Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 15th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 16th Dec., 1887
I Mrs. ELIZABETH ANN COCKE of No. 4 Freeman's Court, Cheapside, in the
City of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in making transparent fans or
screens and has for its object the preparation of the ordinary Japanese-paper fans
or screens for conversion into skeleton frames which may be covered with lace
or feathers or gauze or other suitable material by which they may be made
transparent.
In order to effect this object, I take an ordinary Japanese-paper fan or screen, and
proceed to strengthen the frame thereof by winding or twisting wire around its edge
and handle. I then immerse such fan or screen in water or other fluid for about an
hour in order to remove the paper therefrom. This skeleton frame is then ready to
receive the trimming of lace or feathers or gauze or any other suitable decorative
material with which it may be desired to beautify the same so as to make it
transparent. The fans or screens prepared according to my invention are very
much stronger and more durable than ordinary Japanese-paper fans or screens.

page_text: I ELIZABETH ANN COCKE of No. 4 Freeman's Court, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :—
This invention consists of certain improvements in the manufacture of fans or
screens.
Hitherto, fans or screens have been made or covered with paper or some other
non-transparent material; and the object of my invention is to prepare the ordinary
Japanese-paper fans or screens for conversion, and to convert them, into skeleton
frames, and afterwards to cover such frames with lace or feathers or gauze or other
suitable material, so that such fans or screens may be made transparent.
Now, in order to carry my invention into effect, I take an ordinary Japanese-
paper fan or screen, and proceed to strengthen the frame thereof by winding or
twisting wire around its edge and handle. I then immerse such fan or screen, so
strengthened, in water, or other suitable fluid, for about an hour, in order to remove
the paper therefrom. After the removal of such paper it will be obvious that the
fan or screen is reduced to a skeleton frame, and this skeleton frame is then ready
to receive its proposed suitable transparent trimming or covering; and accordingly
I proceed in any suitable manner to trim or cover such skeleton frame with lace or
feathers or gauze or other like transparent material with which it may be.desired to
beautify or finish the same, so that the fan or screen, when completed, will be
transparent.
Fans or screens prepared in accordance with this my invention possess the
advantages, (1) of being transparent, (2) of affording greater scope for the practice
and development of art decoration, and (3) of being very much stronger and more
durable than ordinary Japanese-paper fans or screens.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The preparation and conversion of non-transparent Japanese-paper fans or screens
into, and the manufacture of, ornamental transparent fans or screens, in the manner
herein set forth and described.
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