Method of Producing Graining, Mottling, Marbling, and other Designs or Drawings upon Various Surfaces.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1832
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Method of Producing Graining, Mottling, Marbling, and other
Designs or Drawings upon Various Surfaces.
We, FRIEDRICH AUGUST LAESECKE of 63 Südstrasse, Leipzig, Germany,
and FRITZ FELLER and EDUARD SCHMAHL of 28 Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin,
Germany, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to a method of producing graining, mottling,
marbling and other designs or drawings, upon the surface of wood or other articles.
For this purpose the surface to be treated is first coated with a color or paint
that can be washed off. This coat of color or paint is allowed to dry. The
desired graining or other design is then printed or impressed upon the coated
surface in oil, shellac, varnish or other suitable fixing agent by means of &
block die or stamp formed to correspond with the design it is desired to
reproduce.
The surface thus treated is then washed whereby those portions of the color
or paint that have not been coated or covered with the fixing agent will be
removed, whilst the coated or covered portions will remain and produce the
desired grained or other design.
The said color or paint need not always be completely removed; but only so
much as will render the mottling or other design visible, the color or paint
remaining on the surface treated serving to impart to such surface a more beautiful
or pleasing appearance.
The method described has the following advantages:-By its means, printed or
impressed copies of various designs can be produced with colors or paints of various
kinds and even with such colors or paints as are not suitable for printing purposes
in the ordinary way.
In the production of wood graining, mottling or marbling the process described
is, so far as we are aware, the only process which enables mottled effects and a
transparent coating to be produced rapidly and simultaneously by simply washing
the treated surface, the said transparent coating consisting of the color or paint
that can be removed by washing off.
The print or impression by means of a binding agent as set forth, allows of the
washing being completed in one operation so that all the requisite operations can
be quickly performed in succession.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Method of Producing Graining, Mottling, Marbling, and other
Designs or Drawings upon Various Surfaces.
We, FRIEDRICH AUGUST LAESECKE of 63 Südstrasse, Leipzig, Germany,
and FRITZ FELLER and EDUARD SCHMAHL of 28 Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin,
Germany, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to a method of producing graining, mottling,
marbling and other designs or drawings, upon the surface of wood or other articles.
For this purpose the surface to be treated is first coated with a transparent or
glazing color or paint that is capable of being washed off. Suitable transparent
colors for this purpose are for instance vandyke brown, and raw sienna, anl
suitable glazing colors are for instance water colors containing a transparent
glutinous or sticky ingredient. The coat of such color or paint is allowed to dry.
The desired graining or other design is then printed or impressed upon the coated
surface in oil, shellac, varnish or other suitable fixing agent by means of a block,
die or stamp formed to correspond with the design it is desired to reproduce.
The surface thus treated is then washed whereby those portions of the transparent
color or paint that have not been coated or covered with the fixing agent will be
removed, whilst the coated or covered portions will remain and produce the desired
grained or other design.
The said transparent or glazing color or paint need not always be completely
removed, but only so much as will render the mottling or other design visible, the
transparent or glazing color or paint remaining on the surface treated serving to
impart to such surface a more beautiful or pleasing appearance.
The method described has the following advantages:-By its means, printed or
impressed copies of various designs can be produced with colors or paints of various
kinds, and even with such colors or paints as are not suitable for printing purposes
in the ordinary way.
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In the production of wood graining, mottling or marbling the process described
is, so far as we are aware, the only process which enables mottled effects and a
transparent coating to be produced rapidly and simultaneously, the said transparent
coating consisting of the transparent or glazing color or paint.
The print or impression by means of a binding agent as set forth, allows of the.
washing being completed in one operation, so that all the requisite operations can
be quickly performed in succession.
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 :-
The herein described method of producing graining, mottling or marbling and
other designs or drawings upon various surfaces, according to which the desired
design or drawing in varnish, oil, lacquer or other fixing agent, is printed or
impressed upon a coat of color or paint that has been applied to the surface of the
article to be treated and which is capable of being washed off as set forth, the
remaining or uncovered portions of the said color or paint being afterwards wholly
or partially removed by washing, substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of April 1892.
F. A. LAESECKE,
By L. W., per F. B.
F. FELLER,
By L. W., per F. B.
E. SCHMAHL,
By L. W., per F. B.