Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Methods – Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-24
2001-08-14
Aftergut, Jeff H. (Department: 1733)
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Methods
Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
C156S263000, C156S267000, C156S297000, C428S039000, C434S096000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06273979
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to mosaics and collages, and in particular, to a new method for making a combination mosaic and collage.
It is known in the prior art to provide a customized photograph collage, which is constructed of a plurality of pictures separately mounted and joined together to form a unitary three dimensional collage. It is also known in the prior art to produce a composite picture in one of several colors by applying cut out portions of the picture to a base.
A collage is a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspapers clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets and fragments of an envelope. A mosaic is a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc. The present invention combines the techniques of both in forming a work of art or decoration.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the method of the present invention a mosaic is prepared. A sketched composite picture or decorative design on museum board, sealed wood surface, or a flat primer painted surface is made. A set and/or combination of overlapped pasted fragmented, pre-existing photographic pieces or whole photographic pictures is fixed/attached on paper. The set and/or combination is then copied on a photographic color and/or copier machine. The set and/or combination may be enlarged, multiplied, or reduced on photographic paper. The resulting material is then fragmented, pasted and set into the sketched composite picture or decorative design. A collage, i.e., an assemblage of images or objects, is then assembled or fixed onto the mosaic's composite picture or decorative design. If the work is done on a museum board, the finish work is generally dry mounted on the board and a varnish applied for preservational purposes. If the work is done on sealed wood, a plastic polymer is imbued on the surface. The mosaic-collage may be two- or three-dimensional depending on the material or object that is used or incorporated into the work.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed hereto and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention.
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Aftergut Jeff H.
McGonagle John P.
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