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N. PareRs, PHootographer, WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EUGENE F. MASSELIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. IMPROVEMENT IN MARQUETRY. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,129, dated July 1, 1879; application filed December 5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern. - The color of the of the face-board A. Be it known that I, EUGENE F. MASSELIN, should be quite distinct from the cut designB of New York city, in the county and State of to make it appear strongly; but the latter can New York, have invented certain new and use be made of of many colors, as at B B', ful Improvements in Marquetry and , to bring out flowers distinctly from leaves, of which the following is a full, clear, and ex stems, &c., according to the nature of the de act description, reference being had to the ac sign. The various parts forming the design companying drawings, making a part of this are then carefully inserted in the openings specification, in which previously made in the veneer A, according to of Figuremy improvement. 1 represents, Fig.2 in front represents view, a asample trans the predetermined design, but so that they verse section through the same. project from its face. The veneer A, with its My invention relates to improvements in insertions B, is then glued or cemented to a marquetry or carving to be used in ornament thicker panel, C, or to a panel formed of two ing and other objects. Heretofore boards or veneers, CD, having the grain of marquetry has been made by cutting various the wood of one running at right angles to designs out of thin boards or veneer, and in the other. The rilievo face of the inserted serting in the openings so made pieces of vari designpleted. B B is then carved and its form com ous materials having configurations corre This carved marquetry presents many ad sponding to these openings, but of materials vantages over ordinary wood-carving, the lat contrasting in color with the foundation, and ter being always made of the same wood and of the same thickness. The surface of the two, having the same color as the foundation. By being then in the same , was carefully my new mode the design can be made of wood polished, so as to form a continuous surface of many colors, and can be made as conven with the designs embedded in it. iently in alto-rilievo as in basso-rilievo, and I The object of my invention is to produce save all the labor usually necessary in form marquetry in relief by using a foundation ing the plane A of the design, and, if desired, similar to that used in ordinary marquetry, this plane can be varnished and polished be and having cut designs projecting from its fore inserting the riliejo design. face. - Having now fully described my invention, My invention consists in combining, with a I claim foundation-board having openings cutthrough 1. Marquetry in "ilievo formed by the com in the form of designs, a design, or series of bination of a thin board having design-open designs, formed from a board or other mate ings cut through it with correspondingly rial thicker than the foundation-board, to be formed designs cut out of thicker boards than inserted in the openings of the latter and pro the first, and united, substantially as and for ject from its face, and adapted to be carved in the purpose described. rilievo, as will be described hereinafter. 2. Carved marquetry formed by the combi In the drawings, A represents the face nation of a thin board having design-open board or foundation out of which the whole ings cut through it with correspondingly design is cut out with a fine , leaving open formed designs cut out of thickerboards than ings to receive correspondingly-designed cut the first, united together, glued to a founda tings B, sawed from another but thickerboard tion or panel, and carved, substantially as set or boards. The board or veneer A is gener. forth. ally from a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch EUGENE F. MASSELLN. thick, while the board out of which the de Witnesses: signed cuttings B are cut is twice or three THOMAs W. PITTMAN, times that thickness. MILTON B, EDWARDS.