US506394A - Smith - Google Patents

Description

IUNrTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BYRON BENJAMIN GOLDSMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ORNAMENTAL VARNISHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,394, dated October 10, 1893. Application filed May Z1893. Serial No. 472,769. (No specimens) T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BYRON BENJAMIN GOLD- SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York,in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Varnishing, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to improvements in the process of ornamenting surfaces by varnishing, the object being to produce upon any given surface an imitation of marble, malachite, jasper and other like ornamental stones, or an imitation of costly Woods, antique ivory or other materials havingvariegated veins, and to do this in a purely mechanical manner, not requiring the skill and judgment of an artist.

The principle which underlies my invention is the following; If two or more coats of different colors are superposed upon each other, without allowing the coats to dry sensibly; and it while the coats are still in the condition in which they will flow spontaneously, the article is given any kind of motion, the coats of colorrwill flow upon the article with different speeds and in various directions, producing a great number of sluggish currents, which interfere with and react upon each other. The result of this is that the two or more colors will slightly blend along the edges of the various currents, while the main bodies of these currents will blend only slightly or not at all. The effect of this is the formation upon the surface of the articleof deviouslines of greatly variegated appearance both as to form and color, the total effect being similar to that of the surface of a richly veined ornamental material, such as marble, malachite, agate, jasper, onyx, wood, ivory, &c., according to the colors employed.

My process is applicable tothe ornamentation of all kinds of objects made of any material that is ordinarily varnished or painted or can be varnished or painted, but the in vention is particularly adapted to articles having plane or evenly curved surfaces, such as table tops, walking sticks, pen holders, and

to such article. stood, that in the practice of my invention I am not con fined to the use of any particular paint or varnish, and while in the following description I shall use the term varnish as designating the vehicle for carrying or adapted to carry the desired pigment or dye,

I mean to cover by this term all vehicles that ored varnishes upon the pen holder, and each layer in a condition in which it will still flow spontaneously. While in this condition the pen holder is secured in a horizontal or angular position in a lathe chuck and is slowly rotated. Immediately the two varnishes flow upon the surface of the holder and upon each I other, forming a great number of currents of different speeds and directions, which, inter-' fering with and reacting upon each other,

cause an accumulation of green and of white varnish in variegated lines, which blend at their edges, but do not blend in a like degree, I v

or not at all, within their edges. The efiect thus produced is as stated above, that of p I also desire it to be underrichlyveined and highly polished malachite.

The'movement of the pen holder is continued until the varnishes have dried sufficiently not to flow spontaneously, and the article is then t i removed from the chuck and is dried in the usual manner.

duce a like effect, although the effect is varied with the variation of the motion.

a highly ornamental effect is produced by slowly inclining the object at different an- If rotated, the effect varies with the angle at which the stick is gles, without rotating.

It is not necessary that the pen holder or like object be given a rotary motion, since any kind of motion that will allow or cause the varnishes to flow, will pro- Thus, in the case of pen holders or walking sticks, L

inclined while being rotated. hen the stick is secured in and rotated by a lathe chuck, the etfect varies with the angle formed between the axis of the chuck and of the stick. But whatever the nature of the movement given to the article may be, the efiect produced is similar to that described.

The process of producing the effect of malachite may be slightly varied by first producing a green varnish upon the pen holder and allowing the same to dry, then dipping it into a transparent varnish, which maybe tinted or colorless, and then immediately into a white varnish, and then giving to the article the requisite motion. In this case the veins are formed by the various interfering currents of the white and the transparent varnishes, the latter permitting the green base to shine through. A similar effect is produced by dipping the pen holder stick into the varnishes with the point foremost, and then simply reversing the stick vertically, so that the varnishes will flow toward the thick end. From these few examples, it Will be seen that the i variations or modifications to which the process is susceptible, are very numerous, but that the fundamental idea is always the same. WVhatever the article may be, the process will be practically the same; thus walking sticks or umbrella sticks, or other cylindrical objects may be manipulated precisely like that to each kind of movement or rotation of the article correspond different forms of veins and different distributions of the veins, which are produced.

Any number of differently colored varnishes may be used, and with each different colors or different numbers of colors, the effect produced will be different. After the varnishes have dried, the article may be treated like other varnished articles for heightening the gloss, that is to say, they may be burnished and an additional coat or coats of colorless varnish may be applied.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The process of ornamen ting articles, which consists in covering the whole surface of the same with superimposed layers of varnishes of such consistency that they may still flow spontaneously, andthen so placing or movingthe said article, that by their spontaneous flow the different varnishes are broken up into lines of variegated forms andshades, substantially as described.

2. The process of producing imitations of variegated veins upon an article, which consists in first covering the whole surface-of the same with superimposed layers ofspontaneously flowing varnishes of different colors,and