IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING TRADE MARKS, NAMES, AND DEVICES UPON METALLIC CAPSULES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Neilson and James Marshall, both of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING TRADE MARKS, NAMES, AND DEVICES
UPON METALLIC CAPSULES."-Partly a communication from abroad by
Hermann Summerlein, residing at Nuremberg.
Scaled the 17th August 1869, and dated the 23rd February 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Neilson and
James Marshall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 23rd February 1869.
We, JAMES NELLSON and JAMES MARSHALL, both of Glasgow, in
the County of Lanark, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING TRADE MARKS,
NAMES, AND DEVICES UPON METALLIC CAPSULES," (which Invention has been
in part communicated to us from abroad by Hermann Summerlein,
residing at Nuremberg, and is in part of our own Invention,) to be as
follows, that is to say:-

page_text: This Invention has for its object the applying of trade marks, names,
and devices upon metallic capsules in imitation of paper labels, but
without the liability that paper labels have of being easily detached;
it is not however restricted to applications precisely imitating paper
labels.
The Invention consists in coating the end or other part of the metallic
capsule with varnish or resin; in pressing thereon paper which has had
the trade mark, name, or device printed on it on the face or side that is
applied to the capsule, in washing away the paper, and in finally
protecting the trade mark, name, or device which remains on the
capsule with a thin coating of glue or varnish.
The device employed may consist of two or more colors produced on
the paper by as many printings, but such printings must be applied in
the reverse order to that in which they are to appear on the capsule. In
imitating a paper label the last printing on the paper consists of a ground
color printed over the entire design and of a white or other opaque color
corresponding to the color of paper intended to be imitated; and on the
printings being transferred to the capsule this ground color appears
undermost with the other printing or printings upon it. The first
coating on the capsule may be a liquid varnish applied with a brush or
pad, or it may consist of finely powdered shellac or other resin dusted on,
heat being applied in the latter case to make it fix the superimposed
device.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Neilson and James Marshall in the Great 2
Seal Patent Office on the 21st August 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
NEILSON and JAMES MARSHALL, both of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, send greeting,
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said James Neilson and James

page_text: Marshall, Her special licence that we, the said James Neilson and
James Marshall, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said James Neilson and James Marshall, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and.
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPLYING TRADE MARKS, NAMES, AND DEVICES UPON METALLIC
CAPSULES," (partly a communication to us from abroad by Hermann
Summerlein, residing at Nuremberg, and in part of our own Invention,)
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Neilson
and James Marshall, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent,
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Neilson and James
Marshall, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, that is
to say:-
The said Invention has for its object the applying of trade marks,
names, and devices upon metallic capsules in imitation of paper labels,
but without the liability that paper labels have of being easily detached ;
it is not however restricted to applications precisely imitating paper
labels.
The Invention consists in coating the end or other part of the metallic
capsule with varnish or resin; in pressing thereon paper which has had
the trade mark, name, or device printed on it on the face or side that is
applied to the capsule, in washing away the paper, and in finally
protecting the trade- mark, name, or device which remains on the
capsule with a thin coating of glue or varnish.
The device employed may consist of two or more colors produced on
the paper by as many printings, but such printings must be applied in
the reverse order to that in which they are to appear on the capsule. In

page_text: imitating a paper label the last printing on the paper consists of a ground
color printed over the entire design and of a white or other opaque color
corresponding to the color of paper intended to be imitated; and on the
printings being transferred to the capsule this ground color appears
undermost with the other printing or printings upon it. The first
coating on the capsule may be a liquid varnish applied with a brush or
pad, or it may consist of finely powdered shellac or other resin dusted on,
heat being applied in the latter case to make it fix the superimposed
device. The final protecting coating is applied by means of a brush or
by dipping the capsule into the glue or varnish.
Having thus particularly described the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we have to state that
what we claim as secured to us by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the applying of printed trade marks, names, and devices
upon metallic capsules by transferring them from paper, substantially in
the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Marshall, on behalf of the
said James Neilson and myself, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
JAS. MARSHALL. (L.S.)