Improved Manufacture or Production of Decorative Material, more especially intended for Application to Walls, Ceilings, or like Surfaces.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Manufacture or Production of Decorative Material, more
especially intended for Application to Walls, Ceilings, or like
Surfaces.
JOHN JACKSON of 49 Rathbone Place in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to produce a new compound decorative material
more especially intended for use in decorating walls, ceilings, or like surfaces.
According to my invention the new material is made of a combination of a
material such as plaster; for instance :-plaster of the kind commonly known as
"fibrous plaster," and of metal, the metal forming the outer surface, or part of the
outer surface, of the compound material. The plaster may be formed with any
suitable design upon it and the metal may also be decorated, or plain, as desired.
The metal is caused to adhere to the plaster, in any suitable way, such for instance,
as by the use of cement and pressure.
Dated the 16th day of Anril 1891
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Manufacture or Production of Decorative Material, more
especially intended for Application to Walls, Ceilings, or like
Surfaces.
I JOHN JACKSON of 49 Rathbone Place in the County of Middlesex Manu-
facturer 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 :-
My invention has for its object to produce a new compound decorative material
more especially intended for use in decorating walls, ceilings, or like surfaces.
According to my invention the new material is made of a combination of a
material such as plaster; for instance-plaster of the kind commonly known as
"fibrous plaster," and of metal, the metal, forming the outer surface, or part of the
outer surface, of the compound material. The plaster may be formed with any
suitable design upon it and the metal may also be decorated, or plain as desired.
The metal is caused to adhere to the plaster in any suitable way, such for instance,
as by the use of cement and pressure.
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In carrying my invention into effect 1 preferably proceed as follows:- Panels
of the requisite size and thickness are first made of canvas and plaster and then 1
take thin sheets of metal preferably of the kind known as Metalochrome being
thin metal sheets with an enamelled coloured design printed thereon and
thoroughly warm them and I apply an adhesive substance to the back thereof.
The adhesive substance known as Gluicon" is especially suitable for the purpose.
The said thin sheets of metal are then applied to the panels of fibrous plaster with
the cemented side of the said metal sheets next the face of the plaster panel and
the said metal sheets are well pressed down on to the plaster. The panels cau
then be screwed through the outward parts either to the joists or wood ground
work of a ceiling or other place to which the panels are to be applied such as a
wall for instance and the joints and screw holes can be covered with wooden or
other mouldings or strips. The metal may be plain or decorated in any suitable

page_text: way by printing embossing or the like. Decorative material made according to
my invention is light strong non-inflammable and washable and possesses all the
advantages of enamelled iron without its great weight and cost.
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 -
1. Decorative material consisting of plaster and metal in combination sub-
stantially as herein before described.
2. Decorative material consisting of fibrous plaster having applied to its face
thin sheets of metal with an enamelled design printed upon it substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Dated this 18th dox of len 1800
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.