Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Transfer Sheets for Use in Ornamenting Surfaces with Marbled and Veined Designs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Transfer Sheets for
Use in Ornamenting Surfaces with Marbled and Veined Designs.
I, GEORG GROSSHEIM, of 6 and 8 Wülfingstrasse, Elberfeld, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention relates to the manufacture of transfer sheets for use in ornamenting
surfaces, with marbled and veined designs.
For many years endeavours have been made to
ornamenting surfaces in imitation of marble and wood.
made of pasted paper and stencils.
devise various methods of
Use has for example been
Another method according to which transfer paper is employed, and which has
already been in use for fifteen years, has no doubt met with the greatest success
despite of all innovations, this being due to simple manipulation. The veined
designs produced with this transfer paper however possess several defects.
As is well known, the colour of the veined design, which is printed on the paper
consists of a mixture of colouring matter, dextrine or gum arabic, or gum
tragacanth all substances which easily become soft as soon as the back of the
paper is moistened with water. With this softened material the design is trans-
ferred in the well-known manner on to the object which has received a ground the
paper being removed and the surface being then varnished.
The before-mentioned materials, that is to say the gum arabic, dextrine, gum
tragacanth have a caustic property and very easily destroy the coat of varnish
which each veined design in imitation of wood finally receives. Moreover the
quality of the transfer depends on many contingencies, inasmuch as the back of the
paper may easily be moistened too much or too little.
By my said invention all the defects possessed by the well-known transfer paper
are completely remedied.
The paper or fabric employed is prepared with an oily liquid and smoothed. If
thin metal celluloid or similar material suitable for this purpose is used this
preparatory treatment will not be necessary.
Upon the aforesaid smooth material the veined design is produced with a solid
and tough substance either by hand painting or by mechanical means. On this
substance is strewed or laid a fine powder consisting of wool felt paper or the like,
which combines with the substance previously applied and dries. The transfer
sheet thus manufactured then serves for ornamenting surfaces in imitation of
marble and wood, in the following simple manner.
With a broad brush or sponge filled with veining colour I coat the entire surface
of the veined transfer sheet and lay it down for a moment.
It will then be found that the colour dries quickly upon the smooth places
between the veins, whilst it is still in the moist state at the rough places which
represent the veined design. In this state the veined transfer sheet is placed
with the side bearing the design upon the surface to be veined and is rubbed on
the back with a cloth rolled up into a ball or with a brush.
The moist colour contained on the rough surface of the veined design is trans-
ferred to the object to be veined. With such a veined transfer sheet hundreds of
transfers can be made in the manner herein before described.

page_text: 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 what I claim is-
1. A method of manufacturing transfer sheets for use in ornamenting surfaces
with marbled and veined designs by applying the veined design by means of a
tough and fatty substance on to a smooth sheet such as an oiled and satined sheet
of paper or fabric or sheet of celluloid or metal, and covering the still pasty design
with a powder of wool felt paper or the like, for the purpose of enabling a greater
number of designs in imitation of wood or marble to be produced by means of the
transfer sheet to be coated with the veining colour.
Dated this 7th day of January 1806
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.