US449727A - Method of making combined smooth-surface paintings and relief pictures - Google Patents

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O. J. R. BERNEBJ.

METHOD OI MAKING COMBINED SMOOTH SURFACE PAINTINGS AND RELIEF PICTURES.

1 No. 449,721. I Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

Witnesses: Inventor:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO .I. R. BERNER, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA. I

METHOD OF MAKING COMBINED SMOOTH-SURFACE PAINTINGS AND RELIEF PICTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 449,727, dated April. 7, 1891.

Application filed August 25, 1890. Serial No. 363,058. (No specimens.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO J; R. BERNER, a citizen of the United States, residingin Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Methods of .Making Combined SmootlrSur-facelainted and Relief Pictures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in methods of making pictures or paintings in which a part or parts are shown on a plain surface and others by raised surfaces or surfaces in relief; and the object of the invention is to produce pictures in which the perspective may be brought out with greater distinctness and with less labor than when the whole picture is painted on a plain surface.

The invention consists, first, in forming the foreground or more prominent parts of a picture, be theyeither figures of living creatures or parts of landscapes or topography, in relief on a plain surface, on which the remaining parts of the picture are or maybe painted, and, second, in the manner of making the composition forming the parts in relief and applying the same to the plain surface. I

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, is shown a picture made by my method.

Figure 1 is a face view of the picture, and Fig. 2 a plan section of the same 011 the line 0c 00.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A represents a circular concavo-convex plaque, which may be made of sheet metal or of any other suitable material that can be used for the purpose, papier-maeh being preferred.

a Ct indicate mountains in the background, painted on the face of the plaque, and b the sky, also painted on the face of the plaque.-

B B represent mountains forming the sides of a gorge or narrow valley; D, a stream flowing through the gorge; O, a bridge spanning the stream at the farther end of the gorge, and E a railway extending along one side of the gorge. The mountains B B, the stream, the bridge, and the railway are all in relief, as shown in Fig. 2, and formed or molded from my newly-invented composition, which had previously been secured to or against the face of the plaque.

The material for making the parts of the picture which are shown in relief is composed of the following ingredients in about the proportions given, viz: one pound of glue, six

pounds of pulverized whiting, one-half pound of paper, and one-half pound of rosin; but the rosin may be omitted, although it is a valu able ingredient. The paper is soaked in a quart or so of water until it becomes a pulp, the glue is boiled, and the rosin is melted. These threeingredients are then thoroughly mixed with the whiting andstirred until the mixture becomes of about the consistency of dough. I then take parts of this dough and dip a side of it in thin glue and apply it to the surface of the plaque. \Vhere possible the parts are molded into convenient shape with the hands before being applied. Vhen metallic plaques are used or others having a surface against which the glue would not safely hold the composition, 1 puncture freely the surface to be covered, and when I apply the composition I force portions of it through the perforations and flatten out the parts of said composition which'protrude on the reverse side of the plaque, so as to form a head similar to the head of a rivet. I then take a modeling-tool and cut out and form such figures and forms as I desire to have appear in relief in the picture. After the composition has thoroughly hardened I paint both the figures and forms made therein and the plain surface of the plaque in either oil or water colors to eoinplete the picture desired to be shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described process of forming pictures, which consists in painting the background of said picture on a plain surface and fastening a suitable composition to the other parts of said surface and cutting therein the figures and bodies which are to form the foreground of the picture, substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described process of forming pictures, which consists in painting the background of said picture on a plain body, puncturiug a series 01? holes through the part of said body whereon the foreground is to be represented, applying a suitable composition to the punctured portion of said body, forcing parts of the same through the holes and clinching said parts on the reverse side of said body, and then cutting in said composition the figures and bodies Which are to form the foreground of the picture, substantially as specified.

3. The herein-described process of forming pictures, which consists in painting the background of said picture on a plain surface and fastening a composition composed of Whitin g, glue, and paper to the other parts of said surand bodies Which are to form the foreground 25 of the picture, substantially as specified.

OTTO J. R. BERNER.

Witnesses:

GEO. A, LANE, WM. R. i'rERHART.

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