AN IMPROVED MODE OR MANNER OF TREATING RISEN FLOCK PATTERNED PAPERS SO AS TO GIVE THEM
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Decorator, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OR
MANNER OF TREATING RISEN FLOCK PATTERNED PAPERS SO AS TO GIVE THEM
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th April 1874.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MODE OR MANNER OF TREATING RISEN FLOCK PATTERNED PAPERS SO AS
TO GIVE THEM THE APPEARANCE OF DAMASKS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is sufficiently explained in the title, and
the Invention is intended to be applied chiefly for wall decorations.
Supposing then the walls of a room-to bo papered with the ordinary
flock paper in its original or uncolored state, different shades of any
desired color are laid thereon in such manner that the lightest shade

page_text: shall be at the top of the room and the darkest at the bottom, or vice
versa. When the color is perfectly dry, I apply myself to recolor the
risen flock or flower portion of the paper, leaving the sunken portion or
background of the paper untouched, and I color this risen flock or flower
portion in an exactly opposite manner to that in which the sunken
portion or background has been treated; that is to say, supposing the
lightest shade of the sunken portion of the paper to be at the top of the
room and the darkest at the bottom, I lay on the darkest shade on that
part of the raised or flock pattern of the paper which is at the top of the
room, gradually diminishing its color until its lightest shade is at the
bottom of the room. In this manner there will be a perfect blending of
color, and the effect will be that the paper will have the appearance of a
rich damask.
Of course in some rooms, as will be readily understood, from the
different position of its lights the shading will not be in a vertical but in
a transverse or oblique direction.
I will now describe the appliances I use for carrying my Invention
into effect. As a rule I prefer to have three shades of the particular
color which is to be used already prepared, i.e., a dark mixture, a
medium, and a light shade, though of course in some cases two shades
are sufficient, and in others more than three would be required.
The first process of coloring which I have described (and which of
course includes both the raised and the sunken portion of the flock paper)
may be performed by an ordinary brush, but it will be evident that if it
were necessary afterwards to pick out or color the raised portion with a
brush very much care would be needful, and the operation would be long
and tedious. To remedy this and to render my Invention to be both
casily carried into effect and to be produced at a very trifling cost, I
employ for the coloring of the raised flock a wooden roller of suitable
size mounted in a suitable frame. This is dipped in the proper shade of 3
color and passed rapidly over the risen flock.
The said roller may in some cases be advantageously covered with

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TAYLOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Decorator, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Taylor, Her special licence that
I, the said John Taylor, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OR MANNER OF
TREATING RISEN FLOCK PATTERNED PAPERS SO AS TO GIVE THEM THE APPEARANCE
OF DAMASKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under:
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner.
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of my said 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) :-
The object of this Invention is sufficiently explained in the title, and
the Invention is intended to be applied chiefly for wall decorations.
Suppose then the walls of a room to be papered with the ordinary flock
paper in its original or uncolored state, different shades of any desired
color are laid thereon in such manner that the lightest shade shall be at
the top of the room and the darkest at the bottom, or vice versa.
As a.

page_text: rule I prefer now to wait until this ground color is perfectly dry, but in
special cases expedition may be essential, and as the next operation I
apply myself to recolor the risen flock or flower portion of the paper,
leaving the sunken portion or background of the paper untouched, and
I color this risen flock or flower portion in an exactly opposite manner
to that in which the sunken portion or background has been treated;
that is to say, supposing the lightest shade of the sunken portion of the
paper to be at the top of the room and the darkest at the bottom, I lay
on the darkest shade on that part of the raised or flock pattern of the
paper which is at the top of the room, gradually diminishing its color
until the lightest shade is at the bottom of the room. In this manner
there will be a perfect blending of color, and the effect will be that the
paper will have the appearance of a rich damask.
As will be readily understood the same principle applics, the same
method is observed, and a similar effect produced when the sunken
portion or background of the paper is of one color (say red) and the
risen flock or flower portion another tint (say gold color).
. Of course in some rooms, as will be readily understood, from the
different position of its lights the shading will not be in a vertical but
in a transverse or oblique direction.
I will now describe the appliances I use for carrying my Invention
into effect. As a rule I prefer to have three shades of the particular
color which is to be used already prepared, i.c., a dark mixture, a
medium, and a light shade, though of course in some cases two shades
are sufficient, and in others more than three would be required.
"
The first process of coloring which I have described (and which of
course includes both the raised and the sunken portion of the flock
paper) may be performed by an ordinary brush, but it will be evident
that if it were necessary afterwards to "pick out or color the raised
portion with a brush very much care would be needful, and the operation
would be long and tedious. To remedy this and to render my Invention
to be both casily carried into effect and to be produced at a very trifling
cost, I employ for the coloring of the raised flock a wooden roller of
suitable size mounted in a suitable frame. This is dipped in the proper.
shade of color and passed rapidly over the risen flock.
The said roller may in some cases be advantageously covered with-
buff leather, or cloth, or other like suitable material.

page_text: In some cases it may be convenient to substitute for the said roller a
flat block, which when so employed is, by preference, similarly covered
with cloth, buff leather, or other like suitable material.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect, I desire it to
be understood that without limiting myself to the precise details herein-
before described (as these may be to some extent varied or modified
without departing from my said Invention) I desire it to be understood
that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the mode or manner of so treating
risen flock patterned papers as to give them the appearance of damasks
by the means or mechanical apparatus or appliances berein-beforo
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
J. EMERY DAVIES,
Clerk to Mr. G. R. Holland,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.
JOHN TAYLOR. (L.S.)