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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. E. R. & O. E. GAHOONE & G. WALKER.

ORNAMENTING AND PROTECTING METAL ARTIGLES.

No. 251,409. Patented 1m. 27,1881,

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ORNAMENTING AND PROTECTING METAL ARTICLES.

No. 251,409. Patented Dec. 27,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN .R. OAHOONE, CHARLES E. GAHOONE, AND GEORGE WALKER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY; SAID WALKER AND CHARLES E. (JAHOONE ASSIGNORS TO SAlD EDWIN R. CAHOONE.

ORNAMENTING AND PROTECTING METAL ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,409, dated December 27, 1881. Application filed June 11, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWIN R. OAHOONE,

CHARLES E. OAHooNE, and GEORGE WALKER,

citizens of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamenting and Protecting Metal Articles; and we do hereby declare 'ornamentiug and protecting against disfigurement such metallic articles as harness-trimmings, carriage-hardware, 850.; and theinvention consists in soldering to the exposed surfaces of such articles,in suitable designs, strips or pieces of thin ornamental metal, then lac quering, plating, or japannin g such articles until the desired quantity of lacquer or japan has been applied, and then removing the surplus lacquer or japan and polishing, whereby elegant and durable trimmings are produced, upon which the lacquer, japan, or plating is protected from being chipped oii' and disfigured by blows, 866. v

In the accompanying drawings, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figures 1, 2, and 3 are edge elevations and cross-sections of various shapes and designs of terrets embodying our invention. Fig. 4 is a perspective view and crosssection of a water-hook. Fig. 5 is a side view and section, and Fig. 6 a front view and section, of buckles. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a terret-blank; Fig.8, a similar view of a terret-blank having our protecting and ornamenting strips soldered on. Fig. 9 is a vertical cross-section of the blank shown in Fig. 8, after the same has been coated; and Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation of the coated blank of Fig. 9, after the surplus coating has been removed and the article finished for market.

In order to produce the articles shown in Figs. 1 to 6 and others, we first take the ordinarycasting-sa v a terret, a, Fig. 7-and having prepared suitable designs in thin sheet nickel-plated, Germansilver, gilded, or other metal or alloy, as strips 1), we solder such designs to the casting. If for ornament only, we arrange such strips in the most effective man'- ner; but if utility is to be sought also, we arrange such strips upon exposed surfaces, as the rib c of a terret, Fig. 2, or edges (1 of a terret," Fig. 3, or the spine 6 of a water hook, Fig. 4.,"or the head f of a buckle, Fig. 5, or elsewhere where the article is apt to come into violent contact with another surface. After the stirips are soldered in place we apply lacquer, japan, or other coating, g, by brushing, dipping, or otherwise, until the desired thickness is obtained, when we remove the surplus and polish the surface in any suitable manner. If the coating is applied by dipping, the article will, when sufficiently coated, be wholly covered by the coating, as in Fig. 9; but by then subjecting it to a grinding mechanism the coating will be taken off until even with the strips, and the whole then finished by polishing.-

Terrets, 850., made after this manner may have their inner surface, h, section-figures 1, 6, 9, and 10, coated and polished; or such surface lined with a bright metal, i, as in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, corresponding in color withthe strips 1); or such inner surface may have the coating removed and the original metal polished, as in Fig. 3. By thus constructing such articles their coating is preserved intact through long and hard usage, and very elegant trimmings produced at great economy of labor,-material, andselling cost.

Before our invention it was common to cast or strike up in dies metal articles-such as drawer-pulls,harness-trimmings,&c.-witl1depressed and salient portions, to then apply a coating of plastic or fluid substance, which ente ied the depressed portions and covered the salient-portions, and then, after the depressed portions were snfficiently filled-as, for instance, fiush with the salient surfaces-the enamel or coating was ground off and polished, leaving exposed the metal of the salient portions, which is afterward polished or plated.

The formation of these salient surfaces by cast-.

ing involves costly molds, and in small articles-such as harness-trimmingsthere must be always more or less defects in the casting. By strikipg up from sheet metal expensive dies must he had. By either method the product is too expensive to be commercially successful as compared with the variety of design, rapidity otmanufacture, elegance in appearance, and economy of production obtainable by soldering on the salient features, for the original casting is made in the plainest possible manner, with the simplest molds, and of the cheapest material, and the finish puton to suit. An ordinary iron casting can be readily converted into the most elegant gold, silver, or nickel mounted trimming.

Cloisonne work in the ceramic art has long been known, and has been practiced in some instances by soldering threads or strips of metal to a metal base in such designs as to form cells of' various configuration. These cells were then filled with an enamel, it being usual to use enamels of (Rmtrasting colors in adjacent cells throughout the Work. The most common illustrations of eloisonn work are vases, cups, and the like. ,Now, the purpose of these metal strips in eloisonn work is to form cells to receive different-colored enamels, rather than to form a protecting-surface for them and the article into which they enter. The primary object of our invention is to protect by these metal strips that portion of the article to which they are applied which is most exposed to hard usage, our invention being utilitarian rather than aesthetic.

What we claim is-- 1. The improvement in the mode of protectingthe exposed portions of metal trimmings which consists in soldering strips or pieces of sheet metal in ornamental or other designs to the blanks on such portions as will be exposed to wear or hard usage in the finished articles,

next coating such articles with japan, lacquer, or other substances, and then reducing and polishing the surfaces, so as to bring the outer surfaces of the strips or bits of metal and the coating flush, substantially as described.

2. Harness trimmings and the like composed of ametal body, strips or pieces of bright metal soldered thereto, and a lacquer, japan, or equivalent coating surrounding and flush with the said strips, substantially as described.

3. Coated, japanned, or lacquered metal bodies-such as harness-trimmings-provided with metal strips or pieces in ornamental or other design soldered to their exposed portions to take the wear or damage to such bodies and 7 protect the coating from fracture, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN R. GAHOONE. CHARLES E. OAHOONE. GEORGE VALKER.

Witnesses:

ABRAHAM MANNERS, Tnno. F. QKEER.

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