A NEW MEANS ADGERTOLAT FLOWERS FOR MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL F
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Amable Adolphe Costallat, of 18, Rue de Choiseul,
Paris, in the Empire of France, for the Invention of "A NEW MEANS
ADGERTOLAT FLOWERS”
Sealed the 30th October 1866, and dated the 2nd May 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Amable Adolphe Costallat
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd May 1866.
I, AMABLE ADOLPHE COSTALLAT, of 13, Rue de Choiseul, Paris, in the
Empire of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW MEANS FOR MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS," to be as follows,
that is to say:
My Invention consists in a new means of making artificial flowers.
To carry out my Invention I make by the ordinary means lace, blond,
gauze, or tulle flowers, either separate or united, into bouquets, and placed on
a plain ground or a ground ornamented with designs; I then cut by hand or
machinery colored fabrics having the contours of the designs representing the
flowers, and I fix them either by the needle or by means of adhesive sub-
tances, such as gum or glue, or by those two means combined, under the

page_text: designs or ornaments of lace, tulle, blond, or other like fabric aside of one
another or one under the other. I can use as colored grounds to be seen
through the transparency of the lace, blond, tulle, or other like material, any
other materials than colored fabrics, such as paper, gelatine, and other kinds
of paste, sheets of metal and other suitable materials. Instead of placing por-
tions of the fabrics or other materials aside of each other to form the different
colours of one flower, I can print these ornaments in different colours on the
contours of the designs of the lace, tulle, or blond by only cutting away their
external contours.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Amable Adolphe Costallat in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AMABLE
ADOLPHE COSTALLAT, of 13, Rue de Choiseul, Paris, in the Empire of France,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Amable Adolphe Costallat, Her special licence that I, the said Amable
Adolphe Costallat, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Amable Adolphe Costallat, 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 "A NEW MEANS OF MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS," upon the condition
(amongst others.) that I, the said Amable Adolphe Costallat, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Amable Adolphe Costallat, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My Invention consists in a new means of making artificial flowers.
To carry out my Invention I make by the ordinary means lace, blond,
gauze, or tulle flowers, either separately or united into bouquets, and placed on
a plain ground or a ground ornamented with designs; I then cut by hand or
by suitable machinery colored fabrics having the contours of the designs
representing the flowers, and I fix them either by the needle or by means of
adhesive substances, such as gum or glue, or by these two means combined,
under the designs or ornaments of tulle, lace, blond, or other like fabric aside
of one another or one under the other. I can use as a colored ground to be
seen through the transparency of the lace, blond, tulle, or other like material,
any other suitable materials than colored fabrics, such as paper, gelatine, and
other kinds of paste, sheets of metal, and other suitable materials. Instead of
placing portions of the fabrics or other materials aside of each other to form
the different colours of one flower, I can print these ornaments in different
colors on the contours of the designs of the lace, tulle, or blond by only cutting
away their external contours.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details herein laid down; but what I claim is, the mode of manufacturing
artificial flowers as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Amable Adolphe Costallat, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
A. COSTALLAT. (L.S.)
13, Rue de Choiseul.