AN IMPROVED METHOD OR IMPROVED METHODS OF ORNAMENTING JAPANNED METAL AND PAPIER MACHE WARES
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I GEORGE
GOODMAN, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of
April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the fifteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Goodman, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George Goodman,
my exors, admiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Goodman,
my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OR IMPROVED METHODS OF ORNAMENTING JAPANNED METAL AND PAPIER
MACHE WARES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said George Goodman, shall cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Goodman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of a Method or Methods of Ornamenting Japanned
Metal and Papier Mâché Wares, y transferring thereto designs printed upon
paper, the said designs being printed in oil colours from engraved plates in the
manner berein-after particularly described. In engraving the plates from
which the designs to be transferred are printed, I proceed as follows:-Having
fixed upon a subject, an oil or water colour painting, for example, I take as
many plates of copper or other material suitable for engraving as there are
colours required for the execution of the said design; I then proceed to
engrave upon each of the plates portions of the design, that is to say, I engrave
upon the same plate such portions of the Drawing or design as are of the
same colour, commencing with the under or ground colours, and finishing with
those in which the detail or finish of the design is effected. In carrying this
part of my Invention into effect I observe the following precautions: I make
upon the first plate four or more dots, one, for example, at each corner of the
engraving, and I make a similar number of dots in the same relative
situations on each of the said plates, so that after the print from the first plate
has been transferred the prints from the successive plates may be transferred
in their proper places by making the dots on each fall on the dots transferred
from the previously used plates. The design to be produced on the japanned
metal and papier mâché wares must not be reversed in the engraving, as is
done for direct printing, but it must be drawn as it is intended to appear on
the ornamented wares, for being first printed and then transferred the design
is twice reversed, and consequently the parts have the same relative positions
on the ornamented wares as on the engraved plates. Every colour or different
tint of the same colour in the painting to be copied does not always require
a separate plate; thus, if there be a blue and yellow in the colours to be used
a green may be obtained by printing the yellow on the blue, or vice versa;
also if a red be used a purple may be produced by printing the red on
the blue, or vice versâ; and many different tints of either of these com-
pound colors may be produced by the preponderance of either of their com-
ponents. The effects of printing any of the colours one upon another must be

page_text: well taken into consideration before the number of plates and colours to be
used are decided upon; the plates on which the engraving is executed should be
about one inch wider on each side than the intended engraving to give the
printer room to work the colour upon the plate. In preparing the colours to
be used in printing from the engraved plates it is necessary to mix them with
some medium which is both soft and tenacious, so that the prepared colour
can be easily rubbed into every fine mark of the engraving tool, and when the
paper is pulled off the plate after pressing, the said colour will come with the
said paper, and not remain in the engraving. To obtain these necessary qualities'
I take of linseed oil nine parts, rape oil one part; I boil them together till the
mixture assumes, when cold, a consistence about equal to that of molasses or
treacle; while the said mixed oil is warm I mix the colour therewith, adding
the said colour till the mixture assumes the consistence of a thick paste. The
said colors are ground to impalpable powder before they are mixed with the
oil in the manner last described. In printing from the engraved plates, and
transferring the impressions so obtained to the articles to be ornamented, I
proceed as follows:-I take the plate on which that part of the design has
been engraved which it is intended to transfer first to the articles to be orna-
mented, I then take an impression from the said plate on transfer paper in
the manner well known and commonly practised. In transferring designs to
pottery wares I lay the said impression with the colour downwards on the
surface to be ornamented, and then rub it well thereon with a piece of flannel
moistened with soft soap, after which I wash away the paper with a sponge
and water, and proceed in the same manner with the next and following plates,
taking care that the dots herein-before mentioned are in each case of transfer
transferred immediately upon those produced by the impression of the first
plate. When, by the transfer of the several impressions, the ornament is
complete, the colours are dried by placing the articles for about six or eight
hours in a japanner's hot room or drying stove. The design will then be
ready for varnishing in the way commonly practised by japanners.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the exact method of carrying my Invention into effect herein
described, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of
my said Invention; but I claim the ornamenting of japanned metal and papier
mâché wares, by transferring thereto designs printed in oil colours upon paper,
the said printed impressions being obtained from a series of engraved plates, on
cach of which plates those portions only of the design are engraved which are

page_text: of the same color or into the colour of which the color on the said plate
enters.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Goodman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
GEORGE (Ls.) GOODMAN, Jun'.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid George Goodman came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.