Improvements in the Use and Application of Xylonite, Celluloid, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
Improvements in the Use and Application of Xylonite, Celluloid,
and the like.
We, GEORGE LEE AUDERS and CHARLES HERBERT ELLIOT, both of No. 10 Bush
Lane, in the City of London, E.C., Electrical Mechanicians, 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 :-
Our invention relates to a new or improved use for, and application of any of the
preparations known as xylonite, celluloid and the like by coating the surfaces of
substances bearing devices or readable matter therewith.
In carrying our invention into effect we print, emboss, indent or otherwise prepare
a fixed design or reading matter, or both, upon cardboard, paper, wood, ivory, metal
or any substance or material suitable for the purpose, in any color or combination of
colors as may be required, and coat, or cover the same upon either or both sides
thereof with xylonite, celluloid or the like, according to the uses to which the
substance or material so treated may be intended. The coating thus given being
perfectly transparent, and highly glazed imparts to the design a high degree of finish,
and at the same time renders it perfectly waterproof.
Our invention in its salient points is the application of the coating or covering
previously mentioned to substances and materials bearing designs or readable matter
that would be considered perishable or oxidizable when exposed to damp, or to adver-
tisements that may require to be kept clean by washing, such as show cards and the
like, prepared upon paper surfaces. Or metallic advertisements that require periodical
cleaning to remove oxidization. We may prepare metallic or other surfaces by
forming recesses therein, and filling up said recesses with printed matter upon paper
or cardboard and coating with xylonite or the like in the manner described or we may
print directly upon the surface of the metal and coat the same in a like manner,
thereby supplanting the need of engraving for name plates, stallboard brasses and the
like as said coating being air and waterproof the surface of the metal would not tarnish
or need cleaning beyond removing dust with a sponge.
Our invention may be equally well applied to substance or articles not exposed to
damp, and may be successfully used in coating business cards and the like, so that if
soiled they may be sponged with clean water and their original brightness restored,
and we wish it understood that the principle of our invention is the coating or
covering of printed, indented or embossed matter with xylonite, celluloid or the like
and that we may adopt its use for covering or coating the surface of any material,
or substance, bearing any design or reading matter without departing therefrom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
:-
First The use and application of xylonite celluloid or the like for coating or
covering the surfaces of printed, indented or embossed matter upon any material or
substance, substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
Second-The method and means herein described of forming recesses in metallic
or other substances and inserting therein the printed, indented, or embossed matter
mentioned in the preceding claim substantially as herein set forth and described.
Dated 22nd day of October 1890.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.