Lettering kit and alignment grid therefor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4339886
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06172431

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A lettering kit and release alignment grid therefor with the lettering kit including pressure sensitive adhesive backed letters and Arabic numerals in a specific font style and supplied in precut form mounted on backing sheet that is release agent coated for readily removal of selected letters and numbers to form desired words and phrases that are to be transfer applied to a desired substrate surface to form signs or the like, in which a special lay out, release agent coated; grid is provided that has guideline indicia keyed to the special shaping of the individual capital letters, lower case letters, and numerals that the font style conventionally has, for layout of the desired word or phrase on the grid to achieve, for transfer to the substrate surface, professional printing appearing letter alignment and spacing in individual word or phrase units, for pickup and transfer as a unit to the substrate surface, using a transfer sheet having a special pressure sensitive coating for this purpose. The pressure sensitive coatings of the letters and numerals, and the transfer sheet have predetermined adhesive differential or release factor relationships for ready pick up of the word units, so formed on the grid, from the grid as a preformed unit, by the transfer sheet, and layout adherence of the letters involved in the unit, to the substrate surface, in the same unit alignment and spacing that was achieved on the grid, with the letter and numeral adherence to the substrate surface being such that the transfer sheet is separated from the letters and numerals involved on a consecutive basis by pulling one end of the transfer sheet toward the other end of same, with the transfer sheet being reusable as needed for similar application of other letter units to the same or other substrates on an as needed basis.

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HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK111 WEST MONROE STREET CHICAGO IL 60603

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Griffiths, Kenneth G Downers Grove, IL 2 59
Woods, Stephen C Clarendon Hills, IL 1 18

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