IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN GRAINING, MARKING, AND ORNAMENTING Surfaces.”
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Jones, of the City of Manchester,
Painter, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED
IN GRAINING, MARKING, AND ORNAMENTING Surfaces.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th November 1874.
I, WILLIAM JONES, of the City of Manchester, Painter, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
Apparatus EMPLOYED IN GRAINING, MARKING, AND ORNAMENTING SURFACES," to
be as follows:
My Invention is particularly applicable for graining and ornamenting
the surfaces of paper, wood, and other materials, but it may be
applied for stamping or marking bales, and for other similar purposes.
In performing my Invention I engrave or otherwise produce a pattern
on the surface of a cylinder made of wood, metal, stone, or other

page_text: suitable material, and from this cylinder I obtain a cast in plaster of
Paris or other material. This cast serves as a mould into which a com-
pound of glue and treacle or other elastic substances is run, thereby
producing an elastic cylinder on which the pattern is obtained in relief;
this clastic cylinder is provided with trunnions, and is mounted in a
handle. The elastic cylinder is fed with colour or other marking
material by means of a brush or otherwise, and in passing the clastic
cylinder over the paper, wood, or other material to be grained, marked,
or ornamented, the pattern is reproduced.
My Invention may be modified by using flat surfaces instead of
cylinders, above described, and in some cases impressions may be
taken from the wood or other cylinder on to paper, and these
impressions could then be transferred to the wood or other surface to be
grained or ornamented.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 1
filed by the said William Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JONES, of the City of Manchester, Painter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her a
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Jones, Her special
licence, that I, the said William Jones, my executors, administrators, a
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Jones, 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 Ircland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN GRAINING, MARKING, AND ORNAMENTING SURFACES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Jones,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,

page_text: 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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Jones, 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 (that is to say) :-
My Invention is particularly applicable for graining and ornamenting
the surfaces of paper, wood, and other materials, but it may be applied
for stamping or marking bales, and for other similar purposes.
In performing my Invention I engrave or otherwise produce a pattern
on the surface of a cylinder made of wood, metal, stone, or other
suitable material, and from this cylinder I obtain a cast in plaster of
Paris or other material. This cast serves as a mould, into which a com-
pound of glue and treacle or other clastic substances is run, thereby
producing an elastic cylinder on which the pattern is obtained in relief.
This clastic cylinder is provided with trunnions, and is mounted in a
handle, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings. The elastic cylinder is fed with colour or other marking
material by means of a brush or otherwise, and in passing the elastic
cylinder over the paper, wood, or other material to be grained, marked,
or ornamented, the pattern is reproduced.
The surface of the elastic cylinder shown in the Drawing is provided
with a pattern in imitation of the graining of wood, but it is evident
that any other pattern, figure, or design could be produced in the same
manner.
In order to produce large patterns my Invention may be modified by
using flat surfaces or endless bands passing over rollers instead of
cylinders, as above described, and in some cases impressions may bo
taken from the wood or other cylinder on to paper, and these
impressions could then be transferred to the wood or other surface to be
grained or ornamented.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that the

page_text: details given may be varied to suit the particular class of work to be
grained, marked, or ornamented. I also wish to remark that I make no
claim to the handle shewn in which the elastic cylinder is mounted;
but what I do claim is, the improved mode of manufacturing clastic
cylinders and other surfaces used for graining, marking, and ornamenting
wood and other substances, as described.
In witness whercof, I, the said William Jones, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.