US250102A

US250102A - quinby

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Publication number: US250102A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-11-29
Anticipated expiration: 1898-11-29

Description

(Model) B. a. QUINBY. ENAMELBD WARE, &c.

I Patented Nov. 29,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EBEN C. QUINBY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE ST. LOUIS STAMPING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ENAMELED WARE, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,102, dated November 29, 1881. Application filed October 3, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EBEN G. QUINBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Enameled Ware and Method of Constructing the Same, as fully set forth and described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

My improvement relates to wrought or cast metalenameledware;anditconsistsinfirstcoating the body of an'article with enamel of any desirable color and afterward producing thereon in relief ornaments of some con trastingcolor.

The drawing is a side elevation of a tea-pot illustrating a preferred form of my invention viz., having its body coated with a deep-blue enamel, and the relief ornament in white, silver, or gold.

To enable others to practice my invention, I will now proceed to describe the best method now known to me of producing the same.

Having first cleaned the article by pickling, turning, or any other known method, I cover the same with a solid coat of enamel of any suitable color and then fire the same. This part of the process may be performed in any of the known ways, and the color desired may be produced by the use of the metallic oxides, as is known to all familiar with the art of enameling, and therefore need not be minutely described, and of itself is not novel. After the article is fired it is taken from the muffle and allowed to cool. I next take some glaze mixed with some one of the metal oxides which will produce a pleasing contrast with the color of the enamel on the body of the article, using it quite thick, and with this prepared glaze I paint, stamp, stencil, or otherwise put upon thebody-color any selected design or ornament, laying on the same quite thick, and after drying the article thus ornamented it is again fired.

The glaze used in ornamenting is made somewhat softer than the first coat, so that the body of the article is not injured by the second firing. When the article is taken from the muffle the second time it will be found that the body is coated with a solid enamel, and the ornament of the contrasting color is in relief on the surface thereof, producing a very artistic and pleas ng efi'ect.

Although I do not wish to limit myself to the use of any particular color, I have found in practice that I get the best results and the handsomest ware by using a ground of deep or cobalt blue and painting the ornament there on in white, silver, or gold. Any colors may be used that contrast well with or are complementary to each other, as white ground and gold ornaments, green and gold, &c.

.It will be understood that when silver and gold are used the ornament is first put on with glaze to bring it in relief and fired, and then again fired after gilding or silvering.

Having thus fully described my improvement, so that any person skilledin the art can make and use the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new manufacture, metal ware the body or ground of which is enameled in some solid color, and having thereon in relief ornaments of some suitable contrasting color, substantially as set forth.

2. The method of enameling metal ware, which consists in first coating the body of the article with glaze of some suitable color, firing the same, then painting or otherwise placing thereon suitable ornaments in relief in some contrasting color, and again firing, substantially as herein set forth.

EBEN O. QUINBY.

Witnesses:

J N0. A. BECK, LEWIS PERRY.