Improvements in Panels for the Decoration of Railway Carriages and other Vehicles, Ships' Saloons and Cabins, the Internal Walls of Houses or Buildings and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec.. 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Panels for the Decoration of Railway Carriages
and other Vehicles, Ships' Saloons and Cabins, the Internal
Walls of Houses or Buildings and the like.
1, WILLIAM MCLAREN, of Moorgate Works, Moorfields, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
.
My invention relates to panels for the decoration of railway and other vehicles,
ships' saloons, and cabins, the walls of houses and the like.
Hitherto these panels have usually been made up of a millboard backing having
pasted thereon the relief decoration in the form of lincrusta-walton or other similar
material in solid relief, or one or other of the modern decorations consisting mostly
of paper or asbestos made into sheet or web, such as are known in the trade as
anaglypta, cordelova, lignomur, etc., etc.
Sometimes the millboard is rendered impermeable by soaking it in drying oil,
and afterwards baking it in a suitable oven, and sometimes the millboard is
rendered partially waterproof by varnishing or painting the back.
My invention is to form panels which may be cheaply made and have a high
decorative effect in bas-relief, and which have a backing at once fireproof, water-
proof, rigid and free from buckling. In carrying out my invention I take a
backing of sheet zinc, iron, steel or millboard, or other suitable material, although
I prefer the above mentioned on account of their cheapness and utility, and
perforate it, or corrugate it, or otherwise treat it so as to roughen the surface and
form a key for the decorative composition, which in the case of lincrusta-walton or
corticine I emboss direct on to the prepared sheet of material by passing it through
an embossing machine fitted with the necessary engraved or electrotyped roller or
plate, thus forming a solid panel one side being in relief.
The composition may be tinted or colored to any shade required before
embossing.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Panels for the Decoration of Railway Carriages
and other Vehicles, Ships' Saloons and Cabins, the Internal
Walls of Houses or Buildings and the like.
I, WILLIAM MCLAREN, of Moorgate Works, Moorfields, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to panels for the decoration of railway and other vehicles,
ships' saloons, and cabins, the walls of houses and the like.

page_text: Hitherto these panels have usually been made up of a millboard backing having
pasted thereon the relief decoration in the form of lincrusta-walton or other similar
material in solid relief, or one or other of the modern decorations consisting mostly
of paper or asbestos made into sheet or web, such as are known in the trade as
anaglypta, cordelova, lignomur etc., etc.
Sometimes the millboard is rendered impermeable by soaking it in drying oil,
and afterwards baking it in a suitable oven, and sometimes the millboard is
rendered partially waterproof by varnishing or painting the back.
My invention is to form panels which may be cheaply made and have a high
decorative effect, in bas-relief, and which have a backing at once fireproof, water-
proof, rigid and not liable to buckle. In carrying out my invention I take a
backing of sheet zine, iron, or steel or other suitable material, although I prefer
the above mentioned on account of their cheapness and utility, and perforate it, or
corrugate it, or otherwise treat it so as to roughen the surface and form a key for
the decorative composition, which in the case of lincrusta-walton or corticine
I emboss direct on to the prepared sheet of material by passing it through an
embossing machine fitted with the necessary engraved or electrotyped roller or
plate, thus forming a solid panel one side being in relief.
The composition may be tinted or colored to any shade required before
-embossing.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a front view of a piece of a decorative panel made according to my
invention, and,
Figure 2 is a section of the same.
a is the backing of sheet zinc, or other suitable material perforated as shewn,
(or corrugated or otherwise roughened) so as to form a key for the composition b
which is applied to the said backing in a plastic condition and pressed into the holes
or interstices thereof, a decorative design, for instance that shewn in Figure 1,
being at the same time embossed thereon.
A sheet of paper or other material is preferably applied to that side of the
backing opposite to that to which the composition is applied in order to prevent
the plastic material from being pressed through the holes in the said backing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Panels for the decoration of railway carriages and other vehicles, ships'
saloons and cabins, the internal walls of houses or buildings and the like, wherein
the decorative composition is applied to a backing of sheet zinc, iron, steel or
other suitable material, perforated, corrugated or otherwise roughened, substantially
as, and for the purpose, herein before described.
2. The manufacture and use of decorative panels, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 21th low of Cantambon 1906
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.