IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1836
Complete Left, 14th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 14th Oct., 1887
I GEORGE JOSEPH SERSHALL of 371 Lodge Road Hockley Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Artist do declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce finished Photographs in such a manner
as to represent Portraits or Views apparently laid or placed in certain positions upon
the face of larger Photographic Views Landscapes or Floral scenes all forming one
photographic Combination on the same sheet of sensitized paper.
For this purpose in accordance with this invention if two Views, portrait and View
or two portraits are required to be represented as lying upon parts of a larger view
or if it be required to represent a view portrait or scene as lying upon part of a larger
View and this latter view as lying upon a still larger View and forming together one
combined and complete photograph, the process for its production consists of two or
more stages, each stage being in itself a separate and distinct operation in photographic
printing. For each of these two or more operations a separate and distinct mat or
mask having a part or parts of its surface sufficiently transparent to transmit light
with the other remaining portion. or portions of its surface rendered opaque or
sufficiently impervious to the passage of light and with both transparent and opaque
parts specially arranged as to position and configuration is required in each of the
said operations to be placed in the printing frame between the negative and sensitized
paper to be printed upon. The transparent portion or portions of the surfaces in each
of the said mats or masks is made to coincide in shape or conformation with the
marginal line bounding the part of the negative required to be printed at one of the
operations in the process of printing herein before mentioned, and the opaque surface
on each of these mats or masks blocked out or completely obstructs any transmission
of light to those parts of the sensitized paper which may have been already printed in
any previous operation or operations or which during the pending operation are
required to remain blank for a future stage or future stages in the process and with
the appliances constituting this invention. These two or more operations in the said
process being completed as herein indicated on one sheet of sensitized paper the

page_text: photograph containing the subjects so combined is toned and finished in the ordinary
manner. The said mats or masks may be produced as follows: a drawing of the
outline forming the margin or edge of an intended transparent portion or portions of
a mat or mask is made upon any suitable material or medium to be used for lithographic,
copper plate, letter press or other suitable method of printing, and the surface
surrounding the said outline and bounded off by it is so prepared or treated that the
imprint or impression taken from it is black or opaque leaving blank a space or spaces
of the figure or figures of the transparent portion or portions of the surface required
in the mats or masks. The mats or masks may therefore be produced by printing
upon any suitable material already transparent or in which the blank portion or
portions of its surface may be made transparent by varnishing after the opaque part
or parts have been printed in like manner as before, and which the varnish being dry
is then fit for use as shown herein.

page_text: Improvements in гhotographic гrinting.
I GEORGE JOSEPH SERSHALL of 371 Lodge Road Hockley Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Artist 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 Invention is to produce finished photographs in such a manner as
to represent Portraits or Views apparently laid or placed in certain positions upon the
face of larger photographic Views Landscapes or Floral scenes all forming one
photographic combination picture on the same sheet of sensitized paper.
For this purpose in accordance with this Invention if two Views, portrait and View
or two portraits are required to be represented as lying upon parts of a larger view,
or if it be required to represent a View portrait or Scene as lying upon part of a
larger View, and this latter view as lying upon a still larger view and forming together
one combined and complete photograph the process for its production consists of two
or more stages each stage being in itself a separate and distinct operation in
photographic printing. For each of these two or more operations a separate and
distinct mat or mask having a part or parts of its surface sufficiently transparent to
transmit light, with the other remaining portion or portions of its surface rendered
opaque or sufficiently impervious to the passage of light and with both transparent
and opaque parts specially arranged as to position and configuration is required in
each of the said operations to be placed in the printing frame between the negative
and the sensitized paper to be printed upon. The transparent portion or portions of
the surfaces in each of the said mats or masks is made to coincide in shape or con-
formation with the marginal line bounding the part of the negative required to be
printed at one of the operations in the process of printing herein before mentioned,
and the opaque surface in each of these mats or masks blocks out or completely
obstructs any transmission of light to those parts of the sensitized paper which may
have been already printed in any previous operation or operations or which during
the pending operation are required to remain blank for a future stage or future stages
in the process and with the appliances constituting this Invention. These two or more
operations in the said process being completed as herein indicated on one sheet of
sensitized paper the photograph containing the subjects so combined is toned and
finished in the ordinary manner. The said mats or masks may be produced as
follows a Drawing of the outline forming the margin or edge of the intended trans-
parent portion or portions of a mat or mask is made upon any suitable material or
medium to be used for lithographic, copper plate, letter press or other suitable method
of printing and the surface surrounding the said outline and bounded off by it is so
prepared or treated that the imprint or impression taken from it is blank or opaque
leaving blank a space or spaces of the figure or figures of the transparent portion or
portions of the surface required in the mats or masks. The mats or masks may there-
fore be produced by printing upon any suitable material already transparent or in
:

page_text: which the blank portion or portions of its surface may be made transparent by
varnishing after the opaque part or parts have been printed in like manner as before,
and which the varnish being dry is then fit for use as shewn herein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. The process of producing photographic combination pictures upon the same sheet
of sensitized paper by means of a series of photographic mats as herein described.
2. The mode of producing photographic mats by printing upon any suitable
material, those parts of the said mats which are required to be opaque, the blank
portions being either transparent before the said process of printing or subsequently
rendered so by varnishing after the completion of the said process of printing as
herein described.