A Process or Method of Printing Designs upon Tiles and other Clay Ware from a Photographic Half Tone Process Block or Plate.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1899-Accepted, 29th July, 1899
A Process or Method of Printing Designs upon Tiles and other Clay
Ware from a Photographic Half Tone Process Block or Plate.
I, CHARLES HENRY TEMPLE, of Messrs. Maw and Company Limited, Benthall
Works, Jackfield, Shropshire, Ceramic Painter, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows;-
This invention relates to the use of a photographic half tone block or plate
for the printing of designs, pictures, etc. upon tiles and other clay ware.
The invention has for its object the substitution of the usual engraved, etched
or punched copper plate by a photographic half tone process block or plate, also
the method of printing from such block or plate in the decoration of tiles and
other clay ware.
The usual method of printing from a process block is to roll the ink over the
surface from which the impression is taken, whereas I fill the sunken parts with
colour and wipe the surface quite clean, which is the usual method followed in
printing from an engraved plate but not a process plate.
The usual method of printing is then followed, that is to say, the plate is
heated, the sunken parts filled with colour, sized paper is placed upon the plate
and the whole passed under a heavy roller, the impression thus obtained being
transferred to the tile which in its turn is fired, glazed and re-fired.
By using a half tone process block or plate in this way I am enabled to produce
a printed tile immeasurably superior to anything yet done in that way, this pro-
cess giving a faithful representation of the drawing which is photographed and
saving the great expense of engraving which would not give an adequate result.
The use of a photographic half tone process block or plate in the decoration of
tiles and other clay ware is quite new; it is also new to use the sunken parts
instead of the surface for printing the pattern from.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1898.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
A Process or Method of Printing Designs upon Tiles and other Clay
Ware from a Photographic Half Tone Process Block or Plate.
I, CHARLES HENRY TEMPLE, of Messrs. Maw and Company Limited, Benthal
Works, Jackfield, Shropshire, Ceramic Painter, do hereby declare the nature of

page_text: this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the use of a photographic half tone block or plate
for the printing of designs, pictures etc. upon tiles and other clay ware, either
in the biscuit state or on the glazed surface.
The invention has for its object the substitution of the usual engraved, etched
or punched copper plate by a photographic half tone process block or plate, also
the method of printing from such block or plate in the decoration of tiles and
other clay ware.
The usual method of printing from a process block is to roll the ink over the
surface from which the impression is taken, whereas I fill the sunken parts with
colour and wipe the surface quite clean, which is the usual method followed in
printing from an engraved plate but not a process plate.
The usual method of printing is then followed, that is to say, the plate is
heated, the sunken parts filled with colour, sized paper is placed upon the plate
and the whole passed under a heavy roller, the impression thus obtained being
transferred to the tile which if in the biscuit state is in its turn fired, glazed
and re-fired, or if it be a glazed surface it is simply fired.
By using a half tone process block or plate in this way I am enabled to produce
a printed tile immeasurably superior to anything yet done in that way, this pro-
cess giving a faithful representation of the drawing which is photographed and
saving the great expense of engraving which would not give an adequate result.
The use of a photographic half tone process block or plate in the decoration of
tiles and other clay ware is quite new; it is also new to use the sunken parts
instead of the surface for printing the pattern from.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. The printing of designs upon tiles or other clay ware from a photographie
half tone process block or plate, substantially as set forth.
2. The process or method of printing designs upon tiles or other clay ware,
which consists in filling the sunken parts of a photographic half tone process
block or plate with color, then wiping the surface clean, then obtaining an impres-
sion from the block or plate upon paper and then transferring this impression to
the tile or other piece of ware substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 20th day of June 1899.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.