An Improved Manufacture of Decorative Material for Application to Walls or other Surfaces.
Year: 1888

page_text: An Improved Manufacture of Decorative Material for Application to
Walls or other Surfaces.
We HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY and ISAAC HENRY STOREY of the firm Storey,
Brothers & Co. of the Town and County of Lancaster, Table Baize, Oil Cloth and
Wall Decoration, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, to
be as follows:-
Our Invention has for its object to provide an improved and washable decorative
material for application to walls or other surfaces.
According to our Invention we make a compound fabric of canvas or like textile
fabric and paper making material or pulp and we coat either or both of its surfaces or
impregnate it with oil or other water resisting medium and we then subject the
material so prepared to the action of a drying apparatus and then we print or transfer
or apply in any suitable way to the material a pattern or design with any suitable
water resisting colouring medium. Or we apply or may apply the pattern or design
to the material in distemper or nonwater repellant medium and afterwards if desired
apply a water proofing medium.
Where it is desired to give to the face of the material an impression of the mesh or
texture of the canvas or the like we effect or may effect this by passing the material
through press rollers.
We wish it to be understood that we do not necessarily limit ourselves to the order
of the steps of the process for the production of our improved decorative material as
hereinbefore described, but may vary or omit some of them.
Dated this Eleventh day of February 1888.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.

page_text: CUMI LEIE DE BUITIGATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Decorative Material for Application to
Walls or other Surfaces.
We HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY and ISAAC HENRY STOREY of the firm Storey
Brothers & Co. of the Town and County of Lancaster, Table Baize Oil Cloth and
Wall Decoration Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:—
Our invention has for its object to produce in an economical and expeditious manner
an improved decorative material which is strong and durable and can be readily applied
to walls or other surfaces and will when made by some of the processes we describe
bear washing without injury.
According to our invention we take or make a cloth or web of canvas or other
analogous textile fabric combined with paper making material or pulp the said
compound fabric thus preventing the surface of paper suited for readily receiving the
material afterwards coated or impressed upon it and the strength resulting from the
use of the canvas or like fabric. This compound fabric we then coat or cover or
impregnate with an oily or other water resisting medium or paint, or with a suitable
size, or with distemper colour. The coating or covering may be effected most
conveniently by means of a doctor or in any other suitable way or if it is to be
impregnated it may be submerged in or passed through a bath of the liquid or semi-
liquid medium with which it is to be treated. We then dry the material so prepared
and when it has become sufficiently dry we apply thereto a design or pattern. This
design or pattern may be applied in any suitable or convenient way and either with a
water resisting medium or in distemper or non-water-resisting medium but if the latter
plan be adopted it is afterwards by preference covered and protected and rendered
washable by the application of a water resisting medium which will not interfere with
the proper appearance of the design or pattern applied as aforesaid. The said design
or pattern may be in any suitable colour or colours.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood we will more particularly
describe the method we find most suitable for general purposes.
For the manufacture of the compound fabric forming the basis of our decorative
material it is necessary that we use the wet end of a paper making machine which
may be of the ordinary and well known make. A short distance in front of the breast
roll of this machine we mount a roller upon which is rolled a web of canvas or other
analogous textile fabric and between this roller and the breast roll we fix an expanding
roller for the purpose of giving the canvas a proper lateral tension. Beneath the
breast roll we place a guide roller. The paper pulp being prepared and the attach-
ments of the paper making machine being properly charged and ready and these
rollers and the paper making machine being set in motion the canvas will pass over the
expanding roller, under and around the guide roller, and will be delivered on to the
wire of the paper making machine as it passes over the breast roll, it will thus be laid

page_text: on the wire and will receive upon its surface the pulp that in ordinary paper making
would be delivered upon the wire at this point. From this point thence forward it
will be treated as paper is, or may be treated in its manufacture until it is dried, we
then coat the material so prepared with an oil paint or other water resisting or with a
non-water resisting colouring matter by passing it under a doctor in what is known
as a trowelling or coating machine or by other suitable means, or we may by means
of guide rollers pass it through a bath of water resisting or non-resisting solution or
colouring matter. The material is then dried and when dry we print upon its surface
a pattern or design in any suitable colouring matter by means of rollers, blocks, or other
device.
If we are coating or printing or coating and printing or impregnating the fabric
with non-water resisting colouring matter we prefer to dry it by means of drying
cylinders or other suitable means in lieu of air drying.
When it is desired to give to the material an impression of the mesh or texture of
the canvas or the like or other desired impression this may be effected by passing the
material between press rollers or embossing rollers suited to give the required pressure
or impression. We do not necessarily limit ourselves to the herein before named
order of the steps of the process of producing our improved decorative material as we
may vary or omit certain of them for example as before indicated we may omit the
coating of water resisting medium after the design or pattern has been applied or we
may omit the coating of water resisting medium after the design or pattern has been
applied in cases where the material has already been treated with such a
medium before applying the design or pattern and the design or pattern has
been applied in a water resisting medium, or we may omit the pressing between
rollers or embossers, and in certain cases the drying preliminary to applying the
pattern or design may be dispensed with or the material may be only partially dried
or we may omit the preliminary coating or impregnating of the compound material
relying upon the final coating or impregnating after the design or pattern has been
applied or we may omit the preliminary coating or impregnating of the compound
material relying upon the covering power of the colour printed upon it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. The manufacture of a decorative material for covering walls or other surfaces
by combining paper pulp or paper making material and canvas or equivalent fabric and
treating with a water resisting or non-water-resisting medium either after or before
or both after and before applying a design or pattern all substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The manufacture of a decorative material by combining textile fabric and paper
pulp impregnating or coating it with a water resisting medium or size, or non-water-
resisting medium or colour and drying and then applying a design in water resisting
medium or in non-water-resisting medium protected or not as desired by a water
resisting coating whether the material so produced be afterwards passed between
pressing or embossing rollers or not.
3. As a new article of manufacture a decorative material manufactured as herein-
before described and claimed.
Dated this Eighth day of November 1888
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.