A New Method of Utilizing Sawdust, Small Seeds, and Talc Chips for Ornamental and Useful Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Method of Utilizing Sawdust, Small Seeds, and Talc Chips
for Ornamental and Useful Purposes..
I ALEXANDER WATT of 37 Kings Road Kingston on Thames in the County of
Surrey Patentee do hereby declare the nature of said invention for A NEW METHOD
OF UTILIZING SAWDUST, SMALL SEEDS AND TALC CHIPS FOR ORNAMENTAL
AND USEFUL PURPOSES :-
I clean, stain or dye the sawdust or other substance, in any suitable manner
various colors, and embed or lay the various colored substances upon a thick layer
of a gelatinous drying adhesive body spread upon such articles as I wish to
ornament, such as cardboard, wood, glass, china &c.
I lay or sprinkle the various colored substances upon the layer of gelatinous
adhesive matter while it is moist, in various shapes and forms so as to produce the
pattern or representation required.
I either lay or sprinkle the chips of talc in a similar manner upon the layer of
gelatinous adhesive matter or sprinkle it over the colored substances as required.
I do not confine myself to one particular method of affixing the colored substances
as this may be varied.
When the whole of the gelatinous body is dry I lightly brush off such superfluous
particles of the surface covering as do not adhere, and cover the whole surface with
a coating of varnish.
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ALEXANDER WATT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Method of Utilizing Sawdust, Small Seeds, and Talc Chips
for Ornamental and Useful Purposes.
I, ALEXANDER WATT of 37 Kings Road, Kingston on Thames, in the County
of Surrey, Patentee, 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 is designed to effect the imitation of costly material such as
granite or marble, and to decorate the surfaces of opaque substances or the under-
surfaces of transparent substances, by means of certain cheap or waste materials
prepared and applied as hereinafter described.
The material which I chiefly employ is sawdust or pulverized or disintegrated
wood or bark, and I also use various small seeds also chips or fragments of talc
or mica.
I clean, dye or stain, or bleach or otherwise treat the sawdust and other material
or any portion thereof, so as to impart to it, or to some of it, various colours or
shades of colour, and so as to prepare it for producing plain artistic or ornamental
effects; such effects being employed in combination or in contrast or otherwise.
Having prepared my materials in the form of a dry coloured or uncoloured
powder, or granular or disintegrated fibrous substance; I then make ready the
surface or article which I propose to decorate, and cover it with a coat of some
suitable adhesive substance, such as glue, gum, paste, cement, boiled oil, paint, size,
varnish and the like; the kind of adhesive substance depending on whether the
finished article or surface is to be subsequently covered or not, or used indoors or
outdoors, or exposed to heat or damp or cold.

page_text: I then lay or sprinkle or otherwise apply the various coloured or uncoloured
materials upon the layer of adhesive matter while it is moist or soft, and I spread it
in one or other of the various shapes or patterns necessary to produce the effect or
representation required.
For, the purpose of producing an imitation of grey or red granite, I mix in
suitable proportions, the black, white and appropriately coloured materials which I
have prepared, and which in combination with a judicious admixture of talc chips
will give a crystalline effect and present the desired appearance or representation;
and I sprinkle or otherwise cover with this mixture the surface of such substance
or article as I have previously coated with the adhesive matter and apply slight
pressure thereto, and when dry I brush or blow off the superfluous material.
When a smooth surface is required I apply pressure to the covered substance or
article, either while in a soft condition or when dry, at my option.
If a polished or varnished surface is desired I apply a coat of size and varnish in
the usual way.
I do not confine myself to any precise method of affixing the coloured material to
the adhesive coating, as this may be done in various ways; nor to any special
manner of finishing off the same, as this will depend on the use or purpose for which
it is designed; nor to any particular substances to which it shall be applied, as it is
applicable to a very large number of natural or artificial products.
It can be applied to wood, metal, glass, canvas, paper, millboard, and many other
substances.
Rolls of paper of suitable strength may be coated with it, and may be wound
on to drums or rollers of suitable size for safety in transport.
Besides its application as above described for producing an effective imitation of
natural stone, it can be employed for producing representations of flowers, fruit, and
the like for artistic or decorative purposes.
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 I
claim is :-
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1. The use of all or any of the materials specified, in a powdered or granular or
disintegrated condition, and either plain, bleached, dyed or coloured, or otherwise
treated, for decorative or ornamental purposes, as herein described and explained.
2. The method of combining the said materials prepared as described with an
adhesive substance, and of applying the same for artistic or decorative purposes as
herein described and explained.
Dated this 26th day of January 1892.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.