Improvements in or relating to "Tint" or 66 'Shade" Cards and the like, used for Displaying Colors of Paints, Enamels, Stains, and similar Manufactures.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to
"Tint" or 66 'Shade" Cards and the
like, used for Displaying Colors of Paints, Enamels, Stains, and
similar Manufactures.
I, JAMES CHALLIS, of "Fernbank," 35, Mildenhall Road, Clapton, London, N.E.,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is intended to provide an improved method of preparing and
showing the various shades or tints of paints, enamels, stains and other goods,
consisting of a variety of colors, capable of being represented in this way, issued
by manufacturers and dealers.
The present mode of preparing paint and enamel tint cards is to coat sheets
of paper with the pigment and when dry to cut them up into small pieces, which
are stuck to a card or paper on spaces previously printed with the name of each
colour. The pieces so prepared are generally rough in appearance and are liable
to stick together or to anything in contact with the face in warm weather, or
even when packed for transit, and so become damaged and unsightly. More-
over the varnish sometimes used to protect and improve the surface is found to
alter the tints. In my method of preparing the tints I prefer to coat a sheet of
glass with a film of collodion or a solution of celluloid or xylonite, then paint the
pigment upon it, or as an alternative put a layer of gelatine either direct on the
glass or on the film above mentioned, and then after allowing the gelatine to
harden to paint the pigment, or mount the color if already in sheet form, upon it.
When the pigment or color is dry I cement a sheet of paper or the like on the same
and peel the whole off the glass. A hard brilliant surface is the result. Or I
may take a thin sheet of previously prepared transparent celluloid or gelatine
and treat it with the color in the same way as if on glass. The gelatine used may
be chemically treated to render it insoluble after exposure to light.
The sheets when prepared & backed up as described are cut up into the required
sizes, cemented to the printed card or sheet for display, and the whole is complete.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1898
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
or "Shade" Cards and the
Improvements in or relating to "Tint"
like, used for Displaying Colors of Paints, Enamels, Stains, and
similar Manufactures.
I, JAMES CILALLIS, of "Fernbank," 35, Mildenhall Road, Clapton, London, N.E.,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
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the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention is intended to provide an improved method of preparing and
shewing the various shades or tints of paints, enamels, stains and other goods
consisting of a variety of colors, capable of being represented in this way, issued
by manufacturers and dealers.
The present mode of preparing paint and enamel tint cards is to coat sheets
of paper with the pigments and when dry to cut them up into small pieces, which
are stuck to a card or paper on spaces previously printed with the name of each
colcr. The pieces so prepared are generally rough in appearance and are liable
to stick together or to anything in contact with the card in warm weather, or
even when packed for transit and so become damaged and unsightly.
Moreover the varnish sometimes used to protect and improve the surface is found
to after the tints.
In order to avoid these objections I prepare the tint samples as follows:
I coat a sheet of glass with a film of collodion or a solution of celluloid. When
this is hard I paint the pigment upon it. Or I may put a layer of gelatine either
directly on the glass or on the film above mentioned and then after allowing the
gelatine to harden I paint the pigment on it. When the color is already in sheet
form, I cement it on the transparent film. When the pigment or color is dry I
cement a sheet of paper or the like over it and then I peel the whole off the glass
thus obtaining a hard brilliant surface.
Instead of forming the film on glass I may take a thin sheet of previously pre-
pared transparent celluloid or gelatine and paint the color on it in the same way
as if on glass. The gelatine used may be chemically treated with chrome salts
to render it insoluble after its exposure to light.
The sheets when prepared and backed up as described are cut up into the re-
quired sizes for samples and cemented to the printed card or sheet for display.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The herein described manufacture of cards for displaying colours and the like
by painting the colour on a transparent film cementing paper or the like over the
paint, cutting the sheet into pattern pieces and cementing these on suitable cards.
Dated this 8th day of December 1898.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.