IMPROVED PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS, LETTERS, PATTERNS, OR FIGURES ON GLASS, METAL, CHINA, WOOD, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE SURFACES FOR DECORATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Lee at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st April
1874.
I, EDWARD LEE, of No. 99, High Holborn, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Lithograher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS, LETTERS, PATTERNS,
OR FIGURES ON GLASS, METAL, CHINA, WOOD, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE SURFACES FOR
DECORATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows :—
In producing ornamental designs on glass and other surfaces I first
prepare the surface to be ornamented with a coating of dry white lead or
any other color mixed with or without white lead, ground in liquid
gelatine gum, size, or any other glutinous matter dissolvable in water.
I will for brevity sake call it distemper color. When the surface which
has been coated with distemper is dry, I them paint over a coating of any
oil or varnish color or a varnish without any color dissolvable in
turpentine; when dry, I place a stencil plate which has been engraved to
a desired pattern or design on the painted surface; I then take a stencil
or other brush saturated with turpentine or any other dissolvent that

page_text: will answer the purpose of turpentine, and brush out the pattern so
engraved until I come to the distemper color, which is dissolvable in
water. I continue the brushing out, using a fresh brush or brushes, sub-
stituting water in place of turpentine until I come to the glass or other
surface.
Second Mode. Instead of using the stencil plate I can print a
design or pattern from lithographic stone, zinc plate, or block, upon
ordinary transfer paper commonly used by lithographers, but I prefer a
paper coated with one layer of starch, a second layer of common paste.
While the ink on the impression is in a wet state I dust over it powdered
shellac or copal, or any other gum not easily dessolvable in turpentine
which will only adhere to the ink, then I transfer it to the before-
mentioned painted surface while the coating of oil is in a tacky state; I
then place the glass or other surface in an oven or other contrivance
licated to a japanner's beat, when the shellac or copal dusted upon the
pattern so printed melts and forms a thin coating of varnish on the sur-
face where desired, which will allow the prepared surface to be brushed
out with first the turpentine, then the water as before-mentioned, as
neither turpentine or water will effect the shellac or copal during the
time used in brushing out, and allow the pattern to remain clear
and sharp. Desirable colors or foils are then applied as required..
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I can instead of using distemper color first use an oil color, then a dis-
temper color, and finish with an oil color, and brush out with the stencil
plate or printing process as before-mentioned, first using turpentine, then
water, and again turpentine.
In lieu of the previous mentioned first coat of color I can use
vitrifyable color, or silver or other stain, either mixed in oil or distemper
as circumstances require. If in oil I paint over a coat of distemper color,
them a coat of oil color; but if in distemper I them paint over a coat
of oil color and them brush out as before-mentioned; it will then be ready
to be placed in a muffle and fired in a stove as used for firing porcelain
or glass.