IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF CLAN TARTAN AND FANG WADADE ATTHEW OF AND FANCY WOODWORK, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Archibald Brown, of the Town and County of
Lanark, North Britain, Fancy Woodwork Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF CLAN TARTAN
AND FANG WADADE ATTHEW MAN 11
Sealed the 19th May 1876, and dated the 25th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Archibald Brown at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th November 1875.
I, ARCHIBALD BROWN, of the Town and County of Lanark, North
Britain, Fancy Woodwork Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF CLAN
TARTAN AND FANCY WOODWORK, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," to bo
as follows:-
This Invention has reference to the putting of pictures, devices, views,
or portraits upon the surface of clan tartan and fancy wood boxes, and

page_text: other articles of fancy woodwork, that is, engravings and lithographic
pictures in colour or black, of scenery, architectural views, portraits,
objects of interest, or devices found in particular cities, towns, or other
localities required in this trade for the "localising" of this class of
goods or manufacture, the improvement and novelty of this Invention &
consisting in printing, transferring, or fixing the said pictures or
engravings on the woodwork for the said purpose, on metallic grounds
or surfaces of gold, silver, or other metallic leaf and bronzes, or upon
white or coloured enamel.
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By one means or modification that part of the box or other fancy 1
piece of woodwork to be ornamented is coated with metallic leaf bronze
or metallic surfaced paper, either of which, whether in gold, silver, or
other metal, will be perfectly opaque, and not show the tartan or grain
of the woodwork through it, and this metallic surface or ground
being in turn covered or coated with a size or varnish the particular ]
picture or view previously printed on prepared paper in a usual manner
is laid on and transferred to the varnished metallic surface of the
woodwork, leaving thereon, when the paper is removed, a perfect copy
or facsimile of the picture it contained.
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Under another modification however instead of transferring the i
previously printed picture on to the metallicised surface or "ground
of the woodwork the pictures may in the first instance be printed upon
paper, either singly or in sheets, having the desired metallic "ground'
or surface, and be afterwards cut to the necessary dimensions, and
affixed in a usual manner by gum, varnish, or other cementing medium 2
to the surface of the woodwork.
Although metallic or enamelled surfaces or "grounds "only have been
mentioned black or dark colored opaque "grounds" or surfaces may be
similarly used, and the method of ornamenting fancy woodwork herein
described may with facility be adopted for ornamenting papier maché 8
work.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Archibald Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARCHIBALD
BROWN, of the Town and County of Lanark, North Britain, Fancy
Woodwork Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Archibald Brown, Her special
licence that I, the said Archibald Brown, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Archibald Brown, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
3 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 ORNAMENTATION OF CLAN TARtan and FanCY WOOD-
WORK, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Archibald Brown, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, 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 Archibald Brown, 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 in writing, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to a new or improved mode or means of
ornamenting fancy wood boxes and other articles of fancy woodwork by
putting on or applying to their surfaces engravings and lithographic
pictures in colour or black, of scenery, architectural views, portraits,

page_text: objects of interest, or devices found in particular cities, towns, or other
localities, as may be required in this trado for "localising" this class of
goods or manufacture, the essential feature of improvement and novelty
of the Invention consisting in printing, transferring, or fixing the said
pictures or engravings on the woodwork for the said purpose upon
metallic grounds or surfaces of gold, silver, or other metallic leaf or
bronze, or upon white, black, or coloured enamel grounds.
And in order that the nature, novelty, and mode of performing my
said Invention may be properly understood, I will now proceed to
describe the same more fully for that purpose.
Under one modification or method of carrying out my said Invention
into practice that part of the surface of the woodwork or fancy wood
box to be ornamented is coated with gold size, gum, or other cementing
or adhesive substance, over which is then laid or applied a coating of
metallic leaf, bronze, or metallic surfaced paper or enamel, which,
whether in gold, silver, or other metal, enamel, or colour will be
perfectly opaque, and not show the tartan design or grain of the wood-
work through it. This metallic surface or ground is next coated or
covered (if necessary) with a size or varnish, and the particular picture
or view previously printed on prepared paper or conveying or trans-
ferring substance in any of the usual modes adopted by printers, is then
laid on and transferred to the varnished (or it may be unvarnished),
metallic, or enamelled surface of the woodwork, leaving thereon, when
the paper or conveying substance is removed a perfect copy or fac-
simile of the picture it contained.
Under another modification instead of transferring the previously
printed picture on to the metallicised or enamelled surface or ground of
the woodwork the pictures may in the first instance be printed upon
paper or other material, either singly or in sheets, having the desired
metallic ground or surface, and be afterwards cut to the necessary
dimensions and affixed in a usual manner by gum, varnish, or other
cementing or adhesive medium to the surface of the woodwork.
Under another modification the transfer paper or conveying material
may be coated with gum, varnish, or other cementing medium before or
after the pictures or designs are printed thereon (with or without the
gold or other metallic or enamelled ground), so that by the simple
application of water or other liquid or solution or solvent the transfer

page_text: may be easily and speedily affixed to the surface of the woodwork to be
ornamented, and which may afterwards be varnished or polished if
desired.
Although metallic or enamelled surfaces or grounds only have been
herein mentioned, it is to be understood that black or dark coloured
opaque grounds or surfaces may be similarly used along with light
coloured metallic or bronze pictures or designs, and the method of
ornamenting fancy woodwork herein described may with facility be
adopted for ornamenting papier maché work.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
system or mode of carrying the same into effect or practice, I would
observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the mode or means of ornamenting fancy
wood boxes or other articles of fancy woodwork by the application
thereto of pictures, engravings, or views of scenery, architecture, or
other objects of interest, portraits, or devices upon metallic grounds, or
it may be on white, black, or dark coloured enamelled, opaque, grounds
or surfaces, substantially as herein described or any mere modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Archibald Brown, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.