IMPROVEMENTS IN UKNAMENTING CHINA AND EARTHENWARE AND OTHER BARMORY"
Year: 1882

page_text: TTITYDS
PATENT be Henry Doulton of Lambeth in the County of Surrey
and John Slater of Burslem in the County of Stafford for an invention of
LETTERS PATENT to Henry Doulton of Lambeth in the County of Surrey
and John Slater of Burslem in the County of Stafford for an invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN
UKNAMENTING CHINA AND
EARTHENWARE AND OTHER
BARMORY"
vy
COTING TO
and John Slater of Burslem in the County of Stafford for an invention of
IMPROVEMENTS
Any "
ATT
UKNAMENTING CHINA AND
EARTHENWARE AND OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Doulton and John
Slater at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th March
1882.
HENRY DOULTON of Lambeth in the County of Surrey and JOHN SLATER of
Burslem in the County of Stafford. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CHINA
AND EARTHENWARE AND OTHER POTTERY
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamenting all kinds of
pottery including china and earthenware.
For this purpose we employ textile fabrics, such as lace, with which we impress
or indent the surface of the clay.
When the goods are made from moulds we place the lace or other suitable
material upon the surface of the mould, and form the clay upon it or place the
lace or other suitable material upon the surface of the clay, pressing it in a
sufficient depth, with a suitable tool, and then form the clay upon the mould,
when the article is taken from the mould the lace or other suitable material may
be removed, or left to burn away during the firing of the article.
In the hardening by burning the indented pattern is rendered permanent.
Another method is to apply the lace or other suitable material to the surface of
a roller, and to bring the roller so clothed against the article in process of
manufacture, when of a suitable consistency to take the impression or a shallow
recess may be made in the surface of the article and the lace or other suitable
material laid therein, then by pressure with a suitable tool, such as a burnishing
tool, the lace is embedded in the surface of the clay, it may then if deemed requisite
be stripped off leaving the impression.
Another method is to cover wholly or in part the lace or other suitable
material with colour, and thereby add to and intensify the impression upon the
clay.
The lace or material may be prepared by saturating it with dissolved india
rubber-its durability will in this way be increased.
Paper, leather, woven wire india rubber gutta percha, gelatine and lincrusta are
materials, suitable for use according to our invention to produce ornament upon
china earthenware and other pottery.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Doulton and John Slater in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th September 1882.
HENRY DOULTON of Lambeth in the County of Surrey aud JOHN SLATER of
Burslem in the County of Stafford "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CHINA
AND EARTHENWARE AND OTHER POTTERY
"
This Invention lias for its object improvements in ornamenting all kinds of
pottery including china and earthenware.
For this purpose we employ textile fabrics, such as lace, with which we impress
or indent the surface of the clay.
One method is to lay the lace or other suitable material upon the surface of the
clay, pressing it in a sufficient depth and covering the surface either wholly or in
part with colour or coloured clays, which may be either dry or damp according to
the effect wished for, the lace or other material is then removed and the clay placed
in the mould and pressed in the ordinary way.
Another method is to apply the lace or other suitable material to the surface of
a roller, and to bring the roller so clothed against the clay or article in process of
manufacture and when of a suitable consistency to take the impression, or a
shallow recess may be made in the surface of the article and the lace or other
suitable material laid therein, then by pressure with a suitable tool such as a
burnishing tool the lace is embedded in the surface of the clay, it may then if
deemed requisite be stripped off leaving the impression.
What we claim is :-
First. The process of ornamenting china and earthenware and other pottery by
impressing textile fabric such as lace upon the clay together with the application
of colour, or coloured clay and pressing the clay so imbossed in plaster or other
moulds substantially as described.
Second. The process of ornamenting china and earthenware and otlier pottery
by indenting the surface of the clay by means of rollers covered with lace or such
like material substantially as described.
Third. The process of ornamenting china and earthenware and other pottery.
by forming a shallow recess in the surface of the article, covering the recessed part
with textile fabric' such as lace and by a burnisher or like tool causing the fabric
to be impressed into the clay substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said Henry Doulton have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord
One, thousand eight hundred and eighty two