Improvements in Advertizing Show Tablets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
TRUY IDIONAL DIOTICATION.
Improvements in Advertizing Show Tablets.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE WOOD, of 32, Prince Street, Evelyn Street, Deptford,
in the County of Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to tablets or frames, placed in positions and places where
they are most likely to attract attention, and displaying advertisements or
announcements of any desired kind.
It has for its object a novel method of making such advertizing tablets,
whereby they are made more attractive, and attention is more readily attracted to
them, than in such tablets as ordinarily heretofore used, whilst at the same time
they can be cheaply, easily, and quickly manufactured.
In order to put my invention in operation, I take a sheet of strong transparent
glass of any desired size and shape, and upon the back of this glass I produce,
letters, words, and ornamental or other devices or designs, which are intended to
form the most attractive parts of the finished advertizing show tablet. I form
these devices upon the glass as described of gold, silver or other metal leaf or
deposit, bright or burnished, embossed or matted, or partly bright and partly
matted, by the means and processes already well known and practised by writers
and gilders on glass, and by other advertizing tablet makers. Upon the back of
the glass, upon which letters or designs in metal have been produced, as described,
I mount or fix, a transparent paper or other label or sheet of suitable colours, upon
which the whole of the letters or designs to be displayed for advertisement have
been printed or drawn. The parts which have been produced in ornamental metal
at the back of the glass have been placed in a position exactly corresponding with
the. similar parts upon the paper design. An advertizing tablet is, therefore,
produced which has its most important parts (such as the article advertized, the
maker's name, or any other devices which it is desired should be most prominent),
in every way the most brilliant and attractive.
In this way an advertizing tablet is produced which is more brilliant and
effective than anything of the kind heretofore used, and which can be used by
day or night, by reflected or transmitted light, especially by the judicious use of
coloured or clear transparent outlines to the letters or design.
Advertizing tablets, having a similar general appearance to those made according
to my present invention, are made by various processes and methods known to
glasswriters, the lettering and principal parts of the design being in gold and silver,
and the other part such as the background being in colours printed on the glass,
and either transparent or opaque; but by this means, no such variety of colours
and fineness of detail are possible without great cost of production.
By my
improved process, on the contrary, any number and variety of colours, transparent
or opaque, and the greatest fineness of detail are readily obtained.
The transparent printed labels, used in my improved process as described, are
complete in themselves, and can be utilized as such labels are at present, instead
of forming parts of my improved tablet.
Dated this 10th day of June 1895

page_text: Improvements in Advertizing Show Tablets.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE Wood, of 32, Prince Street, Evelyn Street, Deptford,
in the County of Kent, Engineer, 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, that is to say :-
My present invention relates to tablets or frames, such as are ordinarily
placed in positions and places where they are most likely to attract attention,
advertisements or announcements of any desired kind being displayed upon
them.
My invention has for its object a novel method of making such advertizing
tablets, whereby they are made more attractive, so that attention is more readily
attracted to them, than in such tablets as ordinarily heretofore used, whilst at the
same time they can be cheaply, easily, and quickly manufactured.
In order to put my invention in operation, I take a sheet of transparent glass
of sufficient strength, and of any desired size and shape, and upon the back of this
glass I produce letters, words, and ornamental or other devices or designs, which
are intended, when seen from the front of the glass, to form the most attractive
parts of the finished advertizing show tablet. I form these devices upon the glass
of gold, silver, or other metal leaf or posit, bright or burnished, embossed or
matted, or partly bright and partly matted, by the means and processes already
well known and practised by writers and gilders on glass, and by the makers of
other advertizing tablets. Upon the back of the glass, upon which letters or
designs in metal have been produced as described, I mount or fix a transparent
paper or other label or sheet of suitable colour or colours, upon which the whole of
the letters or designs to be displayed for advertisement have been printed or
drawn. The parts which have been produced in ornamental metal at the back of
the glass in the way already described, have been placed there in a position
exactly corresponding with the similar parts upon the paper design. An advertizing
tablet is, therefore, produced which has its most important parts (such as the
article advertized, the maker's name, or any other devices which it is desired
should be most prominent), in every way the most brilliant and attractive, the
other parts being simply and cheaply produced, but effective when seen through
the glass.
In this way an advertizing tablet is produced which is more brilliant and
effective than anything of the kind heretofore used, and which can be used both
by day or night, and by either reflected or transmitted light, especially by the
judicious use of coloured or clear transparent outlines to the letters or design; the
brilliant parts as well as the transparent parts of the design showing by reflected
light, whilst by transmitted light the brilliant parts are opaque but distinct, whilst
the transparent parts are bright and effective.
Advertising tablets, having a similar general appearance to those made according
to my present invention, have been made by various processes and methods known
to glasswriters, the lettering and principal parts of the design being in gold and
silver, and the other part such as the background being in colours printed upon the
glass, and either transparent or opaque; but by these means no such variety of
colours and fineness of detail are possible without great cost of production.
By my improved process, on the contrary, any number and variety of colours,
transparent or opaque, and the greatest fineness of detail are readily and
inexpensively obtained.
The transparent printed labels, used in my improved process as described, are
complete in themselves, and if desired can be utilized as such labels are at present,
instead of forming parts of my improved tablet.

page_text: When the tablets are only to be seen by reflected light, the subsidiary designs.
may be printed upon opaque material such as cardboard, instead of upon
transparent material.
I do not confine myself to the precise details of my invention, which may be
varied more or less to suit different circumstances, but
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 :-
1. An advertizing show tablet, consisting of a transparent glass upon the back.
of which the most attractive parts of the design to be advertized are produced in
gold, silver, or other metal leaf or deposit; a transparent sheet or label upon which
the whole of the design has been printed or drawn being mounted upon the metal
designs upon the back of the glass, which designs upon the glass are made to.
coincide with the corresponding parts of the design upon the transparent sheet or
label, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein described.
Dated this 4th day of March 1896.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.