IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METALLIC SURFACES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Littlehales, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Japanner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
METALLIC SURFACES."
Sealed the 13th April 1880, and dated the 15th October 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Littlehales at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th October 1879.
DAVID LITTLEHALES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Japanner.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METALLIC SURFACES."
I take an engraved or embossed sheet tube or other form of metal, and coat the
same with paint, tar, varnish, or other ordinary paint or varnish, until the coating
fills up the sunken parts of the metal surface; then stove the article and afterwards
rub down the surface until the raised portions of the ornament are exposed through
the paint or varnish, and then float, polish, and lacquer the surface by any of the
ordinary means.
When I employ tar varnish it is advisable to use a first coat of ordinary paint,
and as a rule I prefer to stove the article after each successive coat of paint or
varnish. By another process I take the metal surface as before, and instead of
paint or varnish I use a composition of dissolved silica mixed with dry colour of
any kind, and fill the sunken parts of the metal with this composition, cleaning it
off afterwards to the level of the raised parts of the metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said David Littlehales in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th April
1880.
DAVID LITTLEHALES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Japanner.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METALLIC SURFACES."
This Invention consists in an improved method of ornamenting metallic surfaces,
and is effected as follows:-
I take an engraved or embossed sheet tube or other form of metal, and coat the
same with paint, tar, varnish, or other ordinary paint or varnish until the coating
covers the metal surface and fills up the sunken parts. I then stove the article,
and afterwards rub down the surface until the raised portions of the ornament are
exposed through the paint or varnish. I then float, polish, and lacquer the surface
by any of the ordinary means.
When tar varnish is employed it is advisable to use a first coat of ordinary paint,
and as a rule I prefer to stove the article after each successive coat of paint or
varnish.
By another process I take the metal surface as before, and instead of paint or
varnish I use a composition of dissolved silica mixed with dry colour of any kind,
coating the metal, filling the sunken parts with this composition, and cleaning it off
afterwards to the level of the raised parts of the metal.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be carried into effect, I claim without limiting myself to these precise
details the several "Improvements in Ornamenting Metallic Surfucos," as berein
more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Littlehales, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
DAVID LITTLEHALES. (L.S.)