A NEW SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING GLOBES AND OTHER PRINTED PLANE OR CURVE SURFACES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ignace Joseph Silbermann, of Paris, Empire of
France, and of 32, Essex Street, Strand, London, for the Invention of
"A NEW SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING GLOBES AND OTHER PRINTED PLANE OR
CURVE SURFACES,"
Sealed the 21st December 1855, and dated the 23rd June 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd June 1855.
I, IGNACE JOSEPH SILBERMANN, of Paris, Empire of France, and of 32, Essex
Street, Strand, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING GLOBES AND OTHER PRINTED PLANE OR CUEVE
SURFACES," to be as follows:-
My new or improved system relates to a novel means of producing and also
printing at the same time plane or curve surfaces thatare to be applied to the
manufacture of terrestrial or celestial globes, geographical maps,earthenware,
articles of porcelain, pipe clay, pasteboard, papier mâché, plaster of Paris,
glass, enamels, wax, stearine, and other substances that can be moulded either
in the cold or heated state. This means consists in using moulds which do
not differ from those at present employed for said articles, except by having
the required design formed upon them either by etching or engraving. These
désigning or printing moulds are inked by any of the usual modes, either with
common printers' ink or with ink that is indelible by heat, and may be used

page_text: for hot moulding. The different parts of the mould having thus been inked
and joined together, one of the above-mentioned substances is moulded or run
in them in the common manner. The ink is thus transferred to the surface
of the cast, and the substance which the latter is made of having become solid
by the effect of cold, chemical combination, dessiccation, or baking, it may be
taken out of the mould, and will be found to be impressed with the lines and
colors of the design required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Iguace Joseph Silbermann in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st December 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, IGNACE
JOSEPH SILBERMANN, of Paris, Empire of France, and of 32, Essex Street,
Strand, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me;
the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, Her special licence that I, the said
Ignace Joseph Silbermann, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, 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 law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "A NEW SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING GLOBES AND OTHER PRINTED PLANE
OR CURVE SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Ignace Joseph Silbermann, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My Invention relates to a novel means of printing, by moulding, on all
sorts of plane or curve surfaces. This improved system of printing consists,

page_text: first, in using curve or plane moulds, and of such substances as can be
etched, engraved, or embossed.
Second, in inking the engraved surface with common printers' ink for
obtaining a plain print, or with indelible inks, proof against heat, when the
printed surfaces are to be baked or moulded in the heated state.
Third, in moulding or casting the matters to be printed on the engraved
inked surfaces.
When these three operations, engraving, inking, and moulding, have taken
place, the matter thus moulded and solidified by cooling or any suitable means
is painted upon. Each of the three above-mentioned operations when con-
sidered separately are well known, and merely consist in the combination of
ordinary printing with ordinary moulding, which constitutes the novelty of my.
principle.
Having thus described the principle and nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which it is or may be carried into effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that what I claim as novel, and being secured to me by the herein-
before in parts recited Letters Patent, is,-
First, the application of my printing system,bymoulding as above described,
to the manufacture of every article with plane or curve surface,such as spheres,
geographic and ouranographic maps, sugar articles, and other ceramic pro-
ductions, as wax candles, labels for glass, pipeclay, pasteboard, enamelled
papier maché articles, and also to ornamenting the inside walls of an
apartment.
Second, the application of the same improved system to all matters that are
capable of being moulded either in the cold or heated state, such as cement,
plaster, terra cotta, porcelain, glass, stearine, wax, soap, resins, ceiling wax,
vulcanized hardened caoutchouc, gutia percha, horn, shell, gelatine, &³.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann,have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, One thousand
sight hundred and fifty-five
ICE JOSEPH SILBERMANN, (L.S.)
CADET.