IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGINGS AND COVERINGS FOR WALLS AND OTHER DECORATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1868

page_text: PATEN to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of
Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the
City of London, Patent Agents, for the Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGINGS AND COVERINGS FOR WALLS AND OTHER
DECORATIVE PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad by Jean
Marie Lasché, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France.
o, atent Agents, for
PROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGINGS AND COVERINGS FOR WALLS AND OTHER
DECORATIVE PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad by Jean
Marie Lasché, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France.
Sealed the 16th April 1869, and dated the 13th November 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th November 1868.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman,
and Company, of 166, Fleet Strect, in the City of London, Patent Agents,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGINGS AND COVERINGS FOR WALLS AND OTHER
DECORATIVE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The slowness of painting operations in buildings, the obstruction
caused by workmen, and the disagreeable smell from fresh paint are

page_text: great inconveniences inherent to the present mode of painting and
decorating. Now the object of this Invention is chiefly to dispense with
painting operations in the house or room to be decorated and to prepare
the painting at a factory or shop, so that it can be applied to walls or
other surfaces by ordinary hangers or layers without giving rise to
disagreeable smells.
The Invention consists in producing or effecting the painting or
coloring upon metallic foil, by preference tin foil.
I proceed as follows:-I take thin tin foil, which possesses great
flexibility; I spread it upon a hard smooth surface, such as glass, taking
care to damp the glass in order to facilitate the spreading and retention
of the foil; the foil thus spread constitutes a very smooth surface on
which I paint or color in oil, either plain or ornamental, as on walls or
wainscots; I allow it to dry, and I varnish it; this portable painting
when removed from the glass with its lining of tin is ready to be applied
in a house or otherwise. This new covering or hanging is wound on
rollers like paperhangings, but it differs therefrom inasmuch as the
coloring or painting is on tin and in oil; the back or tin lining con-
stitutes a waterproof surface, and the tin, owing to its great flexibility,
can be adapted to the configuration of all mouldings or irregularities.
Before applying the tin hanging or covering I spread a waterproof
mixture on the wall or surface to be decorated, and I then cut the
hanging and apply it, making it follow the irregularities of the
mouldings and ornaments.
This tin covering may also replace gilding; I apply in the factory
the gold on the tin foil with the ordinary preparation; I allow it to dry,
cut this tin gilding, and after having spread a waterproof mixture on the
ornaments or surface to be decorated I apply the pieces of tin gilding
thereon. The advantage of this tin gilding over ordinary gilding on
metals is that it does not oxidize, while ordinary gilding on metals soon
becomes spotted or tarnished.
This Invention thus constitutes as it were a new process of
decorative painting which dispenses with all labor at the place of
application except simple hanging or laying.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th May 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company,
of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send
grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her
special licence that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGINGS AND
COVERINGS FOR WALLS AND OTHER DECORATIVE PURPOSES," (communicated 'to
me from abroad by Jean Marie Lasché, of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris, France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The slowness of painting operations in buildings, the obstruction
caused by workmen, and the disagreeable smell from fresh paint aro

page_text: great inconveniences inherent to the present mode of painting and
decorating. Now the object of this Invention is chiefly to dispense with
painting operations in the house or room to be decorated and to prepare
the painting at a factory or shop, so that it can be applied to walls or
other surfaces by ordinary hangers or layers without giving rise to
disagreeable smells.
The Invention consists in producing or effecting the painting or
coloring upon metallic foil, by preference tin foil.
I proceed as follows:-I take thin tin foil, which possesses great
flexibility; I spread it upon a hard smooth surface, such as glass, taking
care to damp the glass in order to facilitate the spreading and retention
of the foil; the foil thus spread constitutes a very smooth surface on
which I paint or color in oil, either plain or ornamental, as on walls or
wainscots; I allow it to dry, and I varnish it; this portable painting
when removed from the glass with its lining of tin is ready to be applied
in a house or otherwise. This new covering or hanging is wound on
rollers like paperhangings, but it differs therefrom inasmuch as the
coloring or painting is on tin and in oil; the back or tiu lining con-
stitutes a waterproof surface, and the tin, owing to its great flexibility,
can be adapted to the configuration of all mouldings or irregularities.
Before applying the tin hanging or covering I spread a waterproof
mixture on the wall or surface to be decorated, and I then cut the
hanging and apply it, making it follow the irregularities of the
mouldings and ornaments.
This tin covering may also replace gilding. I apply in the factory the
gold on the tin foil with the ordinary preparation; I allow it to dry, cut
this tin gilding, and after having spread a waterproof mixture on the
ornaments or surface to be decorated, I apply the pieces of tin gilding
thereon. The advantage of this tin gilding over ordinary gilding on
metals is that it does not oxidize, while ordinary gilding on metals soon
becomes spotted or tarnished.
This Invention thus constitutes as it were a new process of
decorative painting which dispenses with all labor at the place of
application, except simple hanging or laying.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the

page_text: manufacture and employment of hangings and coverings for walls and
other decorative purposes in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.