IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANS- PERRING DESIGNS, AND IN ORNAMENTING GLASS AND OTHER SURFACES, ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SLIDES FOR MAGIC LANTERNS." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Willoughby Smith, of Pownall Road, Dalston, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANS-
PERRING DESIGNS, AND IN ORNAMENTING GLASS AND OTHER SURFACES, ALSO IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF SLIDES FOR MAGIC LANTERNS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Willoughby, Smith, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th January 1860.
I, WILLOUGHBY SMITH, of Pownall Road, Dalston, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TRANSFERRING DESIGNS AND IN ORNAMENTING GLASS AND OTHER
SURFACES, ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SLIDES FOR MAGIC LANTERNS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in transferring designs,.and.
in ornamenting glass and other surfaces, also in the manufacture of slides
for magic lanterns. In transferring designs according to my Invention, I.
take a print, either colored or otherwise, or a design otherwise produced on
paper or other similar material, and I coat the surface thereof with collodion.
When the collodion is set and hard, I wash off the paper or material on which
the design was originally printed or produced, and the ink or color will then

page_text: be found firmly attached to the film of collodion. In ornamenting glass
and other surfaces, I lay the film of collodion to which a design has been trans-
ferred as above described, together with varnish or cement, on a sheet of glass
or on the surface to be ornamented, to which on drying it will firmly adhere.
When the film of collodion to which the design has been transferred is to be
employed as a slide for a magic lantern, it may either be mounted on glass
or between two glasses, or it may be mounted alone in a suitable frame. In
the manner above described slides for magic lanterns may be produced, and
glass and other surfaces may be ornamented for other uses at a cheap rate.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Willoughby Smith, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLOUGHBY
SMITH, of Pownall Road, Dalston, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
Oue thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Willoughby Smith, Her special licence that I, the said Willoughby Smith,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said
Willoughby Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TRANSFERRING DESIGNS AND IN ORNAMENTING GLASS AND OTHER SUR-
FACES, ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SLIDES FOR MAGIC LANTERNS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Willoughby Smith, 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 Willoughby Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in transferring designs, and
in ornamenting glass and other surfaces, also in the manufacture of slides for.
magic lanterns. In transferring designs according to my Invention, I take
a print, either colored or otherwise, or a design otherwise produced on paper
or other simliar material, and I coat the surface thereof with collodion; when
the collodion is set and hard, I wash off the paper or material on which the
design was originally printed or produced, and the ink or color will then bo
found firmly attached to the film of collodion. In ornamenting glass and:
other surfaces, I lay the film of collodion to which a design has been trans-
ferred as above described, together with varnish or cement, on a sheet of glass
or on the surface to be ornamented, to which on drying it will firmly adhere.
When the film of collodion to which the design has been transferred, is to be
employed as a slide for a magic lantern it may either be mounted on glass or
between two glasses, or it may be mounted alone in a suitable frame. In
the manner above described slides for magic lanterns may be produced, and
glass and other surfaces may be ornamented for other uses at a cheap rate.
In carrying out this Invention, I first stretch the design to be transferred upon
a board, and then coat it over by means of a brush, either one or more times
with collodion, of about the consistency of cream, or if a very thick coating of
collodion is required, I pour colodian upon it; when the colodion is perfectly
set and hard I put the print or drawing thus prepared into water to soften
the paper, and when thoroughly soaked the paper is easily removed by rubbing,
leaving a thin transparent film of collodion with the design firmly fixed upon
it; the film of lodion is then allowed to dry, and when dry I coat the side
of the film from which the paper was removed with thin collodion, Canada
balsam, oil, or with transparent varnish. In some cases, in order to render the
film of collodion more tough, I mix about three per cent. of castor oil with the
collodion by boiling them together till both are thoroughly incorporated, and
should I wish to obtain a greater transparency, I add about three per cent. of
Canada balsam to the collodion, the same process of boiling as before men-
tioned; the film of collodion with the design upon it is then ready for mounting
upon the surface to be ornamented. When it is to be employed for ornamenting
glass, it may either be mounted on a sheet of glass by pasting paper around the
edges of the glass and attaching the edges of the film of collodion by cement
or varnish to the paper, or it may be placed between two sheets of glass, the
edges of which are then secured by pasting a strip of paper around them; the
film of collodion may also be mounted in a frame or stretcher by attaching

page_text: the edges of the film to the frame or stretcher. When the film of collodion
is to be employed as a slide for a magic lantern, it may either be mounted on
one sheet of glass or between two sheets, or it may be mounted in a frame as
above described
the edges of the film to the frame or stretcher. When the film of collodion
is to be employed as a slide for a magic lantern, it may either be mounted on
one sheet of glass or between two sheets, or it may be mounted in a frame as
above described
In witness whereof, I, the said Willoughby Smith, have hereunto set my
WILLY. SMITH. (L.S.)