and other Surfaces.
Year: 1886

page_text: and other Surfaces.
I, AARON EPHRAIM RYLES Assistant Loco Superintendent, Lucknow in the Empire
of India do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a process for ornamenting surfaces such as those of
wood or other panels, metallic or ceramic plates, tiles, floor cloths, or the surfaces of
other objects of decoration or furniture that can be conveniently handled as will
be described.
The process resembles in some respects that for marbling paper, but instead of
the water colours usually employed for that purpose, I by preference use oil colours,
though in some cases water colours may be used. In a shallow trough I put water
with which may be mixed dissolved size, glue or glycerine. On this I drop or blow
as spray or disperse by a rotating brush the colours that are to appear on the
ornamented object. These colours spread out in views and shades, where they are
too thick they may be thinned by blowing on them, or if this is insufficient the
thick parts may be touched with a brush holding a little turpentine and then by a
feather or light stick they can be spread as desired. The surface to be ornamented,
previously prepared with suitable ground colour, is now placed face down on the
liquid for a few seconds, then lifted and after being held horizontal for a few seconds
till the surplus drops off, it is inverted and left to dry, or it may be dried for several
hours in a stove heated not above 280° Fahr. After drying, the surface is flattened
with pounded pumice and varnished. The varnish having been thoroughly dried
in the stove at about 180°, the surface can be polished with rotten stone. When
the marbling pattern is such as cannot be produced by one dipping, there may be
successive dippings and dryings before varnishing.

page_text: and other Surfaces.
I, AARON EPHRAIM RYLES Assistant Loco-Superintendent, Lucknow in the
Empire of India, 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 :-
This invention relates to a process for ornamenting surfaces such as those of
wood or other panels, metallic or ceramic plates, tiles, floor cloths, or the surfaces
of other objects of decoration or furniture that can be conveniently handled as will
be described.
The process resembles in some respects that for marbling paper, but, instead of
the water colours usually employed for that purpose, I by preference use oil
colours, though in some cases water colours may be used. In a shallow trough
I put water with which may be mixed dissolved size, glue or glycerine. On this
I drop or blow as spray or disperse by a rotary brush the colours that are to appear
on the ornamented object. These colours spread out in veins and shades; where
they are too thick they may be thinned by blowing on them, or if this is insufficient
the thick parts may be touched with a brush holding a little turpentine and then
by a feather or light stick they can be spread as desired. The surface to be
ornamented, previously prepared with suitable ground colour, is now placed face
down on the liquid for a few seconds, then lifted and after being held horizontal for
a few seconds till the surplus drops off, it is inverted and left to dry, or it may be
dried for several hours in a stove heated not above 280° Fahr. After drying, the
surface is flattened with pounded pumice and varnished. The varnish having been
thoroughly dried in the stove at about 180°, the surface can be polished with rotten
stone. When the marbling pattern is such as cannot be produced by one dipping,
there may be successive dippings and dryings before varnishing. When it is desired
to imitate marble with special veins, the plate or panel is first covered with a coat
of running paint, tilting it to run off surplus. A full brush of the vein colour is
then used to draw the dark lines of vein which almost disappear in the fluid
colour. The fluid colour is then run off leaving apparent veining of a soft and
beautiful character.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The herein described process for ornamenting panels, plates, tiles, floor cloths and
other surfaces by placing the surfaces on colour spread over gelatinized water so as
to take up colour therefrom, inverting it, clearing it of surplus colour, stove drying,
polishing and varnishing.