Improvements in Letters.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters.
We, OLIVER HAYNES DUFFELL and JAMES HENRY DUFFELL both of
62 Corporation Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Millinery Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in letters by which letters are
made much more attractive than at present and with less liability to deteriorate in
appearance.
We make the body of cur letters either solid or hollow and of any material
suitable for the purpose such for instance as wood, zinc or other metal or suitable
material. When made of wood and of considerable size we prefer to box them up
Into
from thin timber forming at the top all around the internal edge a rebate.
this rebate we enlay glass either plain silvered or fluted waved or corrugated or
other ornamental glass which forms the front of the letter. We may of course
form the edges of similar glass or glass giving a contrast if we choose by making
the letter as a skeleton frame but generally the purpose will be sufficiently answered
when the face of the letter is inlaid. The glass inay be fastened in position by
cement, puttey &c. &c.
Dated this 7th day of July 1890
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters.
We OLIVER HAYNES DUFFELL and JAMES HENRY DUFFELL both of
62 Corporation Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Millinery Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
Our invention has for its object: improvements in letters by which letters are
made much more attractive than at present and with less liability to deteriorate in
appearance.
We make the body of our letters either solid or hollow and of any material
suitable for the purpose such for instance as wood, zinc, or other metal or suitable
material. When made of wood and of considerable size we prefer to box them
up from thin timber forming at the top all around the internal edge a rebate.
Into this rebate we inlay glass, either, plain, silvered, or fluted, waived, or corru-
We may of
gated or other ornamental glass which forms the front of the letter.
course form the edges of similar glass or glass giving a contrast if we choose by
making the letter as a skeleton frame but generally the purpose will be sufficiently
answered when the face of the letter is inlaid. The glass may be fastened in position
by cement, puttey, etc.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice we have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings which fully illustrates
the nature of our said improvements.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, are elevations of letters shewing the application of our
improvements thereto.
Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, are sections shewing various ways of carrying our
invention into effect.

page_text: The body B of our letters are formed either hollow as shewn by Figures 4, 5, 6,
and 7 and of any material such as wood as shewn by Figures 4, 5, & 9 or zinc
or other metal as shewn by Figures 6, 7, & 8 or any other suitable material. When
made of wood and of considerable size we build or box them up as shewn by
Figures 4 or 5 of the wood sides b and back and around the top of the sides 6¹
is formed the rebate & into which we inlay the glass A which may be either plain,
silvered, or fluted, waived, or corrugated, or glass ornamented in various other
ways which thus forms the front of the letter. In the hollow letters which are
made of metal the sides and back are formed of metal the edge of the metal in
some cases being turned over to form the bead Figure 6 the metal back
being provided for the support of the glass A. In the case of the metal ones the
groove may be formed in the metal in which the glass lies as shewn at Figure 7.
The wood or metal frames may have their sides square or curved or moulded as
shewn by Figure 8 and the sides Figure 7 may also be of similar or other glass
in which case the frame would be skeleton.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1st. In the improvements in letters the glass face or front A: substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn upon the accompanying
drawings.
2nd. The improvements in letters substantially as and for the purpose herein set
forth and shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 7th day of April 1801
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters.
We, OLIVER HAYNES DUFFELL and JAMES HENRY DUFFELL both of
62 Corporation Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Millinery Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in letters by which letters are
made much more attractive than at present and with less liability to deteriorate in
appearance.
We make the body of cur letters either solid or hollow and of any material
suitable for the purpose such for instance as wood, zinc or other metal or suitable
material. When made of wood and of considerable size we prefer to box them up
from thin timber forming at the top all around the internal edge a rebate. Into
this rebate we enlay glass either plain silvered or fluted waved or corrugated or
other ornamental glass which forms the front of the letter. We may of course
form the edges of similar glass or glass giving a contrast if we choose by making
the letter as a skeleton frame but generally the purpose will be sufficiently answered
when the face of the letter is inlaid. The glass may be fastened in position by
cement, puttey &c. &c.
Dated this 7th day of July 1890
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letters.
We OLIVER HAYNES DUFFELL and JAMES HENRY DUFFELL both of
62 Corporation Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Millinery Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
Our invention has for its object: improvements in letters by which letters are
made much more attractive than at present and with less liability to deteriorate in
appearance.
We make the body of our letters either solid or hollow and of any material
suitable for the purpose such for instance as wood, zinc, or other metal or suitable
material. When made of wood and of considerable size we prefer to box them
up from thin timber forming at the top all around the internal edge a rebate.
Into this rebate we inlay glass, either, plain, silvered, or fluted, waived, or corru-
We may of
gated or other ornamental glass which forms the front of the letter.
course form the edges of similar glass or glass giving a contrast if we choose by
making the letter as a skeleton frame but generally the purpose will be sufficiently
answered when the face of the letter is inlaid. The glass may be fastened in position
by cement, puttey, etc.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice we have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings which fully illustrates
the nature of our said improvements.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, are elevations of letters shewing the application of our
improvements thereto.
Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, are sections shewing various ways of carrying our
invention into effect.

page_text: The body B of our letters are formed either hollow as shewn by Figures 4, 5, 6,
and 7 and of any material such as wood as shewn by Figures 4, 5, & 9 or zinc
or other metal as shewn by Figures 6, 7, & 8 or any other suitable material. When
made of wood and of considerable size we build or box them up as shewn by
Figures 4 or 5 of the wood sides 6 and back and around the top of the sides. 6
is formed the rebate 63 into which we inlay the glass A which may be either plain,
silvered, or fluted, waived, or corrugated, or glass ornamented in various other
ways which thus forms the front of the letter. In the hollow letters which are
made of metal the sides and back are formed of metal the edge of the metal in
some cases being turned over to form the bead Figure 6 the metal back 6*
being provided for the support of the glass A. In the case of the metal ones the
groove may be formed in the metal in which the glass lies as shewn at Figure 7.
The wood or metal frames may have their sides square or curved or moulded as
shewn by Figure 8 and the sides 7 Figure 7 may also be of similar or other glass
in which case the frame would be skeleton.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. In the improvements in letters the glass face or front A: substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn upon the accompanying
drawings.
2nd. The improvements in letters substantially as and for the purpose herein set
forth and shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated thin 7th 1
11
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.