IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO WOVEN FABRICS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THEREON TO PRESERVE THE SAME AND FIT THEM FOR THE APPLICATION OF OIL COLOUR
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, &
Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO WOVEN FABRICS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
THEREON TO PRESERVE THE SAME AND FIT THEM FOR THE APPLICATION OF
OIL COLOUR." A communication from abroad by the Firm of Wilhelm M. L.
Wintor & Company, of Vienna, Austria.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th March 1880.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO WOVEN
FABRICS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THEREON TO PRESERVE THE SAME AND FIT THEM FOR
THE APPLICATION OF OIL COLOUR." [A communication from abroad by the Firm
of Wilhelm M. L. Winter & Company, of Vienna, Austria.]
This Invention relates to woven-fabrics on which positive photographic pictures
have been produced, and has for its object the preparing or treating of the said
woven fabrics in such a manner that they will be protected from the action of
damp, air, and other atmospheric influences, and be in a proper state for receiving
oil-colour on their surface.
The process for treating the said fabric for the purposes described is as follows,
that is to say :-
The fabric is stretched on a suitable frame and coated with wax on the front or
picture surface until it appears entirely smooth and compact. After the coating of
wax has become hard the other side of the fabric is coated with varnish, the latter
combining with the wax which has penetrated the fabric.
By this process the fabric is entirely protected from atmospheric influences; it is
rendered as dense, solid, and non-absorbent as canvas prepared for ordinary painting
by any known process, and the clearness and depth of the photographic tone is
increased to such a degree that its freshness exceeds that of photographs on
albumenized paper.
The fabric may be finally painted with oil-colours and varnished and treated like
an ordinary oil-painting.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
September 1880.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO WOVEN
FABRICS WITH PHOTOGRAPHIS THEREON TO PRESERVE THE SAME, AND FIT THEM FOR
THE APPLICATION OF OIL COLOUR." A communication from abroad by the Firm
of Wilhelm M. L. Winter and Company, of Vienna, Austria.
--This-Invention relates to-woven. fabrics on which positive photographic pictures
have been produced by any appropriate method, such for instance as that described-
in the Specification of former Letters Patent, dated 31st March, A.D. 1877, No.
1204, and the said Invention has for its object the preparing or treating of the said
woven fabrics in such a manner that they will be protected from the action of
damp, air, and from other atmospheric influences, and will be in a proper condition
for receiving oil-colour on their surface.
The process for treating the said fabric for the purposes described is as follows,
that is to say :-
The fabric is stretched on a suitable frame and coated with wax or equivalent
fatty substance on the front or picture surface until it appears entirely smooth and
compact. After the coating of wax has become 'hard, the other or reverse side of
thic fabric is coated with varnish, the latter combining with the wax which has
penetrated the fabric.
By this process the fabric is effectually protected from atinospheric influences; it
is rendered as dense, solid, and non-absorbent as ordinary painters' canvas prepared
for painting, and the clearness and depth of the photographic tone are increased to
such a degree that the effect produced excels that of photographs on albumenized
paper.
The fabric may ultimately be painted with oil-colours and varnished, and treated
in the same manner as ordinary oil-paintings.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,
A woven fabric, which, after having a positive photographic picture produced
thereon, is coated on the one side with wax or equivalent fatty substance, and on
the other side with varnish, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
DAD