IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND PRODUCING TRADE MARKS. ON CAPSULES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Betts, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road,
in the County of Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND PRODUCING TRADE MARKS.
ON CAPSULES"
Sealed the 31st August 1869, and dated 4th March 1869...
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Betts at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th March 1869.
I, WILLIAM BETTS, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my
Bid Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND PRODUCING TRADE
MARKS ON CAPSULES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the production of multicolored trade marks
and designs upon capsules by a transfer process, and consists in the
application of designs produced by what is known as the meta-
chromotype process or analagous processes to the surfaces of capsules
for the purpose of ornamenting the same or for producing multicolored
trade marks thereon. The metachromotype is moistened and applied

page_text: to the capsule with gentle pressure either before or after it is put on
the bottle, and on removing the paper containing the design the latter
will be found adhering firmly to the capsule. In order to protect and
preserve this design I propose sometimes to apply a coating of
transparent varnish thereon, when the ornamented or trade mark capsule
will be complete. The effect produced is materially improved when
the designs are transferred on to an opaque colored ground produced in
the manner described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me
on or about the 24th day of July 1867, No. 2151.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Betts in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th September 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BETTS, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Capsule Manufacturer, sent greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, 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 successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Betts, Her special license
that I, the said William Betts, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Betts, my executors,
administrators, or 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING AND PRODUCING TRADE MARKS ON CAPSULES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Betts, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Betts, do hereby declare
the nature of my said 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 said Invention relates to the production of multicolored trade
marks and designs upon capsules by a transfer process, and consists in
the application of designs produced by what is known as the meta-
chromotype process or analogous processes to the surfaces of capsules
for the purpose of ornamenting the same or for producing multicolored
trade marks thereon. The metachromotype is moistened and applied
to the capsule with gentle pressure either before or after it is put on the
bottle, and on removing the paper containing the design the latter will
be found adhering firmly to the capsule. In order to protect and
preserve this design I propose sometimes to apply a coating of
transparent varnish thereon when the ornamented or trade mark
capsule will be complete. The effect produced is materially improved
when the designs are transferred on to an opaque colored ground,
produced in the manner described in the Specification of a Patent
granted to me on or about the Twenty-fourth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, No. 2151.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be
used or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the peculiar mode of ornamenting and producing trade marks ou
capsules for bottles and other like receptacles, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, this Third day of September
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.