Improvements in or connected with Sign-posts or the like, for the more Easy and Rapid Recognition of Names and Distances thereon.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL
TON.
Improvements in or connected with Sign-posts or the like, for
the more Easy and Rapid Recognition of Names and Distances
thereon.
1, ALBERT OCTAVIUS HASLEWOOD of Buxton, Derbyshire, Surgeon, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with sign-posts, indicating
signs or tablets and the like and refers more particularly to those intended for
indicating the names of places, distances etc., the object being to construct a sign
or tablet which shall be practically indestructible at the same time allowing any
names or distances thereon to be more easily and quickly read than is possible with
those such as hitherto constructed, and to effect this purpose I cast, form or stamp
the said signs or tablets out of cast or sheet iron or of other suitable metal or
material, the signs or indications thereon being made up of letters or figures cut or
stamped out in order that the sky may be clearly seen through same, thus
outlining the letters and rendering them perfectly distinct and visible on any but
the darkest nights.
Sign posts or tablets constructed according to my invention can be cheaply and
economically produced and are practically indestructible, while the signs contained
thercon are not likely to be obliterated as is at present the case where painted
boards or the like are employed for this purpose.
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F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in or connected with Sign-posts or the like, for
the more Easy and Rapid Recognition of Names and Distances
thereon.
I, ALBERT OCTAVIUS HASLEWOOD, of Buxton, Derbyshire, Surgeon, 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 or connected with sign-posts, indicating
signs or tablets and the like, and refers more particularly to those intended for
indicating the names of places, distances etc., the object being to construct a sign
or tablet which shall be practically indestructible at the same time allowing any
name or distance thereon to be more easily and quickly read than is possible with
those such as hitherto constructed.

page_text: In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the necompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is an
elevation of a sign constructed according to one form of my invention and Fig. 2 is
A cross section of same taken through the letter O.
According to my invention I form either by means of casting, stamping or in any
other convenient manner, and out of iron or other suitable metal or material,
a suitable, preferably rectangular frame, such as f, having luga 1, 1, at one end
furnished with holes or perforations by means of which it may be readily secured
to the post. The letters a are either cast, stamped or forined in any suitable
manner within the said rectangular frame, or they may, as shown in the drawings,
be formed separately and furnished with lugs 1, 1, which allows of them being
secured to the said frame by screws .
As an alternative form of my invention instend of the letters forming the solid
portion of the sign and having open spaces around them, suitably shaped openings
may be employed to represent the letters, figures, or the like, the intermediate
portions heing in this case left solid.
The signs, where formed of iron or similar metal or material may be galvanized
or painted so as to prevent rusting, or conted with any suitable preservative
substance.
It will thus be seen that I provide n sign of extremely simple construction which can
be cheaply produced, and which will last for an almost indefinite period, while the
figures, letters or the like thereon can be far more easily recognized than the
ordinary painted wooden signs; while at the same time my improved sign does
not offer nearly the resistance to the wind.
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. The improvements in or connected with sign-posts signs, or the like, for the
more ensy and rapid recognition of names, figures or the like, thereon, comprising the
formation or arrangement of letters or figures a formed or arranged in a preferably
rectangular frame such as f, and in such a manner as to have openings or spaces all
around same, substantially as herein described and shown, and for the purposes
specified.
2. The alternative form of my invention wherein the letters are represented by
suitably shaped openings formed in a plate or disc, the intermedinte spaces, in this
case, being filled in or solid, substantially as herein described, and for the purposes
specified.
3. The improvements in or connected with sign-posts, signs, or the like, for the
more easy and rapid recognition of unmes, figures, or distances thereon, substantially
as herein described and shown and for the purposes specified.
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.).
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.