THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Kendrick, of
County of Worcester, for the Invention of
IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE."
Balsall Heath, in the
** CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
Scaled the 2nd July 1875, and dated the 4th January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Kendrick at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th January 1875.
"
I, THOMAS KENDRICK, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE," to be as follows
This Invention relates to further improvements upon an Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to me dated 11th May, 1874,
No. 1665, and has for its object the ornamenting of coffins and coffin
furniture, with designs upon paper, whether printed, painted, photo-
graphed, embossed, or otherwise produced, or the application of embossed

page_text: paper instead of metal plates and the application of stencilling for like
purpose, and consists,―
Firstly. In employing any suitable designs in outline or raised surface
of an ornamental character of metal and in panels or on other parts. I
securely attach or affix designs upon paper or any other similar material,
the same having been printed, photographed, or otherwise produced. I
affix the same by any adhesive solution, and afterwards use a varnish for
protection of the surface.
Secondly. I employ paper with a metallic surface, or paper alone, and
by stamping or embossing produce a design supérior in effect to those
composed of metal and now used and at much less cost. In this case I
should finish them off with a varnish for durability.
Thirdly. I adopt what is usually known as stencilling, that is, a plate
of metal or other material having any design or pattern pierced there-
through is placed or laid upon any suitable part of the furniture, and
color is pressed upon the plate, and the said design is produced upon the
furniture required to be ornamented.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Kendrick in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
KENDRICK, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester, send
greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria; by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors;
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Kendrick, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Kendrick, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said. Thomas Kendrick, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and. no
others; from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE.
MENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Kendrick, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Thomas Kendrick, do hereby declare
the nature of my said 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 further improvements upon an Invention
for which Letters Patent were granted to me dated 11th May, 1874,
No. 1665, and has for its object the ornamenting of coffins and coffin
furniture, with designs upon paper, whether printed, painted, photo-
graphed, embossed, or otherwise produced, or the application of embossed
paper instead of metal plates and the application of stencilling for like
purposes, and consist,―
Firstly. In employing any suitable design in outline or raised surface
of an ornamental character of metal and in panels or other suitable parts.
I securely attach or affix thereto designs upon paper or any other similar
material, the same having been printed, photographed, or in any like
manner. I affix the same by any adhesive solution and afterwards employ
a varnish for protecting the said designs.
Secondly. I employ paper with a metallic surface or paper alone, and
by stamping or embossing produce a design superior in effect to those
composed of metal and now used, and at a considerable less cost. In
this case I should finish them off with a varnish for durability.
Thirdly. I adopt what is usually known as stencilling, that is, a plate
of metal or other material having any required design or pattern pierced
through the said material and being placed or laid upon any suitable part
of the furniture and a different color pressed upon the plate, the said
design of the stencil plate is imparted to the furniture required to be so
ornamented,

page_text: Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
would observe in conclusion that I do not restrict myself entirely to the
above, as various modifications may be made without departing from the
features of my said Invention, but what I claim and desire to be secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the intro-
duction of designs upon paper, the embossing of paper in lieu of metal
now in use, and the application of what is usually known as stencilling,
for the purposes herein-before described or any mere modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Kendricks, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
ANDREW DAWES,
Witness to Signature.
THOMAS KENDRICK. (L.S.)-