Improvements in Making Ornamental Panels or Decorating Material for Walls, Ceilings, or other surfaces.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 21st May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Making Ornamental Panels or Decorating Material
for Walls, Ceilings, or other surfaces.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Albert Works, Tynecastle, Edinburgh, in the
County of Mid Lothian, North Britain Decorative Architect, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to produce ornamental panels or decorating
materials presenting modelled surfaces with highly or lowly relieved work, not
liable to chip or crack, and which can be easily affixed or applied to walls, ceilings,
or other surfaces.
In carrying out my invention I proceed, to a certain extent, as described in my
Patent Specification, No. 15161 of 1884, that is to say I form the relieved surface
by means of canvas prepared with size and applied in a moist state to a suitable
metal mould the pattern of which the canvas retains on being dried. According to
my present invention I apply to the back of the canvas a suitable adhesive paste
such as may be made with glue-size, whiting and plaster of Paris. I next apply a
coating of plaster of Paris or cement, and in the case of large panels I interpose
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scrim or open-wove fabric between layers of the plaster or cement so as to form
a fibre-bonded plaster, which is by preference made of nearly uniform thickness
throughout the piece.
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When dried, panels or pieces made as described can be fixed by screws
otherwise to the walls intended to be decorated and will present a solid effect.
panels or pieces can be completed as regards external painting or coloring and
gilding before being fixed in position. The joints between the panels or pieces may
be covered with wood or other mouldings or they may be filled up with a suitable
cement and finished to present a continuous surface.
In the process of modelling the canvas there may be for the purpose of
concealing joints, and for color effects, insertions of various woods, vitreous
mosaics or other decorative materials.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of July 1891.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Making Ornamental Panels or Decorating Material
for Walls, Ceilings, or other surfaces.
1, WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Albert Works, Tynecastle, Edinburgh, in the
County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Decorative Architect, 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,
that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to produce ornamental panels or decorating
materials presenting modelled surfaces with highly or lowly relieved work, not
liable to chip or crack, and which can be easily affixed or applied to walls, ceilings,
or other surfaces.
In carrying out my invention I proceed, to a certain extent, as described in my
Patent Specification, No. 15161 of 1884, that is to say I form the relieved surface
by means of canvas prepared with size and applied in a moist state to a suitable
metal mould the pattern of which the canvas retains on being dried. According to

page_text: my present invention I apply to the back of the canvas a suitable adhesive paste
such as may be made with glue-size, whiting and plaster of Paris. I next apply a
coating of plaster of Paris or cement, and in the case of large panels I interpose
scrim or open-wove fabric between layers of the plaster or cement so as to form
a fibre-bonded plaster, which is by preference made of nearly uniform thickness
throughout the piece.
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When dried panels or pieces made as described can be fixed by screws or
otherwise to the walls intended to be decorated and will present a solid effect.
The panels or pieces can be completed as regards external painting or coloring and
gilding before being fixed in position. The joints between the panels or pieces
may be covered with wood or other mouldings or they may be filled up with a
suitable cement and finished, to present a continuous surface.
In the process of modelling the canvas there may be for the purpose of
concealing joints and for color effects, insertions of various woods, vitreous, mosaics
or other decorative materials.
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 :-
In making ornamental panels or decorating material for walls, ceilings, or other
surfaces, the application to the back of embossed canvas of an adhesive paste such
as described and a coating or coatings of plaster of Paris or cement with or
without the interposition of "scrim" or open wove-fabric between the layers of
plaster or cement and with or without the insertion of woods, vitreous, mosaics,
or other decorative materials substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of April 1892.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.