IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF WOOD SURFACES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Dickinson, of 11, Hanley Road, West Hornsey
Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE ORNAMENTATION OF WOOD SURFACES."
Sealed the 30th May 1876, and dated the 23rd March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Dickinson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd March 1870.
HENRY DICKINSON, of 11, Hanley Road, West Hornsey Road, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF WOOD SURFACES."
The object of the Invention is to decorate the surfaces of wood with designs in
color.
This I effect in the following manner: - Around the parts of the design
to be tinted or colored I carve a line or channel to prevent the colors with
which the surface is enclosed by the carved line or channel are to be tinted
or colored from blending with one another or to prevent the color on one side
of the channel passing to the surface on the opposite side of the channel.
By thus carving the channels or lines around the parts of the design all kinds of
colors may be applied by any ordinary unskilled person without difficulty. The
colors at this stage of the operation meeting together in the dividing channels.
The surface is then polished in the ordinary way until it reaches what is technically
known as bodied in. At this stage the channelled line round the various different
parts of the design is colored in with a metallic or opaque color or substance
according to the design. When this has been done all superfluous coloring matter
that is left on the surface is cleaned off, and the surface is subsequently polished
over in the ordinary method of polishing.
The above described process is applicable for ornamenting all kinds of wood
surfaces whether flat, concave, or convex, or whether veneered or solid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said Henry Dickinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd September
1876.
HENRY DICKINSON, of 11, Hanley Road, West Hornsey Road, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF WOOD SURFACES."
The object of the Invention is to decorate the surfaces of wood with designs in
color.
This I effect in the following manner:-Around the parts of the design to be
tinted or coloured I carve a line or channel to prevent the colors with which the
surfaces enclosed by the carved line or channel are to be tinted or colored from
blending with one another or to prevent the color on one side of the channel
passing to the surface on the opposite side of the channel. By thus carving the
channels or lines around the parts of the design all kinds of colors may be applied
by any ordinary unskilled person without difficulty. The colors at this stage
of the operation meeting together in the dividing channels. The surface is then
polished in the ordinary way until it reaches what is technically known as bodied
in.
At this stage the channelled line round the various different parts of
the design is colored in with a metallic or opaque color or substance according
to the design. When this has been done all superfluous coloring matter that
is left on the surface is cleaned off and the surface is subsequently polished over
in the ordinary method of polishing.
By my process the operator may use all kinds of stains or colors upon all kinds
of wood surfaces without allowing the liquid to run into the fibrous parts of the
grain in the wood. The channel which is carved all round the various parts of
the design may conveniently be about one-twentieth of an inch in depth, and it
may be as narrow as the artist may desire so long as a complete separation of the
two sides is effected, a groove of a V form may often be used with good effect.
The above described process is applicable for ornamenting all kinds of wood
surfaces whether flat, concave, or convex, or whether veneered or solid.
I claim the production of ornamented surfaces on wood substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Dickinson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.