Improvements in Coloured Gelatine Sheets.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coloured Gelatine Sheets.
We FREDERICK BLENKINS, of 20 Lamb Lane, Greenwich, in the County of
Kent, Sheet Gelatine Maker, and FREDERIC GEORGE BATE of 109 Cheapside, in
the City of London, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Coloured gelatine sheets have hitherto been produced by mixing the colouring
matter with the liquid gelatine before it is made into sheets, thus producing sheets
of one colour only.
Up to the present time it is believed no one has succeeded in making a parti-
coloured sheet of gelatine, which would be most effective for various purposes,
and the object of this invention is to produce such parti-coloured sheets of
gelatine.
This invention consists, then, in the mode of producing multi-coloured sheets of
gelatine as a new article of manufacture.
In carrying out this invention, the gelatine sheet is made in the usual way by
running liquid gelatine onto a sheet of glass, and while the gelatine sheet thus
formed is still moist, the colours are applied by means of wipers or brushes, or in
any other convenient manner. The colours may be applied in straight or in wavy
lines, or in any other arrangement or design, and to prevent the colours running
into one another, a space will be left between each, which will be filled in with
another colour, as soon as the first has soaked into the gelatine.
In this way, a striped gelatine sheet may be produced, the colours being
arranged in proper gradation. The colours which are preferably used for the
purposes of this invention are fast aniline colours, and of these, the three principal
colours, red blue, and yellow, from a blending of which, practically all other shades
may be produced.
Dated this 19th day of December 1894
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Coloured Gelatine Sheets.
We FREDERICK BLENKINS, of 20 Lamb Lane, Greenwich in the County of
Kent Sheet Gelatine Maker, and FREDERIC GEORGE BATE of 109 Cheapside in
the City of London, Commission Agent, 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 :-
Coloured gelatine sheets have hitherto been produced by mixing the colouring
matter with the liquid gelatine before it is made into sheets, thus producing sheets
of one color only.
Up to the present time, it is believed no one has succeeded in making a parti-
colored sheet of gelatine which would be most effective for various purposes,
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page_text: and the object of this invention is to produce such partí-colored sheets of
gelatine.
This invention consists, then, in the mode of producing multicolored sheets of
gelatine as a new article of manufacture.
In carrying out this invention, the gelatine sheet is made in the usual way, by
running liquid gelatine onto a-sheet of glass, and while the gelatine sheet thus
formed is still moist, the colors are applied by means of wipers or brushes, or in
any other convenient manner. The colors. may be applied in straight or in wavy
lines, or in any other arrangement or design, and to prevent the colors running into
one another, a space will be left between each line, which may be filled in with
another color, as soon as the first has soaked into the gelatine. Or the lines may
be drawn close to one another, with only a small space between. In this way, a
striped gelatine sheet may be produced, the colors being arranged in proper
gradations. The colors which are preferably used for the purposes of this
invention, are fast aniline colors, and of these, the three principal colors, red, blue,
and yellow, from a blending of which, practically all other shades may be
produced.
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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 mode of producing multi-colored sheets of gelatine as herein described,
and consisting in laying on the colors while the gelatine sheet is in a moist
condition, as set forth.
2. As a new article of manufacture, multicolored sheets of gelatine, as herein set
forth.