IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METAL, WOOD, LEATHER, TEXTILE FABRICS, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Cornides, of No. 4, Trafalgar Square, (Office
for Patents,) Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METAL, WOOD, LEATHER, TEXTILE
FABRICS, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Cornides, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
June 1856.
I, LOUIS CORNIDES, of No. 4, Trafalgar Square, (Office for Patents,)
Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METAL, WOOD, LEATHER,
TEXTILE FABRICS, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the ornamenting the above-named materials by a
new mode of applying thereto impressions of plain or colored prints, lithographs,
or drawings, for which purpose, in the first place, it is necessary to prepare
the surface of the material to be ornamented as herein-after described. If
of metal, whether it be in flat sheets or in the form of a vase, or other
article, the surface must be rendered bright by tinning or otherwise; if in-

page_text: wood, the surface must be smoothed and polished, and in some cases tin-foil,
gold or silver paper, or gold or silver leaf may be attached to the surface.
When leather or textile fabrics, and such like materials are to be ornamented,
the surfaces may be prepared partly according to the manner described in the
Patent granted to me on 3rd of April 1855, No. 745, for certain improve-
ments in saturating, &c., so as to produce a metallized surface on such
material, or I may produce the same by attaching to such surfaces tin-foil,
gold or silver paper, or gold or silver leaf.
The surface of the material to be ornamented being thus prepared, I apply
thereto ox gall, and a solution of gelatine or animal glue, either in combina-
tion with or without sugar, alum, or creosote, as a coating, on which I propose
to transfer the ornamental, plain, or colored impressions, or to attach thereto
such ornamental impressions made on a transparent medium; or with leather
and textile fabrics, and such like soft material, the surfaces prepared as afore-
said may have the ornamental device, plain or colored, impressed or printed
direct thereon. After the ornamental device has been transferred, attached, or
printed on the surface of the respective materials, the same are coated with
my gelatine compounds, drying oils, or varnishes, which said processes of
coating and transferring, as also the mode of producing the transparent medium
above referred to, are set forth and described in the Specifications of Patents
granted unto me, and respectively dated the 26th Nov 1853, No. 2762, the
26th Sept 1854, No. 2066, & 19th September 1855, No. 2112.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Cornides in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
CORNIDES, of No. 4, Trafalgar Square, (Office for Patents,)-Charing Cross, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Cornides, Her special licence that I; the said Louis Cornides
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Louis Cornides, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any

page_text: time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
ORNAMENTING METAL, WOOD, LEATHER, TEXTILE FABRICS, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that i, the safd. Louis Cornides, 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 per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Louis Cornides, 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 per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent...
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Cornides, 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 state-
ment thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to the ornamenting the above-named materials by a
new mode of applying thereto plain or colored impressions, drawings, or
photographs, for which purpose, in the first place, it is necessary to prepare
the surface of the material to be ornamented as herein-after described. In
order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now proceed
to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, as follows:-
In operating upon metal for ornamenting the same, whether it be in flat
sheets or in the form of a vase, or other article, the surface thereof must be
rendered bright by tinning or otherwise. In operating upon wood for orna-
menting the same, the surface thereof must be prepared by any of the processes
in known and common use for silvering or gilding surfaces of wood. In
operating upon leather or textile fabrics, and such like materials, for orna-
menting the same, I use either the fabrics prepared according to the manner
described in the Specification of a former Patent granted unto me, the said
Louis Cornides, on the 3rd day of April 1855, No. 745, for certain improve-
ments in saturating, &c., &c., so as to produce a metallized surface on such
said materials.
The surface of the materials to be ornamented being thus prepared, I
coat the various metallic surfaces with a solution of ox gall or a suitable
transparent varnish, and when dry, I apply thereto a solution composed
of 4 parts gelatine, 1 part sugar, 1 part of glycerine, and 6 or 8 parts of
soft water, as a coating, on which I propose to transfer the ornamental,

page_text: plain, or colored impressions, drawings, or lithographs, or to attach thereto
such ornamental impressions made on a transparent; flexible, and elastic
medium, or on the silvered, gilded, varnished, or japanned materials in common
use; or I prepare the surface of the said materials by attaching thereto tin-
foil, foil paper, or silver. paper, by means of a solution of gelatine or glue
herein-before described, which said processes of coating, transferring, as also
the mode of producing the transparent medium above referred to, and other
necessary processes are set forth and described in the Specifications of former
Patents granted unto me, the said Louis Cornides, and respectively dated the
26th November 1853, No. 2762, the 23rd September 1854, No. 2066, and
the 19th September 1855, No. 2112; or when leather, textile fabrics, and
such like soft materials, having surfaces prepared as aforesaid, are to be orna-
mented, the ornamental device, plain or colored impression, may be printed
direct thereon.
I now proceed to describe the manner in which I operate upon curved
surfaces for ornamenting the same, by transferring impressions et cetera,
thereonto in the following manner and by the following means: -Suppose,
for example, it is required to ornament the outer surface of a vase; I first
prepare a rectangular, or other shaped piece of wood, by cutting a hole
therein somewhat larger than the said vase. I then cover one side of such.
piece of wood with a piece of sheet india-rubber of moderate substance, and
affix the edges thereof to the wood by nails, screws, or other suitable means;
having done this, I next proceed to prepare and transfer the impression on to
the surface of the india-rubber, previously coated with a gelatine solution, as
aforesaid; I then coat or cover the surface of the vase with any suitable
transparent varnish, and before the varnish sets or gets dry, I press the surface
of the vase upon and against the ornamented surface of the india-rubber, at
the same time applying heat thereto in any convenient manner sufficient to
dissolve the gelatine coating upon which the ornament has been transferred,
so that upon withdrawing the vase, the ornament will have left the india-
-rubber, and attached itself to- the varnished surface of the vase; and I
afterwards remove with spirits of turpentine any surplus varnish which may
exceed-beyond-the-impression or ornament thus transferred on to the said vase;
and in this manner and by these means I ornament curved surfaces of what-
ever shape they may be, taking care to make the shape of the opening in the
wood similar to the sectional configuration of the curved article which it is
desired to ornament.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in Ornamenting Metal, Wood, Leather, Textile

page_text: Fabrics, and other Substances," together with the best means I am acquainted
with for carrying the same into practical effect, I hereby declare my Invention
to consist in, and I claim the modes above particularly described of orna-
menting metal, wood, leather, textile fabrics, and other substances, substantially
as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Cornides, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
ALEX PRINCE, Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.
LOUIS CORNIDES. (L.S.)