A New or Improved Process of Manufacturing Coverings for Walls, Ceilings and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1900
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Date of Application, 2010 Dec., 1099
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Process of Manufacturing Coverings for Walls,
Ceilings and the like.
A communication, from abroad by LA SOCIÉTÉ JOSZ ET FILS ET COMPAGNIE, of
Koekelberg, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
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I, LEWIS HERBERT RITTMAN, of 26, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Clerk; do hereby declare the nature of this invention (as communicated to me
from abroad) to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved process of manufacturing a
enamelled covering for walls ceilings or the like, by which a covering imper-
meable to moisture, acids, corrosive salis as well as atmospheric influences is
produced. Coverings made by my process can be applied to surfaces of various
kinds such as the walls or ceilings of dining rooms, kitchens, bath rooms, ships-
cabins, the interior of wagons and the like, by means of a cement ensuring its
perfect adhesion thereto.
This process consists in transforming paper as well as textile fabric or material,
and the like into án impermeable compact and smooth covering for the purposes
hereinbefore referred to.
This smooth enamelled covering is produced in the following manner :-
Paper or other material is first steeped in a solution of the following -in-
gredients:
Liquid gutta percha dissolved in an essential oil one part.
Mineral pitch also dissolved in an essential oil one part.
Venice turpentine one part.
Liquid siccative three parts.
The paper or material is steeped in this solution until it is thoroughly
impregnated. The impregnated material after removal from the solution is
suspended for twelve hours or thereabout in a arying room or apparatus heated
to a temperature of forty degrees Centigrade or thereabout.
The front and back surfaces of the impregnated material are next covered with
a layer of white lead ground in a siccative oil containing one-tenth part of liquid
gutta percha.
The material is again for twelve hours suspended in the said drying room or
apparatus heated to a temperature of forty degrees Centigrade or thereabout.
After this second drying one of the surfaces of the material is coated with a
layer of zinc white ground in copal varnish and clear linseed oil. The material
thus treated is then spread out flat and left to itself for six hours; after which
it is again placed in the drying room or apparatus hereinbefore referred to and
left therein for twelve hours.
After this final drying the material is ready for ornamentation with a type or
lithographic impression. The finished material thus prepared is impermeable and
resists moisture acids and corrosive salts.
The application of this coating to any surface is effected by a liquid solution of

page_text: white lead crushed in linseed oil and a siccative containing one-twentieth part of
liquid gutta percha or other composition of analogous properties:-
The proportions indicated for the preparation of the mixtures serve as examples
and may be varied at will without departing the spirit of the invention.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1899
L. H. RITTMAN,
Communicatee.
A New or Improved Process of Manufacturing Coverings for Walls,
Ceilings and the like.
A communication from abroad by LA SOCIÉTÉ JOSZ ET FILS ET COMPAGNIE, of
Koekelberg, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
I, LEWIS HERBERT RITTMAN, of 26, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (as communicated to me
from abroad), and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved process of manufacturing a smooth
enamelled covering for walls ceilings or the like, by which a covering imper-
meable to moisture, acids, corrosive salts as well as atmospheric influences is
produced. Coverings made by my process can be applied to surfaces of various
kinds such as the walls or ceilings of dining rooms, kitchens, bath rooms, ships-
cabins, the interior of wagons and the like, by means of a cement ensuring its
perfect adhesion thereto.
This process consists in transforming paper as well as textile fabric or material,
and the like into an impermeable compact and smooth covering for the purposes
herein before referred to.
This smooth enamelled covering is produced in the following manner :-
Paper or other material is first steeped in a solution of the following in-
gredients:
Liquid gutta percha dissolved in an essential oil one part.
Mineral pitch also dissolved in an essential oil one part.
Venice turpentine one part.
Liquid siccative three parts.
The paper or material is steeped in this solution until it is thoroughly
impregnated. The impregnated material after removal from the solution is
suspended for twelve hours or thereabout in a drying room or apparatus heated
to a temperature of forty degrees Centigrade or thereabout.
The front and back surfaces of the impregnated material are next covered with
a layer of white lead ground in a siccative oil containing one-tenth part of liquid
gutta percha.
The material is again for twelve hours suspended in the said drying room or
apparatus heated to a temperature of forty degrees Centigrade or thereabout.
After this second drying one of the surfaces of the material is coated with a
layer of zinc white ground in copal varnish and clear linseed oil. The material
thus treated is then spread out flat and left to itself for six hours; after which
it is again placed in the drying room or apparatus hereinbefore referred to and
left therein for twelve hours.
After this final drying the material is ready for ornamentation with a type or
lithographic impression. The finished material thus prepared is impermeable and
resists moisture acids and corrosive salts.
The application of this coating to any surface is effected by a liquid solution of

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white lead crushed in linseed oil and a siccative containing one-twentieth part of
liquid gutta percha or other composition of analogous properties:-
The proportions indicated for the preparation of the mixtures serve as examples
and may be varied at will without departing from the spirit of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, (as communicated to me from abroad) and in what manner the same is to be
performed, I declare that what I claim is: -
The new or improved process of manufacturing coverings for walls, ceilings and
the like substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of September 1900