AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF CERAMIC OBJECTS OR ARTICLES
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Bristow Hunt at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd January 1879. (A communication
from abroad by Louis Hottot, of Paris, France, Art-zinc Manufacturer.)
BRISTOW HUNT, of Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF
CERAMIC OBJECTS OR ARTICLES." (A communication from abroad by Louis Hottot,
of Paris, France, Art-zinc Manufacturer.)
The carriago and the handling of ceramic objects or articles, such as majolica,
porcelain, and enamelled earthenware, terra cotta, and other ware of a brittle unture,
often occasion breakages and deteriorations, at times considerable, causing (in
relation to the objects or articles of this nature intended for exportation) a serious.
lors, and consequently a notablo increase in the selling price of the same.
It is therefore now proposed to make these inconveniences disappear by
substituting for the plastic material generally used a substance which in the first
placo is more resisting, being a metal, such as cast zinc, which is found capable of
receiving an enainel of varied aspect, colour, and composition, in such a manner as
to imitate as completely as possible ceramic objects and to present the peculiar
characteristics of the latter. For this reason instead of trying to obtain perfectly
polished surfaces as is donc in other applications of the metal employed, it is
preferred to preserve in the cast zinc the defects of casting inevitable in the employ-
iment of moulds of earth or sand more or less fine; thus the inequalities which aro
net with in the productions it is intended to imitate are reproduced.
The employment of this process will allow of the introduction into commerco
under the name of artistic metallo-ceramic ware a quantity of objects or articles not
fragile or easily broken, at low price, at the same time retaining a certain artistic
Stamp which will cause them to be sought after for the purposes of decoration and
orunimentation.
Although cast zinc is the metal which is preferred to be used, other metals or
alloys may also be employed in the process.

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Bristow Hunt at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd January 1879. (A communication
from abroad by Louis Hottot, of Paris, France, Art-zinc Manufacturer.)
BRISTOW HUNT, of Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF
CERAMIC OBJECTS OR ARTICLES." (A communication from abroad by Louis Hottot,
of Paris, France, Art-zinc Manufacturer.)
The carriage and the handling of ceramic objects or articles, such as majolica,
porcelain, and enamelled earthenware, terra cotta, and other ware of a brittle nature,
often occasion breakages and deteriorations, at times considerable, causing (in
relation to the objects or articles of this nature intended for exportation) a serious
loss, and consequently a notable increase in the selling price of the same.
It is therefore now proposed to make these inconveniences disappear by
substituting for the plastic material generally used a substance which in the first
place is more resisting, being a metal, such as cast zinc, which is found capable of
receiving an enamel of varied aspect, colour, and composition, in such a manner as
to imitate as completely as possible ceramic objects and to present the peculiar
characteristics of the latter. For this reason instead of trying to obtain perfectly
polished surfaces as is done in other applications of the metal employed, it is
preferred to preserve in the cast zine the defects of casting inevitable in the employ-
ment of moulds of earth or sand more or less fine; thus the inequalities which are
met with in the productions it is intended to imitate are reproduced.
The employment of this process will allow of the introduction into commerce
under the name of artistic metallo-ceramic ware a quantity of objects or articles not
fragile or casily broken, at low price, at the same time retaining a certain artistic
stamp which will cause them to be sought after for the purposes of decoration and
ornamentation.
Although cast zinc is the metal which is preferred to be used, other metals or
alloys may also be employed in the process.