An Improved Composition for use in Transferring Printing or other Matter
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for use in Transferring Printing or other
Matter:
ROBERT STANLEY KIRKPATRICK Stationer 141 Linthorpe Road Middles-
brough Yorkshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Transferine is a combination of the following chemical ingredients viz. :-
Soda-soap-methylated spirits and turpentine, held in solution by water.
The combination is for the purpose of transferring to any and every kind of
paper a copy of any and every kind of printed or written matter-pictorial illus-
tration or design.
31st of May 1802
ROBERT STANLEY KIRKPATRICK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for use in Transferring Printing or other
Matter.
I, ROBERT STANLEY KIRKPATRICK of 14 Linthorpe Road, Middlesborough,
in the County of Yorkshire, Stationer, Printer and Paper Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to a fluid composition for use in transferring to, or
reproducing upon any kind of plain paper, any and every kind of picture, print,
design, map or other subject or matter originally produced by the aid of printers,
lithographic or similar ink, or deeds or other documents or matter that has been
written by hand, the object of which is to provide facilities by which any person
unskilled in the art of drawing or copying may re-produce fac-similes of any
treasured or covetted printed or written matter without the aid of mechanical
means.
The said composition as made and sold by me I intend shall be commercially
known as "Trausferine," and consists of the following ingredients held in solution
by adding them together, preferably, in the order hereinafter named, and in the
relative proportions stated or approximately so.
To one part or thereabouts of clean spirits of turpentine, or crude turpentine,
I add one part or thereabouts of methylated spirit, and when these are intimately
mixed together I add thereto eight parts or thereabouts of any kind of pale house-
hold soap entirely devoid of any coloring matter, and when this is dissolved and the
fatty or greasy properties thereof killed by the spirits which may be facilitated by
agitation, I add thereto one hundred and fifty parts or thereabouts, of filtered or
very clean water, in which I have previously dissolved seventy two parts or
thereabouts of common soda. The composition thus formed may then be filtered
in order to remove any undissolved particles of the solid ingredients, and is ready
for use.
The picture, design, or printed or written matter to be copied is then laid upon
some flat clean surface with its face uppermost, and is then damped upon so much
of its surface as encompasses the matter to be copied, with the aforesaid composition,
and after a few moments have elapsed, the paper to which the subject is to be
transferred, is carefully and smoothly laid thereon, and covered with several sheets

page_text: of paper, felt or other soft material, and upon this is laid a sheet of glass or other
flat substance and the whole subjected to a light weight or pressure, or the pressure
may be used without the glass or the like if care be taken that the pressure applied
does not disturb either the subject or the paper to which it is to be transferred.
A few moments will suffice to effect a perfect fac-simile impression of the subject
upon the plain paper, when the latter may be removed and the operation repeated
if needed.
By careful manipulation in the manner described several copies may be taken
from valuable and delicate prints or written matter without injuring the original..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
As an article of manufacture for taking fac-simile impressions of pictorial illus-
trations, printed or written matter, the employment of the hereinbefore mentioned
chemical ingredients in or about the proportions stated, combined and operating
substantially as herein described and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 19th dose of Santamba- 1000
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.