Improvements in Ornamenting China, Earthenware, and other Fictile Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 24th Jan.. 1895-Accented, 2nd Mar.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ornamenting China, Earthenware, and other
Fictile Articles.
We DAVID JONES WILLIAM WALLACE WARDLE and FREDERICK CHARLES
WARDLE trading as Wardle & Co. and ARTHUR WELLESLEY BEECH all of
Washington Works Hanley in the County of Stafford Art Potters do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide a very easy simple and cheap but also
extremely efficient and highly effective method of and means for ornamenting china
earthenware and other fictile articles of all descriptions and perhaps more especially
such articles as vases jars flower-pots and the like.
We then take the
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To carry out this object we take a piece of suitable material of the desired size
and thickness and we create therein and therethrough the pattern or other design
that is to be produced on the article for its ornamentation in any appropriate
manner such as for example by perforations or the cutting away or removal of
certain portions of this piece or by the formation and creation of this piece with
certain apertures therethrough and spaces therein or otherwise. Many and various
materials may be used to create this piece as for example it may be a textile
material such as linen wherein perforations would be made or lace wherein
apertures are formed or it may be metal such as sheet metal wherein perforations
would be made or wire or wire gauze wherein apertures are formed or similarly it
may be paper or leather or india rubber or such like materials.
article that is to be ornamented preferably perhaps while it is in a green
plastic or moist state although on occasions when it may he desired so to do it may
be in any other most conveniently unfired state and we carefully lay or place on the
We next
surface thereof in the proper position this so prepared piece of material.
apply on and over the whole surface liquid clay or slip of the proper consistence in
any convenient manner as may be customary or otherwise such for example as
brushing or dipping or the like until all the perforations or apertures through and
interstices in and of the prepared piece of material are properly filled up and when
the slip bas sufficiently set to permit öf such action or otherwise when the article
is ready and suitable therefor the prepared piece of material is very carefully
removed and the desired pattern or design is produced on the article in such high
or low relief as has been desired and arranged for by the thickness of the piece
of material or by the amount of slip that has been placed in the interstices
thereof.
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This ornamentation therefore is produced on and projects from the surface of the
article in an highly effective and very attractive manner.
When the ornamentation has been so produced on the article it can be dried and
painted if desired and fired and otherwise treated in any usual and convenient
manner as may be customary or otherwise.
Doted this 21st day of April 1894.

page_text: Improvements in Ornamenting China, Earthenware, and other
Fictile Articles.
We DAVID JONES WILLIAM WALLACE WARDLE and FREDERICK CHARLES
WARDLE trading as Wardle & Co. and ARTHUR WELLESLEY BEECH all of
Washington Works Hanley in the County of Stafford Art Potters 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:-
The object of this our invention is to provide a very easy simple and cheap but
also extremely efficient and highly effective method of and means for ornamenting
china earthenware and other fictile articles of all descriptions and perhaps more
especially such articles as vases jars flower-pots and the like.
To carry out this object we take a piece of a suitable material of the desired size
and thickness and we create therein and therethrough the pattern or other design
that is to be produced on the article for its ornamentation in any customary and
appropriate manner such as by way of example by making the necessary
perforations in this piece or by the cutting away and removal of certain desired
portions of this piece in and at certain desired positions therein or it may also
conveniently be by the creation and formation of this piece with certain desired
apertures therethrough and certain desired interstices therein or otherwise in any
other ordinary and suitable manner. Many and various materials may be used for
the creation of this piece amongst which we may instance the following by way
of example-It may be a textile material such as linen wherein perforations
would be made or lace wherein apertures are formed or it may be a metal such as
sheet metal wherein perforations would be made or wire or wire gauze wherein
apertures are formed or similarly and in like manner it may be paper or cardboard
or leather or india rubber or other such like materials. When the particular
material so requires as also on other occasions when it may be convenient or
desirable so to do this piece of material may be treated in any ordinary or other
manner with a waterproofing or preservative or other such like solution or substance
or otherwise to make it more fit for and capable of performing its required
functions hereinafter described.
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We then take the article that is to be ornamented preferably perhaps while it is
in a
" green or plastic or moist state as this is extremely conducive to the efficient
carrying out and performance of this our invention although on occasions when it
may be desired so to do it may be in any other suitable state but in all cases most
conveniently in an unfired state or before it has been fired and we carefully
lay and place on and over the surface of this article in the proper position the
piece of material so prepared and treated as is herein before described.
We afterwards apply on and over preferably the whole surface of the article
whereon the prepared and treated piece of material has been laid and placed as is
herein before described liquid or semi-liquid clay or slip of the proper and desired
consistence in any convenient manner as may be customary or otherwise such for
example as brushing or dipping or the like until all the perforations or apertures
through and interstices in and of the prepared piece of material are duly and
properly filled up. When the slip so filled into the perforations or apertures and
interstices has sufficiently set to permit of such action or otherwise and in other
manner when the article is ready and in a suitable condition therefor the prepared
and treated piece of material is very carefully removed and the desired pattern or
design is produced on the article in such a high or low relief as has been desired
and arranged for by the thickness of the piece of material or by the quantity

page_text: of slip that has been placed in the perforations or apertures therethrough and the
interstices therein.
This ornamentation therefore herein before described is produced on the surface
of the article and projects therefrom in a highly effective and extremely attractive
manner as is desired.
When the ornamentation has been so produced on the article as is hereinbefore
described it can be dried and painted if it may be expedient or desirable so to do
and fired and otherwise treated in any usual and convenient manner as may be
customary or otherwise.
When the ornamentation is to be produced in a comparatively very high relief
instead of a single thick piece of material as is hereiubefore described we may
obviously use and lay and place on the surface of the article the desired number
of thinner pieces of material superposed on each other and in each of these pieces
of material is created the same or a complementary pattern or design in a similar
manner by perforations or apertures and interstices care being taken that the pieces
of material are properly superposed on each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The method of and means for ornamenting china earthenware and other fictile
articles substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.
Dated this 24th day of January 1895.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.