IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING PAPER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Garey, of Aberdeen, in the County
of Aberdeen, North Britain, Photographer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING PAPER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES."
Sealed the 13th September 1872, and dated the 19th March 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Garey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th March 1872.
I, WILLIAM GAREY, of Aberdeen, in the County of Aberdeen, North
Britain, Photographer, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING PAPER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to obtain improved and superior
effects when photographic printing is combined with ordinary printing..
A carte de visite having the portrait encircled by an ornamental litho-
graphed border is an example of the kind of combination referred to, but.
the two printings may be combined in various other ways.

page_text: Hitherto the portrait or subject photographed on albumenised paper
has been combined with the printed border or other device by cutting
it out, and pasting or fixing it on card or paper having such device
previously lithographed or otherwise printed on it.
By the present Invention however the border or other ornamental or
accessory device is lithographed or otherwise printed on the paper that
is to be subjected to the photographic process, but previously to such
paper being albumenised, the printed part being albumenised as well as
the rest of the paper, so that when the photograph is completed the
entire surface both printed and photographed will have an uniform
finish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Garey in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th September 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GAREY, of Aberdeen, in the County of Aberdeen, North Britain, Photo-
grapher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Garey, Her special licence,
that I, the said William Garey, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Garey, my 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
İslands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING
PAPER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Garey, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar montlis next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Garey, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to obtain improved and superior
effects when photographic printing is combined with ordinary printing.
A carte de visite having the portrait encircled by an ornamental litho-
graphed border is an example of the kind of combination referred to,
there are however various other well-known ways of combining the two
printings.
Hitherto the common way of combining the portrait or subject photo-
graphed on albumenised paper with a lithographed or other separately
printed border or device has been by cutting it out and pasting or fixing
it on card or paper having on it such border or device, such combination
presenting a patched and comparatively defective appearance owing to
one part being more highly glazed than another.
By my present Invention however the border or other ornamental or
accessory device is lithographed or otherwise printed on the paper that
is to be subjected to the photographic process, but previously to such
paper being albumenised. The paper is then albumenised in the usual
way, and so that the albuminous coating covers the printed part as well
as any unprinted portion. The photograph is then produced in the
usual manner, care being taken to have it arranged as regards position
so as to combine and agree in the desired manner with the previously
printed device. In this way when the whole is completed the entire
surface, both printed and photographed, will have a uniform glaze or
finish.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I have to state that what I believe to be novel
and original, and claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the preparing of paper for photographic

page_text: purposes by printing ornamental or accessory devices on it previously to
its being albumenised, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Garey, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
WILLIAM GAREY. (L.S.)