Decorative Printing.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 15th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1887
Decorative Printing.
We EBENEZER WARD, GEORGE LOCK, JAMES BOWDEN & JOHN HENRY LOCK,
trading as Ward Lock and Company of Warwick House, Salisbury Square in the
city of London, Printers and Publishers and HENRY GUSTAVUS WELLS of 1 York
Villas Stockwell Park Walk in the county of Surrey do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :-
That is has hitherto been necessary for the purpose of printing pictorial artistic and
decorative subjects either for ordinary letter press printing or for producing wall-
papers or illustrated book covers, or for all kinds of printing hitherto accomplished by
the means of engraved blocks or plates, that such printing blocks or plates should be
drawn by competent artists upon wood, stone steel brass or other suitable material, or
produced theron by the usual methods of transfer papers and that such drawings
upon wood, stone steel or other suitable material should be engraved by competent
workmen or etched and produced in the ordinary processes of lithography.
Our invention consists of the construction and adaptation of moveable type for the
purpose of producing a printing block of any desired picture drawing or design for
any of the purposes herein before referred to, such types being of simple shape, the
necessary contour or shade of the copy being produced by the suitable grouping of
these shapes.
The difference in such shapes is in their surfaces only and their dimensions in other
respects are the same.
When it is necessary to enlarge or diminish an illustration from one already set up
in this type of our invention the uniformity of the squares or portions of squares lastly
herein before referred to can be utilized by setting up the new design in exactly the
same number and character of squares or portions of squares as before except that
such squares or portions of squares would be of larger or smaller area according to
the circumstances of the case.
Our said Invention does not require in such enlargement or reduction of a copy or
drawing that it should first be set up in the same size as the Copy-as by the use of

page_text: our said type it can at once be set up in any desired size by using the type of the
sectional area suitable for the purpose.
When it is desired to apply our said Invention to color printing we can obtain the
desired results by the use of our types in forming Key blocks and followers as has
hitherto been done in wood stone or other systems of engraving or etching.
The object of our invention is to place in the hands of persons not specially trained
in the production of printing blocks of pictorial, artistic or decorative subjects as for
instance a compositor, a means of producing a printing block. Such a person being
supplied with the copy or drawing could from a stock of shapes herein before described
make up a printing block in the ways herein before mentioned.
In our application we claim all such variation in the said shapes as properly come
within the scope of our invention.
HARE & Co.,
31, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.,
Agents to the said Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Type or Printing Block for Pictorial, Artistio, and
Decorative Printing.
We EBENEZER WARD, GEORGE LOCK, JAMES BOWDEN and JOHN HENRY LOCK
trading as Ward Lock & Company of Warwick House Salisbury Square in the City
of London, Printers & Publishers and HENRY GUSTAVUS WELLS of 1 York Villas
Stockwell Park Walk Brixton in the county of Surrey Draughtsman 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 :—
That it has hitherto been necessary for the purpose of printing pictorial artistic and
decorative subjects either for ordinary letter press printing or for producing wall
papers or illustrated book covers or for all kinds of printing hitherto accomplished by
means of engraved blocks or plates that such printing blocks or plates should be
drawn by competent artists upon wood, stone, steel brass or other suitable material or
produced thereon by the several methods of transfer papers and that such drawings
upon wood, stone, steel, brass or other suitable material should be engraved by
competent workmen or etched and produced in the ordinary processes of lithography.
Our invention consists of the construction and adaptation of movable type for the
purpose of producing a printing block of any desired picture drawing or design for
any of the purposes herein before referred to, such type being of simple shape the
necessary contour or shade of the copy being produced by the suitable grouping of
these shapes.
The difference in such shapes is mainly in their surfaces only and their dimensions
in other respects are the same and in any variations to this is the variation with
reference to the body of the type (being a half or a quarter of the original) and not
with any reference to the shape of its surface.
When it is necessary to enlarge or diminish an illustration from one already set up
in this type of our invention the uniformity of the squares or portions of squares lastly
hereinbefore referred to can be utilized by sitting-up the new design in exactly the
same number and character of squares or portions of squares as before except that
such squares or portions of squares would be of larger or smaller area according to the
circumstances of the case.
Our said invention does not require in such enlargement or reduction of a copy or
drawing that it should first be set up in the same size as the copy as by the use of our
said type it can at once be set up in any desired size by using the type of the sectional
area suitable for the purpose.
When it is desired to apply our said invention to color printing we can obtain the
desired results by the use of our types in forming key blocks and followers as has
hitherto been done in wood stone or other systems of engraving or etching.
The object of our invention is to place in the hands of persons not specially trained
in the production of printing blocks of pictorial, artistic or decorative subjects as for
instance a compositor, a means of producing a printing block. Such a person being

page_text: supplied with a copy or drawing could from a stock of shapes hereinbefore described
make up a printing block in the ways herein before mentioned.
In Figure I we show illustration of a number of such type both with straight and
curved edges the dotted line shows the body of the type and the solid or plain
lines the surface of it.
In Figure II we show a figure made up by arranging some of the type referred to
in Figure I.
In Figure III we show another figure where curved lines are introduced. These
figures are merely given as illustrations of the use of my said invention and not as
embracing all the conditions of its application.
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 that what 1
claim is :-
I. The construction of type or blocks for pictorial artistic or decorative printing
where the body of the type is formed of squares or portions of squares, and the
surfaces of the same of some simple shape the construction and arrangement of which
gives any desired shape.
II. The construction of reduced and enlarged type or blocks for all such last
mentioned purposes where by the use of same, reduced or enlarged printing blocks
can be made of any suitable given illustration or design.
III. The adaptation of such blocks to all purposes of printing where heretofore
the manipulation of skilled workmen and specially made blocks only were
suitable.
All such other modifications and modes of application of my said invention as
properly come within the scope of the same.
Dated this 15th day of November 1887.