Process for the Production of Pictures to be Coloured by the Application of Water.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Process for the Production of Pictures to be Coloured by the
Application of Water.
I, THOMAS RICHARD SHILLITO of 89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Engineer
and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication
to me from abroad by the Firm of Brüder Rosenbaum of Vienna, Austria,
Manufacturers, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention, preferably termed "magic painting," is to provide
instruction and amusement by the production of coloured pictures with the use
only of a brush and water or of a brush moistened with water, and without the use
of colours in the brush.
The process for the production of pictures say of soldiers, animals, birds, flowers,
etcetera, to be thus coloured, consists in printing the outlines or shade lines or parts
of the picture with concentrated readily soluble colouring matters so that when
said ontlines or shaded surfaces are passed over with a brush moistened with water
the colouring matters are dissolved and may be distributed each over the corre-
sponding surface.
The production of the pictures in a wholesale way may be effected by means of
a platen press, or lithographic printing, the different aniline colours in powder and
readily soluble in water being rubbed into the ordinary black or dark varnish
colour insoluble in water, and the different component parts of the picture to be
variously coloured being then printed one after another in the manner of multiple
colour printing, for example in the case of flowers, at one impression, the leaves, at
another the stalks, at another the blossoms and so on, as often as is necessary to
correspond to the number of colours required.
The pictures may also be printed in the ordinary way with ink or colour
insoluble in water and the outlines or shade lines afterwards printed over with
different aniline colours soluble in water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said invention
as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The production of pictures in which the outlines or shade lines or shade
surfaces of the different parts are printed with a dark colour insoluble in water, in
which colour has been mixed an aniline colour soluble in water and suitable for the
corresponding or particular part of the picture, and which may be dissolved and
distributed by a brush moistened with water, substantially as described.
2. The process for the production of the pictures referred to in Claim 1
consisting in printing with lithographic or typographic colours in which have been
mixed the various suitable aniline colours readily soluble in water, substantially as
described.
3. The process for the production of the pictures referred to by printing over
the outlines or shade lines or shaded surfaces of ordinary pictures with aniline
colours readily soluble in water, substantially as described.
Ja Tu 1906
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.