An Improved Manufacture of Paper for Bank-notes and other Documents.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Paper for Bank-notes and other
Documents.
I PERCY WILMOT WILKINSON, a Director of Messrs. Bradbury Wilkinson
and Company, Limited, of 25-27 Farringdon Road, London, E.C., Bank-note
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
In the manufacture of bank-notes, it is well known that it is desirable to
increase the number of the mechanical processes essential to their production, as an
increased security against forgery is thereby obtained.
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It is also well known that a woven fabric of light texture has been introduced
into the paper during manufacture, to increase the toughness of the fabric used for
bank-notes and other documents subject to much handling. I avail myself of this
feature in the manufacture of paper for bank-notes and other documents offering
inducements to the forger, and provide a fine woven fabric which is to be coated
with paper pulp in the paper making process, and apply to the fabric any approved
device in printer's ink, or its equivalent, which will be visible through the paper
pulp facing.
The device may consist of an ornamental pattern, say, for example, a closely
packed diaper pattern, or a designation, or, it may be, the name of a manufacturing
firm.
The peculiar appearance of the paper will strike the eye of even the casual
observer, and as it cannot be reproduced except by like means to those by which
the genuine paper was produced, it is obvious that increased security against fraud
will be afforded to the issuer of the notes or other documents made from such
paper, and which, from their nominal value, offer strong inducements to ingenious
forgers.
Dated this 16th day of March 1904
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Manufacture of Paper for Bank-notes and other
Documents.
I PERCY WILMOT WILKINSON, a Director of Messrs. Bradbury Wilkinson
and Company, Limited, of 25-27, Farringdon Road, London, E.C., Bank Note
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 :-
In the manufacture of bank notes, it is well known that it is desirable that the
number of the mechanical processes essential to their production shall be such, and
of such character, as will make the manufacture complex, without materially
enhancing its cost, as an increased security against forgery is thereby obtained.

page_text: It is also well known, that a woven fabric of light texture has been introduced
into the paper of which certain circulating documents are composed, during
manufacture, to increase their toughness and resistance to wear and tear.
I avail myself of this feature in the manufacture of paper for bank notes and
other documents offering inducements to the forger, and provide a fine woven
fabric, which is to be coated with paper pulp in. the paper-making process, and
apply to the fabric any approved device in printers' ink, or its equivalent, which
will be visible through the paper pulp facing.
The device may consist of an ornamental pattern, say, for example, a closely
packed diaper pattern, or a designation, or, it may be, the name of a manufacturing
firm.
The peculiar appearance of the paper will strike the eye of even the casual
'observer, and as it cannot be reproduced except by like means to those by which
the genuine paper was produced, it is obvious that increased security against fraud
will be afforded to the issuer of notes or other documents made from such paper,
and which, from their nominal value, offer strong inducements to ingenious forgers.
In carrying out my invention, I manufacture the paper by hand in single sheets,
or I manufacture it in lengths by the well known continuous process.
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Supposing it to be bank note paper that is to be manufactured, I provide a band
of a fine woven fabric, which is to be so arranged that when the sheet or length of
paper is cut up into pieces corresponding to the size of a note, the band of woven
fabric will run either lengthwise or transversely, as the case may be, across the
paper, in a like position in all the pieces. Upon this band I print the device
which is to distinguish the character of the note, and, for convenience, it may be
well to print the device in either red or blue ink, which colours will form a good
contrast to the printing in black ink upon the face of the note. The device upon
the woven fabric, when the latter is embedded in pulp by the paper-making
operation, will be clearly visible, without holding the paper up to the light, and
will serve the purpose of the ordinary water mark, while an additional process is
required to secure the desired effect. The advantage of my invention will therefore
be, not merely that the process of printing is required at a new and early stage of
the manufacture, thereby increasing the opportunity of discovering an attempt at
forgery, but also that the note, when produced, will carry evidence of its
genuineness even to the most illiterate person who may receive it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I déclare that what I
claim is
The manufacture of paper for bank notes and other documents with an embedded
printed device, such result being obtained in the manner and for the purpose above
set forth.
Dated this 15th dox of December 1891