Improvements in the Manufacture and Hanging of Wall Papers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th May, 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Hanging of Wall Papers.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM OSBORN, of Stephendale Works, Stephendale Road, Fulham, in
the County of London, Paper Hangings Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to enable wall papers to be hung without its being
necessary to subject their edges to preliminary trimming for removal of the un-
printed margin that is usually left in consequence of the surface on which the pattern
is so printed that its edge may register with that of another piece or part of the
piece being of less width than the paper itself, thus necessitating preliminary
removal of the unprinted margin by cutting or otherwise as well understood.
Now according to my invention instead of making the cylinders, rollers or
equivalent, for printing from (hereinafter called the printing rollers) in suchwise that
if the one edge of the pattern produced by one printing roller or set of printing
rollers be placed next to the opposite edge of the pattern produced by the same or
another like printing roller or set of printing rollers the pattern will register, I
produce along the one edge portion of the pattern surface of the printing roller or
set of printing rollers (that is at one end of the roller or of each roller) an additional
portion of pattern that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the pattern produced
by the opposite edge portion or end of the printing roller or set of printing rollers
and instead of printing the paper with a plain margin along both its longitudinal
edges I so print it that at the one side the pattern extends quite to the edge of the
paper, and I so hang such paper that a narrow portion of that side at which the
pattern extends quite to the edge is made to overlap a corresponding portion of
the pattern at that side of the juxtaposed piece of paper which is provided with an
unprinted margin. In this way I am enabled to ensure correct register and to save
the loss of time and labor incidental to the trimming of the edge by cutting or
otherwise as heretofore usual in paper hangings.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Hanging of Wall Papers.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM OSBORN, of Stephendale Works, Stephendale Road, Fulham, in
the County of London, Paper Hangings Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
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page_text: of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
lescribed and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is to enable wall papers to be hung without its being
necessary to subject their edges to preliminary trimming for removal of the unprinted
margin that is usually left in consequence of the printed surface, on which the pattern
is so printed that its edge may register with that of another piece or part of the
piece, being of less width than the paper itself, thus necessitating preliminary removal
of the unprinted margin by cutting or otherwise as well understood.
Now according to my invention instead of making the cyclinders, rollers or
equivalent, for printing from (hereinafter called the printing rollers) in suchwise that
if the one edge of the pattern produced by one printing roller or set of printing rollers
be placed next to the opposite edge of the pattern produced by the same or another
like printing roller or set of printing rollers the pattern will register, I produce along
the one edge portion of the pattern surface of the printing roller or set of printing
rollers (that is at one end of the roller or of each roller) an additional portion of pattern
that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the pattern produced by the opposite edge
portion or end of the printing roller or set of printing rollers and instead of printing
the paper with a plain margin along both its longitudinal edges I so print it that at
the one side the pattern extends quite to the edge of the paper, and I so hang such
paper that a narrow portion of that side at which the pattern extends quite to
the edge is made to overlap a corresponding portion of the pattern at that side of the
juxtaposed piece of paper which is provided with an unprinted margin. I sometimes,
in paper printed according to my invention, entirely omit the unprinted margin, that
is I print over the whole surface of the paper and in such cases it may often be found
convenient to use paper made proportionately narrower. In this way I am enabled
to ensure correct register and to save the loss of time and labour incidental to
the trimming of the edge by cutting or otherwise, as heretofore usual in paper
hanging.
The invention can be applied to surface printing rollers or to engraved copper
printing rollers.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents a printing roller provided with a
pattern surface suitable for printing wall paper according to this invention. Fig. 2
illustrates two juxtaposed pieces of wall paper the pattern of which is produced by
printing rollers of the kind shown in Fig. 1.
The pattern surface proper of each printing roller of a set for printing wall paper,
extends across from the line 1 to the line 2 and at the other side of the line 2 is an
additional portion 3 of pattern that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the
pattern produced by the opposite edge portion or end 4 of the pattern on the printing
roller.
Paper may be printed with such a roller so that the pattern extends from the
edge 1 of the paper across the same and slightly beyond the line 2ª but so as to
leive a narrow plain marginal strip 5, the surplus strip 3" of the pattern beyond the
line 2 forming a repetition of the portion 4" of the pattern at the edge 1. Or the
plain marginal strip 5 may be omitted, the surplus strip 3ª of pattern extending to
the corresponding edge of the sheet of paper which may be made correspondingly
narrower, as shown at the right hand side of Fig. 2. In this way the surplus strip 3ª
of pattern on each piece of paper will correspond to the portion 4 of the pattern at
the adjacent side of the second or right hand piece of paper so that when this piece
is superposed with its edge 1 corresponding to the line 2 of the first or left hand
piece, the underneath strip 3ª ensures correct register of the pattern on the adjacent
pieces of paper.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The hereinbefore described improved manufacture of wall paper printed with a
pattern extending at one side to the edge of the paper and at the other side with an

page_text: additional portion of pattern that constitutes a repetition of the pattern at the oppo-
site edge the arrangement being such that, in hanging such paper, a portion of that
side at which the pattern extends quite to the edge can be caused to overlap a corre-
sponding portion of the pattern at the opposite side of the juxtaposed piece of paper
so that the underlying portion of pattern will ensure correct register of the pattern on
the adjacent pieces of paper, substantially as described.
2. Wall paper of the kind referred to in the preceding claim having an unprinted
margin along that side which is printed with an additional portion of pattern,
substantially as described.
3. For printing wall paper of the kind specified in the preceding claims, a printing
cylinder, roller or equivalent in which one edge portion of its pattern surface has an
additional portion of pattern that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the pattern
at the opposite edge, substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of May 1899.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.