IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING OR ORNAMENTING ARTICLES OF EARTHENWARE
Year: 1885

page_text: I SAMUEL LEAR of High Street Hanley in the County of Stafford Manufacturer
of Earthenware do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN DECORATING OR ORNAMENTING ARTICLES OF EARTHENWARE, to be as follows:-
When decorating or ornamenting articles of earthenware I take the articles
in the clay state and place the outline of my design thereon by making dotted
lines with a tool or small wheel generally called a runner-This design is upon the
surface and the ground is then formed by a process known as "mossing" and
which consists of covering, by painting with a brush, all the body with a size or
slip made of clay mixed with water to a fluid consistency and then with small
particles of prepared clay dropped or shaken from the hand upon such size or slip
until the entire surface except the decoration or ornamentation is covered there-
with-It is then sent to the oven and upon being drawn out is afterwards glazed
by dipping in a white or coloured glaze-It is then again burnt and afterwards
presents a smooth white or coloured surface over the design but the mossed part
having absorbed a large proportion of the glaze (which then binds and makes firm
the mossing) presents a tint only, coloured in accordance with the glaze used.
The "mossing" process is not new, nor is the use of the runner new in potting,
but the use of the runner, by hand, in drawing or making designs is new and my
claim is to have the combination of the mossing and the designing or ornamenting
by means of the runner protected by Patent.

page_text: I SAMUEL LEAR of High Street Hanley in the County of Stafford Manufacturer
of Earthenware do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
"and in what
IN DECORATING OR ORNAMENTING ARTICLES OF EARTHENWARE
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
"
When decorating or ornamenting articles of earthenware I take the article in
the clay state and place the outline of my design thereon by making dotted lines
with a tool or small wheel generally called a runner-This design is upon the
surface and the ground is then formed by a process known as mossing" and
which consists of covering, by painting with a brush all the body with a size or
slip made of clay mixed with water to a fluid consistency, and then with small
particles of prepared clay dropped or shaken from the hand upon such size or slip
until the entire surface except the decoration or ornamentation is covered therewith.
It is then sent to the oven and upon being drawn out is afterwards glazed by
dipping in a white or coloured glaze. It is then again burnt in the oven and after
being again drawn out presents a smooth design, but the mossed part having
absorbed a large proportion of the glaze (which then binds and makes firm the
mossing) presents a tint only coloured in accordance with the glaze used.
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
The mossing process not being new and the use of the "runner" in potting not
being new, but the use of the "runner" by band in drawing or making designs
being new,
the combination of the mossing process and the drawing or making
designs on the surface of the articles by means of using the runner by hand and
for the purpose of decorating or ornamenting articles of earthenware is an entirely
new combination and my claim is to have such combination and the use thereof
protected by Patent.