IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AND IN PAINTED ORNAMENTAL WINDOW BOXES, PANELS, AND THE LIKE
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I GEORGE SUTTON of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF AND IN PAINTED ORNAMENTAL WINDOW BOXES, PANELS,
AND THE LIKE, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention is designed with a view to manufacture cheaply decorated
window boxes, panels, and other structures having hard and smooth substances, by
printing with paint or pigment.
The difficulty of printing upon hard surfaces has hitherto been their unyielding
character. When a hard block comes against a hard surface, the paint on the
former is pressed out from between the surfaces forming a blurred image, and a
satisfactory result cannot in this way be attained. In printing textile materials
and paper the case is different, here a soft material to be printed upon is spread
over a soft blanket, and the type or block is able to sink into the material.
Now I get the same result in the case of hard surfaces by making the type or
block soft, so that it shall yield instead of the material to be printed upon, and
substantially as good a result ensues.
The pigment is pressed between a hard and a yielding surface as in ordinary
printing, but the condition of the two surfaces is reversed.
I carry out my Invention as follows:-
The surface to be printed upon is sized or covered with a ground coat of paint,
or in other suitable way made impervious, it is then coloured with the desired
shade. When dry the surface is printed by means of blocks or rollers, made as
hereafter described, "inked" with paint by being pressed against a surface
uniformly charged to the right degree with the paint. In practice I prefer a flat
smooth surface with the paint spread over it by an ordinary printer's composition
roller.
The block or printing roll after being pressed against this surface is transferred
to the surface to be painted and pressed against it. The amount of pressure need
be no more than a gentle pressure by the hand sufficient to bring the printing
surface well in contact, and can only, but very easily, be found by practice.

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The rolls or blocks are formed of india-rubber, or of the composition of which
printer's sprending rollers are made, consisting mainly of glue and treacle.
the printed painting is dry, it is varnished over and is then complete.
The pigments used for printing in accordance with this Invention can be either
oil or gum colors.
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 :-
1st. The process of manufacture of ornamental painted designs printed on
window boxes panels and the like by the use of blocks or rolls with the pattern in
relief, formed of elastic yielding material, substantially as described.
2nd. As new articles of manufacture the printed painted window boxes panels
and the like manufactured, substantially as described.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.