Improvements in the Production of Coloured Figures or Designs and Ornamental Effects.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Coloured Figures or Designs
and Ornamental Effects.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of London
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has been
communicated to me from abroad by the Firm of E. G. May Söhne of Frankfort-
on-Main in the Empire of Germany) to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to produce coloured figures or designs with
metallic lustre or lustrous effects and this is produced by bringing into intimate
contact with lustrous metallic surfaces colours which are transparent and present a
highly glazed surface. By this ineans magnificent effects hitherto unattainable
are produced resembling enamel pictures with metallic lustre.
The production of such pictures, designs or ornamental effects is as follows:-
Paper or other material is completely or partially covered with metal, which is
smoothed and polished or burnished so that it acquires as high a lustre as is
possible. This lustre is very sensitive to moisture (lithographic and photographic
processes are wet) and, with thin paper, both the polished surface and the back
should be protected. The colours are then applied to the lustrous metallic surfaces
prepared as aforesaid the said colours being previously dissolved in transparent
glazing varnish. The printing is done in a press with fresh or other printing plates
in the usual or any suitable manner.
Highly glazed and transparent colours being thus brought into intimate contact
with the lustrous, unalterable metallic foundation, the metallic lustre is reflected
through the transparent colours, lending metallic lustre to the latter, and giving
them decision and depth.
A clear yellow, transparent colour, for instance, becomes a lustrous gold, which
may be made to acquire any shade after manipulation of the printing plates and
mixture with other colours. All other colours and shades of colour behave in a
way similar to yellow.
By glazing the coloured figures the transparency and brilliance of the colours.
is increased.
Dated this 90th dor of January 1896
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Coloured Figures or Designs
and Ornamental Effects.
1, JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has been
communicated to me from abroad by the Firm of E. G. May Söhne of Frankfort-
on-Main, in the Empire of Germany) and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention has for its object to produce coloured figures or designs with

page_text: metallic lustre or lustrous effects and this is produced by bringing into intimate
contact with lustrous metallic surfaces colours which are transparent and present a
highly glazed surface. By this means magnificent effects hitherto unattainable,
are produced, resembling enamel pictures with metallic lustre.
The production of such pictures, designs or ornamental effects is as follows:-
Paper or other suitable material is completely or partially covered with metal,
which is smoothed and polished or burnished so that it acquires as high a lustre as
is possible. This lustre is very sensitive to moisture and where moisture is used
in the printing process (lithographic and photographic processes are wet) the
polished or burnished surface should be protected by varnish and when thin paper
is used both the polished or burnished surface and the back should be protected by
varnish. The colours are then applied to the lustrous metallic surfaces prepared
as aforesaid, the said colours being previously dissolved in transparent glazing
varnish. The printing is done in a press with fresh or other printing plates in the
usual or any suitable manner.
Highly glazed and transparent colours being thus brought into intimate contact
with the lustrous, unalterable metallic foundation, the metallic lustre is reflected
through the transparent colours, lending metallic lustre to the latter, and giving
them decision and depth.
A clear yellow transparent colour, for instance, becomes a lustrous gold, which
may be made to acquire any shade after manipulation of the printing plates and
mixture with other colours. All other colours and shades of colour behave in a
way similar to yellow.
By glazing the coloured figures the transparency and brilliance of the colours is
increased.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The production of coloured figures designs or ornamental effects with metallic
lustre by printing with highly transparent glazing colours in contact with polished
or burnished metallic surfaces on paper or other suitable material and protected
from moisture where necessary by varnish thereby producing lustrous enamel
effects, which may or may not be still further intensified by glazing.
Dated this 20th day of October 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.