AN IMPROVEMENT IN COLLARS, CUFFS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES COMPOSED OF PAPER OR OF PAPER AND TISSUE COMBINED
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Kaufmann, of No. 27, Rue Laffitte, Paris,
in the Empire of France, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
COLLARS, CUFFS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES COMPOSED OF PAPER OR OF PAPER
AND TISSUE COMBINED."
Sealed the 6th September 1867, and dated the 22nd March 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Kaufmann at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd March 1867.
I, CHARLES KAUFMANN, of No. 27, Rue Laffitte, Paris, in the Empire of
France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN COLLARS, CUFFS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES COMPOSED OF PAPER OR OF
PAPER AND TISSUE COMBINED," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to produce in paper, or paper combined with
linen or other tissues, a close imitation of the embroidered cambric work known
as "insertion," and generally applied in the manufacture of collars, cuffs, and
other analogous articles. Articles of this description are, as is well known,
composed of a body of linen or other fabric, different parts of which being cut
out are filled by the insertion of corresponding pieces of cambric embroidered
at will, so that the main part of the collar or cuff is formed of two thicknesses,
each of which is about double that of the inserted cambric, thus representing
a thick body with an ornamented central portion shaved down as thinly as

page_text: possible. When a colourless body is so reduced in thickness as to become
translucent a blue or blue brown tint is imparted to it, and on this principle
my Invention is based, its object being to produce the translucent appearance
in any given portion of the paper collar or cuff by imparting to such portion
a slight tinting of a blueish or blueish brown cast, while the other parts are
left in their natural or white state. To this end the portion of my paper collar
or cuff corresponding with the cambric insertion is depressed by suitable dies
below the main body, and the translucent appearance of the textile fabric is
produced by tinting with a faint color all the parts of the face corresponding
with the groundwork, and excepting those occupied by the embossed em-
broidery designs. It will thus be understood that the central portion is made
thinner than the surrounding body of the collar, and that the relief embroidery
extends no higher than the surface of the latter, while the embossed portions
of the main part may be raised as required.
In short, the characteristic feature of my Invention is the close imitation of
the translucent portions of the cambric lace collar or cuff, obtained by the
depression and faint tinting of the parts not embossed, corresponding to the
similar parts of the textile article.
The general details of surface stitching and ornamenting may be varied at
will, and, if so desired, the collar or cuff may be formed directly from paper
pulp pressed up in dies of any required dimension or design.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Kaufmann in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th September 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
KAUFMANN, of No. 27, Rue Laffitte, Paris, in the Empire of France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by IIer Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Iler reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
ine, the said Charles Kaufmann, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Kaufmann, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Charles Kaufmann, iny 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

page_text: make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention of "Ax
IMPROVEMENT IN COLLARS, CUFFS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES COMPOSED OF PAPER OB
OF PAPER AND TISSUE COMBINED," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Charles Kaufmann, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Kaufmann, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to produce in paper or paper combined with
linen or other tissues a close imitation of the embroidered cambric work
known as "insertion," and generally applied in the manufacture of collars,
cuffs, and other analogous articles. Articles of this description are, as is well
known, composed of a body of linen or other fabric, different parts of which
being cut out are filled by the insertion of corresponding pieces of cambric,
embroidered at will, so that the main part of the collar or cuff is formed of
two thicknesses, each of which is about double that of the inserted cambric,
thus representing a thick body with ornamented central portion shaved down
as thinly as possible. When a colourless body is so reduced in thickness as
to become translucent, a blue or blue brown tint is imparted to it, and on this
principle my Invention is based, its object being to produce the translucent
appearance in any given portion of the paper collar or cuff by imparting to
such portion a slight tinting of a blueish or blueish brown cast, while the
other parts are left in their natural or white state. To this end the portion of
my paper collar or cuffs corresponding with the cambric insertion is depressed
by suitable dies below the main body, and the translucent appearance of the
textile fabric is produced by tinting with a faint color all the parts of the face
corresponding with the groundwork, and excepting those occupied by the
embossed embroidery designs. It will thus be understood that the central
portion is made thinner than the surrounding body of the collar, and that the
relief embroidery extends no higher than the surface of the latter, while the
embossed portions of the main part may be raised as required.
In short, the characteristic feature of my Invention is the close imitation of
the translucent portions of the cambric lace collar or cuff, obtained by the

page_text: depressing and the faint tinting of the parts not embossed corresponding to
the similar parts of the textile article.
The general details of surface stitching and ornamenting may be varied at
will, and if so desired the collar or cuff may be formed directly from paper
pulp pressed up in dies of any required dimension or design.
Having thus described the nature of my said improvement, and the manner
of carrying it into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details above laid down, as these may obviously be
modified in practice without deviating from the principle or main features of
my Invention; but what I claim and desire to protect by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the imitation in paper collars, cuffs, and other
analogous articles of the embroidered cambric work known as "insertion," by
the depression of the parts corresponding with such insertions, and the tinting
of the ground thereof, so as to produce a translucent appearance in manner
and for the purposes substantially as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Kaufmann, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
CHAS, KAUFMANN.
(L.8.)
CHAS. KAUFMANN. (L.8.)