Improvements in the Manufacture of Letters, Signs, and Advertisements.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SE MULTICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Letters, Signs, and
Advertisements.
I EDMUND HOPWOOD of 9 Station Road, Croydon in the County of Surrey and
324 Upper Street Islington in the County of Middlesex, Carver Gilder and
Picture Frame Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of letters, signs and
advertisements in a cheaper, lighter and more durable manner than is generally
practised at the present time.
In many of the letters, signs and advertisements as at present commonly mana-
factured practical difficulties are presented such as excessive weight, expense and
liability to fracture, whilst others are laborious in preparation and consequently
dear.
The improvements consist in preparing a sheet or surface or surfaces of perforated
zinc or stamped equivalent surface with a coating of enamel paint, opaque varnish
or other suitable coating adapted to give the desired backing or background to the
letters, signs, or advertisements to be displayed and upon this ground coat
apply in gold leaf secured by a suitable cement, or in colour, or white, or black, or
like manner, I produce the desired representations using stencil plates, or blocks or
the like to produce the forms depicted.
In some cases I stamp, cut or similarly produce or punch out the forms of the
representations in perforated zinc or like light metal and these forms when suitably
coated, coloured or painted I mount on the surfaces forming their supports,
employing gilding, silver or other coating to enhance their ornamental effect if
desired.
The stamped, cut or shaped letters or signs-say of perforated zinc-may be
attached to a prepared surface say enamelled wood, or painted composition or
wood and retained securely thereto by means of fine pins with heads coloured to
correspond to the signs, passed through the perforations into the undersurface.
Dated the 26th day of February 1891.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Letters, Signs, and
Advertisements.
I EDMUND HOPWOOD of 9 Station Road, Croydon, in the County of Surrey,
and 324 Upper Street, Islington in the County of Middlesex, Carver, Gilder and
Picture Frame Maker 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of letters, signs and
advertisements in a cheaper, lighter and more durable manner than is generally
practised at the present time.
In many of the letters, signs and advertisements as at present commonly
manufactured practical difficulties are presented such as excessive weight, expense
and liability to fracture, whilst others are laborious in preparation and consequently
dear.

page_text: The improvements consist in preparing a sheet or surface or surfaces of perforated
sheet zinc or stamped equivalent surface of zinc with a coating of enamel paint
opaque varnish or other suitable coating adapted to give the desired backing or
background to the letters, signs, or advertisements to be displayed and upon this
ground coat I apply in gold leaf secured by a suitable cement, or in colour, or
white or black, or like manner, I produce the desired representations using stencil
plates, or blocks or the like to produce the forms depicted.
In some cases I stamp, cut or similarly produce or punch out the forms of the
representations in sheet or perforated sheet zinc and these forms when suitably
coated, coloured or painted mount on the surfaces forming their supports,
employing gilding, silver or other coating to enhance their ornamental effect, if
desireil.
The stamped, cut or shaped letters or signs-say of perforated zinc-may be
attached to a prepared surface say enamelled wood, or painted composition or
wood, and retained securely thereto by means of fine pins with heads coloured to
correspond to the signs, passed through the perforations into the undersurface.
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
The manufacture and use of letters, signs and advertisements from perforated,
cut, punched or otherwise shaped sheet zine to design and coated, or prepared
and painted, gilded, silvered, or otherwise covered in design by means of stencil
plates or other equivalent means, as set forth.
Dated the 24th day of Nouawaban 1001
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.