Imitation of Majolica Ware.
Year: 1885

page_text: Imitation of Majolica Ware.
I, JOHANN GOTTFRIED MÜLLER of the village of Schöneberg near Berlin in the
German Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for 'IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TILES AND OTHER OBJECTS IN
IMITATION OF MAJOLICA WARE" to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a process for the manufacture of tiles and other objects
so as to present the appearance of majolica the objects so manufactured being as
compared with majolica less subject to breakage and less expensive in the cost of
production.
I attain the end in view by making use of the well known enamelled metallic
plates in conjunction with enamels.
The contour or border lines of the pattern or figures to be formed are first
printed or laid on the enamelled surface of the metallic plate and then the enamels
suitable for forming the pattern or figures of the design are laid within the several
contour or border lines or are adjusted to meet at the same. The metallic plates
thus covered over or partly so with enamels are then, for the purpose of fixing
them in their position, placed in an enamel stove or furnace of any suitable and
known kind.
EMIL CAPITAINE,
Agent for the Inventor,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.

page_text: improvements in the Manufacture of Tiles and other Objects in
Imitation of Majolica Ware.
I, JOHANN GOTTFRIED MÜLLER of the village of Schöneberg near Berlin in the
German Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TILES AND OTHER OBJECTS IN
IMITATION OF MAJOLICA WARE," 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 the manufacture of tiles and other objects
so as to imitate the appearance of majolica, and consists in enamelling metal plates
in one colour, impressing on the enamelled surface of the same relief border lines
or outlines of figures, and laying in and fixing within such border lines or outlines
enamel of such colour or colours as the figure to be represented may require.
For this purpose I engrave or etch on a steel or zinc plate the border lines or
outlines of the figure or picture and into the etched or engraved parts I rub fire
proof porcelain colour which has been mixed with varnish to the consistency of a
somewhat firm paste.
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I then clean the plate and lay thereon a thin sheet of paper over which I
lightly will a roller, then I remove the paper upon which the outline of the figure
has thus been impressed, and press it upon the enamelled surface of metallic plates
or other objects, and in this way transfer the border lines or outlines thereto, which
are then burnt in at a gentle fire, and thus the border lines or outlines are produced
on the enamelled surface in the form of raised surfaces, or lines in relief, between
or within which I place enamel, for example supposing the border lines to be in the
form of diamonds or circles in one of such fields red enamel might be placed and in
the adjacent one blue enamel and so on as may be desired.
The metallic plates thus covered over or partly so with enamels are then for the
purpose of firmly fixing them in position placed in an enamel stove or furnace of
any suitable or known kind.
In this process the raised border lines do not liquify with the enamel but form a
kind of partition between the different coloured liquid enamels so that these latter
cannot run into one another.
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
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The process for the production of enamelled metal surfaces' in imitation of
majolica ware consisting in impressing raised border lines in fireproof porcelain 3
colour on enamelled metal plates, vessels or other objects of enamelled metal and
introducing and burning within such border lines of enamel substantially as
bereinbefore described.
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EMIL CAPITAINE,
Agent for the Inventor,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.