AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE- MENTS IN ORNAMENTING SURFACES."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of No. 34, Great Hampton
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gold Pen and Pencil
Case Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ORNAMENTING SURFACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 7th March 1861.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of No. 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Gold Pen and Pencil Case Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING SURFACES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in ornamenting surfaces by attaching thereto paper,
leather cloth, or thin sheets of other flexible fabric or material, which paper,
leather cloth, or other fabric or material is made to resemble tortoiseshell
alone or tortoiseshell with metallic devices.
In carrying my Invention into effect I print by the lithographic process
upon the paper or other material, the proper arrangement of colours necessary
to imitate tortoiseshell, or I produce the imitation of tortoiseshell by any other
process of printing, staining, or painting.
In addition to the imitation of tortoiseshell I sometimes also print or produce
on the paper or other material designs in silver or gold leaf or bronze, in
imitation of the designs made by inserting wires in tortoiseshell work, or
the said designs in silver or gold leaf or bronze may have any other desired
form. I attach the paper or other material, thus prepared, to the surface
to be ornamented by means of glue or any other convenient adhesive matter,

page_text: and after it has been firmly secured to the surface to be ornamented I
protect the said paper or other material by means of spirit or oil varnish.
Surfaces ornamented according to my Invention resemble surfaces of
tortoiseshell or tortoiseshell with metal ornaments inlaid.
My Invention is particularly applicable to the ornamenting of the surfaces
of penholders and pencil cases, (and to such, articles as have cylindrical and
flat surfaces.
My Invention may also be applied to the ornamenting of surfaces of other
SPECIFICATION in. pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 31st August 1861..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of No. 34, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Gold Pen and Pencil Case Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Edward Wiley, Her special licence that I, the said
William Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Wiley, 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 lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Edward Wiley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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 William Edward Wiley, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the 'same
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page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in ornamenting surfaces by attaching thereto paper,
leather cloth, or thin sheets of other flexible fabric or material, which paper,
leather cloth, or other fabric or material is made to resemble tortoiseshell
alone or tortoiseshell with metallic devices.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I print by the lithographic process
upon the paper or other flexible material the proper arrangement of colors
necessary to imitate tortoiseshell, or I produce the imitation of tortoiseshell by
any process of printing, staining, or painting.
In addition to the imitation of tortoiseshell, I sometimes also print or
produce on the paper or other material designs in silver or gold leaf, or bronze,'
in imitation of the designs commonly made in tortoiseshell work by inserting
metal wires in the said tortoiseshell work. Or the said designs in gold leaf,
or silver leaf, or bronze, may have any desired form. I attach the paper
or other material thus produced to the surface to be ornamented by means
of glue or paste or other convenient adhesive matter. After the tortoiseshell,
paper, or other material has been firmly secured to the surface to be orna-
mented, I put the articles in a drying stove and dry them in the manner
practised in the manufacture of papier mâché goods. After the articles
have been well dried I protect the ornamented paper or other material by
varnishing the said articles with spirit or oil varnish.
Surfaces ornamented according to my Invention, resemble surfaces of
tortoiseshell, or tortoiseshell with metal ornaments inlaid.
My Invention is particularly applicable to the ornamenting of the surfaces
of penholders and pencil cases, and to such articles as have cylindrical and
flat surfaces.
My Invention may also be applied to the ornamenting of surfaces of other
forms.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY. (L.S.)