An Extremely Quick and Easy Method of Embossing and Modelling in Relief in Metal, and Metal in Conjunction with Leather, Paper, and Textiles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Feb., 1889
An Extremely Quick and Easy Method of Embossing and Modelling
in Relief in Metal, and Metal in Conjunction with Leather,
Paper, and Textiles.
JAMES ELLIOTT, artist, and FRANK ELLIOTT, artist, both of 19 Sumatra Road,
Dennington Park, West Hampstead, N.W., London, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
All former methods of embossing being extremely slow, laborious, and costly. We
take sheets of thin metal-which are easily impressionable, and yet will retain the
form given in some degree-the kind of metal employed in the manufacture of artists
colour tubes-is found to answer. On this metal is laid the design which we wish to
emboss, drawn on rather thin paper, and fixed with drawing pins. The design is then
gone over with a moderately hard point, enough pressure being used, to leave with a
single operation, an impression on the metal, not only on its surface, but right
through to its back, so that necessarily the design both on back and front is
absolutely coincident. Remove the paper design. Then take the sheet of metal with
the design impressed on it, and with two or three wooden tools of various degrees of
bluntness and sharpness-press and rub up from behind,-the design, which has been
transferred to it-into a rough modelling of effect required. Now turn it over and
by following round the outline of design on the right side of the metal with a point-
it will give a metal design in high or low relief as may
be.
Now examine where more prominence is required, and again push and rub up
from the back-now again sharpen on the front-and make on front such
depressions and sharp touches as are required-repeating the operations, till com-
pletion. The embossed metal-to be kept in a state of relief-must then be backed
up-by having poured into the modelling at the back-some composition-such as
Plaster of Paris and Glue-or powder flake white and spirit varnish-or anything
else that will set hard. The face can then be painted and decorated in desired
manner. By glueing or pasting on to the metal in the beginning-thin leather-
paper-silk-
x-or other textiles-and proceeding in the same manner as indicated―
embossed designs in these various substances will be had.
1
L1000
any

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Extremely Quick and Easy Method of Embossing and Modelling
in Relief in Metal, and Metal in Conjunction with Leather,
Paper, and Textiles.
,
JAMES ELLIOTT artist 19 Sumatra Road, Dennington Park, West Hampstead
N.W. London, FRANK ELLIOTT artist same address, 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 :-
All former methods of embossing being extremely slow laborious and costly.
We take sheets of thin metal-of a kind which are easily impressionable--and yet
possessing sufficient power of resistance-to retain the form impressed or given to them
and not to lose it with a fair amount of judicious handling. Tin and lead foil with
their alloys and the kind of metal employed in the manufacture of artist's color tubes,
are found to be well adapted for the purpose.
This metal is placed flat on a board-and on it is glued, pasted, or cemented, the
leather-paper-textiles or photographs-On this is laid when dry-drawn on rather
thin paper the design we wish to emboss (except it is a photograph which we have
already glued there)-and held in its place with drawing pins-The design or photo-
graph, is then gone over with a moderately hard point, enough pressure being used-
to leave with a single operation-an impression on the metal-not only on its
surface but right through to its back also-so that both on back and front-the design
necessarily is absolutely coincident. Remove the paper design-except it is a photo-
graphic portrait or picture-which remains permanently-then take the sheet of
metal, or combined metal and other material, with the design impressed on it--and
with two or three wooden tools of various degrees of bluntness and sharpness-press
and rub up from behind the design which has been transferred to it-into a rough
modelling of effect required. Now turn it over-and by following round the outline
of the design on the right side of the metal with a point, it will give a metal design
in high or low relief as may be-or the modelled surface will be in leather, or either
of the other materials we have affixed to the surface. Now examine where more
. prominence is required-and again push and rub up from the back. Now again
sharpen on the front-and make on the front, such depressions and sharp touches as
are required-repeating the operations till completion.
The embossed sheet of metal, or combined metal and other material-to be kept in
a state of relief, must then be backed up-by having poured into the modelling at the
back some composition, such as Plaster of Paris and glue--powder flake white and
spirit varnish or anything else that will set hard. The face can then be painted and
decorated in any desired manner.
By following the same method as indicated, with a sheet of metal only, without any
substance being fixed to its surface-using a design or photograph to give the
drawing an embossed or modelled metal design, picture, or portrait, will be had-
which may be decorated on its surface or not as may be wished.

page_text: We also take sheets of the flexible metals already indicated-and having electro-
plated them with silver-we print upon them by photography or Daguerreotype,-
from photographic negatives-portraits-or other subjects both on back and front of
the metal sheet so that both pictures are exactly over each other and exactly coincide
-and model and emboss them as before described and subsequently color and
decorate them if wished. Also we take direct on the sheets of metal by photography
with the Camera-portraits and other subjects, and model and emboss them as afore-
said.
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
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1. That it is extremely easy, quick, and cheap-former methods requiring and
entailing laborious modelling or carving-or the making of expensive dies, and the
employment of machinery.
2. Also the employment of the metal in conjunction with the leather, paper, textiles,
photographic portraits and subjects and pictures.
3. By treating photographs in this way-modelled and embossed portraits and
pictures are produced.
Dated this 20th day of December 1888