IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LADIES COLLARS. CUFFS, OR OTHER ORNAMENTAL ARTICLES FOR DRESS OR FURNITURE TO IMITATE SUCH ARTICLES MADE OF LACE OR EMBROIDERY."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Lechêne, of 9, Stanhope St., Hampstead
Road, in the County of Middlesex, and Charles Nathan, of 17, West-
moreland St., Pimlico, in the same County, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LADIES COLLARS. CUFFS, OR OTHER
ORNAMENTAL ARTICLES FOR DRESS OR FURNITURE TO IMITATE SUCH ARTICLES
MADE OF LACE OR EMBROIDERY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Lechêne and
Charles Nathan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 26th August 1861.
We, AUGUSTE LECHÊNE, of 9, Stanhope St., Hampstead Road, in the
County of Middlesex, and CHARLES NATHAN, of 17, Westmoreland St.,
Pimlico, in the same County, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LADIES COLLARS, CUFFS, OR OTHER ORNA-
MENTAL ARTICLES FOR DRESS OR FURNITURE TO IMITATE SUCH ARTICLES MADE OF
LACE OR EMBROIDERY," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of ladies'
collars, cuffs, or other ornamental articles for dress or for furniture to imitate
articles of a more costly description, such as lace or embroidered articles, or
trimmings for ladies' apparel, window curtains,embroidery, crochet, or knitted
work for toilet or other covers, or for upholstery or other ornamental purposes,
[Price 8d.]

page_text: and our Invention consists in the application of embossed and perforated
paper, woven fabric, or other suitable material, stamped or cut out in varied
designs, by means of suitable dies or tools, such ornamental, embossed, and
perforated designs being cemented or attached by some suitable adhesive
material, to a groundwork of net, tulle, tarlatan, muslin, cambric, or other
suitable fabric, by which the otherwise fragile ornamental design so applied is
protected from being torn or injured when made up or applied to the several
purposes of our Invention, before referred to.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Auguste Lechêne and Charles Nathan in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ArGUSTE
LECHENE, of No. 9, Stanhope Street, Hampstead Road, in the County of
Middlesex, and CHARLES NATHAN, of 17, Westmorland Street, Pimlico, in
the same County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Auguste Lechêne and Charles Nathan, Her special licence that
we, the said Auguste Lechêne and Charles Nathan, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Auguste Lechêne and
Charles Nathan,our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,use,exercise,and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Chaunel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU.
FACTURE OF LADIES COLLARS. CUFFS, OR OTHER ORNAMENTAL ARTICLES FOR DRESS
OR FURNITURE TO IMITATE SUCH ARTICLES MADE OF LACE OR EMBROIDERY," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Auguste Lechéno and
Charles Nathan, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Lotters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Auguste Lechêne and Charles Nathan,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
ladies' collars, cuffs, or other ornamental articles for dress or for furniture
to imitate articles of a more costly description, such as lace or embroidered
articles, or trimmings for ladies' apparel, window curtains, embroidery,
crotchet, or knitted work for toilet or other covers, or for upholstery or
other ornamental purposes, such as the ornamental covers of parasols, lamp
shades, &c., and our Invention consists in the application of embossed and
perforated paper, woven fabric, or other suitable material, stamped or cut
out in varied designs, by means of suitable dies or tools, such ornamental,
embossed, and perforated designs being cemented or attached by some suit-
able adhesive material, to a groundwork of net, tulle, tarlatan, musliu,
cambric, or other suitable fabric, by which the otherwise fragile ornamental
design so applied is protected from being torn or injured when made up or
applied to the several purposes of our Invention, before referred to.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, we will proceed to
describe more fully the manner of carrying the same into practice.
It is well known that very beautiful designs are capable of being produced
by stamping out, perforating, and embossing paper and other tissues by
means of dies and pressure, in imitation of lace and embroidery, and such
designs have been extensively employed as shades for the ornamentation of
lamps, and for ornamenting stationery, and a Patent was granted to Arthur
Granger, dated December 10th, 1860, No. 30-0, for the application of such
perforated or embossed ornamental designs to the manufacture of ladies'
collars, cuffs, and trimmings for dress and furniture from paper and other
tissues in imitation of lace or embroidery, and we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we make no claim to the production of such designs from
paper or similar tissues alone.
Articles made from perforated designs of this character from paper alone
are very liable to be torn, and their beauty destroyed, and the object of our
Invention is to preserve designs of this description from being so readily in-
jured,and at the same time to impart richness to the articles made therefrom.
In carrying out our Invention for the manufacture of ladies' collars, cuffs,
&c., we employ net, tulle, tarlatan, muslin, cambric, or other suitable light
gauzy fabrics as a foundation upon
which to secure by india-rubber solution,
paste, or other suitable adhesive material, the previously prepared perforated

page_text: or embossed designs stamped.pierced, or pressed out from paper,woven fabric,
or other suitable material in the forms or shapes of the intended collars, cuffs,
or other articles, by tho means well known and employed in the manufacturo
of other perforated or embossed designs from paper. We prefer to stretch the
fabric (to which the ornamental designs are to be appliod) tightly upon i
frames of suitable size and construction for the articles intended to be made
thereon, and having applied a coat of suitable cement to one side of the
stamped out, perforated, or embossed designs, they are laid upon and by
moderate pressure are readily secured to the surface of the not, tulle, or other
fabric, and when dry the articles are stamped or cut out to their proper shapes
to suit the purpose for which such articles are intended. For some purposes
we apply a coating of zinc white or other preparation, whilst the articles are
stretched upon the frames, in order to produce a nearer resemblance to real
or manufactured lace than such articles would otherwise possess.
In witness whereof, we, the said Auguste Lechêne and Charles Nathan,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-second day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.