Vincent Broomhall

Vincent Broomhall was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1906, where he died in 1991. He studied at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology. He worked as a decal designer for Palm, Fechteler & Co. in East Liverpool, Ohio, in the early 1930s. From 1935 to 1944, he was the director for Edwin M. Knowles China Company in West Virginia, where he worked with decal manufacturers to simplify the multicolor prints on the company’s china pieces. It was also during that time that Broomhall, together with Herbert A. Smith, obtained a patent for the Streamline cup design (1935), which patent was assigned to the Salem China Company, located in Salem, Ohio. He left the Edwin M. Knowles China Company in 1944 to... more.