Improvements in the Art of Enamelling or Decorating Slate, Marble, and such like Materials.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Art of Enamelling or Decorating Slate, Marble,
and such like Materials.
We, WILLIAM JAMES TEMPLE FREDERICK WILLIAM ROGERS, CHARLES WILLIAM
TROTMAN and TнOжAS FIELD HOBBS, trading as Temple, Rogers & Co., Slate and
Marble Merchants Canon's Marsh, Bristol do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
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The invention consists in the adaptation of the art of painting in bronze or other
suitable metallic colours any floral or other design, picture, or plain surface upon
Marble, Slate or such like material by which the most effective and pleasing results
are obtained in the production of Panels, Slabs, Dadoes. Mouldings, in the Manufacture
of Chimney Pieces, and for other purposes and in carrying our invention into practice
we produce a plain coloured bronzed or other metallic surface upon which a design,
or picture, may, or may not, be executed in a preparation of bronzes or other suitable
metals in colours employed either in a powdered state, or using, as our medium, a
suitable enamel or varnish.
Dated this 30th day August 1888
E. J. COLSTON FEAR,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Art of Enamelling or Decorating Slate, Marble,
and such like Materials.
We, WILLIAM JAMES TEMPLE FREDERICK WILLIAM ROGERS, CHARLES WILLIAM
TROTMAN and THOMAS FIELD HOBBS, trading as Temple Rogers and Company,
Slate and Marble Merchants Cannon's Marsh in the City and County of Bristol 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:
Our invention relates to improvements in the Art of Enamelling (known as
stoving) and decorating slate, marble and such like materials and consists in the
adaptation of metallic colours to the Art, by which more effective and equally
permanent results are obtained.
In manipulating our invention under ordinary practice we prepare upon the
material to be operated upon a plain coloured bronzed, or other suitable metallic
surface, which may, or may not, be burnished, upon which a design, picture, or any
required ornamentation may, or may not, be, executed in a preparation of bronzes
or other suitable metals or pigments, in colour, or colours, and employed, either in
a powdered state or conveyed by any suitable medium.
In applying these colours to our use as described we do not, however, confine
ourselves to any special form, or order, of their employment nor, necessarily, to the
exclusion of a joint use of such ordinary methods of einbelleshment as we may find
desirable.
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 adantation to and the use of metallic colours for surfaces in the Art of

page_text: enamelling (known as stoving) and decorating, Slate Marble and such like materials
substantially as and in the manner herein described.
Dated this 16th dov of Nov 1880
E. J. COLSTON FEAR,
Agent for the Applicants.