Imprоуешению ments, Show Cards, and Analogous Articles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 30th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 30th Dec., 1887
Imprоуешению
ments, Show Cards, and Analogous Articles.
I, THOMAS JAMES DEWICK, of 46 Barbican in the City of London, Printer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to mount in suitable frames, transparent or semi-
transparent advertisements, for display or otherwise in shop fronts, windows, doors,
railway stations, railway and tramway carriages, omnibuses, and all other places and
positions where the same may be required.
In carrying out my invention, I form suitable metal frames, by rolling, stamping,
spinning, or other means. One of such frames I place in front of the advertisements,
and another of the same or a different kind of metal or other material at the back.
Between the front and back frames I place the transparent or semi-transparent
advertisement; and, in order to obviate the necessity for glass, I place at the back of
the advertisement a sheet of tracing cloth, and also a sheet of vegetable parchment, or
of other suitable material, in order to stiffen the same in the frame, and, at the same
time permit sufficient light to pass through and to preserve and enhance the effect of
the transparency, and enable the same to be clearly seen, whether by day light or
artificial light.
In some cases I print the advertisement on stout transparent material, and dispense
with one or both of the additional materials herein before mentioned.

page_text: Improvements in the Method of Mounting and Exhibiting Advertise
ments, Show Cards, and Analogous Articles.
I, THOMAS JAMES DEWICK, of 46 Barbican, in the City of London, Printer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to mount in suitable frames, transparent or semi-
transparent advertisements, for display or otherwise in shop fronts, windows, doors,
railway stations, railway and tramway carriages, omnibuses, and all other places and
positions where the same may be required.
In carrying out my invention, I form suitable metal frames, by rolling, stamping,
spinning, or other means. One of such frames I place in front of the advertisement,
and another of the same or a different kind of metal or other material at the back.
Between the front and back frames I place the transparent or semi-transparent
advertisement; and, in order to obviate the necessity for glass, I place at the back of
the advertisement a sheet of tracing cloth, and also a sheet of vegetable parchment,
or of other suitable material, in order to stiffen the same in the frame, and, at the
same time permit sufficient light to pass through, and to preserve and enhance the effect
of the transparency, and enable the same to be clearly seen, whether by day-light or
artificial light. I coat the same with one or more coats of varnish not only to preserve
the surface but to give it a bright and transparent appearance.
In the process of mounting the aforesaid materials, I carefully stretch the same so
as to form a firmly stretched fabric, analogous or similar to that of a drumhead, and
which arrangement and construction of tablets I intend to call "Drumhead " Tablets.
In some cases I print the advertisement on stout transparent material, and dispense
with one or both of the additional materials herein before mentioned.
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 :-
1. The improved method of mounting and exhibiting advertisements, show cards,
and analogous articles, substantially as herein before described.
2. The combination and arrangement of metallic frames with the stretched fabric or
other transparent material, substantially as and for the purposes herein before
described.
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.