IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING TRANSFERS FOR APPLICATION TO POTTERY AND OTHER SURFACES
Year: 1884

page_text: We, ISAAC BROAD SHAW Printer of 25, High Street, Tunstall, WILLIAM SIMEON
SHAW, Telegraphist 6, Perry Street, Wolverhampton, EDMUND SAMUEL SHAW,
25 High Street Tunstall, printer, all in the County of Stafford do hereby declare
the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING TRANSFERS FOR
APPLICATION TO POTTERY AND OTHER SURFACES "
to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to print from formes of movable types upon
potters' transfer paper, or other material, numerals for street numbers, price tickets,
inscriptions, markers, &c., which have hitherto been done by printing, stenciling, &c.
In carrying out our invention we use founts of metal and wood type cut or cast in
the positive form as in contradistinction to the present founts of type used by
printers. These movable types are set up and fixed on an ordinary printing press,
kept warm by gas or other heating appliance, the forme is coloured in the usual
way and a sheet of the transfer paper, or other material, properly sized, is put on
the tympan of the press to points, in order that "register" may be obtained, and
secured for a second or more deposit of colour, when the sheet is sufficiently charged
with colour, the saine is transferred therefrom upon the plates, tiles, slabs, or any
other article desired, and so on until as many sheets and colours are printed as
required. In the case of numerals, tallies, short lines, &c., five or six or more are
set up at one time, and altered as wanted. Wood letters may be used by
substituting for the usual potters' printing oil a mixture of camphor, wax, balsam
of Copavia and petroleum, which latter is workable without the heating appliance.
Dated this 1st day of January 1884.
ISAAC BROAD SHAW.
WILLIAM SIMEON SHAW.
EDMUND SAMUEL SHAW.

page_text: We, ISAAC BROAD SHAW of 25, High Street, Tunstall, Printer; WILLIAM SIMEON
SHAW, of 6, Perry Street Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, Telegraphist; and
EDMUND SAMUEL SHAW, of 25 High Street, Tunstall, Printer, all in the County of
Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
PRINTING TRANSFERS FOR APPLICATION TO POTTERY AND OTHER SURFACES and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is to print from movable types upon Potters'
Transfer paper or other material numerals for street numbers-tallies, markers, prize
tickets, inscriptions for name and advertising plates &c. which have hitherto been
done by printing stencilling &c.
In carrying out our Invention we use founts of metal and wood type or elastic
blocks cut or cast in the positive form in contradistinction to the present founts
used by printers the movable types are set up and fixed on an ordinary printing
press and kept warm by gas or other heating appliance the form is coloured in the
usual way and a sheet of potters' transfer paper or other material properly sized is
put on the tympan of the press to points (in order that register may be obtained
and secured for a second or multiple deposit of colour) when the sheet is sufficiently
charged with colour the same is transferred therefrom upon the plates, tiles, slabs,
or other articles as desired, and so on until as many sheets or colours are printed
as required. In the case of numerals, tallies short lines etc. any number are set up
at one time and altered for consecutive numbers as as wanted.
Wood composition or elastic letters or designs may be used by substituting for
the usual potters' printing oil a mixture of camphor wax balsam of copavia and
petroleum which latter mixture is workable without the healing appliances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is :-
The printing of transfers from movable type &c. in the positive form.