An Improved Process of Making Mosaics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
An Improved Process of Making Mosaics.
I, HONORÉ BENEDICT ALLAEYS, of Frenchtown, Montana, U.S.A., Inventor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a simple and effective process of reproducing pictures
in mosaics.
My improved process is as follows:
A plate of glass is placed on the top of the painting or picture to be represented
in mosaic, and a transparent coloured sketch or copy of the picture is made on the
upper surface of the glass. The plate is then held in such a position that the copy
of the picture is plainly visible through the glass. The smooth surface of blocks
of stone or other substance of which the mosaic is to be composed and of shades
corresponding to those of the picture are then cemented to the under surface of
the glass. When the entire under surface of the glass has thus been covered, the
under rough surface of the blocks composing the mosaic are covered with cement,
thus forming a solid firm mosaic. When the cement has hardened sufficiently the
glass plate is removed and the smooth or upper surface of the mosaic is polished
and cleaned. Thus I have a simple and rapid method of reproducing any portrait
or coloured picture in mosaic.
Dated this 15th day of March 1902
W. H. MUNNS,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Process of Making Mosaics.
I, HONORE BENEDICT ALLAEYS, of Mont Anaconda, Montana U.S.A.,
Inventor, 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 :-
My invention consists of a simple and effective process of reproducing pictures
in mosaics.
Reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures of
reference marked thereon:-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a plate of glass placed over a picture.
Fig. 2. is a view shewing blocks of stone cemented to the underside of the glass,
Fig. 3, shews the manner of cementing the blocks together, and
Fig. 4. is a view of the finished mosaic.
A plate of glass A is placed on top of the painting or picture B to be represented
in mosaic, and a transparent coloured sketch or copy of the picture B made on the
upper surface of the glass A. The plate A is then held in such a position that
the copy of the picture is plainly visible through the glass. The smooth surface
of blocks of stone or other substance of which the mosaic is to be composed and
of shades corresponding to the shades of the picture are then cemented to the
under surface of the glass. When the entire under surface of the glass has thus
been covered the under rough surface of the blocks composing the mosaic are
covered with cement thus forming a solid firm mosaic. When the cement has
hardened sufficiently the glass plate is removed and the smooth or upper surface
Price 8d3

page_text: of the mosaic is polished and cleaned. Thus I have a simple and rapid method of
reproducing any portrait or coloured picture in mosaic.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, what I claim is
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The herein described process of reproducing pictures in mosaic which consists
in tracing on a plate of glass by means of transparent colours the picture to be
reproduced, then removably cementing blocks of stone or other substance of which
the mosaic is to be composed, and of shades corresponding to the colours on the
glass, on the under surface of said glass plate, and then coating the under surface
of said blocks with suitable cement and lastly removing said glass plate and
polishing the surface of said coloured blocks substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
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