Improvements in Treating Photographic Prints and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Treating Photographic Prints and Apparatus
therefor.
We, RODERICK JAMES FRY, of 15, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, Wholesale
Stationer, and HOWARD FORESTER KNIGHT, of Oak, Dene, Bush Hill Park,
Public Accountant, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a process for treating ordinary photographic prints so
as to give them the appearance of having been printed on paper having a rough
surface, such as is usually employed for water colour drawings, or as if they were
printed on canvas, cloth or other textile fabric.
In carrying out our invention we take a photograph printed on paper having a
smooth or matt surface in the ordinary manner. We take this print and submit it
to the pressure of a plate or block having a surface so prepared as to impress or
emboss the print so as to give it the required roughened surface. In practice we
sometimes find it advantageous to first mount the print on a backing of cartridge
or like paper and to submit it to the pressure of the embossing plate while still
wet with the mountant; or the embossing can be done after the print has become
dry.
One advantage of roughening the surface of the print after backing is that it
can be more conveniently mounted on boards.
Our embossing plates or blocks are made of various sizes to suit the size of the
print to be treated and are adapted to be used with a hand press.
In some cases we may employ an upper and a lower plate or block serving as a
die and matrix or we may employ an upper plate or block only and a suitable pad
for the lower plate or block.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
CUMI LELE DI PITICATIO
Improvements in Treating Photographic Prints and Apparatus
therefor.
We, RODERICK JAMES FRY, of 15, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, Wholesale
Stationer, and HOWARD FORESTER KNIGHT, of Oak Dene, Bush Hill
Park, Public Accountant, both in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention relates to a process for treating ordinary photographic prints so
as to give them the appearance of having been printed on paper having a rough
surface, such as is usually employed for water colour drawings; or as if they
were printed on canvas, cloth or other textile fabric.
In carrying out our invention we take a photograph printed on paper having a
smooth or matt surface in the ordinary manner. We take this print and submit it
to the pressure of a plate or block having a surface so prepared as to impress or
emboss the print so as to give it the required roughened surface. In practice we
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page_text: find it advantageous to first mount the print on a backing of waterproof paper and
to submit it to the pressure of the embossing plate while still wet with the mountant.
One advantage of roughening the surface of the print after backing is that it can
be more conveniently mounted on boards.
Our embossing plates or blocks are made of various sizes to suit the size of the
print to be treated and are adapted to be used with a hand-press such as an ordinary
letter copying press.
In some cases we may employ an upper and a lower plate or block serving as a
die and matrix, but in practice we find that good results are obtained by using
only one plate or block to serve as a die in combination with a suitable pad.
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 described process for treating photographic prints, such process consisting
in subjecting a photograph printed in the ordinary manner to the pressure of an
embossed plate so as to give a roughened surface to the photograph as, and for the
purpose, described.
2. The use in treating photographic prints of plates or blocks having their
surfaces so prepared as to give the prints a roughened surface substantially as
described.
3. Photographic prints having roughened surfaces produced by the process
hereinbefore described.
described.
his 18th day of July 1894
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.