A New Process for Producing Impressions of Words, Designs, or the like, upon Surfaces of all kinds, and for Reproducing such Impres- sions.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1898
A New Process for Producing Impressions of Words, Designs, or the
like, upon Surfaces of all kinds, and for Reproducing such Impres-
sions.
I, HENRI TEDESCO, Editor, of Bourg-la-Reine, Seine, France, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object a new process of impression.
This process consists in impressing designs of any nature, such as alphabets,
initials, words, phrases, characters, signs, etc., by means of flat or cylindrical
surfaces, either in relief or recessed, enabling impressions to be retraced, transferred
and fixed, by the effect of heat on all surfaces in general.
The method of operation employed for carrying this process into effect is as
follows:-
An impression is first obtained on flat or cylindrical surfaces by means of a
fatty ink of any material and composition.
This impression is afterwards covered over with a pulverised material which
becomes incorporated with the ink by the action of heat.
These two operations, that is, the impression in fatty ink and the application of
pulverised materials, may be repeated, if this is necessary, as many times as may be
found advantageous.
The reproductions or transfers onto other surfaces of any kind are afterwards
effected by simply applying to such surfaces the impression obtained, under the
action of heat.
Dated this 11th day of October 1897.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Process for Producing Impressions of Words, Designs, or the
like, upon Surfaces of all kinds, and for Reproducing such Impres-
sions.
I, HENRI TEDESCO, Editor, of Bourg-la-Reine, Seine, France, 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:-
The invention relates to a process of impression of all kinds of designs, principally
designs for patterns for embroidery, initials, etc., intended to be transferred to any
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page_text: kind of fabric. By the present process the designs, previously engraved on plates,
cylinders or any other surfaces, are first printed in the ordinary manner on paper,
skin, india-rubber, celluloid, or other suitable substance, and the impressions thus
obtained may afterwards at any desired time be reproduced or transferred at will
on surfaces of any substance, such as fabrics, paper or any other material, cither
flexible or rigid, by means of heat.
In order to obtain these results I proceed in the manner hereinafter described:
A design, a subject, letters or figures, being engraved on a plate or a cylinder,
such engraved plate or cylinder is inked with a fatty ink of any composition and
an impression is produced by the means usually employed, upon any material,--
such as paper or other material,-
-as above stated upon any kind of surface, either
flat, cylindrical or otherwise.
On the fatty ink of the impression obtained, a pulverulent material, which may
be either dried pulverized ink, or gum or analogous substance also pulverized, is
immediately sprinkled. This pulverulent material, by the effect of heat, becomes
incorporated with the fatty ink with which it forms a homogeneous body, and the
impression, on account of this treatment, becomes designed on the paper or other
material in relief which is apparent both to the touch and to the sight. The
impression thus constituted, being dried, will be preserved intact, and may in
this state be supplied or forwarded at any time to any place and to any distance.
When it is afterwards desired to employ the impression thus obtained to transfer
or reproduce the printed design, it is only necessary to apply the face of such
impression to the surface of a fabric, paper or other material, and to exert on the
printed sheet a certain pressure by means of a hot iron, the heat of which may
vary according to circumstances and also according to the time which has elapsed,
and which, further, will readily be ascertained by experience.
By the result of this operation, the design printed on the first sheet will be
reproduced or transferred to the second sheet of fabric, paper or other material with
complete exactitude.
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 I
claim is:-
The process for producing impressions to enable designs obtained by such impres-
sions to be reproduced on or transferred to fabrics or other materials, such process
consisting in the employment of a fatty ink of any suitable composition, for inking
the printing plate or cylinder, and of a pulverulent material which as soon as the
impression is produced is sprinkled upon the fatty ink with which it becomes
incorporated with perfect homogeneity, the impression so obtained in fatty ink
with pulverulent material incorporated therewith possessing the special property
of being capable of subsequent reproduction on or transference to, at any desired
time, any fabric, paper or other substance, by the application of the printed sheet
to the fabric, paper, etc., and the employment of a certain pressure of a heated iron,
exerted upon such impression, all substantially as specified.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.