A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE.
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Brierley, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, and Henry Geering, of Birmingham aforesaid,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC
FURNITURE.".
Scaled the 22nd July 1859, and dated the 5th April 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Brierley and
Henry Geering at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 5th April 1859.
We, LEONARD BRIERLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, and HENRY GEERING, of Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC
FURNITURE," to be as follows:-
Our said Invention consists of the method herein-after explained of
ornamenting metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture, that is
to say, metallic couches, cots, chairs, and such other articles of metallic
furniture as are made principally of a combination of solid rods or.tubes and
angle iron.
Our said. Invention consists in the application of designs drawn, printed, or
otherwise produced upon paper, the said designs upon paper being attached
to the articles to be ornamented. by a mixture of glue and paste, or other
adhesive matter, which will bear without injury the heat to which the articles

page_text: have to be subjected. The design or designs upon the paper may either be
detached and applied only at certain parts, or a continuous pattern may be
employed, and the paper made to cover the whole or large part of the surface
to be ornamented. After having been varnished with a hard varnish, the
articles are stoved in the usual manner. The design or designs upon paper 5
which we employ in carrying our Invention into effect may either be plain,
coloured, gilt, or otherwise ornamented.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Leonard Brierley and Henry Geering in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 30th September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, LEONARD
BRIERLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and
HENRY GEERING, of Birmingham aforesaid,. Manufacturer, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Leonard Brierley and Henry Geering, Her special licence that we, the said
Leonard Brierley and Henry Geering, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Leonard Brierley and Henry Geering,
our executors, administrators, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Leonard Brierley and
Henry Geering, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them, should particularly 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 Leonard Brierley, on behalf of myself
and the said Henry Geering, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly

page_text: described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:-
Our said Invention consists of the method herein-after described of orna-
menting metallic bedstead and other articles of metallic furniture, that is to say,:
metallic couches, cots, chairs, and such other articles of metallic furniture as
are made principally of a combination of solid rods or tubes and angle iron.
Our said Invention consists in the application of designs drawn, printed,
engraved, lithographed, or otherwise produced upon paper, the said designs
upon paper being attached to the articles to be ornamented by a mixture of
glue and paste or other adhesive matter or composition which will bear without.
injury the heat to which the articles have to be subjected, as herein-after
explained.
The design or designs upon paper may either be detached and applied only
at certain parts of the surface of the articles to be ornamented, or a continuous
sheet of designs or a continuous pattern may be employed, and the paper
made to cover the whole or large part of the surface to be ornamented. The
design or designs upon paper which we employ in carrying our Invention into
effect may either be plain, colored, marbled, gilt, silvered, bronzed, or otherwise
ornamented.
In carrying our Invention into effect we proceed as follows:-The surface
or parts of the surface of the bedstead or other article to be ornamented are
first prepared to receive the designs upon paper by the application thereto of
a coating of oil paint or "priming;" after the said coating has thoroughly
dried, we apply the designs upon paper to the said surface, the said designs
being attached by an adhesive composition consisting of good wheaten paste
tempered with a little glue water, or any other suitable adhesive material or
composition may be employed. When the adhesive material has sufficiently
dried, we apply to the ornamented surface a coating of gum or isinglass, the
said gum or isinglass being applied, by preference, in the form of a hot solution.
This coating of gum or isinglass being left to set, an hour or two being suffi-
cient for the purpose, the surface is afterwards varnished with a quick drying
varnish, and dried in an ordinary japanner's stove at a moderate temperature.
When the varnish has thoroughly dried, that is to say, has set and hardened,
we apply another coating of varnish, such, for example, as fine copal varnish
or other varnish which is slower in drying than that previously applied. The
article is again stoved, and when the surface is thoroughly dry we polish it
in the manner known as band polishing.
By treating the design or designs upon paper applied to the article to bo
ornamented by the process or processes described, the said design or designs

page_text: are preserved from injury by the air, moisture, and dust, and have a smooth
and polished surface imparted to them.
-Although we prefer to subject. the: design or designs after they have been
attached to the surfaces to be ornamented by the series of varnishings and
dryings herein-before described, and which we, have found to answer well in
practice, yet the same may be varied to suit the particular article operated
upon.
. As the processes and machinery by which the designs upon paper are
produced which we employ in carrying our Invention into effect, are those
commonly used for producing designs upon paper for other purposes, and
which said machinery and processes constitute no part of our Invention, we do
not think it necessary to describe the same.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, wo wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to.the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of our Invention; but we claim as our
Invention the new or improved method of ornamenting metallic bedsteads and
other articles of metallic furniture herein-before described, that is to say,
ornamenting the said articles by applying thereto designs upon paper, the said
designs being either drawn, engraved, lithographed, printed, or otherwise
produced, and the said designs being either plain, colored,. gilt, bronzed, or
otherwise ornamented, and applied to the articles by a mixture of gluo and
paste or other suitable adhesive material, and afterwards varnished, stoved,
and polished.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leonard Brierley, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
LEONARD BRIERLEY. (L.S.)