IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE APPLICATION OR ARRANGEMENT OF TILES TESSELATED, ENCAUSTIC OR OTHERWISE-ALSO ENAMELLED BRICKS AND ENAMELLED OR OTHER METALLIC PLATES FOR EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES GENERALLY
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Clarke of Small Heath Birmingham in the County
of Warwick and Philip Shrapnel of Walbrook in the City of London for an
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE APPLICATION OR
ARRANGEMENT OF TILES TESSELATED, ENCAUSTIC OR OTHERWISE-ALSO
ENAMELLED BRICKS AND ENAMELLED OR OTHER METALLIC PLATES FOR
EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES GENERALLY
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said David Clarke and Philip
Shrapnel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th
December 1883.
DAVID CLARKE of Small Heath Birmingham in the County of Warwick and
PHILIP SHRAPNEL of Walbrook in the City of London "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
CONNECTED WITH THE APPLICATION OR ARRANGEMENT OF TILES TESSELATED,
ENCAUSTIC OR OTHERWISE: ALSO ENAMELLED BRICKS, AND ENAMELLED OR OTHER
METAL PLATES FOR EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES GENERALLY
"
The aim and object of this our said invention is to provide clear and bold
diagrams and illustrations for educational purposes in Schoolrooms, private and
public Institutes, Colleges Educational Buildings and Institutions generally and to
so arrange and fix the same that they shall form durable clean and permanent
tablets for the purposes of instruction. And in order that this our said Invention
may be understood we will proceed fully to describe the same
First To the walls, dado, or other surfaces generally and interiorly of School-
rooms private or public or buildings or constructions adapted to and used for
educational purposes we propose to employ Tiles, Tesselated, encaustic or bricks,
either laid in any desired position in the construction of the building or afterwards
applied in such a manner as to be suitable to and convenient for educational
requirements, they may be fixed in the usual manner by cementing or by
employing metal or wood frames for the same.
The surface of the Tiles or bricks we propose decorating or embellishing with
suitable designs or illustrations, from the simple object forms of the animal,

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mineral and vegetable Kingdom also musical Geographical, astronomical, mechanical,
mathematical, architectural anatomical, scientific, physical exercises, games, sports
and pastimes as applied to and for the purposes of education.
2. We may employ enamelled or other plates of metal illustrating scientific or
other subjects relative to education as hereinbefore specified and fixed as above
described, or we may frame and suspend them in the usual manner.
3. The surfaces of the said Tiles or bricks may be decorated or embellished in
the usual manner by printing painting or transfer by indentation or by raised
surfaces in high or low relief-the said metallic plates may receive their
ornamentations from the process of engraving casting or stamping or as in the
manner hereinbefore specified for Tiles.
Having given a general description of the purpose and object of our invention
and the manner in which the same may be practically carried into effect we wish
to observe that the mode may be pursued according to the skill taste or appliances
of the artist or workman engaged in the production-the same may be extensively
varied according to their individual Judgment without affecting the character or
principle of our invention, what we claim and desire to be secured to us is the
construction application and arrangement of Tiles bricks and plates the surfaces
of which respectively are decorated as tesselated encaustic embossed indented or
enamelled for the purposes and objects of elementary and advanced education in
Schoolrooms, public or private, or buildings or constructions adapted to and used
for educational purposes as hereinbefore described and set forth or any modification
thereof..
In witness whereof we the said David Clarke and Philip Shrapnel have hereunto
set our hands and seals this sixth day of December in the year of our Lord 1883.
THOMAS KENDRICK
Witness.
DANIEL GEORGE TAYLOR
Witness.
DAVID CLARKE..
(L.S.)
PHILIP SHRAPNEL (LS.)