IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PERMANENT COLORED AND OTHER PHOTO- GRAPHIC PICTURES, DELINEATIONS, OR DEVICES ON PORCELAIN AND OTHER FICTILE WARE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Edwin Billups and Edwin Palmer Lee,
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both of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PERMANENT COLORED AND OTHER PHOTO-
GRAPHIC PICTURES, DELINEATIONS, OR DEVICES ON PORCELAIN AND OTHER
FICTILE WARE."
Sealed the 20th October 1873, and dated the 22nd April 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonathan Edwin
Billups and Edwin Palmer Lec at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd April 1873.
We, JONATHAN EDWIN BILLUPS and EDWIN PALMER LEE, both of.
Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PERMANENT COLORED AND
OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, DELINEATIONS, OR DEVICES ON PORCELAIN AND
OTHER FICTILE WARE," to be as follows:

page_text: We produce permanent photographs on articles of porcelain and fictile
ware by transferring to or producing a photographic transparency on
the surface of porcelain and fictile ware, and by placing the same with
photograph thereon in a furnace and firing until the photograph is
permanently burnt into the substance.
Permanent colored photographs on porcelain and fictile ware can be
produced in a similar manner, that is, we apply with a brush or other
convenient means to the porcelain or fictile ware (with photograph
thereon) vitrifiable colors, and then we place the same in a furnace and
fire until the colors are thoroughly fired into the material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jonathan Edwin Billups and Edwin Palmer Lee
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd October 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JONATHAN
EDWIN BILLUPS and EDWIN PALMER LEE, both of Cardiff, in the County 1
of Glamorgan, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 2
give and grant unto us, the said Jonathan Edwin Billups and Edwin
Palmer Lee, Her special licence that we, the said Jonathan Edwin
Billups and Edwin Palmer Lee, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Jonathan Edwin Billups and
Edwin Palmer Lee, our 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 vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PERMANENT COLORED AND OTHER
PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, DELINEATIONS, OR DEVICES ON PORCELAIN AND OTHER

page_text: FICTILE WARE," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Jonathan Edwin Billups and Edwin Palmer Lee, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under we, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, 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 Potent

page_text: graphic Pictures, Delineations, or Devices on Porcelain and other Fictile
Ware," as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jonathan Edwin Billups and
Edwin Palmer Lee, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand 5
cight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
WILLIAM HOLDEN,
No. 29, Bedford Street,
Raath,
Cardiff.
J. E. BILLUPS.
(L.S.)
EDWIN P. LEE. (L.S.)