Improvements in Window Tickets, Show-cards, and similar Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1890-Accepted. 12th Apr.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Window Tickets, Show-cards, and similar Articles.
I, ERNEST SENIOR, of Denton, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
and of London, in the County of Middlesex, Printer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of window tickets, show cards, and similar
articles the lettering or figuring upon which has hitherto been wholly or in part
printed or embossed in gold leaf.
Gold leaf although expensive has been used because other metal leaf or metallic"
preparation soon loses its colour when exposed to the atmosphere.
The object of this invention is to utilize yellow leaf in the preparation of window
tickets, show cards, and the like, in lieu of gold leaf and at the same time produce a
ticket equal in appearance and duration to one prepared with gold leaf.
I propose to make the body of the ticket of card board, paper, or other suitable
material and use what is known as metallic leaf for the printed characters, coating the
whole when completed with a suitable varnish or size which will cover and protect
the face of the ticket or card from the action of the air and prevent it discolouring
the lettering.
In carrying out the invention I prepare the ticket or card and print or emboss the
lettering or figuring thereon in the usual way, using German yellow metal leaf or
other metallic leaf, instead of gold leaf, or gold preparation. The letters or characters
are thus formed on the ticket or card in a metallic leaf in colour closely resembling
gold leaf.
When the printing is finished the ticket is varnished on the printed side
with a suitable stiff varnish or size which will resist the action of the atmosphere.
This varnish covers and protects the metal of which the characters are composed
preventing it being discoloured by the action of the atmosphere, which would other-
wise take place. Such a ticket or card will be less costly and equally durable as
those in which gold leaf is applied to the letters and the varnish will also prevent it
being readily acted upon by damp or moisture.
This invention is a further development or improvement of that for which I have
already applied for Letters Patent under No. 13661 of 1888.
Dated this 8th day of June 1880
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Window Tickets, Show-cards, and similar Articles.
I, ERNEST SENIOR, of Denton, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, and
of London in the County of Middlesex, Printer 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 that class of window tickets, show cards, and similar
articles, the lettering or figuring upon which has hitherto been wholly or in part
printed or embossed in gold leaf.
Gold leaf, although expensive, has been used, because other metal leaf or metallic
preparation soon loses its colour when exposed to the atmosphere.
The object of this invention is to utilize yellow leaf in the preparation of window
tickets, show cards, and the like, in lieu of gold leaf, and at the same time produce a
ticket equal in appearance and duration to one prepared with gold leaf.
D

page_text: propose to make the body of the ticket of card board, paper, or other suitable
material, and use what is known as "metallic leaf" for the printed characters, coating
the whole when completed with a suitable varnish or size which will cover and protect
the face of the ticket or card from the action of the air and prevent it discolouring
the lettering.
In carrying out the invention I prepare the ticket or card, and print or emboss the
lettering or figuring thereon in the usual way, using German yellow metal leaf or
other metallic leaf, instead of gold leaf, or gold preparation. The letters or characters
are thus formed on the ticket or card in a metallic leaf, in colour closely resembling
gold leaf. When the printing is finished the ticket is coated on the printed side with
a suitable stiff varnish or size which will resist the action of the atmosphere. The
varnish I prefer to use is what is known as white paper varnish, though copal or
other varnish may be used, preferably one with quick setting or drying properties.
This varnish covers and protects the metal of which the characters are composed,
preventing it being discoloured by the action of the atmosphere, which would
otherwise take place.
Such a ticket or card will be less costly and equally durable as those in which gold
leaf is applied to the letters, and the varnish will also prevent it being readily acted
upon by damp or moisture."
This invention is a further development or improvement of that for which I have
already obtained Letters Patent No. 13,661 of 1888.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not make any claim herein to hat tickets, but I declare, that what I
claim is :-
A window ticket, show card, or similar article, having a body of cardboard, thick
paper, or the like, lettering or figuring of yellow metal leaf or other metallic pre-
paration, and a coating of white paper varnish or other suitable varnish or size,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 5th day of December 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.