An Improved Method of Backing Embossed Photographs and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 17th Apr., 1897
An Improved Method of Backing Embossed Photographs and
the like.
I HENRI PIQUET, Photographic Artist of 14 Courtland Terrace Station
Road Port Talbot in the County of Glamorganshire do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the stamping or pressing out, shields or backs, to place
under, or at the back of embossed surfaces or the like, to prevent them loosing
their shape and becoming flat.
The aforesaid shields or backs may be made of any metal or other suitable
material such as papier maché vulcanite, or any other composition or substance,
and may be perforated if desired, and may be made either by stamping out, casting,
or pressing as may be most convenient and may be embossed to any depth, and in
any and every shape as shall be required, and may have the edges serrated or
notched, forming teeth, so that the edges may be pressed into the card, or other like
article which will form the support thereby holding it in position, or the edges
may be serrated in part only if desired; but preferably left plain. We will proceed
by embossing our photograph or the like in the usual way, we will next take our
shield or back and place it on the mount or support which is to hold the photograph
or the like, with its concave side next to this support or mount, we will then
adhesive the edges of the aforesaid photograph or the like, and place it down with
its concave side on or over the convex side of the shield and press the whole firmly
into position thereby holding the shield between the photograph or the like and its
mount or support.
Dated this 2nd dan of Iune 1906
An Improved Method of Backing Embossed Photographs and
the like.
I HENRI PIQUET Photographic Artist of 14 Courtland Terrace Station
Road Port Talbot in the County of Glamorganshire 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 :-
An embossed photograph comprises, a photograph made by any of the usual
prosesses which is then embossed in any suitable shape, it is then padded with
wadding to prevent the embossing from sinking it is then fastened on to a mount
or support with glue or other adhesive substance, this mode of padding or backing
the aforesaid photographs or the like is very unsatisfactory as the embossing soon
sinks in consequence of the wadding becoming compressed, and requires much time
and skill to produce satisfactory results.

page_text: My objects are to so apply a suitable padding or backing so that less skill will be
needed and less time required and at the same time to improve the quality of the
finished photograph or the like.
To these ends my invention consists in the mode of backing or padding embossed
photographs or the like with backs or shields made of metal or other suitable
materials, which will give a firmer and more durable support and the manner of
applying the same hereinafter fully described and particularly set forth in the
appended claims.
The aforesaid backs or shields may be made of any sheet metal composition or
other substances suitable for the manufacturing of the aforesaid backs or shields
and may be perforated or ribbed if desired, but preferably left plain, and may
be embossed by stamping out in the usual way with a stamping machine or other
device, or can be made by moulding or casting as may be found convenient for the
purpose.
The shape and embossing of the aforesaid backs or shields must correspond with
the shape and embossing of the aforesaid photographs or the like, and can be made
to any shape or depth as shall be required, and may have the edges serrated or
notched forming teeth so that the edges may be pressed into the mount or support
thereby holding it in position, the edges may be serrated in part only if desired
but preferably left plain.
The backs or shields are made slightly smaller than the photograph or the like to
which it is to be applied to allow the said photograph to overlap the shield thereby
forming a margin arround the shield to allow the photograph being placed in
contact with the mount or support.
I will now proceed by embossing a photograph or the like in the usual way I
shall next prepare the back of the photograph or the like with a coating of glue,
albumen, shellac or other adhesive ingredients poscssing the quality thereof the
glue, albumen, shellac or the like is left to become partially dry or tacky, then a
back or shield of suitable shape size and depth is placed with its convex side on
the back of the photograph or the like then the photograph with its back or shield
attached is placed in position on the mount or support, and the edges pressed down
and held in close contact with the said mount or support by any suitable means or
device until set.
The operations of mounting the said photograph or the like may be performed
by placing a back or shield with its concave side next the mount or support, I will
then prepare the back of the embossed photograph or the like by applying a
coating of adhesive substance as herein before described. I will then place the
photograph with its back in contact with the convex side of shield and press the
edges of the photograph in close contact with the mount or support and hold
the same in position by any suitable means or device until set.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. As an improvement in the mode of backing embossed photographs by making
suitable backs or shields to protect the photograph or the like from becoming
injured by the padding loosing its solidity and form.
2. The mode of applying suitable shields or backs as protectors between the
back of an embossed photograph or the like and its mount or support.
Dated this Third day of March 1897
HENRI PIQUET.