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66/ [[left margin in red]] Pantone [[/left margin in red]] of book publishers to sell their books in [[strikethrough]] colored [[/strikethrough]] color printed covers. That this alone had become such an important business as to offer a large new field for [[red underline]] Pantone. [[/red underline]] Trist screen indispensable for color work because incomparably quicker and cheaper. His new drums have a depression in which fit the curved segments of Pantone Clichés which are fastened onto the drum with clasps, and work perfectly with the rubber blanket method. I asked him [[red underline]] whether he had now any practical customers [[/red underline]] who were using Pantone. [[red underline]] He said yes, [[/red underline]] he had several. They were small but gave regular orders, and he gave me the sheet of a few plates ordered same day by 3 or four small customers. [[black and red underline]] Gold flash. [[/black and red underline]] He said his latest important improvement was the following. Silver tarnishes and does not really amalgamate with mercury, hence considerable troubles arising about even distribution of mercury etc. Therefore he takes the silvercoated plate and puts a [[red underline]] "flash" very thin of gold on it. [[/red underline]] So thin that its cost is immaterial. This way he prevents not only tarnishing of the silver surface, but gold [[strikethrough]] alloys with [[/strikethrough]] amalgamates with the mercury, thus insuring a much better distribution than on a silver surface. [[underline]] [[red underline]] New "Kiss Brush. [[/red underline]] [[/underline]] Instead of the "Kiss brush which he designed with [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] and which was not satisfactory at Bloomfield. He now has invented an oscillating Kiss-Brush device which periodically feeds the [[strikethrough]] silver & ch [[/strikethrough]] mercury-chalk [[end page]] [[start page]] 67/ [[left margin in red]] Pantone [[/left margin in red]] mixture to a permanent cylinder covered with a fluffy cover that barely touches the ink roller. The "fluffy" surface is made from some soft velvet like cotton tissue of which the soft fibres stand [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] up so as to barely touch the (ink roller) ^[[plate?]]. The oscillating device conveys the Hg. + lime mixture from a silver cylinder (silver surface) (and gold would be better) which revolves in a through containing the mixture of Mercury and chalk as heretofore, but the silver surface (better a gold surface) collects the [[strikethrough]] silver and on the re [[/strikethrough]] Mercury and from this roller the oscillating brush conveys it to the ink roller. [[underline]] See sketch. [[/underline]] He promised to send us sketch and description of all this. Also gave me a copy of a letter he wrote to one of his backers, concerning the best field for Pantone which I shall give to George. [[several lines left blank in middle of page]] [[left margin in red]] Return to U S Southampton [[/left margin in red]] [[underline]] July 2. [[/underline]] Took the 9:30 ^[[[AM]] [[red underline]] train from Waterloo [[/red underline]] station to arrive a few hours, ahead of S.S. Statendam, which will arrive there from Boulogne about 7 P.M. Arrived [[red underline]] Southampton [[/red underline]] 11:30 A.M. Very few autos on the roads. - Many bicycles. Went walking around the town. Old city walls and part of fortress near the docks with statue to the Pilgrim Fathers and
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