An Improved Method of Ornamenting and Decorating Wood and other substances.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Ornamenting and Decorating Wood and
other substances.
I ADA WARDROP of 29 Sunnyside Road Ealing in the County of Middlesex
Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple and yet highly effective and
extremely beautiful method of ornamenting and decorating wood and other
substances that are capable of being burnt or even melted.
To carry out this object on the surface to be ornamented or decorated I trace or
mark out or impress in any usual or convenient manner whether by transfer or
otherwise the required design and it is perhaps generally preferable to so mark the
outline thereof rather deeply. I then heat a metallic tool of the required shape
and size and provided with a suitable handle moderately and therewith I burn out
of the surface such portions of the design as are not desired to be very deep and
any other parts that are desired to be deeper I can burn out with the same or
another similar tool which has been more highly heated and the exact way in
which the tool is handled and used depends to a very great extent if not altogether
upon the effect that it may be desired to produce. When this burning has been
completed the surface can be rubbed or brushed to remove all superfluous matter
and then I can paint it over with bitumen and benzoline in solution. I then if it
may be necessary or desirable so to do stain all the surface that has not been burnt
as aforesaid of the required colour by any usual or other stain. Thereafter I paint
in the required design with the necessary oil colours mixing up with the same an
unusually large proportion of terebine whereafter if it may be preferable so to do I
can trace or mark the outline of the design with black or other paint wherewith
also is an excess of terebine and it may be turpentine. When all is thoroughly
dry and hard it is generally very expedient to polish the so treated surface it may
be with French polish.
When the substance that is to be ornamented and decorated is not capable of
being burnt away as aforesaid but only of being melted I should proceed in the
same manner but the tool would generally have to be still more highly heated by
any suitable agent and the stain would seldom be required while the paint and the
polish if any would be adapted to and for the substance in the ordinary manner.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Ornamenting and Decorating Wood and
other substances.
I ADA WARDROP of 29 Sunnyside Road Ealing in the County of Middlesex
Gentlewoman 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 :-
The object of this my invention is to provide a method of ornamenting and
decorating surfaces of wood and of such other substances as are appropriate and
as are capable of being burnt or even melted that shall be very simple and easy
of accomplishment and yet can also be highly effective and extremely beautiful in
appearance

page_text: To carry out this object I prepare a suitable plane and smooth or other desired
surface on the wood or other substance that is to be ornamented or decorated and
on this surface so properly prepared I draw or trace or mark out or impress in any
convenient and usual or other manner whether by transfer or otherwise or in any
other ordinary mode I produce thereupon the desired design that is to be as it may
be called the foundation of the proposed ornamentation or decoration and it is
perhaps generally preferable to so mark out or produce the outline of such design
rather boldly or deeply.
I then take a preferably metallic tool of the required shape and size and style of
construction and provided it may conveniently be with a suitable handle and the
operating end of this tool is somewhat pointed but can be either a rounded point of
the desired diameter or an angled or sharpened point of the desired dimensions as
may be expedient having regard to the style of the ornamentation or decoration that
is to be produced and the particular substance on which such ornamentation or
decoration is to be so produced and I heat this tool or rather the operating point
thereof which is all that is really necessary to the desired temperature and I
maintain the same at such temperature or thereabouts in any suitable and ordinary
or other manner and by and through any convenient and usual or other means and
appliances.
When the substance that is to be ornamented or decorated is capable of being
burnt I then from the surface herein before described of the same burn out with
and by this tool so heated such portions of the design thereupon as may be
desiderated to the desired depth which depth may be varied in different parts of
the design if and when it may be deemed expedient or desirable so to do and the
exact and precise mode and way in which this tool is to be handled and used depend
to a very great extent if not altogether upon the effect that it may be desired to
produce upon the surface but I would state that as a general rule I consider that
the best effect is produced by proceeding as follows that is to say holding the tool
exactly or nearly vertically or at right angles to the plane of the surface that is
being treated and then for a short or other period of time causing the operating
point of the tool while duly heated to be in contact with the surface whereby a
small hole of the desired diameter or dimensions and depth is burnt thereout and
when this hole is properly completed so moving the tool that another similar hole
is in like manner burnt out of the surface closely it may be adjoining the former hole
but leaving a small ridge between the two adjacent holes which may or may not as
preferred extend to the level of the surface and so on and it is very generally
advisable that care should be taken that these adjacent holes are arranged very
irregularly as by this irregular arrangement the artistic effect is greatly
enhanced.
According to this mode of working hereinbefore described it is evident that these
small holes are so burnt out sequentially and therefore a certain time is and must
be spent in so treating all the desiderated surface and it may sometimes be desired
to complete this treatment in less time and more quickly and when this is the case
and more especially when the same design produced on and the same portions
thereof are to be burnt out of many similar surfaces it is very convenient to use a
number of these tools and thus to burn out a number of these small holes at one
and the same time and this can be effected either by binding a number of these
tools together or placing them tightly in a frame or other similar appliance or as
is perhaps preferable by constructing a number of these tools of and in one piece in
either case there being the desired number of operating points properly arranged in
accordance with the design on the underside of this combined or multiple tool ready
to come in contact at one and the same time with the surface all of which operating
points are similarly heated to and maintained at the desired temperature in any
suitable and ordinary or other manner and by and through any convenient and
usual or other means and appliances and this combined or multiple tool is
approached to the surface so that all the operating points thereof are similarly.in

page_text: contact with the surface in the proper desiderated positions is there and thus
retained for the desired period of time and then is retired from the surface it may
be by hand or by and through any convenient and ordinary or other means and
appliances as may be expedient in each particular case.
When the burning hereinbefore described has been properly completed the
surface can be rubbed or brushed to remove all superfluous and adventitious
matter if any and I then treat the same with bitumen and benzoline in solution
which bitumen most conveniently is what is commonly known as "artist's bitumen"
which produces a warm brown colour on and in the surface so burnt as afore-
said and this bitumen and benzoline in solution is of such a strength and the
proportions of these ingredients are so regulated as to produce the exact shade
required.
I can then if it may be deemed necessary or expedient so to do stain all the
surface or it may be only certain portions of the same of the required colour or
colours by any suitable and ordinary or other stain or stains or other colouring
matter.
Thereafter I paint in and on the surface the desired design or other ornamentation
or decoration with the required and necessary ordinary oil colors but I mix up
with the same a very large proportion of terebine and as this terebine very rapidly
evaporates I keep on repeatedly adding the same to the oil colours during the time
they are being used in such quantities as to maintain the colours so being used at
about the consistence of cream and then I can further if it may be deemed preferable
or expedient so to do trace or mark the outline of the design with black or white or
other oil colour wherewith also is mixed a similar excess of terebine and it may
sometimes also be of turpentine more especially when white paint is being used.
Such portions of the surface if any as it may be desired so to treat can then be
gilded in any ordinary or other manner.
When the whole surface which has been treated in manner as is hereinbefore
described is thoroughly dry and hard I consider that as a general rule it is very
expedient and extremely conducive to the effectiveness and beauty of the surface as
also more particularly to the preservation of the same to polish or varnish this
surface in any convenient and usual or other manner it may be with French polish
or otherwise and this my ornamentation or decoration is completed.
I have thus described my method of ornamentation and decoration as and when
applied and used to and with a substance that is capable of being burnt but when
the substance that is to be ornamented and decorated in and according to this my
method is not capable of being burnt in manner as is hereinbefore described and
only is capable of being melted I should notwithstandingly proceed to carry out my
invention in precisely the same manner but the tool by which this melting is to be
effected would generally have to be still more highly heated in any convenient and
usual or other manner and by any suitable and ordinary or other agent and the
stain aforesaid would seldom be required while the paint and the polish or varnish
if any would obviously be properly made and adapted in the ordinary manner as is
customary or otherwise to and for use with the particular substance that is to be
treated therewith.
Amongst the various substances that are capable of being burnt in and according
to this my method of ornamenting and decorating the surfaces thereof I may
mention in addition to wood cardboard papier-mache and the many compounds of
which wood or other vegetable pulp is the foundation or base.
Amongst the various substances that are capable of being melted in and according
to this my method of ornamenting and decorating the surfaces thereof I may mention
lead tin and zinc.
Thus in and by this my method of ornamenting and decorating wood and other
substances as is hereinbefore described and set forth an highly effective and
extremely beautiful appearance can be produced in a very simple and easy manner
according to the taste of the operator as is desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improved method of ornamenting and decorating wood and other substances
substantially as herein before described and set forth.
Dated this 12th day of October 1892.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents