IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO PRINTING AND DYEING COTTON FABRICS
Year: 1885

page_text: 1 FREDERICK ALBERT GATTY, of Accrington, Lancashire, Dyer and Calico
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
RELATING TO PRINTING AND DYEING COTTON FABRICS, to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to the printing of cotton fabrics, commonly called
steams, that is to say, fabrics printed with loose colours which do not require
washing after printing. These cotton fabrics are generally starched or conditioned,
as it is commonly called after printing. If this process is not carefully performed
the colours get wet and are injured.
Now, my improvements consist in starching or conditioning the fabric previous
to printing, instead of starching them after printing as is now customary.
For certain colours, I incorporate with the sizing materials, mordants or other
ingredients capable of fixing colours by which means many colours can be fixed
and made much faster.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant,
4, Mansfield Chambers,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Printing and Dyeing Cotton
Fabrics.
I FREDERICK ALBERT GATTY, of Accrington, Lancashire, Dyer and Calico
Printer do hereby declare the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
RELATING TO PRINTING AND DYEING COTTON FABRICS, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:―
My improvements relate to the printing of cotton fabrics, commonly called
steams, that is to say, fabrics printed with loose colours which do not require
washing after printing.
These cotton fabrics are generally starched or conditioned, as it is commonly
called, after printing. If this process is not carefully performed the colours get
wet and are injured.
Now my improvements consist in starching or conditioning the fabrics previous
to printing instead of starching them after printing as is now customary.
For certain colours I incorporate with the sizing materials, starch, mordants or
other ingredients capable of fixing colours by which means many colours can be
fixed and made much faster.
I make use of the same machinery and the same materials as when the starching
or stiffening is done after printing.
For light starching the fabrics are run through thin starch or size and are dried
in the usual way. In this instance the fabrics may be printed on either side but
when heavily starched fabrics are to be printed, the printing can only be
successfully effected upon the opposite side of the fabric to that to which the
starch has been applied..
For printing with certain colours I add materials to the starch which will assist
in fixing the colours and make them faster. This applies particularly to the
printing of aniline and other similar colours. For Eocine and colours of the same
nature 1 add four to six ounces of acetate or nitrate of lead to every gallon of
starch and proceed as before. For most other aniline colours I add two to four
ounces of taunic acid to every gallon of starch and for colours which in themselves
combine with metallic bases or contain substances which are capable of combining
with the same I add a salt of alumina, tin or antimony equivalent to from four to
eight ounces of alum for every gallon of starch.
By my Invention I take advantage of the operation of starching to fix certain
colours on fabrics and to give some permanence to colours which are otherwise
very loose, and this I effect by adding to the starch or starching materials
ingredients as described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. Starching or sizeing fabrics before printing instead of after printing as at
present in the manner and for the purposes herein described.
2. Incorporating ingredients such as those herein specified with the starch or
size as and for the purposes herein described.

page_text: I FREDERICK ALBERT GATTY, of Accrington, Lancashire, Dyer and Calico
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
RELATING TO PRINTING AND DYEING COTTON FABRICS, to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to the printing of cotton fabrics, commonly called
steams, that is to say, fabrics printed with loose colours which do not require
washing after printing. These cotton fabrics are generally starched or conditioned,
as it is commonly called after printing. If this process is not carefully performed
the colours get wet and are injured.
Now, my improvements consist in starching or conditioning the fabric previous
to printing, instead of starching them after printing as is now customary.
For certain colours, I incorporate with the sizing materials, inordants or other
ingredients capable of fixing colours by which means many colours can be fixed
and made much faster.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant,
4, Mansfield Chambers,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Printing and Dyeing Cotton
Fabrics.
I FREDERICK ALBERT GATTY, of Accrington, Lancashire, Dyer and Calico
Printer do hereby declare the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
RELATING TO PRINTING AND DYEING COTTON FABRICS, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:--
My improvements relate to the printing of cotton fabrics, commonly called
steams, that is to say, fabrics printed with loose colours which do not require
washing after printing.
These cotton fabrics are generally starched or conditioned, as it is commonly
called, after printing. If this process is not carefully performed the colours get
wet and are injured.
Now my improvements consist in starching or conditioning the fabrics previous
to printing instead of starching them after printing as is now customary.
For certain colours I incorporate with the sizing materials, starch, mordants or
other ingredients capable of fixing colours by which means many colours can be
fixed and made much faster.
I make use of the same machinery and the same materials as when the starching
or stiffening is done after printing.
For light starching the fabrics are run through thin starch or size and are dried
in the usual way. In this instance the fabrics may be printed on either side but
when heavily starched fabrics are to be printed, the printing can only be
successfully effected upon the opposite side of the fabric to that to which the
starch has been applied.
For printing with certain colours I add materials to the starch which will assist
in fixing the colours and make them faster. This applies particularly to the
printing of aniline and other similar colours. For Eocine and colours of the same
nature 1 add four to six ounces of acetate or nitrate of lead to every gallon of
starch and proceed as before. For most other aniline colours I add two to four
ounces of taunic acid to every gallon of starch and for colours which in themselves
combine with metallic bases or contain substances which are capable of combining
with the same 1 add a salt of alumina, tin or antimony equivalent to from four to
eight ounces of alum for every gallon of starch.
By my Invention I take advantage of the operation of starching to fix certain
colours on fabrics and to give some permanence to colours which are otherwise
very loose, and this I effect by adding to the starch or starching materials
ingredients as described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. Starching or sizeing fabrics before printing instead of after printing as at
present in the manner and for the purposes herein described.
2. Incorporating ingredients such as those herein specified with the starch or
size as and for the purposes herein described.
:
Dated this 9th day of October 1885.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant,
4, Mansfield Chambers,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant,
4, Mansfield Chambers,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.