US1607633A - Method of making display sheets - Google Patents

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Nov. 23 1926. 1,607,633 A. LEUNls K `METHOD 0F MAKING DISPLAY SHEETS FiledMay 192e sneets-sheet 1l /lv vENToH H1. EXH/voE/ L uN/s Patented Nov. 23,l 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENTJ oEEIcE.

.ALEXANDER LEUN IS, OF STAIPLETON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 All/[COR ADVERTISING INCORPORATED, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MIETHOD OF MAKING DISPLAY SHEETS.

y Application led May 5,

This invention relates to improvements in advertising and other display devices and the method of making the same.V

An object of the invention is to provide a display sheet which may be utilized for advertising purposes and produced at aminimum cost, and wherein a corrugated surface of the sheet has indicia applied thereto, such` as a design, pictorial representation, or other suitable data, and whichl sheet is adapted for arrangement in display Windows, as counter or pillar trims, Wall friezes and the like, in such manner that the indicia thereon will be legible from all angles of vision.

Another object is t0 apply indicia in distorted form to a surface of a foundation sheet and thereafter alter the configuration of said surface in such manner that the indicia will be restored to its natural or normal condition.

A further object resides in placing a de-l sign upon a sheet of material which is then stretched to distort said design, whereupon the latter is transferred in its distorted form to a foundation sheet Which is then corrugated to restore the design to its normal appearance. 2

The above and other objects will appear more clearly from the followingtdetail description, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, which. illustrate a preferred embodiment of the inventive idea. Y'

In the drawings- Figure l is a vfragmentary plan view of a sheet illustrating the first. step in the method;

Figure 2 is'a ,similar view of said sheet showing the design thereon in distorted form;

Figure 3 is a plan view illustrating the design transferred in distorted form to the foundation sheet;

Figure 4' is a similar view of the sheet illustrated in Figure 8 afterthe same is corrugated; and l Figure 5 is a longitudinal section 0f Figure 4.

In carrying out the present method a. sheet of material 6, preferablv translucent land having elastic qualities, such as crepe paper, is secured in an unstretched condition to a frame of any desired construction which may be adjusted in length and width for a purpose which will presently appear. Another 192e. serial no. 106,804.

2, by adjusting the frame to which the sheet is secured thereby vdistorting the design,' as

indicated. The sheet 6 is stretched longitudinally when the corrugations in the foundation sheet upon which the design is ultimatel; placed extend transversely or vertically of t e sheet. but it will be understood that if these corrugations are to run longitudinally of the foundation sheet, the sheet 6 should be stretched transversely or yertic ally by proper adjustment of the frame so as to distort the design in a direction at right' angles to that shown in Figure 2. It has been found in actual practice that the sheet 6 should be stretched to increase its length from about forty-five to fifty per (ent, but the amount of stretching is dependent upon the size or width of the corrugations made in the foundation sheet. `For example, ifk the sheet`6 is normally thirty-six inches in length the same, after being stretched', should be approximately fifty-two inches long. v The proper amount of` stretching may be readily accomplished by providing the frame upon which the sheet 6 is mounted with a suitable scale.

After the tracing and stretching operation of the sheet 6 is performed a sheet of ordina-ry tracing paper or the like is laid upon the sheet 6 and pressure is applied to 'said` sheets, by rubbing or otherwise, to transfer.

the outlined design from the sheet 6 to the tracing paper, this transfer being made possible by the use of soft crayon in the origlnal tracing. The design now appears on the tracing sheet in a reversed position and is now heavily outlined to make the same distinct. After this is done the outline of the design is again transferred toanother sheet, suchV as a sketch board, by tracing over the design onlsaid tracing sheet and the design may` then be completely filled in in ink, as shown in the drawings.

By ordinary lithographing or printing its distorted condition to the facing of the sheet 7 the latter is corrugated and the design will, as a matter of course, then extendl coincident with the contour of the corrugations, or, in other words, over the ridges and into` thejfurrows of the foundation sheet. In so doing the design will be restored to its normal or original appearance, as shown in Figure 4.

In actual practice the foundation sheet 7 may be made up of a plurality of units hav-` j ing repeats of the desired design thereon so that a roll of the sheet, for instance one thousand yards in length, may be prepared. This will'enable any particular advertiser, for example, to order any desired length of the 4product and permit him to divide the same into suitable lengths for display purposes in various places, such as show windows. pillar or counter trims, wall friezes vand thelike. In order to prepare a length of the product such as described, a plurality of foundation sheets or units 7, in their normal o1' flat condition, are prepared and each unit is of substantially the same length and Width as the sheet 6 in its stretched condition. After the design has been transposed to the flat units 7, the latter are properly trimmed` and placed with adjacent ends overlapping so as to register any parts of the design extending to the ends of the units with similar parts of said design on adjacent units; and the overlapped ends are then glued together and compressed so that said units will combine to form one continuous strip. Said strip is then rolled up and fed into a corrugat-ing machine to corrugate the surface carrying t e design.

It will, of course, be understood that various methods may be employed for transferring the design in its distorted form on to the flat surface of thefoundation sheet 7. For instance, instead of securing on tracing paper an impression of the distorted design from the sheet 6 and ultimately transferring said design. onto sketch board for lithographing or printing purposes in the manner set forth, it may be possible to trace the design directly onto the sketch board Aand thereby eliminate intermediate steps in the lmethod. f

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ALEXANDER LEUNISn

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