Improvements in Package-rolls of Gold, Silver, or other Metallic Leaf for Decorative Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Package-rolls of Gold, Silver, or other Metallic
Leaf for Decorative Purposes.
I, Walter HamILTON COE, of 166 Cranston Street, Providence, Rhode
Island, United States of America, Sign Painter, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a wound package-roll of gold, silver, or
other metallic leaf, from which the leaf may be readily deposited upon glass or upon
uneven surfaces when unwound from the package roll. And it consists in the
combination of a spirally wound sheet of metallic leaf, with a supporting strip of
paper or other suitable material, said supporting strip being made adhesive to the
leaf at the edge portion, and not throughout its middle portion, whereby the leat
may be practically applied to surlaces which do not admit of such application.
when the leaf is made adhesive to the supporting strip throughout its whole
extent.
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1, represents an outspread strip of paper or other suitable material, provided
with slightly adhesive edges for contact with the edges of the metallic leaf.
Fig. 2. represents a series of lapped sheets of metallic leaf to be wound in the
roll with the supporting strip.
Fig. 3, represents a side view of the spirally wound package roll, with a portion
of the strip and leaf unwound.
Fig. 4, represents an enlarged axial section of the spirally wound package roll,.
the leaf being wound at the inner side of the strip.
Fig. 5, represents a similar section with the leaf at the outer side of the strip.
In the accompanying drawings, A represents a thin paper strip of proper length,
which is provided upon its edges a, a, with a narrow coating of wax or other
suitable material e, having a slightly adhesive quality for the metallic leaf B, while
the middle longitudinal portion of the supporting strip, is not provided with the
said adhesive substance, so that the leaf will not stick to the strip at its middle
portion, and thus prevent the desired ready removal of the leaf from the strip.
I prefer to form the wound roll C, upon a cylindrical spool D, having a central
perforation c. whereby the package-roll may be held upon an axle in a suitable
machine for unwinding the strip and depositing the metallic-leaf upon the surface to
be decorated.
In forming my improved package-roll for applying the metallic-leaf I prefer to
wind the leaf B at the inner side of the strip A, as shown in Fig. 4, to be transferred
to the depositing surface from a separate delivering roller, but the said leaf may be
wound exteriorly of the strip if desired, as shown in Fig. 5, and in that case, the
leaf B may be transferred directly from the roll to the surface to be decorated, by
rolling the package-roll over the said surface, and removing the unwound strip from
the deposited leaf.
My improved package-roll is adapted for glass gilding, in which a very weak
sizing must be employed, and in this case the glass having a plain surface,
the adhesion of the sizing to the leaf will be sufficient to cause the leaf to be
separated from the strip by loosening or tearing it from its narrow attachment at
the edges, the unattached middle portion of the strip offering but slight resistance
to ready removal from the deposited leaf.

page_text: In depositing the leaf upon uneven surfaces, the unattached middle portion of the
leaf may be cut from the attached edges, so that the said middle portion will be
deposited from the supporting strip in a loose unattached condition, the undeposited
attached edge portion of the leaf continuing with the strip.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A package-roll for applying metallic-leaf, consisting of the spirally wound leaf
and supporting strip, the edge of the leaf being connected to the strip by means of
an adhesive material, and the main portion of the lenf left free from such adhesivo
connection to the strip, substantially as described.
Tered this 13th day of Sontombar 1805
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant,