IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DECORATIVE MOULDINGS AND OTHER ORNAMENTS IN RELIEF OF WALLS, ROOFS, PANNELS, CORNICES, PICTURE OR MIRROR FRAMES, AND OTHER SURFACES."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frédéric Stevens, of Paris, in the Republic of France, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DECORATIVE MOULDINGS AND OTHER
ORNAMENTS IN RELIEF OF WALLS, ROOFS, PANNELS, CORNICES, PICTURE OR
MIRROR FRAMES, AND OTHER SURFACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frédéric Stevens at the
:
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1876.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
FRÉDÉRIC STEVENS, of Paris, in, the Republic of France.
THE DECORATIVE MOULDINGS AND OTHER ORNAMENTS IN RELIEF OF WALLS, Roofs,
PANNELS, CORNICES, PICTURE OR MIRROR FRAMES, AND OTHER SURFACES."
My Invention consists in the application, as hereafter described, of hemp and
other textile substances to all the purposes for which sculptured or moulded materials
are now employed in the production of ornamental reliefs on walls, roofs, pannels,
cornices, picture or mirror frames, and other surfaces. To this end the hemp or
other textile, substance is spun, woven, plaited, or braided to the required form or
design, and the cord, tissue, or plait thus produced is nailed, cemented, or otherwise
permanently secured to the surface to be decorated, being previously, if so desired,
indurated or rendered impervious to air and moisture by any suitable means.
reliefs thus applied are finally painted, gilded, or otherwise decorated, together with
their groundwork, by any of the usual processes.
The
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent. filed by
the said Frédéric Stevens in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th May
1877.
:
.<< IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
FRÉDÉRIC STEVENS, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
DECORATIVE MOULDINGS AND OTHER ORNAMENTS IN RELIEF OF WALLS, ROOFS,
PANNELS, CORNICES, PICTURE OR MIRROR FRAMES, AND OTHER SURFACES."
My Invention consists in the application, as hereafter described, of hemp and
other textile substances, to all the purposes for which sculptured or moulded materials

page_text: are now employed in the production of ornamental reliefs on walls, roofs, pannels,
cornices, picture or mirror frames, and other surfaces. To this end the hemp or
other textile substance is spun, woven, plaited, or braided to the required form or
design, and the cord, tissue, or plait thus produced, is nailed, cemented, or otherwise
permanently secured to the surface to be decorated, being previously, if so desired,
indurated or rendered impervious to air and moisture by any suitable means.
reliefs thus applied are finally painted, gilded, or otherwise decorated, together with
their groundwork by any of the usual processes.
The
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same may be carried into effect, I declare that what I claim and desire to
protect by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the application, sub-
stantially as herein set forth, of hemp and other textile substances to all the purposes
for which sculptured or moulded materials are now employed in the production of
ornamental reliefs on walls, roofs, pannels, cornices, picture or mirror frames, and
other surfaces.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frédéric Stevens, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
FRED. STEVENS.. (L.S.)