Improvements in Table Mats, Covers, or other similar Articles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Mats, Covers, or other similar Articles.
I, ALFRED BANCROFT, of Faulkner Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, 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 refers to small articles of decoration for domestic use such as
table mats, covers for tables, chairs, etcetera, and the like, and is designed with the
object of producing such articles from pile fabrics with a much neater appearance and
at loss cost than when finished with a woven or stitched edge.
It consists essentially in fixing the threads at the edges by means of gum, size, or
the like, stamped or impressed upon the surface to prevent the edge fraying and so
dispense with the necessity of having a woven selvage or stitched
embroidered edge.
or
In carrying out the invention I take the plush or other pile fabric either in the
piece or cut up into sizes and stamp upon it a pattern or design according to the size
of the article or the use to which it is to be applied. The centre of the article may be
plain or figured but the design, or border of the design, is stamped continuously
round the part that will form the edge of the finished article.
The design or pattern is first stamped on in gum, size, or other mucillage, and
then covered with gold or silver leaf or other metallic or coloured material which is
firmly impressed into the pattern previously imprinted by means of a second block
engraved to the same pattern as the first one.
While I prefer to use gold or silver leaf for the design and to continue the same
round the edges it is not an essential part of the invention to do so as a pigment of
the same colour as the material or the gum or size alone may be imprinted upon and
impressed into the part that forms the edge.
After the pattern or border is printed upon the fabric it is cut or stamped along the
edge either through or close to the printed border.
At the edge or selvage of the finished article, mat, cover, or the like, the threads
are thus compressed or caused to adhere together and fraying or pulling out of the
threads is prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
1 claim is
A mat, cover, or other article, made from a pile fabric, having an edge that will not
fray easily, formed by printing or impressing thereon gum, size, or the like, with or
without a coloured design, substantially as described.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Table Mats, Covers, or other similar Articles.
I, ALFRED BANCROFT, of Faulkner Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, 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 refers to small articles of decoration for domestic use such as
table mats, covers for tables, chairs, etcetera, and the like, and is designed with the
object of producing such articles from pile fabrics with a much neater appearance and
at less cost than when finished with a woven or stitched edge.
It consists essentially in fixing the threads at the edges by means of gum, size, or
the like, stamped or impressed upon the surface to prevent the edge fraying and so
stitched
woven selvage or
dispense with the necessity of having a
embroidered edge.
or
In carrying out the invention I take the plush or other pile fabric either in the
piece or cut up into sizes and stamp upon it a pattern or design according to the size
of the article or the use to which it is to be applied. The centre of the article may be
plain or figured but the design, or border of the design, is stamped continuously
round the part that will form the edge of the finished article.
The design or pattern is first stamped on in gum, size, or other mucillage, and
then covered with gold or silver leaf or other metallic or coloured material which is
firmly impressed into the pattern previously imprinted by means of a second block
engraved to the same pattern as the first one.
While I prefer to use gold or silver leaf for the design and to continue the same
round the edges it is not an essential part of the invention to do so as a pigment of
the same colour as the material or the gum or size alone may be imprinted upon and
impressed into the part that forms the edge.
After the pattern or border is printed upon the fabric it is cut or stamped along the
odge either through or close to the printed border.
At the edge or selvage of the finished article, mat, cover, or the like, the threads
are thus compressed or caused to adhere together and fraying or pulling out of the
threads is prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
A mat, cover, or other article, made from a pile fabric, having an edge that will not
fray easily, formed by printing or impressing thereon gum, size, or the like, with or
without a coloured design, substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of August 1900.
WM. P. THOMPSON & CO.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.