IMPROVED WALL OR LIKE DECORATIONS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1885

page_text: Manufacturing the same.
I, EDWARD GARDNER COLTON, of the firm of Popplewell, Colton, and Company,
of Victoria Chambers, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow
of the Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "IMPROVED WALL OR LIKE DECORATIONS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
THE SAME" (a communication to me from abroad by John Klee, of Staats Zeitung
Building, in the city, county, and state of New York, United States of America,
Manufacturer), to be as follows:-
The object of this invention. is to furnish an improved decoration for walls,
ceilings, panels, and the like, that is finished in the shop and then applied to the
wall or other part at the point of use, and the invention consists of a wall or like
decoration composed of a backing of paper or other suitable material, an inter-
mediate textile fabric, and a molded face-layer of plaster of Paris or other suitable
material. The invention consists secondly of a method of making these decorations
by running plaster of Paris or other suitable plastic material into a mold, placing a
backing covered with a textile fabric over the same, removing the surplus of
plastic material by pressure, and taking the decoration out of the mold when the
plastic material has properly set.
The wall-decoration is applied to the wall or other part by any suitable cement
used by stucco-workers, the joints being also filled with the cement, so as to obtain
a continuous and ornamental wall or like covering.
Wall-decorations can thus be made in any design and color prepared in the shop
and then put up on the walls at the point of use.

page_text: I EDWARD GARDNER COLTON of the firm of Popplewell Colton & Co of Victoria
Chambers Southampton Buildings in the county of Middlesex Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of this invention
a communication to me from abroad by John Klee of Staats Zeitung Building in
the city county and State of New York United States of America Manufacturer
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to furnish an improved decoration for walls
ceilings panels and the like that is finished in the shop and then applied to the
wall or other part at the point of use and the invention consists of a wall or like
decoration composed of a backing of paper or other suitable material an inter-
mediate textile fabric and a moulded face-layer of Plaster of Paris or of other
suitable material. The invention consists secondly of a method of making these
decorations by running Plaster of Paris or other suitable plastic material into a
mould, placing a backing covered with a textile fabric over the same, removing the
surplus of plastic material by pressure and taking the decoration out of the mould
when the plastic material has properly set.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation and Fig. 2 a horizontal section on line x x
Fig. 1 of the improved wall or like decoration.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Referring to the drawing A represents a backing of paper paste board or other
suitable material by preference asbestos-paper as this is less liable to be affected by
the moisture of the walls. The backing A is covered by a layer B of textile fabric,
preferably widely-meshed canvas and covered by a face-layer of Plaster of Paris
mixed with dextrine or other gum or of any other suitable plastic composition.
In making the wall decoration, a mould with the required design is first prepared
and the plastic material run into the same in liquid state. The backing covered by
the textile fabric is then placed over the plastic mass in the mould and pressed
gently thereon so as to remove the surplus of plastic material. The mass is then
allowed to set in the mould and is removed with the backing.
The wall-decoration is applied to the wall or other part by any suitable cement
used by stucco-workers, the joints being also filled with cement, so as to obtain a
continuous and ornamental wall or like covering. Wall decorations can thus be
made in any design and color, prepared in the shop and then put up on the walls
at the point of use.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1stly A wall or like covering composed of a backing of paper or other suitable
fabric, an intermediate textile fabric and a layer of plaster of Paris or other suitable
plastic material, substantially as set forth.
2nd The process herein described of making wall or like decorations which
consists first in casting the plaster mass into a mould, then placing a backing
covered with textile fabric over the same, removing the surplus of plastic material
by pressure and taking the wall or like decoration out of the mould when the mass
has set substantially as described.