IMPROVEMENTS IN STAMPING, RAISING, OR PRINTING PATTERNS UPON LEATHER, TEXTILE, THREAD, CUT PILE, OR OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS, AND ALSO FOR DRESSING TEXTILE, CUT PILE, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS PREVIOUS TO THE STAMPING AND PRINTING
Year: 1854

page_text: This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed with the
application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed
by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Wilkinson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd June
1854.
I, WILLIAM WILKINSON, of the Town and County of the Town of Notting-
ham, Frame-work Knitter, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STAMPING, RAISING, OR PRINTING PATTERNS UPON LEATHER,
TEXTILE, THREAD, CUT PILE, OR OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS, AND ALSO FOR DRESSING
TEXTILE, CUT PILE, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS PREVIOUS TO THE STAMPING AND
PRINTING," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the printing patterns on single, double, or more
looped elastic and non-elastic fabrics, and also thread cut pile fabrics, and
stamping or raising patterns on cut pile and elastic fabrics, or rolling by
engraved rollers or blocks, elastic webs into figured webs, and also leather
fabrics, and for dressing textile, cut pile, and other similar fabrics previous to
the stamping and printing. In order to print or stamp the pattern it will be
necessary that the web or other material to be printed or stamped, while in
pieces, should be put into slide stretching frames between two straps, and the
straps pressed upon by two rollers each selvage of the web, and the same straps
must be provided with straps or rollers, to prevent the web from running in, so
that the web may be properly stretched to receive the required pattern. The

page_text: web or material acted upon may also run between slots of the frame, by which
means it may be sufficiently stretched before it is passed to the rollers or blocks
to receive the required pattern. Pins or hooks may also be provided to the
stretching straps on each side of the stretching frame, in order to regulate the
desired width of the web or other material, which frame may be widened or
narrowed by the action of screw power.
By this means the material, of any desired width, may be printed or stamped.
In printing gloves I use a dressing board covered with wool fabric or sponge,
or soft leather or other suitable material, of the shape of the glove to be dressed,
so that while the glove is in the process of being dressed, the pattern desired
for the back of the fabric may be printed at the same time while the process
of dressing is going on.
I also figure shirts of single loop elastic manufactury by printing or stamping
into pattern in a similar manner, while on the dressing board, as also children's
and other socks and stockings.
.
The dressing board may be of metal or wood, or other suitable material, but
must be previously covered with wool fabric, sponge, soft leather, or other
suitable material previous to the material to be printed or stamped being
placed upon it; and I stamp gloves of cut pile material in order to raise an
embossed pattern upon them, or to print patterns upon the surface while the
gloves are on the dressing board, covered as before described.
I also stamp or print kid or leather gloves with patterns while on suitable
dressing boards, as also kid or leather fabrics to be cut up into gloves. For
giving the patterns I use rollers with engraved patterns or engraved blocks, or
other ordinary means now in use.