An improved method of Increasing the Effect of Christmas and other Cards, Reliefs, Pictures, Photographs, and other Designs.
Year: 1885

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An improved method of Increasing the Effect of Christmas and
other Cards, Reliefs, Pictures, Photographs, and other Designs.
I WALTER HENRY BACON of 3 Bath Place, High Street, Kensington in the
county of Middlesex, Picture Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF INCREASING THE EFFECT OF CHRISTMAS,
AND OTHER CARDS, RELIEFS, PICTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND OTHER DESIGNS," and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to increase the effect of pictures, photographs and
other designs, produced, or mounted, on opaque or non-transparent cards, or other
suitable mountings, by intensifying the high lights, or such other parts of the
picture or design, as may be suitable. To attain this end I take a picture, photo-
graph or other design of any suitable nature mounted, or produced, on, an opaque
card or other background, and pierce it in such places as will conform with the
lights and shades of the picture, or design, with suitable perforations, which may
be either a series of small circular holes, or holes of any other suitable shape to
harmonise with the design of the picture. On the back of the picture or design
I fix a sheet of transparent material, such as tissue paper, silk, satin etc. either
of one color which will harmonise with the color of the picture, or design, or of
various colors that will blend with it. Thus when the picture or design is held up
with its back towards the strongest light, the picture on the face of the card will
be heightened in effect by the transparency of the perforated parts.
My invention may be carried into effect with any kind of pictures, "scraps,"
photographs or illuminated cards such as those used for Christmas, or Birthday
greetings, and similar purposes, or it may be carried out with plain cards for
producing any given designs or figures, either without, or in combination with,
any designs, figures, or other matter on the face of the cards.
I sometimes place the transparent coloured sheet in the thickness of the card or
other mountings, on which the picture, photo, or design is produced or mounted, so
that the cause of the coloring is not apparent, but as this is a costly process, I only
use it with expensive goods.
Where a great variety of color is necessary I prefer to use a colorless transparent
sheet for fixing on the back of the card or other mounting. On this colorless sheet,

page_text: before being fixed is roughly produced in colors a fac-simile of the picture on the
face of the card or mounting, and the sheet is so fixed on the back of it, that its
rough design will register with the design on the front of it. Another way of
producing the same effect is to first perforate the card or mounting on which the
picture, photo, or design is to be mounted, then to fix on the face of it, either a
transparent sheet on which the picture or design is, or may, be produced either in
color or otherwise; or in case of a photograph it is mounted directly on to the
perforated card or mounting, and may be either roughly colored on the back
previous to mounting, or left plain as desired. By this means the shading and
colors (if the picture be colored) are intensified by the transparency of the
perforated cards or mountings, and the use of additional coloring material is
unnecessary. One great advantage of this method of carrying out my invention is
that the perforations are not visible on the face of the card or mounting and by
covering the back of it also with a transparent sheet it may be rendered invisible
altogether.
The pictures, cards, or mountings may be perforated with a die and press, or in
any other convenient manner.
It will be obvious that my invention may be carried out in many other ways
than those hereinbefore described without departing from the scope of my invention.
I am aware that transparent pictures have already been perforated for the purpose
of intensifying the high lights of the picture, and I therefore do not claim the
perforation of pictures broadly, but having now particularly described, and ascer-
tained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed I declare that what I claim is
First. Piercing the cards or mounts on which pictures, photographs or other
designs, are produced or mounted, with suitable holes and covering such perforations
with a colored transparent sheet as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
Secondly. A perforated card or other opaque mount, in combination with a
picture, photograph, or other design produced or mounted on, one face of it, and a
colored transparent sheet on the other, all combined, arranged and operating as and
for the purpose herein before set forth.
Thirdly. Mounting transparent pictures, photographs, or other designs, either
colored or plain, on perforated cards, the perforations of which agree, coincide, and
harmonise with, the design of the picture or photograph, as and for the purpose
herein before set forth.
r 1885.
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer & Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers,
70, 71, & 72, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.