IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Betts, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road,
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in the County of Middlesex, Capsule Manufacturer, for the Invention
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of "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER LIKE
RECEPTACLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Bétts at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th August
1867.
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I, WILLIAM BETTS, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road, in the County, of
Middlesex,; Capsule; Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC CAPSULES, FOR BOTTLES, AND OTHER
LIKE RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
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This; Invention relates, to those; capsules which may be described as "trade
mark capsules, and which, are intended to prevent fraud by affording a
guarantee of the genuineness of the contents of the bottle covered, by such a
capsule, and by preventing the reuse of the name of the firm or their trade
mark, as according to this Invention the, capsule itself serves the purpose of
a label, which is not only clearly-visible-from-the-side of the bottle, but must
silho doctroited by the vōry act of opening the bottle.

page_text: In carrying out this Invention I produce, by the aid of type or surface
printing and gold leaf, or other foil or metallic powder, the name of the firm
with or without a special trade mark or ornamentation upon one or more
parts of the body or outside of the cylindrical or conical part of the capsule
itself.
One mode of carrying out this Invention consists in taking ordinary type or
printing surfaces corresponding to the design to be printed on the capsule,
and printing the same on the capsule in gold size or other suitable adhesive
material, after which I apply gold, silver, or other metal leaf or foil after the
manner of ordinary gilding, or powdered metal or pigments may be applied
over the size, and the superfluous powder or leaf then removed, when the
name or trade mark will be clearly visible on the capsule. Or.I take type or
a printing block made the reverse to ordinary type, and I apply gold size or
other suitable adhesive preparation to such printing surface;
I then press
thereon a sheet of foil, and from this sheet I transfer the impression to the
side of the capsule by rubbing or pressing the foil, the flexibility or pliability
of the foil facilitating the transferring of the size to the curved surface of the
capsule. The gold or other metallic foil or powder or powdered pigment is
then to be applied to the capsule, when the name or device will appear
clearly thereon. Or in lieu of metallic foil or powder any suitable printing
ink, colored or not, may be employed, or the name or trade mark may be
produced by a stencilling process, or the letters and trade mark: may be
stopped out of the body of the capsule when the latter is colored, so as to
show the natne and design in plain metal, whilst the rest of the capsule is
colored. These names and trade marks may be produced if desired in two or
more colors by successive printings, whereby the effect of multicolored trade
marks will be obtained. In some cases the name and trade mark or name
or trade mark may be embossed or stamped on the body or side of the
capsule.
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Although this mode of producing trade mark capsules is more particularly
applicable to the long capsules employed in the champagne' trade, it may
obviously be employed for short capsules. In all cases where folds or overlaps
are formed down the sides of the capsule, in applying them to a bottle neck,
'care should be taken that such folds or overlaps come as nearly as practicable
equidistant on each side of the device produced on the body of the capsule,
whereby a neater appearance will be obtained, and all interference with the
words or design on the sides of the capsule will be obviated.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Betts in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
February 1868.
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, send greeting..
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing.dlate the. Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs, and, successors, give and grant unto me,.
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said William Betts, Her special license, that I, the said William Betts, my,
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Williamı
Betts, imy 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC
CAPSULES, FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER. LIKE RECEPTACLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Betts, my executors, or adminis
trators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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.
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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 per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing, that is to
say
My said Invention relates to those capsules which may be described as
"trade mark capsules," and which are intended to prevent fraud by affording
a guarantee of the genuineness of the contents of the bottle covered by such
capsule, and by preventing the reuse of the name of the firm or their trade
mark, as according to this Invention the capsule itself serves the
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purpose of
label, which is not only clearly visible from the side of the bottle, but must
necessarily be destroyed by the very act of opening the bottle.
In carrying out this Invention I produce_the-name-of-the-firm with or
-without-a-special trade mark or ornamentation upon one or more parts of the

page_text: body or outside of the cylindrical or conical part of the capsule itself. This
may be accomplished by taking type or a printing block made the reverse to
ordinary type, and applying gold size or other suitable adhesive preparation to
such printing surface. I then press thereon a sheet of foil, and from this
sheet I transfer the impression to the side of the capsule by rubbing or
pressing the foil, the flexibility or pliability of the foil facilitating the trans-
ferring of the size to the side or curved surface of the capsule. Gold or other
metallic leaf or powder or powdered pigment is then to be applied to the
capsule, 'when 'the name or device will appear clearly thereon. These names
and trade marks. may be produced if desired in two or more colors by
successive printings, 'whereby the effect of multicolored trade marks will be.
obtained.
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Although this mode of producing trade mark capsules.is more particularly.
applicable to the long capsules employed in the champagne trade. it-may
obviously be employed for short capsules. In all cases where folds or
overlaps are formed down the sides of the capsules in applying 'them to a
bottle neck care should be taken that such folds or overlaps come as nearly
as practicable equidistant on each side of the device produced on. the body
of the capsule, whereby a neater appearance will be obtained, and all
interference with the words or design on the sides. of the capsule-will be
obviated.'
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The annexed Drawing represents a perspective view of my improved trade
mark capsule, shewing-the name of the firm with their trade mark on the
side of the capsule, whereby the same will be more readily seen, than-when
situate on the crown of the capsule only as heretofore, and will at the same
time serve the purpose of a label: ...
I claim as my Iuvention capsules printed or-marked isubstantially as and
for the purpose herein-before described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have 'to this my Spe-
cification set my hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
'W. 'BETTS (Lsi'