CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN IMPRESSING AND EMBOSSING PATTERNS ON SILK, COTTON, AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, KENT
KINGDON, of Exeter, in the County of Devon, Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
- WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of April, in the fifth year of Her reign; did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Kent
Kingdon, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Kent Kingdon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such
others as I, the said Kent Kingdon, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN IMPRESSING AND
EMBOSSING PATTERNS ON SILK, COTTON, AND OTHER WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Kent Kingdon, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particu-
larly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in
Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Kent Kingdon, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My improvements in embossing consist, first, in producing by means of
flock an embossed or raised pattern on any unprepared woven surface of
woollen, cotton, linen, or silk.
Secondly, in the use of a solution of indian-rubber, by which means the
embossed or raised part produced by the flock is rendered more perfect and
durable,
And, thirdly, in the employment of a solution of indian-rubber spread over
the surfaces of linen, woollen, silk, or cotton, which solution, by preventing all
absorption, admits of a gold size being spread on the surface, thereby enabling
the cloth to be bronzed or gilt. The cloth so prepared is then passed under
or between an engraved cylinder or cylinders, and the surface thereby embossed
in the usual way.
In order to produce an embossed cloth, I take a piece of cloth, say woollen
damask, quite plain, and I print or impress by means of a wooden or other:
block the pattern I require on the woollen cloth with a solution of indian-
rubber. When this is dry, I print with the same or a similar block over the
indian-rubber with flocking varnish, made in the usual manner; I then dust
the flock on the varnish, and when dry, the flock by adhering to the varnish
forms the required pattern. When the ground is intended to be gilt or
bronzed, I take a cloth, say, a thin calico, and cover it entirely with a solu-
tion of indian-rubber; when dry, I spread over a coat of gold size, made in
the usual way, which may be either gilt or bronzed. The embossing can then
be produced by passing the gilt or bronzed cloth between engraved cylinders,
and if it is wished to form a pattern in flock, proceed in the way before
described.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner in which the same is
performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim,-
First, the use of flock, for the purpose of embossing or forming raised
patterns on unprepared surfaces of woollen, linen, silk, cotton, &c.
And, second, the application of indian-rubber to surfaces of linen, woollen, silk,
cotton, &c., which, by preventing all absorption, enables either the gold size or
the flocking varnish to be applied, so that the surfaces to which the gold size

page_text: is applied can be bronzed or gilt and embossed by cylinders, in the usual way,
and afterwards either flocked or not; or when the flocking varnish is used, the
embossed pattern is produced by means of flock alone.
In witness whereof, I, the said Kent Kingdon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of October, in
the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Kent Kingdon came before our Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of October, in the year above written.