AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS TO BE EMPLOYED IN PRINTING AND ORNAMENTING SURFACES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bristow Hunt, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's
Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS TO BE EMPLOYED IN PRINTING AND
ORNAMENTING SURFACES."-A communication from abroad by Joseph
Louis Wells and Thomas Ellwood Zell, both of Philadelphia, in the
United States of America.
Sealed the 4th March 1873, and dated the 3rd October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bristow Hunt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd October 1872.
I, BRISTOW HUNT, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS TO BE EMPLOYED IN PRINTING
AND ORNAMENTING SURFACES (a communication to me from abroad by
Joseph Louis Wells and Thomas Ellwood Zell, both of Philadelphia, in
the United States of America), to be as follows :—
"
This Invention consists of an improved method or process for printing,
lettering, or otherwise ornamenting non-absorbent surfaces, such for

page_text: example as gilt or polished canisters, or articles applicable in the pro-
duction of cheap signs, advertisements, or inscriptions; by applying to
the part or parts to be printed, lettered, or ornamented, firstly, a thin
priming or adhesive absorbent coating, such as a composition of white
lead and water, in which is dissolved a little gum to afford to the desired
parts of the surface an affinity to the oil or other colors or pigments,
and after allowing the same to dry, printing, stencilling, coloring by
band, or otherwise forming the desired letters or devices in oil or other
colors thereon, which incorporate at the parts in contact with the said
coating or priming, and then removing the surplus priming or that part 1
not covered by the printing, letters, or device by washing it away, so
that the former is left in full relief on the uninjured gilt, polished, or
other non-absorbent surface, requiring no subsequent manipulation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Bristow Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BRISTOW
HUNT, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Bristow Hunt, Her special licence that I,
the said Bristow Hunt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Bristow Hunt, my 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD OR PROCESS TO BE
EMPLOYED IN PRINTING AND ORNAMENTING SURFACES "
(communicated to
me from abroad by Joseph Louis Wells and Thomas Ellwood Zell,
both of Philadelphia, in the United States of America), upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors

page_text: figures on the surfaces of said coating, and then removing the coating
where it is not covered substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bristow Hunt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.