Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics for use as Carriage and other Covers, Floor Cloths, Imitation Leather, Wall Decoration, Book Covers, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics for use as Carriage
and other Covers, Floor Cloths, Imitation Leather, Wall
Decoration, Book Covers, and the like.
I, THOMAS THOMSON, of Hellington Terrace, Cardonald, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Technical Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows, that is to say:
My said invention has for its object the manufacture of fabrics for use as carriage
and other covers, floor cloths, imitation leather, wall decoration, book covers, and
the like. My improved fabric is of a flexible character more completely impervious
to damp and moisture and less liable to deteriorate than such fabrics as hitherto
produced.
In forming my improved fabric I use two pieces of canvas or woven fabric of
any desired texture, that to form the backing or under surface of the fabric being
however by preference of a coarser or more open texture than that which will
form the outer or finished surface when the fabric is completed.
These two pieces of fabric are cemented together by first coating one surface of
one or both picces with a composition of the kind described in the Specification of
Letters Patent granted to me and numbered 3354 of 1888; and afterwards causing
the coated surfaces to adhere by pressing them together by means of rollers or a
press or other suitable known apparatus. The composition may be applied to the
surface or surfaces of the fabric by means of any suitable known apparatus such as
that used in spreading linoleum; or the composition may be thinned down with a
solvent or by heat and spread on the fabric by means of a scraper or doctor or
rollers in a manner usually practised with such materials.
The combined fabric is exposed to air to age or dry the composition the
action being quickened by a moderate heat and the fabric is finally finished by
giving the back or under surface one or more coatings of any good preserving
composition the face or outer surface being also treated with one or more coats
of oil varnish to form the finished surface of the fabric.
The pieces of fabric may be finished on the face and back before they are
cemented together but in that case the cementing composition will take longer to
age or dry.
Dated this Third day of March 1891
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics for use as Carriage
and other Covers, Floor Cloths, Imitation Leather, Wall
Decoration, Book Covers, and the like.
I, THOMAS THOMSON, of Hellington Terrace, Cardonald, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Technical Chemist, 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, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object the manufacture of fabrics for use as carriage
and other covers, floor cloths, imitation leather, wall decoration, book covers, and
the like. My improved fabric is of a flexible character more completely impervious
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page_text: to damp and moisture and less liable to deteriorate than such fabrics as hitherto
produced.
In forming my improved fabric I use two pieces of canvas or woven fabric of
any desired texture; that to form the backing or under surface of the fabric being.
however by preference of a coarser or more open texture than that which will
form the outer or finished surface when the fabric is completed.
These two pieces of fabric are cemented together by first coating one surface of
one or both pieces with a composition of the kind described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to me and numbered 3354 of 1888; and afterwards
causing the coated surfaces to adhere by pressing them together by means of rollers
or a press or other suitable known apparatus. The composition may be applied
to the surface or surfaces of the fabric by means of any suitable known apparatus
such as that used in spreading linoleum; or the composition may be thinned down
with a solvent or by heat and spread on the fabric by means of a scraper or doctor
or rollers in a manner usually practised with such materials.
The combined fabric is exposed to air to age or dry the composition the action
being quickened by a moderate heat namely about 80 degrees Fahrenheit and
the fabric is finally finished by giving the back or under surface one or more
coatings of any good preserving composition the face or outer surface being also
treated with one or more coats of oil varnish to form the finished surface of the
fabric. The pieces of fabric may be finished on the face and back before they
are cemented together but in that case the cementing composition will take longer
to age or dry.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In the manufacture of fabrics for use as carriage and other covers, floorcloths,
imitation leather, wall decoration, book covers, and the like, the combining of
two pieces of woven fabric with an intermediate cementing composition of the
kind claimed in my Patent Specification No. 3354 of 1888, as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Thirtieth day of November 1891.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.