IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING OIL PAINTING TO WOOD, PLASTER, AND OTHER SURFACES, AND IN THE MATERIALS CONNECTED THEREWITH.
Year: 1875

page_text: 67, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING OIL PAINTING
TO WOOD, PLASTER, AND OTHER SURFACES, AND IN THE MATERIALS CONNECTED
THEREWITH. -A communication from abroad by Jules Auguste
Maynard, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France.
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Sealed the 25th June 1875, and dated the 18th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Primerose
Howard Vaughan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 18th March 1875.
I, EDWARD PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F.C.S., of 67, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING
OIL PAINTING TO WOOD, PLASTER, AND OTHER SURFACES, AND IN THE MATERIALS
CONNECTED THEREWITH," being a communication to me from abroad by
Jules Auguste Maynard, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France, to
be as follows:-

page_text: The paint employed in the execution of this process is composed of
any desired colour or colours, ground up in a mixture of say ninety-five
parts of boiled and five parts of unboiled linseed oil, to which may be
added, in case of need, any ingredients calculated to render the product
more or less clastic.
The proportions of the two kinds of oil may be varied according to
the intended application of the pellicle, care being taken to avoid such
an excess of the boiled oil as might render the paint too siccative.
The transferring medium is composed of paper of any suitable quality
and dimensions, coated on one side with a thin dextrine paste, in which
is incorporated about half its weight of soap, parchment size, or other
analogous substances readily soluble in water. On the coated side of
this paper (when dried) the design to be reproduced is printed with the
oil paint prepared as above, by means of engraved blocks or cylinders in
much the same manner as for ordinary paperhangings or oilcloths, but
with this difference that in the latter the ground colours are first laid
on, whereas in this process the surface colours are first applied to the
paper, the ground coat coming last. The paint is then allowed to set,
and the sheets may thereafter be stored away in rolls for future usc.
On
applying them to the walls or other surfaces to be covered the paper
side is sponged over with water, and the under or paint side is coated
with paste or other suitable adhesive material. The sheets are then set
in place in the same manner as paperhangings, after which the transfer
paper, when thoroughly saturated with moisture, may be casily removed
by the hand, leaving exposed the painted surface, which, if required,
may be varnished by any of the known processes.
It will be understood that the designs may, if so desired, be painted
by hand on the transfer paper, instead of being printed, as above, from
blocks or cylinders, the process in all other respects being carried out as
herein-before described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan in the Great
Scal Patent Office on the 19th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F.C.S., of 67, Chancery Lanc, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, boaring date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
oighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, Her
special licence that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agrec with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF APPLYING
OIL PAINTING TO WOOD, PLASTER, AND OTHER SURFACES, AND IN THE MATERIALS
CONNECTED THEREWITH," a communication to me from abroad by Jules
Auguste Maynard, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to an improved process, by means of which a
coat or pellicle of oil paint, temporarily laid on a sheet of prepared

page_text: surfaces.
The paint employed in the execution of this process is composed of
any desired colour or colours, ground up in a mixture of say ninety-five
parts of boiled and five parts of unboiled linseed oil, to which may be
added, in case of need, any ingredient calculated to render the product
more or less clastic.
The proportions of the two kinds of oil may be varied according to
the intended application of the pellicle, care being taken to avoid such
an excess of the boiled oil as might render the paint too siccative.
The transferring medium is composed of paper of any suitable quality
and dimensions, coated on one side with a thin dextrine paste, in which
is incorporated about half its weight of soap, parchment size, or other
analogous substances readily soluble in water. On the coated side of
this paper (when dried) the design to be reproduced is printed with the
oil paint, prepared as above, by means of engraved blocks or cylinders
in much the same manner as for ordinary paperhangings or oilcloths,
but with this difference that in the latter the ground colours are first
laid on, whereas in this process the surface colours arc first applied to
the paper, the ground coat coming last. The paint is then allowed to
set, and the sheets may thereafter be stowed away in rolls for future usc.
On applying them to the walls or other surfaces to be covered the paper
side is sponged over with water, and the under or paint side is coated
with paste or other suitable adhesive material. The sheets are then set
in place in the same manner as paperhangings, after which the transfer
paper, when thoroughly saturated with moisture, may be easily removed
by the hand, leaving exposed the painted surface, which, if required,
may be varnished by any of the known processes.
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It will be understood that the designs may, if so desired, be painted
by hand on the transfer paper, instead of being printed, as above, from
blocks or cylinders, the process in all other respects being carried out as
herein-before described.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of carrying it into effect, I declare that what I claim is, the
improved process by means of which a pellicle of oil paint representing
any given design is temporarily formed on transfer paper, and thereafter

page_text: applied to the wall or other surface to be covered, the transfer paper
being subsequently removed so as to leave exposed the upper surface of
the painting, the whole substantially as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
E. P. H. VAUGHAN. (L.S.)