Improvements in and relating to the Ornamentation of Ash Pans, Fenders, Fire-dogs, Shovels, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: _: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
Improvements in and relating to the Ornamentation of Ash Pans,
Fenders, Fire-dogs, Shovels, and the like.
I, EDWIN TAYLOR, of 1 Alfred Street, Warstone Lane, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Stamper and Piercer do hereby declare the nature of my said
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 has for its object improvements in fenders, fire dogs shovel and ash
pans and other such articles and in the manufacture of the same and refers more
particularly to the fronts mouldings, bottoms, and stops of fenders, the bases and
panels of fire dogs, the fronts of ash pans, the face plates of bellows and shovel and
coal scoop pans by which the appearance of such articles is considerably improved
and the most artistic ornamentation produced while the smooth surface of the
article may be retained which is of great assistance in polishing and finishing.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which
I have shown two shovel pans ornamented in accordance with my improvements
but such shovel pans are not shown because the improvements are more applicable
to those over any of the other articles enumerated but because they are the most
convenient for illustration. To make the application more perfectly clear I show
in Figure 3 a part of a fender moulding upon which the ornament shown may be
repeated to its full extent.
In carrying my invention into effect I take the article or that part of the article
which I desire to ornament and cover the particular part to be treated with
stopping off varnish or any composition which will resist acid which I remove so as
to form the desired pattern or the stopping off varnish may be stencilled on so as
to leave the desired pattern or form free to receive the acid which is afterwards
applied so as eat away the metal at the desired parts or I may first stamp, recess,
engrave, or chase the desired pattern upon the article after which I stop off all
that part of the article which I do not require to be affected by my next process.
I then take the article which for example may be taken as brass and insert it in a
bath prepared for the deposit of a metal of contrasting color such as for example
copper which is thereby deposited within the recesses as desired whether they may
have been formed by the application of acid or by stamping, rolling, chasing, or
engraving and this deposit continues until a surface level with that of the metal of
the article is obtained. Either the ground around the pattern may be thus treated
as illustrated by Figure 1 in which A is the metal of the pan or other article and
B the ground of deposited metal which thus forms the shape of the ornament or
pattern A' or the body of the pattern form or ornamentation may be formed of
the deposited metal as shewn by Figure 2 where A is again the metal of the article
and B is the deposited metal contrasting in colour with A and in this case forming
the body itself of the pattern or the ornamentation also may be formed in outline
as shewn by Figure 3 where A is the article & B the deposited metal. I may
repeat the process before mentioned with the result of introducing a third metal
which would contrast with each of the other two & any suitable metals such as
steel, brass, or copper may be so treated with brass, copper, German silver,
platinum or suitably depositing metals by which means I obtain a great variety of
chaste designs which may be readily applied to any of such articles as hereinbefore
mentioned.

page_text: Having now particularly described & 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 :-
The improvements in fenders fire dogs, shovel & ash pans and other such articles
and in the manufacture of the same substantially as and for the purpose herein set
forth & shewn upon the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 6th day of December 1883.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.