Improvements in the Plain Edges or Trimmings of Paperhangings and other Wall Coverings.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 5th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Plain Edges or Trimmings of Paperhangings
and other Wall Coverings.
JAMES EDWARD FARROW, 23, Wardall Street, Cleethorpes, in the County of
Lincolnshire, Decorator I, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
Wall paper's at present are printed with pattern's leaving a plain edge on each
side about in. wide..
These require to be cut off close up to the pattern before the workman can
hang them on, the walls, long scissors are principally employed, or a sharp knife
may be used for cutting or trimming off one or both plain edges of paper hang-
ings &c.
I-purpose when the paperhangings or wall coverings are being printed, before
being rolled up to fix or attach suitable cutting or perforating wheel or wheel's
or knives or scissor's the wheels to be circular with sharp knife like edges &
may have notches at suitable interval's the objec: oeing to cut off the plain edges
except at certain, intervals so as to cause the plain edges to adhere to printed
portion. After being cut or perforated or stamped I purpose to have a small
roller or rollers the plain cut edges to pass between or over the rollers, rollers
to be made of suitable material & to be supplied with gum or other adhesive sub-
stance. My idea is that by gumming the underside of cut plain edges about
in. on each side of cut or perforation that wher dried it will cause the cut
edges to unite strengthening the edges.
When the paperhanger desires to paper say a room o. wall he unrolls the paper
cuts in suitable lengths, places on paste board pattern down pastes the whole
of back or plain side of paper the paste softens the gum edge & by simply taking
hold of pin edge or edges of paper tears it off easily thereby saving a certain
amount of time & labor also enabling anyone without experience to take off
the edge or edges of paperhanging.
The present method employed requires skilled labor to cut off edges neatly,
The cuts or perforations can be straight slits or cuts, or small circular, square,
oval, diamond, triangular,, crescent, pointed, oblong, or any other suitable shape
so that when two edges of paper are brought together they form a he & she or
close fitting joint. Also a small cutting wheel may be employed by the paper-
hanger instead of scissors for cutting tops & bottoms of paper when hanging the
same my object is to save time & labor, also simplifying paperhanging.
Each edge of paper may be made taper, bevel, or finer & the pattern printed
fuller on edges so as to get a full pattern.
4th day of January 1898.

page_text: Improvements in the Plain Edges or Trimmings of "Paperhangings
and other Wall Coverings.
I, JAMES EDWARD FARROW, of 23, Wardall Street, Cleethorpes, in the County
of Lincoln, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
tanner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
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Wall papers are at present printed with patterns leaving a plain edge on each
side about half an inch wide.
These required to be cut off close up to the pattern at one or both edges before
the workman can hang them on the walls. Long scissors are principally_em-
ployed or a sharp knife may be used for cutting or trimming off one or both
edges of the paper hangings &c.
I purpose when the paper hangings or wall coverings are being printed or
ornamented and before they are rolled up to cut the plain edges at intervals or to
perforate one or both edges along the edge of the pattern so that although the
plain edges adhere to the printed or ornamented part, one or both of these edges
may be easily removed from the wall paper either after unrolling the same or
even before unrolling, it. In the latter case any slight roughness at the edge
of the wall paper can be remove means of sand paper or the like.
The trimming of the plain edge or edges of paper hangings prepared as above
described can be performed by anyone without the experience and skill necessary
for removing the said edges by shears or other devices in the ordinary way.
The cuts or perforations can be straight slits or cuts or small circular, square,
oval, diamond, triangular, crescent, pointed, oblong, or any other suitable shape
or so made that when two edges of paper are brought together they form a
close fitting or locking joint.
The slitting or perforating of the piece of paper hanging or wall covering while
it is passing through the printing or ornamenting machine and before rolling it
for transport enables the slit or perforations to be made to register exactly with
the edge or edges of the pattern or design applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in whi manner the same is to be performed declare that what
I claim is:
The preparation of the edges or trimmings of paper hangings and other wall
coverings by slitting or perforating the same while passing through the printing
or ornamenting machine and before rolling them up, substantially as and for the
purpose herein before described.
3
ated this ora day of October 1898.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.