A METHOD OR METHODS OF PREPARING PAPER FOR THE. RECEPTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES OR IMPRESSIONS, IN ORDER THAT THE SAID PICTURES OR IMPRES- SIONS MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO AND FIXED ON WOOD, PORCELAIN, AND OTHER SURFACES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
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in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A METHOD
OR METHODS OF PREPARING PAPER FOR THE. RECEPTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
PICTURES OR IMPRESSIONS, IN ORDER THAT THE SAID PICTURES OR IMPRES-
SIONS MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO AND FIXED ON WOOD, PORCELAIN, AND OTHER
SURFACES." A communication from abroad by Jean Théodore Dupuy, of
3, Passage du Desir, Paris, France.
Sealed the 19th December 1862, and dated, the. 27th June. 1862..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th June 1862.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet, Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of, the said Invention
for "A METHOD OB METHODS OF PREPARING PAPER; FOR THE; RECEPTION OF PHOTO-
GRAPHIC PICTURES OR IMPRESSIONS, IN ORDER THAT THE, SAID PICTURES OR IM-
PRESSIONS MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO AND FIXED ON WOOD, PORCELAIN, AND OTHER
SURFACES," (communicated to me from abroad. by Jean Théodore Dupuy; of
3, Passage. du. Desir, Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a method or methods of preparing paper for the
reception of photographic pictures, in order that the said pictures. may be
transferred to and fixed on wood; porcelain, and other surfaces,, all. as hereafter
explained.

page_text: First operation. Take a sized or unsized, gelatinized, albumenized, or
cereolinized (ceréoliné) paper, (if the paper is not sized it is covered with size,
starch, glycerine, or other sizing material,) cover it with a solution of ammo-
niacal citrate of iron and bichromate of ammonia, and dry in a dark chamber;
or the paper may be prepared with the different salts of iron and chrome, with
perchloride and lactate of iron, with potassic citrate of iron or manganese, with
pyrophosphate of irón, with potassic or ammoniacal tartrate of iron, with
bichromate and chromate of ammonia or potass, with the addition of gum,
gelatine, sugar, or albumen, or Judea bitumen developed in a solution of oil of
naphtha and benzine.
Second operation.-The paper, prepared by one of the means just described.
is submitted to light printing in an ordinary photographic printing frame.
Third operation. The impression or print obtained is submitted to damp-
ness, say, in a damp cellar, to damp steam, breath, or any other suitable
'damping agent.
Fourth operation.-The dampness condenses on those parts which have not
"received the impression of the luminous rays; I then color the print with a
vegetable or mineral color, according to the purpose' for which it is intended
"in a state of fine powder. Sometimes I apply powder of gold, silver, or other
métal.
Fifth operation. To fix the powder on 'the print it is covered with a
varnish, such as collodion, benzoin, and other varnish, gum lac, caout-
chouc, gutta percha, Judea bitumen, cereoline, copal, gum arabic, dextrine,
gelatine, and all boiled oil varnishes and resinous substances dissolved in
alcohol, ether, turpentine, chloroform, or ammonia. In some cases I cover
the glass with collodion iodurized and sensitized with nitrate of silver. After
the operation in the dark chamber or in the printing frame under a negative,
the print or impression is developed in a solution of iron or pyrogallic acid; it
is afterwards 'fixed by hyposulphite of soda and cyanide of potassium, the print
being washed and placed in a gummed, gelatinized, albumenized or waxed
paper. The picture fixed upon this paper may be transferred, as may be desired.
To shorten the operation before described, I sometimes cover a glass with col-
lodion chloruretted and sensitized with nitrate of silver, and dry it in the dark,
to be used as required. It is afterwards placed in a printing frame under.a
negative, and fixed by hyposulphuret of soda. I wash the print and cover. it
with one of the varnishes described under the fifth operation, and then with a
gelatinous varnish.
After the preceding operations have been performed,. I color the prints with
a brush with mineral colors if they are to be transferred to surfaces which

page_text: undergo firing to fix the colors, such as porcelain and earthenware, or with.
vegetable colors if the prints are to be transferred to wood, leather, or to any
other substance not requiring firing to fix the color. The colors instead of
being laid on with a brush may be produced by lithographic or typographic
printing.
All photographic prints obtained according to this Invention on paper pre-
pared as before described; may be transferred to all sorts of objects. Varnish
and rectified essence, brushes, a piece of cloth, and a paper knife are all that
is required to effect the transfer. To transfer a photograph printed on paper
prepared as before described, dip a brush into transfer varnish, and give the
picture a thin coating of it; then place this picture with the prepared side
downwards on to the object to which it is to be transferred, care being taken
that it occupies its correct position when first placed, in order that friction may
not afterwards injure it. Next cover the paper with a piece of slightly damped
cloth, and with a paper knife or other convenient instrument rub evenly over:
the cloth, to fix the print on the surface to which it is to be transferred. The
cloth must not be too wet, yet sufficiently so to saturate the paper. The cloth
is next raised, then with a badger or other suitable brush wet the paper with
water, and in a very short time it may be removed or peeled off, when the photo-
graphic print will be found transferred to the surface on which it was placed,
the paper having no trace of it left. The preparation on the print may be
afterwards washed off with a 'soft brush or sponge, and blotting paper may'
be applied to remove any wet from the print. When the print is thoroughly
dry it should receive a thin coat of varnish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on-the 27th December 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such

page_text: others as I, the 'said Richard Archibald Brooman, my. executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should' at any time agree. with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the iterm 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 METHOD OR METHODS OF PREPARING PAPER POR THE
RECEPTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES OR IMPRESSIONS, IN ORDER: THAT THE SAID
PICTURES OR IMPRESSIONS MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO AND FIXED ON WOOD, PORCELAIN,
AND OTHER SURFACES" (communicated to me from abroad by. Jean Théodore
Dupuy, of 3, Passage du Desir, à Paris, France,) upon the condition (amongst t
others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or: admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their; or one of their
bands and seals, should particularly described 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. า
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof :-
:
"
;
This Invention consists in a method or methods of preparing paper for
the reception of photographic pictures, in order that the said pictures may be.
transferred to. and fixed on wood, porcelain; and other surfaces, all as hereafter
explained.
i
First operation. Take a sized or unsized gelatinized, albumenized, or
cereolinized (cereoliné) paper, (if the paper is not sized it is covered with
size, starch, glycerine, or other sizing material,) cover it with a solution of
ammoniacal citrate of iron and bichromate of ammonia, and dry in a dark
chamber. Or the paper may be prepared with the different salts of iron and
chrome, with perchloride and lactate of iron, with potassic citrate of iron or
manganese, with pyrophosphate of iron, with potassic or ammoniacal tartrate of
iron, with bichromate and chromate of 'ammonia or potass, with the addition
of gum, gelatine, sugar, or albumen, or Judea bitumen developed in a solution
of oil of naphtha and benzine.
Second operation. The paper prepared by one of the means just described
is submitted to light printing in an ordinary photographic printing frame.
Third operation. The impression or print obtained is submitted damped,
say, by exposure in a damp cellar, or to damp steam, breath, or any other
suitable damping-agent

page_text: Fourth operation. The dampness condenses on those parts which have not
received the impression of the luminous rays... I then color the print with a
vegetable or mineral color in a state of, fine power, according to the
purpose
for which the print is intended. Sometimes I apply powder of gold; silver, or
other metal..
Fifth operation: To fix the powder on the print,, it is covered with, a
varnish, such as collodion, benzoin, and ether, varnish, gum lac, caoutchouc,
gutta percha, Judea bitumen, cereoline; copal; gum arabic, dextrine, gelatine,.
and all boiled oil varnishes and resinous substances dissolved in alcohol, ether,.
turpentine, chloroform, or ammonia. In some cases. I cover the glass with.
collodion iodurized and sensitized with nitrate of silver. After the operation.
in the dark chamber, or in the printing frame under a negative, the print or
impression is developed in a solution of iron or. pyrogallic acid; it.is afterwards
fixed by hyposulphite of soda and cyanide of potassium, the print being washed
and placed on a gummed, gelatinized, albumenized, or waxed paper. The
picture fixed -upon this paper may be transferred as may be desired: To-
shorten the operation before described, I sometimes cover a glass with col-
lodion chloruretted and sensitized with nitrate of silver, and dry it in the
dark, to be used as required. It is afterwards placed in a printing frame
under a negative, and fixed by hyposulphuret of soda. I wash the print, and
cover it with one of the varnishes described under the fifth operation, and
then with a gelatinous varnish.
After the preceding operations have been performed I color the prints with
a brush with mineral colors, if they are to be transferred to surfaces which
undergo firing to fix the colors, such as porcelain and earthenware, or with
vegetable colors if the prints are to be transferred to wood, leather, or to any
other substance not requiring firing to fix the color. The colors instead of
being laid on with a brush may be produced by lithographic or typographic
printing.
All photographic prints obtained according to this Invention on paper
prepared as before described may be transferred to all sorts of objects.
Varnish and rectified essence, brushes, a piece of cloth, and a paper knife are
all that are required to effect the transfer. To transfer a photograph printed on
paper prepared as before described, dip a brush into transfer varnish, and give
the picture a thin coating of it; then place this picture with the prepared side
downwards on to the object to which it is to be transferred, care being taken
that it occupies its correct position when first placed, in order that friction may
not afterwards injure it. Next, cover the paper with a piece of slightly
damped cloth, and with a paper knife or other convenient instrument rub

page_text: evenly over the cloth to fix the print on the surface to which it is to be
transferred. The cloth must not be too wet, yet sufficiently so to saturate
the paper. The cloth is next raised, then with badger or other suitable-
brush wet the paper with water, and in a very short time it may be removed
or peeled off, when the photographic print will be found transferred to the
surface on which it was placed, the paper having no trace of it left. The
preparation on the print may be afterwards washed off with a soft brush or
sponge, and blotting paper may be applied to remove any wet from the
print. When the print is thoroughly dry it should receive a thin coat of
varnish.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal; this Twenty-sixth day of December, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.).