Cotton, and other similar Fabrics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1888
Cotton, and other similar Fabrics.
We JAMES BRIDLE CUMING and WILLIAM WILLS, both of Nos. 4 and 5 Love Lane,
Wood Street, in the City of London, Umbrella and Sunshade Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of certain improvements in the application of photography
to silk, satin, cotton, and other similar fabrics; and its object is to print or otherwise
impress photographic views of persons, places or things upon various articles of
utility and ornament.
In carrying out our invention, we take, or cause to be taken, a view of a person,
place, or thing, by any well known system of photography, and afterwards, by the
ordinary process of photographic printing, we impress or print or otherwise affix
such photographic view or views so taken, upon any kind of silk, satin, cotton, and
such like fabrics, either after they are made up into sunshades, umbrellas, lamp
shades, gas shades, and similar articles, or before they are so made up.
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Latha 1887
JAMES BRIDLE CUMING.
WILLIAM WILLS.

page_text: We JAMES BRIDLE CUMING and WILLIAM WILLS both of Nos. 4 and 5 Love Lane
Wood Street, in the City of London, Umbrella and Sunshade Manufacturers
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:
Our invention consists in the application of photography to silk, satin, cotton, and
similar fabrics; and its object is to use such fabrics in the manufacture of various
articles of utility and ornament. Now, in order to carry out our invention, we take,
or cause to be taken, a view or picture of any suitable subject by any well known
system of Photography, and afterwards by any ordinary process of Photographic
printing, we print or impress such view or picture upon any kind of silk, satin,
cotton, and like fabrics.
We are aware that Photographic printing has before been applied to woven fabrics,
but the essential feature of novelty in our invention is that such printed fabrics
are used in the manufacture of and as the covering material for Umbrellas screens or
fans, sunshades, gas shades, lamp shades, and articles of a like nature.
Accordingly, a Sunshade or Umbrella manufactured according to our invention has
a similar framework, and the covering material thereof is gored or divided in the
same way, as an ordinary Sunshade or Umbrella. But in each or all of these gores
we propose to have one, two, three, or any number of Views or pictures, produced
and printed by any Photographic process, of any subject or subjects that may be
desired, arranged in such a manner that the face of the View or picture shall be on
the inside, or on the outside of any gore made in the covering material of such
sunshade or Umbrella. Or, we may arrange such View or picture so that its face
shall be on the inside of one gore, whilst the face of another View or picture shall
be, in the next succeeding or any other gore, on the outside; and so on alternately,
if so desired, throughout all the gores of the covering material of the article
manufactured.
It may be found possible to print two such views or pictures on the same gore,
that is to say, one on the inside, and another on the outside; but we prefer to have
only one picture or view on one gore, either on the inside or on the outside, as being
most convenient, effective, and practicable.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
In the manufacture of Umbrellas, screens, or fans, sunshades, lamp shades, gas
shades, and other similar articles, the use of a covering fabric which shall have one or
more pictures or views printed thereon by any photographic process, substantially as
and in the manner and for the purpose herein before set forth.
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CTI 1000
JAMES BRIDLE CUMING.
WILLIAM WILLS.