Improvements in Show-cards, Price-tickets, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1894-Accepted, 2nd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Show-cards, Price-tickets, and the like.
I FREDERICK SOMES DAVIDSON of 183 Blackness Road, Dundee, Scotland,
Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to Improvements in Show-cards Price-tickets, and the like,
and has for its object to provide a show-card, price ticket or the like that will
be capable of having displayed thereon any advertising or other desirable matter,
in such a manner that the advertisement or the like can be readily effaced and
fresh matter substituted without having to discard the original show-card, price
ticket or the like.
According to my invention I fashion the show-cards, price-tickets or the like, of
any desirable design, and upon the faces of such, in any suitable position, I affix
by gum or other mucilage, or by any other suitable fastening means, strips or
sheets of material, preferably, black paper having a prepared surface to resemble,
and possess the qualities of, slate.
These strips or sheets may be of any desired form, and the surfaces so prepared,
may be written or marked upon by chalk or slate pencil and freely rubbed off by
a damp sponge.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
I FREDERICK SOMES DAVIDSON, of 183 Blackness Road, Dundee, Scotland,
Commercial Stationer, 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 Show-cards, Price-tickets and the like,
and has for its object to provide a show-card, price-ticket or the like, upon which
can be displayed any desired advertising matter, price marks, or the like, in such
a manner that the said advertisements, price marks, or the like can be readily
effaced, and fresh matter substituted therefor at will, without having to discard
the original show-card, price-ticket or the like.
Heretofore each design of show-card or the like had to be sold by the
manufacturer of such, in large quantities, to cover the expenditure of setting-up
type and printing on such show-card or the like, the name, address, or any other
matter relating particularly to the business of the purchaser, whereas my present
invention will enable the manufacturer or printer, to sell even one of the show-
cards or the like, as readily as a large quantity.
In carrying my invention into practice, I form such a show-card, price-ticket, or
the like, of any desired shape, with any suitable design thereon, whether pictorial
or otherwise, space being provided upon any suitable part of the face of the said
show-card, price-ticket, or the like, for a strip or sheet, or strips or sheets of
material, such as black, grey, or other paper having a surface so prepared as to
resemble, and possess in a great degree the qualities of, slate.

page_text: These strips or sheets of paper or other material so prepared, may be of any
desired design, and be affixed to the surface of the show-card, price-ticket or the
like, by gum or other mucilage or by pins, or any other suitable means. The said
prepared strips or sheets of material, are intended to be capable of having written
or drawn upon them, by chalk, slate-pencil or the like, any desired advertising or
other matter, the nature of the surface of such strips or sheets, allowing the said
writing or the like to be readily effaced or rubbed off at will by means of a damp
sponge or the like.
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 :-
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The improvements in show-cards, price-tickets and the like, consisting in
providing them with strips or sheets of suitable material having surfaces adapted
to be written or marked upon with chalk, slate-pencil or the like, which can be
effaced at will by means of a damp sponge or the like, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
Dated this 1st day of May 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.