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Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic : comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)

Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire : W. J. Furnival · leaf 816

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LEADLESS DECORATIVE TILES, FAIENCE, AND MOSAIC 720 Fill the cans E with the glaze or colour in a liquid state, then by working the pedal A compress the air in drum B. Either of the various cans may then be directed towards the piece of ware to be glazed, etc., and one of the taps C turned on. … Fig. 278. — Wenger’s foot-power air-compressor and vapo-apparatus for glaze-blowing. In this manner the enamel or slip is thrown in the form of a spray upon the ware G, K, J, M, L, to the desired thickness, at the will of the operator. It is desirable to place a screen behind the ware, to catch any…

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