US1323034A - Surface decorating - Google Patents

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cHmsTIAN r. EMIG, or SANTA CLARA, cALIroRNIA.

SURFACE DECORATING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN F. EMIG, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Santa Clara, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSurface Decorating, of which the following is a specification. v

My invention relates to the art of decorating surfaces and to a specific product of that art.

In the decorative arts it is frequently desirable to providea pile or nap surfacing, and this is ordinarily done by covering the said surface with suitable cloth. If, however, the surface is irregular the finer gradations are obliterated by the cloth covering and the highly irregular portions, and especiall undercut portions, are covered with di culty thereby rendering the process laborious and expensive and somewhat unsatisfactory when completed owing to unavoidable folds and creases.

It is the obj ect of my invention to provide a suitable pile or nap surfacing upon any desired surface, however irregular it may be without resulting folds or creases, without losing or materially diminishing the finer gradations, and with a minimum of expense both as to labor and material.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of a molded surface to illustrate the application of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In illustrating the application of my invention I make specific reference to its use when applied to a burial casket, since such an article usually has a more or less 1rregular and ornamented surface, partly in high relief, and yet must, in many cases, be produced at the lowest possible cost. There are also periods at which caskets must be produced quickly in large numbers. A fixed custom requires that they must be finished with a pile or nap surfacing to give the necessary softness of texture, and therefore my invention is peculiarly adapted for this purpose, as it provides the required surface quickly and cheaply.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 indicates a portion of a casket carved with certain portions 2 in high relief, portions 3 in finished casket is to be gray, then the whole surface is covered with a coat of suitable gray paint, the same being allowed to dry hard. When dry a coat of varnish suitably colored with gray paint is applied and allowed to stand until it becomes tacky. A quantity of suitably colored wool having been prepared by reducing the same to a mass of exceedingly short filaments, somewhat uniform in length, the same is blown or otherwise deposited upon the tacky surface in such a manner as to completely cover the same. The surplus wool now being removed it will be found that not only are the prominent surfaces covered but the undercut portions 5 and corners 6 are smoothly and uniformly covered, and the portions in low relief as at 3 appear distinctly to the point of merging with surface 4, the whole presenting a smooth, uniform, soft surface with a texture closely resembling that of a finely woven fabric carefully applied and without laps or creases. The whole process requires but a fraction of the time required by the application of fabric and gives a re sult superior to that obtained by the use of the fabric itself. The sizing is colored the same as the material placed thereon in order to render possible scratches less visible.

It is understood that while I have herein set forth one. specific method of'preparing a given surface for the reception of a given finish, that any given surface may be sized in any suitable manner to properly retain afinishing of any desired fibrillose material such as may be obtained 'by shredding and cutting or otherwise reducing wool, silk,

cotton, flax, hemp, wood-pulp, etc., to the desired fibrillose condition.

color as said paint and varnish before said varnish is dry.

Executed this 12th .day of May, 1919 CHRISTIAN F. EMIG.

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