A NEW METHOD OF PRODUCING TRANSPARENT, SEMI-TRANSPARENT, OR OPAQUE SHEETS, SUCH AS SHEET GELATINE, WITH WORDS OR DESIGNS THEREON APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL PURPOSES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugènie Victoria Emery, of Canonbury, in the County
of Middlesex, for an Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF PRODUCING
TRANSPARENT, SEMI-TRANSPARENT, OR OPAQUE SHEETS, SUCH AS SHEET
GELATINE, WITH WORDS OR DESIGNS THEREON APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS
ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugènie Victoria Emery
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1881.
EUGENIE VICTORIA EMERY of Canonbury in the County of Middlesex. "A NEW
METHOD OF PRODUCING TRANSPARENT SEMI TRANSPARENT OR OPAQUE SHEETS
SUCH AS SHEET GELATINE WITH WORDS OR DESIGNS THEREON APPLICABLE TO
VARIOUS ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of transparent or semi
transparent sheets composed of gelatine or other substances capable of being
formed into flexible sheets such as sheet gelatine with words or designs thereon in
relief to be employed for various useful and ornamental purposes such as screens,
christmas, new year, birthday, visiting and other cards and for all purposes for
which such sheets are or may be made applicable.
According to my said Invention I take gelatine (for example) melt it and then
run it on a piece of glass (by preference) having the desired words or design cut
or moulded thereon so that the gelatinous substance may run therein and when
dried by any suitable process and taken from the mould a transparent semi
transparent or opaque flexible sheet with the desired words or design thereon in
relief will be produced; or the substance may be otherwise suitably moulded to
attain such end. The glass or other material on which the substance employed is
run should have a rim or frame all round so that a sufficient quantity of such
substance may be run in order to form a sheet of the desired thickness, as very
thin sheets similar to sheet gelatine as at present made would not answer well.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Eugenio Victoria Emery in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th June 1882.
EUGENIE VICTORIA EMERY of Canonbury in the County of Middlesex. "A NEW
METHOD OF PRODUCING TRANSPARENT SEMI-TRANSPARENT OR OPAQUE SHEETS
SUCH AS SHEET GELATINE WITH WORDS OR DESIGNS THEREON APPLICABLE TO
VARIOUS ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of transparent, semi-transparent
or opaque sheets composed of gelatine or other substances capable of being formed
into flexible sheets such as sheet gelatine with words or designs in relief thereon or
impressed therein to be employed for various useful and ornamental purposes such
as screens, christinas new year, birthday visiting and other cards and for all
purposes for which such sheets are or may be made applicable.
According to my said Invention I take gelatine (for example) melt it and then
run it on a piece of glass (by preference) having the desired words or design cut
therein or moulded thereon so that the gelatinous substance may run therein and
when dried by any suitable process and taken from the mould a transparent semi-
transparent or opaque flexible_sheet with the desired words or design thereon in
relief or impressed therein will be produced or the substance may be otherwise
suitably moulded to attain such end. The glass or other material on which the
substance employed is run should have a rim or frame all round so that a sufficient
quantity of such substance may be retained in order to form a sheet of the desired
thickness.
And in order that my said Invention may be better understood I will now
proceed to describe the same more fully :-
The gelatine or other material of which the slicct is to be manufactured is run
or otherwise placed on the mould the surface of which may have raised letters or
figures or designs thereon or impressed therein and these moulds will be made of
glass metal or other suitable material having the desired surface words or designs
in relief embossed, cut, impressed therein or otherwise suitably moulded to attain
such object. These moulds according to the way in which I desire the sheets to
be produced will either be placed above or below the substance of which the sheet
is to be formed or I may place a mould both above and below the substance so
that the letters or design will be formed on each side of the sheet when taken
from the mould. Before the sheets are taken from the moulds, they are dried in
the ordinary way of drying gelatine sheets or by any other suitable process after
which the sheet may be taken from the mould by cutting such sheet all round and
detaching same by passing a knife underneath.
Having this described and ascertained the nature and object of my said
Invention and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect I would
remark in conclusion that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details
herein described as various modifications may be made therein while retaining the
essential features of my said Invention but what I claim is the method of pro-
ducing transparent semi-transparent or opaque sheets such as sheet gelatine
with words or designs thereon applicable to various ornamental and useful
purposes and the article so produced substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said Eugènic Victoria Emery have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
EUGENIE V. EMERY. (L.S.)