Improvements in and relating to Advertising Tablets.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Advertising Tablets.
I, JAMES FORREST, of Bourtree Bank, Gourock, Renfrewshire, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the production of hollow or blocked gold silver or other
letters for glass covered advertising tablets and the like, in such a manner as to
imitate the incised and gilded or silvered letters on black enamelled slate and other
tablets.
In carrying out my invention, I take a thick sheet of cardboard or like suitable
material and cut out the wording. When the cardboard is cut, it has the same
appearance as a stencil. A piece of burnished gold or other coloured paper is now
laid on the stencil and both are pressed together between a pair of rubber rollers or
in a copying press, a pad of india-rubber or other soft material being laid on top
of the gold paper, so as to press it into the cavities of the stencil. The gold
paper with the letters thus impressed is then fixed at the back of the glass plate,
which has previously been prepared in the usual way, by having a black or coloured
ground painted on its back, and the letters brushed or stencilled out to fit the
lettering on the gold paper or the like.
Lettering done in this manner has the appearance of being cut or incised in some
solid material.
The stencil and the gold or other coloured paper may be passed through the
rollers of a wringing machine, or the like, to press the gold or other coloured paper
into the cavities of the stencil.
Instead of painting the back of the glass of the tablet, the gold or other
coloured paper with its indented lettering, may be painted with a black or other
ground.
Dated this 21st day of September 1892.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Advertising Tablets.
I, JAMES FORREST, of Bourtree Bank, Gourock, Renfrewshire, Manufacturer,
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:—
This invention relates to the production of hollow or blocked gold, silver, or
other letters for glass covered advertising tablets and the like, in such a manner
as to imitate the incised and gilded or silvered letters on black enamelled slate and
other tablets.
In carrying out my invention, I take a thick sheet of cardboard or like suitable
material and cut out the wording. When the cardboard is cut, it has the same
appearance as a stencil. A piece of burnished gold, silver, or other coloured paper
is now laid on the stencil and both are pressed together between a pair of rubber
rollers or in a copying press, a pad of india-rubber or other soft material being
laid on top of the gold or other paper, so as to press it into the cavities of the
stencil. The gold paper with the letters thus impressed or indented in it, is then
fixed at the back of the glass plate, which has previously been prepared in the
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page_text: usual way, by having a black or coloured ground painted on its back, and the
letters brushed or stencilled out to fit the lettering on the gold paper or the like.
Lettering done in this manner has the appearance of being cut or incised in some
solid material.
The accompanying drawing shows, in front view at Fig. 1, and in section at
Fig. 2, an advertising tablet constructed in accordance with my invention.
a is the tablet frame. the glass plate. c the gold or other coloured paper.
d the indented lettering. e the wood backing of the tablet.
The stencil and the gold or other coloured paper, may be passed through the
rollers of a wringing machine or the like, to press the gold or other coloured paper
into the cavities of the stencil.
Instead of painting the back of the glass of the tablet the gold or other
coloured paper with its indented lettering, may be painted with a black or other
ground.
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 [
claim is :-
1. The method of making advertising tablets in imitation of incised slate or like
tablets, substantially, as hereinbefore described.
2. Advertising tablets having the lettering formed of indented or impressed gold,
silver or like paper which is secured to the glass plate substantially as and for the
purpose herein before set forth.
Dated this 31st day of May 1892.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.