IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF TILES TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF MURAL AND OTHER DECORATION
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Fisher, of the Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Church Decorator, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE ORNAMENTATION OF TILES TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF MURAL AND
OTHER DECORATION."
Sealed the 18th September 1868, and dated the 25th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Fisher at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th March 1868.
I, SAMUEL FISHER, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Church,
Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF TILES TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES.
OF MURAL AND OTHER DECORATION," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the production of designs, figures, patterns,
letters, or other ornamentation on unglazed tiles, and also to the appli-
cation of the same for the purposes of mural and panel decoration and
otherwise, the peculiar feature of the Invention consisting in the reten-

page_text: tion of the dull unglazed or partially glazed surface of the tile to form
a groundwork for the pattern or design. The unglazed tiles are first
prepared for painting on by being either soaked in water or sized to
prevent the colors to be applied from being absorbed too rapidly. The
design is then traced on the tile in a vitrifiable brown or other dark
color, which is fixed by making the tile red hot in an oven. The tile is
then again sized or wetted, and the outlines of the pattern or design
filled in, and shaded with colors of the same kind as those used for
painting on china, after which it is fired a more or less number of
times according to the nature of the colors employed for the purpose of
fixing the same. I further propose to make the designs, such as groups
of figures or other ornamental subject, in parts on separate tiles, using a
greater or less number in combination for completing such design. In
this manner an economical and indestructible means is afforded of
decorating large or small surfaces for the interior or exterior of
buildings.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Fisher in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 24th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
FISHER, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Church Decorator,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel Fisher, Her special licence that
I, the said Samuel Fisher, mý executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Samuel Fisher, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time. agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE

page_text: ORNAMENTATION OF TILES TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF MURAL AND OTHER
DECORATION," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Fisher, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Fisher, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to the production of designs, figures, patterns,
letters, or other ornamentation on unglazed tiles, and also to the appli-
cation of the same for the purposes of mural and panel decoration and
otherwise, the peculiar feature of the Invention consisting in the reten-
tion of the dull unglazed or partially glazed surface of the tile to form
a groundwork for the pattern or design. The unglazed tiles are first
prepared for painting on by being either soaked in water or sized to
prevent the colors to be applied from being absorbed too rapidly. The
design is then traced on the tile in a vitrifiable brown or other dark color,
which is fixed by making the tile red hot in an oven. The tile is then
again sized or wetted, and the outlines of the pattern or design filled in
and shaded with colors of the same kind as those used for painting on
china, after which it is fired a more or less number of times according to
the nature of the colors employed for the purpose of fixing the same.
I further propose to make the design, such as groups of figures or other
ornamental subject, in parts on separate tiles, using a greater or less
number in combination for completing such design. In this manner an
economical and indestructible means is afforded of decorating large or
small surfaces for the interior or exterior of buildings.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Inventio.
to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the production of designs, figures, patterns, letters, or other orna-
mentation ou unglazed tiles, in the manner herein-before described.

page_text: I also claim the application of such unglazed tiles for the purposes of
mural and panel decoration and otherwise, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Fisher, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
SAML. FISHER. (L.S.)