An Improved Method of Transferring Colours.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 28th Feb.,
1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Transferring Colours.
We, DANIEL LIVINGSTONE, of 2, Abbotsford Place, Bookbinder, and FREDERICK
LIVINGSTONE, of 58, Peddie Street, Stationer's Assistant, both of Dundee, in the
County of Forfar, N.B., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of our invention is to transfer colours from a prepared medium to the
surface of any other suitable substance. We carry out our invention in an improved
manner aud can transfer the colours to glass, wood, or to the surface of any other
suitable material, and imitate stained glass, marble and the like.
We carry out our invention in the following manner :-
We coat a sheet of printing or other porous paper with size composed of gelatine,
gum-arabic and water, and allow it to dry. We then calender the said paper; that
is to say we pass the paper between rollers pressed together, so as to give a smooth
surface to it, after which we cout it with a strong hard drying varnish, such as
carriage, copal, spirit or paper varnish, and allow it to dry. The varnish is laid
on the surface of the size. We use the paper as prepared according to the fore-
going method for such purposes as printing, lithographing, marbling, as in
bookbinding embossing, and the like.
To transfer the design from the prepared paper to any other surface, we coat said
surface, to which the design is to be applied, with clear cement, gum, or other
adhesive substance, and lay the paper upon it with its prepared surface against the
adhesive substance and press it well on; after which we saturate the prepared paper
with water until the size is dissolved, and then draw it gently off, leaving the
design on the other surface, with the coat of varnish towards the exterior and
protecting it.
Dated this 6th day of May 1890.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Transferring Colours.
We, DANIEL LIVINGSTONE, of 2, Abbotsford Place, Bookbinder, and FREDERICK
LIVINGSTONE, of 58, Peddie Street, Stationer's Assistant, both of Dundee, in the
County of Forfar, N.B., do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is to transfer colours from a prepared medium to the
surface of any other suitable substance. We carry out our invention in an improved
manner and can transfer the colours to glass, wood, or to the surface of any other
suitable material, and imitate stained glass, marble and the like.
We carry out our invention in the following manner :-
We coat a sheet of printing or other porous paper with size composed of gelatine,
gum-arabic and water, and allow it to dry. We then calender the said paper; that
is to say we pass the paper between rollers pressed together, so as to give a smooth
surface to it, after which we coat it with a strong hard drying varnish, such as
carriage, copal, spirit or paper varnish, and allow it to dry. The varnish is laid on
the surface of the size. We use the paper as prepared according to the fore-
going method for such purposes as printing, lithographing, marbling,-as in
bookbinding-embossing, and the like.

page_text: To transfer the design from the prepared paper to any other surface, we coat said
surface, to which the design is to be applied, with clear cement, gum, or other
adhesive substance, and lay the paper upon it with its prepared surface against the
adhesive substance and press it well on; after which we saturate the prepared
paper with water until the size is dissolved, and then draw it gently off, leaving the
design on the other surface, with the coat of varnish towards the exterior and
protecting it.
In the most approved method of carrying our invention into practice, we proceed
as follows:-
:-
We coat a sheet of cream wove hard sized paper-made partly from rags and
partly from esparto grass by Messrs. Tullis & Co., Paper Makers, Edinburgh-with
Dextrine," and allow it to dry. We then calender the said paper; that is to say
we pass the paper between rollers pressed together so as to give a smooth surface
to it, after which we coat it with pale carriage varnish, and allow it to dry. The
varnish is laid on the surface of the "Dextrine." We use the paper as prepared
according to the foregoing method for such purposes as printing, lithographing,
marbling, as in bookbinding-embossing, and the like.
To transfer the design from the prepared paper to any other surface, we coat said
surface, to which the design is to be applied, with clear gelatine, and lay the paper
upon it with its prepared surface against the adhesive substance and press it well on ;
after which we saturate the prepared paper with water until the "Dextring" is
dissolved, and then draw it gently off, leaving the design on the other surface, with
the coat of varnish towards the exterior and protecting it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
(1) The mode and means of transferring designs, which have been laid upon
the prepared paper-to the surface of another substance, substantially as herein
described.
Dated this 14th day of January 1891.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
Applicants' Agents.