US1654702A - Emblem and process of manufacturing therefor - Google Patents

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Jan. 3, 1928.

F. O. REHFIELD EMBLEM AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING THEREFOR Filed April 13. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 30. Weir/Z224 14:10 r71 qy F. O. REHFIELD EMBLEM AND PRQCESS OF MANUFACTURING THEREFOR Jan. 3, 1928.

Filed April 13. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 a; 5 Inwentor 1. 0. Fair/764d,

Alto r71 9 Patented Jan. 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES ERE o. REHFIELD, .oE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

EMBLEM AND PROCESS or MANUFACTURING THEREFOR.

Application filed April 13, 1927. Serial lie-1 83,599

The present invention relates to an improved method or process of manufacturing emblems for the purpose of providing transparent indicia such as letters to be lit up at night so that names, sayings, and the like may be readable in display windows and like places.

An important object of the invention lies in the provision of an article and a process for manufacturing the same whereby cheapness and speed in manufacture are obtained and efficiency and reliability in the article are attained.

WVith the above and other objects in view as will appear asthe description proceeds, the invention resides in certain. novel features of construction and in the process of manufacture thereof as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a plan view of the article after the second step in the process of manufacture,

Figure is a, transverse section therethrough taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1 Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the article after the third step,

Figure 4. is a top plan view of the article after the fourth step, i I

Figure 5 is a sectional View taken substantially on the line 55 of Figure 4, p

Figure 6 is a plan'view of the finished article and Figure 7 is a sectional View taken therethrough substantially on the line ,77 .of'

Figure 6. r

The first step in this improved process resides in the laying ofa piece of cloth or fabric on a table or the like, the laying of a piece of isinglass on top of the cloth or fabric and then the laying of apiece of leatherette or the like on top of the isinglass or the like. The second step resides in embroider ing a frame bead 5 around the outer surface ofthe leatherette 6, and through the isinglass 7 and thecloth 8. The third step consists in cutting outthe cloth or fabric lying inside the embroidering bead 5 as is illustrated in Figures 6 and 7. The fourth step resides in the embroidering of each letter separately on the outer edge and through the leatherette and isinglass as is indicated at 9. The fifth and final step consists of cutting out the forms of the letters from the leather ette so as to'produce the article illustrated in F igures-6 and 7 of the drawings.

The purpose of the cloth or fabric is to form a frame, thereby holding the isinglass and leatherette in place, so that the letters may be cut out from the leatherette. Each letter and each frame is separately embroidered, and bypullingone stitch from the completed work, the whole frame or letter will immediately pull out. By thus taking out the embroidering on the outer frame, the isinglass and leatherette can be lifted from the cloth frame, and a new set of letters may be made up on other isinglass and leatherette and put on the old frame. The use of the embroidery stitch as described not only affords ease of assembly and ease of disassem- 'bly as explained, but functions as a head to;

it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description. It is apparent, however, thatchanges in the details of construction, in the material, in the combination and arrangement of parts, and the specific steps of the process may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:'

1. As a new article of manufacture, a device of the class described formed from a. sheet of cloth, a sheet of isinglass on the cloth, I and a sheet of. leatherette over the isin lass each of-a contrastino color stitching holding together the three sheets, stitching of'a contrast-ing color from the sheets outlining indicia on the leatherette and isinglass, said leatherette being provided with an opening within the confines of the last mentioned stitching and said cloth being provided with an opening within the confines of the first mentioned stitching.

2. An article of manufacture formed from a plurality of sheets of flexible material. and it including a sheet of transparent material interposed between sheets of opaque material, each of said sheets being of a contrasting color, stitching securing the sheets together and defining the border of the transparent sheet and one of the opaque sheets, said other opaque sheet having an opening 1n the border, stltchlng of a contrasting color arranged on the surface of the firstnamed opaque sheet and vextending through the transparent sheetand forming an outline for indicia of predetermined design, said first named opaque sheet having an opening Withinthe confines of the last'nanied sheet and registering with the other opaque sheet.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

FRED O. REHFIELD.

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