Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Mosaics for Floors, Staircases, Walls, Ceilings, Ornamental Furniture, and other like Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Mosaics for
Floors, Staircases, Walls, Ceilings, Ornamental Furniture, and
other like Purposes.
We JAMSETJEE NUSSERWANJEE TATA of Esplanade House, Fort, Bombay, India,
Merchant and JEREMIAH LYON of 4 Lombard Court in the City of London Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture or production of mosaics for
floors, staircases, walls, ceilings, ornamental furniture and other like purposes, and
consists in the utilization for such purposes of broken or damaged porcelain,
earthenware, terra cotta ware, china and glass. By our invention we obtain at a
comparatively small cost a description of mosaic which is superior to marble or
stone mosaic inasmuch as it is more durable, it is not slippery, and produces a
beautiful effect with artificial light. It can, moreover be treated in an artistic way.
We break up the porcelain, earthenware, terra cotta ware, china or glass by means
of any suitable apparatus into small pieces, varying from say th of an inch square
upwards. The materials, either before or after the breaking, are sorted into their
various colors, and after having been broken the pieces are separated into various sizes
by means of sieves or otherwise. Then, when it is wished to form a floor, wall, ceiling
or other surface, a foundation or bed of cement or other like material is first laid, and
then the broken pieces are placed thereon. and fixed thereto; or the floor or other
surface may be formed by first fixing the broken pieces and then pouring cement over
in a semi-liquid state and allowing it to dry gently, the required design being obtained
by the use of templates shaped to correspond with the respective portions of the design
to which the different colors are to be applied, or by any other suitable method.
For furniture or art decorations metal plates or frames should be used to which the
broken pieces are secured according to the design required, the cement employed
being such as will adhere permanently to metal.
For making tiles or slabs we would likewise use metal frames or supports for the
cement and broken pieces.
Dated this 24th day of Anil 1980
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Mosaics for
Floors, Staircases, Walls, Ceilings, Ornamental Furniture, and
other like Purposes.
We JAMSETJEE NUSSERWANJEE TATA of Esplanade House, Fort, Bombay, India,
Merchant and JEREMIAH LYON of 4 Lombard Court in the City of London, Merchant,
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 has reference to the manufacture or production of mosaics for
floors, staircases, walls, ceilings, ornamental furniture and other like purposes, and
consists in the utilization for such purposes of broken or damaged porcelain,
earthenware, terra cotta ware, china and glass. By our invention we obtain at a
comparatively small cost a description of mosaic which is superior to marble or
stone mosaic inasmuch as it is more durable, it is not slippery, and produces a
beautiful effect with artificial light. It can moreover, be treated in an artistic way.

page_text: We break up the porcelain, earthenware, terra cotta ware, china or glass by means
of any suitable apparatus into small pie es varying from say one-eighth of an inch
square upwards. The materials either before or after the breaking are sorted into
their various colors (unless they are to be used indiscriminately) and after having been
broken the pieces are separated into various sizes by means of sieves or otherwise;
then when it is wished to form a floor, wall, ceiling or other surface, a foundation or
bed of cement or other like material is first laid, and then the broken pieces are placed
thereon and fixed thereto or the floor or other surface may be formed by first fixing
the broken pieces and then pouring cement over in a semi-liquid state and allowing it
to dry gently, the required design being obtained by the use of templates shaped to
correspond with the respective portions of the design to which the different colors are
to be applied or by any other suitable method.
For furniture or art decorations metal plates or frames should be used to which the
broken pieces are secured according to the design required, the cement employed being
such as will adhere permanently to metal.
For making tiles or slabs we would likewise use metal frames or supports for the
cement and broken pieces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
The manufacture or production of mosaics from broken porcelain, earthenware,
terra cotta ware, china or glass, substantially as described for floors, staircases, walls,
ceilings, ornamental furniture and other like purposes.
Dated this 23rd day of Jan 1800
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agent.