect would be produced by introducing
illumination of the interior of the device by means of incandescent electric lamps,
or other illuminating means, in combination with transparent letters or designs,
on the glass front. Also, I might, without departing from my invention, as
herein set forth; form an aperture in the back of the device and introduce
therein any suitable advertisement, design or the like.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the applications
herein before named to which my invention may be put, and which I have named
by way of example, as there are many others which will readily suggest them-
selves, say for instance in connection with the production of stage effects and
so forth.
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:―
First In glazed display devices such as those herein referred to, constructing
same with a front or face plate of corrugated, ribbed, rippled or like glass, and
with an intervening space between said front or face plate and the
foil" or
like background of the combination device, in the manner substantially a
herein described, and for the purposes set forth.
Second: The combination device of a show card, show case, signboard, nam
plate or the like, embodying the essential distinctive features set out in the
preceding claim.
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