Improvement in the Manufacture of Ornamental Tiles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 16th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Manufacture of Ornamental Tiles.
OWEN GIBBONS, WILLIAM JOHN HINTON, FRANCIS GIBBONS trading as
Gibbons, Hinton & Co. Encaustic Tile Manufacturers Brockmoor Brierley Hill
Staffs. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The die in which the tube is made has a moveable bottom plate on which is sunk
the ornament which forms the relief, the ground being left perfectly flat.
A roller is passed over the plate charged with suitable colour ground in oil, so
preparing the plate as for printing.
The die box is then filled with prepared clay dust and the tile pressed in the usual
way of making dust encaustic tiles.
By this process an ornamental tile is obtained with a coloured background and
a white or other colored embossed figure in relief.
The tile when fired may also be glazed or painted.
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We also decorate tiles by having on the bottom plate of the die projecting
which when the box has been filled with prepared clay dust and pressed leave
incisions in the tile.
Clay dust of a different color is introduced into the incisions of the pressed tile,
and the tile being replaced in the die is again pressed.
Or a glaze or vitreous material may be introduced into the incisions without being
again pressed.
The tiles being fired may also be glazed.
Dated this 18th day of August 1890.
OWEN GIBBONS.
WM. J. HINTON.
FRANCIS GIBBONS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Manufacture of Ornamental Tiles.
OWEN GIBBONS, WILLIAM JOHN HINTON and FRANCIS GIBBONS trading
under the style or title of Gibbons, Hinton & Co. Encaustic Tile Manufacturers
Brockmoor Brierley Hill Staffordshire 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 :-
The die in which the tile is made is similar to that ordinarily used for making
tiles from dust or pulverized clay, but has a movable bottom plate on which is sunk
the ornament which is the counterpart or reverse of the relief on the finished tile.
The background or surface of the plate is made perfectly flat.
A roller is passed
over the plate charged with suitable colour and oil ground together so preparing the
plate as is done in block printing. The die box is then filled with prepared clay
dust and the tile pressed in the usual way of making dust encaustic tiles. The tile
under the pressure picks off the colour from the plate. By this process an
ornamental tile is obtained with a coloured background and a white or other
coloured embossed figure in relief. The tile when fired may also be glazed or
painted.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The invention of a process for giving a coloured background to an embossed tile
made from dust clay, such colour being rolled on the figured plate and being taken
off by the clay dust in the pressing of the tiles as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated the 11th day of April 1891.
OWEN GIBBONS.
WM. J. HINTON.
FRANCIS GIBBONS.