IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAINTED OR JAPANNED TADER CAVE
Year: 1855

page_text: I CARDS PATENT to William Ricketts and Thomas Bulley both of Stepney.
in the County of Middlesex, Painters and Grainers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAINTED OR JAPANNED
TADER CAVE"
in the County of Middlesex, Painters and Grainers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAINTED OR JAPANNED
Sealed the 5th October 1855, and dated the 10th April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Ricketts and
Thomas Bulley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 10th April 1855.
We, WILLIAM RICKETTS and THOMAS BULLEY, both of Stepney, in the County
of Middlesex, Painters and Grainers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAINTED
OR JAPANNED TABLE COVERS" to be as follows:-
Our said improvements refer to producing patterns of marbles and imitations
of inlaid work of marbles and woods, together or separately, in oil colours on
moleskin, canvas, and similar fabrics, having suitably prepared surfaces, for
table and other like covers.
Our improved marble patterns are produced by floating oil paint on the
surface of water on which a solution of soap has been previously thrown by a.
brush, and the matèrial to be ornamented on, having its prepared surface laid
thereon, takes up the oil paint, by which process a variety of marble patterns

page_text: may be obtained, observing to repeat the soap solution and a fresh supply of
colour for each article so treated: The graining of wood patterns is proceeded
with as customary by simply applying the colours and usual tools.
Our improvement in 'the production of imitative inlaid or mosaic work,
whether of marbles or woods of different qualities, colours, or combinations, is
effected by a novel process of stencilling. We first produce a ground surface
of a wood, marble, or other pattern, which when perfectly dry we cover with a
second pattern or colour, and while the same is partially dry, which may be in
one hour, or thereabouts, we lay over it thin metal stencil plates cut out with
scroll or any other patterns, and scrape or clean away with turpentine or by
other suitable means the last or upper coat or pattern, thereby exposing por-
tions of the lower or under coat or pattern, which produces the effect of inlaid
or mosaic work. The articles prepared by any or all these processes are next
to be varnished and finished by stoving, as customary.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Ricketts and Thomas Bulley in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 9th October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
RICKETTS and THOMAS BULLEY, both of Stepney, in the County of Middlesex,
Painters and Grainers, send greeting.
"WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Ricketts and Thomas Bulley, Her special licence that we,' the
said William Ricketts and Thomas Bulley, our executors, 'administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Ricketts and Thomas
Bulley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
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 PRO-
DUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAINTED OR JAPANNED TABLE COVERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Ricketts and Thomas
Bulley, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, should par-

page_text: ticularly 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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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_NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Ricketts and Thomas Bulley,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement: - ..
Our said improvements refer to producing patterns of marbles and of various
materials arranged as imitations of inlaid work composed of marbles and woods,
together or separately, on japanned or painted moleskin, canvas, and similar
fabrics, having suitably prepared surfaces, for table and other like covers.
And for the better understanding of our said Invention, we will now proceed
to give a detailed description thereof.
In producing marble patterns, we proceed by the ordinary method of
floating oil paint on the surface of water, first throwing thereon by means of a
brush a solution of soap; and the material to be ornamented, on having its
prepared surface laid on the floating paint, takes up the same; by repetitions
of which process a variety of marble patterns may be obtained, observing to
repeat the additions of the soap solution and a fresh supply of oil colours for
each article so treated. The graining of wood patterns is proceeded with as
customary, by simply applying the colour, and graining with the usual tools.
Our improvements in obtaining imitation inlaid or mosaic work, whether of
marbles or woods of different qualities, colours, or combinations, produced
by the foregoing or like methods, is effected by a novel application of sten-
cilling. We first produce a ground surface, plain or ornamental, or of a wood,
marble, or other pattern, which when perfectly dry we cover with a second
different pattern or colour; and while the same is partially dry, which may
be in one hour, or thereabouts, we lay over it thin metal stencil plates cut
out with scroll or any other desired patterns, and scrape or clear away with oil
of turpentine or by other suitable means the last or upper coat or pattern left
uncovered by the stencil plates, thereby exposing portions of the lower or under
coat or pattern, regulated by the design cut in the stencil plate, and which thus
produces the effect of inlaid or mosaic work. The articles prepared by any or
all of these processes are next to be varnished and finished by stoving, as
customary.
Having thus fully described our several modes of proceeding to produce any
required designs of inlaid work, we would observe that we do not restrict our-
selves to any precise colours, materials, or ornamental patterns; but what we

page_text: do claim as our Invention is, namely, the improvements in producing orna-
mental designs of inlaid work on painted or japanned table and other like
covers and articles, as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Ricketts and Thomas Bulley,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1855.