Improvements in the Manufacture of Ornamental and other Articles of Paper.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ornamental and other
Articles of Paper.
We JOSEF PROKOP and FRANZ FIEDLER, Manufacturers of Semil, Bohemia,
in the Empire of Austro-Hungary 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 :-
This invention relates to a new method of manufacturing out of paper articles of
any kind particularly decorations and ornaments such as have hitherto been made
of plaster and other plastic material or of sheet metal or by carving or turning
wood or other material the new articles looking like plaster casts or as made out
of sheet metal or wood.
The new method essentially consists of the employment of two moulds one of
which is positive or convex and the other negative or concave and both repre-
senting the ornament.or article to be made.
In carrying out our invention we employ ordinary paper several moist sheets
placed in the hollow of the negative mould and press them carefully with the
fingers into all its corners, between every two sheets a solution such as glue paste,
gum or the like being applied.
After several sheets are treated in this way, sufficient to form an article of
proper thickness (usually 10 to 15 sheets of common wrapping paper) the positive
or convex mould is pressed into the negative or concave one and pressure is
applied to both forms keeping the moist sheets between them. During this opera-
tion all borders, hollows and projections are sharply formed in the mass of moist
paper sheets which, when removed from the press show upon its surface all the
outlines of the moulds.
These articles still moist are gradually dried and finished by cutting off the
superfluous parts of the paper according to the contour of the article which after-
wards may be painted or coated with leaf metal (gold or silver leaf etc.). Ornaments
manufactured in the way before described resemble those stamped out of sheet
metal and are sufficiently hard and strong to be used in the place of sheet metal
ornaments and have the advantages as against the latter that they are lighter and
cheaper and show the outlines of the design more sharply than ornaments of sheet
metal do.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The manufacture of moulded articles by pressing moist paper sheets in a
negative mould the sheets being connected together by glue or other adhesive
material and strong pressure applied after which the article is removed, dried
trimmed according to the contour and if desired painted or covered with leaf metal
substantially as described.
2. A decoration or ornament manufactured by the method pointed out in
Claim 1 and consisting of a number of paper sheets connected together by adhesive
material in a moist condition and pressed between male and female dies substantially
as described.
Dated this 10th day of February 1802
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.