AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FLOCK PAPER OR FABRIC FOR PAPER HANGINGS AND OTHER DECORATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF FLOCK PAPER OR FABRIC FOR PAPER HANGINGS AND OTHER
DECORATIVE PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Félix Philippe
Follot of Paris France.
Sealed the 6th March 1877, and dated the 27th September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th September 1870.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FLOCK PAPER OR FABRIC FOR
PAPER HANGINGS AND OTHER DECORATIVE PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to the novel application of kids' and goats' hair to paper or
other fabrics for the manufacture of flock paper or flock fabric applicable for paper
hangings or hangings for decorating or furnishing apartments, the kids' or goats'
hair being used in lieu of or in combination with wool flock generally employed.
By the use of kids' or goats' hair as above mentioned a novel appearance is
imparted to the paper or fabric, the flock surface is brought into greater relief,
and is therefore richer and more ornamental, which effect may be still further
enhanced by embossing with dies or cylinders, and gilding, bronzing, or otherwise
ornamenting.
The kids or goats' hair, whether obtained direct from the skin or from waste of
any kind, is ground or reduced to powder and dyed, and made to adhere to the
paper or other fabric by the means ordinarily used for wool flock, or in any
other way.
The kids' or goats' hair may be used either alone or mixed with woollen flock or
other material, and it may be applied in the manner above described either to one
or both surfaces of the paper or other fabric, which may then be embossed or
otherwise figured with or without the aid of heat, and afterwards gilt, bronzed, or
otherwise decorated..
Paper or other fabric thus ornamented on both sides is particularly applicable for
hangings for furnishing or decorating apartments.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
March 1877.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FLOCK PAPER OR FABRIC FOR
PAPER HANGINGS AND OTHER DECORATIVE PURPOSES." A communication from
abroad by Felix Philippe Follot, of Paris, France.
This Invention relates to the novel application of kids' and goats' hair to paper or
other fabrics for the manufacture of flock paper, or flock fabric, or cloth applicable
for wall papers or hangings for decorating or furnishing apartments, the kids' or
goats' hair being used in lieu of or in combination with wool flock generally
employed.
By the use of kids' or goats' hair as above mentioned a novel appearance is
imparted to the paper or fabric, the flock surface is brought into greater relief,
and is therefore richer and more ornamental. The effect may be still further
enhanced by embossing with dies or cylinders, and gilding, bronzing, or otherwise
ornamenting.
The kids' or goats' hair, whether obtained direct from the skin or from waste
of any kind, is ground or reduced to powder and dyed, and made to adhere to
the paper or other fabric by the means ordinarily used for wool flock, or in any
other way.
The kids' or goats' hair may be used either alone or mixed with woollen flock or
other material, and it may be applied in the manner above described either to one
or both surfaces of the paper or other fabric, which may then be embossed or
otherwise figured with or without the aid of heat, and afterwards gilt, bronzed, or
otherwise decorated.
Paper or other fabric thus ornamented on both sides is particularly applicable for
hangings for furnishing or decorating apartments.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the application of kids' and goats'
hair in the manufacture of flock paper, or flock fabric, or cloth for wall papers,
hangings, and other decorative purposes, as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)