US399029A - Art of decorating pottery-ware - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES Parent Ut rine,

LAUR;

,A. FRY, or CAMP Dennison, onio.

ART .OF DECORATlNG POTTERY-WARE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersfatent No. 399,029, dated. March 5, 1889;

Application filedlliarch 16, 1886 Serial No. 185,404. (Specimens To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA A. FRY, of Camp Dennison, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a neW' and.

useful Improvement in the Artot' Decorating Pottery-Vere; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact descriptionthereof.

My invention consists in the application to the surface of the ware after the article has received its final shape. and heioreit is finally It consists, furthermore, in heatin gr the ware when hard or glazed upon the surface and thereafter applying the coloring-matter, in

manner as hereinafter described, to the hot f surface, and finally firing or glazing the decorated article.

To carry my invention into effect, the col- 2 ormg natter is blown upon the surface of the wareeither in its soft state, in the bisque state, or on the glaze before firin;

in the form of a cloud or an atomized spray or mist, produced by means of any of the usual forms of atomizers which are operated by an air-blast or a steam-blast, or by the lungs of the operator, and which, being well known, need not be herein described. After the ware has thus been decorated the color is fixed by firing the ware in the customary I employ the coloring-matter either in a liquid or semi-liquid form, or in the form of a ver dry, almost impalpalile, powder, as desired. As the coloring-matter is blown from the tube of the atomizer and carried therefrom in a cloud of line, almost imperceptible, particles, it may be readily directed upon the article in such manner as may be found best adapted to produce the desired effeet, the application being freely made where the color is to be intense, and more delicately.

made in proportion as the color effect is to be delicate, or otherwise varied as the taste,

skill, or ingenuity of the operator may dietate. A single color may thus be applied to acolor ground, or different colors may be applied separately, or, by means of separate atomizing-jets, several olors may be applied simultaneously.

By this process delicat(.-cloudingif cloudin g it maybe called-is produced entirely free from outline and possessing a peculiarly delicate vanish, and where two colors merge a peculiar softness of blending is secured which may not be otherwise attained. A variety of beautiful and novel efifects may also be ob t ained which it is notnecessary herein to dcscribe. Y

The coloringnnatler and the glazing material for the clay-Ware may be mixed togetheI and applied. to the article by my process, or the coloring-matter may be applied as above described, and the glaze thereafter applied by the usual process oi dipping; and tiring.

l/Vhere the clayavare to be colored or decorated has been once fired, and is not therefore sufficiently absorbent, l heat the same before blowing the color thereon, the effect-of the heat of the article being to cause the liquid coloring-matter to quickly dry without marring the effects which are sought in its application.

I am aware that coloring-matter in a liquid state has heretofore been applied to the glazed surfaces of china-ware by sprinkling or spattering the same thereon with the aid of a comb and brush, the comb being passed over the brush dipped in the coloring-matter in such manner as to cause the latter to fly off in fine independent drops orparticles, this process being technically known as spatterwork, andl make no claim thereto.

My improved process differs from spatterwork in that, instead of being spattered in small in dependent drops, the color is laid upon the ware in a cloud or sheet of almost imperceptible spray or mist, producing very diiterent effects, and such have hitherto been unknown.

I claim as my invention" 1..lhe 'iinpr0venicnl'= in the art of decorating articles of clay-ware, which consists in blowingau atomized spray or cloud of coloringin manner as described.

matter upon the surface thereof, and there- I In testimony whereoi. I have signed my name no after-fixing the same by firing, substantially i i to this specification in the presence of two subi scribing witnesses.

2. The improvement in the art of decorating clay-ware, which consists in heating the LAURA A. FRY. surface and blowing upon the heated surface an atomized spray or cloud of coloring-mai- \\'iinesses:

ter, and thereafter fixing the same by firing, J. F. ACKER, Jr.,

substaniially in manner as described. S.M. MADDEN.