A NEW. OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING AND ATTACHING LABELS, CARDS, WINDOW AND OTHER BILLS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT .to: William Kloen, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Commercial Traveller, for the Invention of "A NEW. OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING AND ATTACHING LABELS, CARDS, WINDOW
AND OTHER BILLS."
Sealed the 24th April 1855, and dated the 11th November 1854."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Kloen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
November 1854.
I, WILLIAM KLOEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Com-
mercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING AND ATTACHING LABELS, CARDS,
WINDOW AND OTHER BILLS," to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists in placing the said labels, cards, and bills in an
ornamental metallic frame in the following manner :-I make a frame of brass,
or other metal or alloy, by stamping or cutting out of sheet metal, the inner
edge of the said frame being somewhat less than the card, label, or bill, and
the outer edge of the frame somewhat larger than the said card; label, or bill.
The said frame is placed upon the card, label, or bill, and the outer edge

page_text: is situated in front of the card, label, or bill may be ornamented, and holes
are made in the frame at suitable distances, through which holes nails may
be passed or thread be sewn, for the purpose of attaching the card, label, or
bill to a wall, garment, or otherwise.. Where the card, label, or bill is not to
be attached to anything, the said holes are not made in the frame. Metallic 5
ornaments may also be attached to or inserted in the said labels, cards, and
bills at the middle, or at the corners thereof, or at other parts of the same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Kloen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th May 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
KLOEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Commercial Traveller,
send' greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Kloen, Her special licence that I, the said William Kloen, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Kloen, my executors, administrators, and 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
ORNAMENTING AND ATTACHING LABELS, CARDS, WINDOW AND OTHER BILLS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Kloen, by an instru-
ment 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Kloen, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):

page_text: My, said Invention consists in ornamenting labels;. cards, and bills by.
framing the same in metallic frames, or by attaching: metallic ornaments
thereto, and in attaching the same to articles to which it is wished to attach:
them by the methods herein-after particularly described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing.
Figure 1 represents in front view a card, label, or bill ornamented according
to my Invention; and Figure 2 represents a back view of the same.
A plate
or sheet of metal, Figure 3, perforated in the middle, and somewhat larger
than the card, label, or bill to be ornamented, is placed upon the card, label,
or bill, a, Figures 1 and 2, and the outer edge of the frame or perforated plate
of metal is turned over the edge, and on the back of the card, label, or
bill, as will be understood by Figures 1, 2, and 4, in each of which Figures
the card, label, or bill is marked a, and the metallic frame b.. That part of the
frame of the card, label, or bill which is situated in front of the said card,
label, or bill may be ornamented in any desired manner, and where the said
card, label, or bill has to be attached to anything, holes may be made in the
frame b at the corners, or at such other places as may be deemed convenient
for passing nails or thread through, for the purpose of attaching the said card,
label, or bill to a wall, garment, or other article. Where the said card, label,
or bill has not to be attached to anything, the said holes need not be made
therein. I also ornament cards, labels, and bills in the manner illustrated
in Figure 5, that is to say, I attach metallic ornaments or inscriptions at the
middle of the card, label, or bill, as shown at c, Figure 5; and I also some-
times attach ornaments or devices of metal at the corners, as shown at d, d,
Figure 5, or at other parts of the said cards, labels, or bills. Cards, labels,
and bills ornamented according to my Invention are applicable, among other
purposes, for show cards, window cards, direction cards, railway tickets, name
plates for pianofortes, address labels applicable to coats, rugs, wrappers, hats,
travelling caps, and bags, as well as for labels or ornamental bands for gloves,
drapery, and hosiery goods. My Invention is applicable to cards, labels, and
bills made of parchment, or other material, as well as to such as are made of
paper or card.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied with-
out departing from the nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my
Invention, ornamenting and attaching labels, cards, window and other bills, in
the manner herein. described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing,
that is to say, by attaching metallic frames and ornaments to the said cards,

page_text: labels, and bills, the said metallic frames being perforated at suitable places
when it is desired to attach the said cards, labels, and bills by nailing or
sewing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Kloen, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.