Improvements in and in Means for Ornamenting Textile and other Fabrics or Materials.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in Means for Ornamenting Textile and
other Fabrics or Materials.
I, WILLIAM GRIMSHAW, of Lucy Street Works, City Road, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the ornamentation of textile fabrics and
other fabrics or materials such as paper, and my improvements consist in applying
colours to such fabrics or materials in a suitable machine by means of a revolving
or reciprocating brush to convey the colours acting in conjunction with a bar or
roller or equivalent device so arranged as to momentarily catch the bristles or fibres
or wires which when released by their resilience flirt or spray or paint the colours
on to the fabric or material and so produce novel ornamental effects.
By the word colours I include paints, pigments, dyes or chemicals.
Dated this 11th day of August 1896
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
Improvements in and in Means for Ornamenting Textile and
other Fabrics or Materials.
I, WILLIAM GRIMSHAW, of Lucy Street Works, City Road, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in the ornamentation of textile fabrics and
other fabrics or materials such as paper, and my improvements consist in applying
colours to such fabrics or materials in a suitable machine by means of a revolving
or reciprocating brush to convey the colours acting in conjunction with a bar or
roller or equivalent device so arranged as to momentarily catch the bristles or fibres
or wires which when released by their resilience flirt or spray or paint the colours
on to the fabric or material and so produce novel ornamental effects.
In applying my Invention to ornamenting textile and other fabrics or materials
or paper I propose to employ one two or more troughs containing the desired colours
and in or near each trough is fitted a revolving or reciprocating brush in conjunc-
tion with a bar, roller, or equivalent device. The fabric or paper to be ornamented
is guided to travel over or in front of the revolving or reciprocating brushes which
are fitted so that their bristles, fibres, or wires come into contact with the colour
and carry some of it forward until they momentarily catch against their stationary
bar or roller and as soon as released the bristles, fibres or wires by their resilience
flirt or spray the colours on to the travelling fabric or material in the form of a
coloured rain and so produce novel ornamental effects.

page_text: The fabric may be printed in an ordinary printing machine either after or before
the spraying operation with any suitable pattern; if the pattern is in a dark colour
the spray or rain effect may be formed in certain chemically combined colours
which will show through the dark pattern.
Although I have described several brushes and troughs it is obvious that a single
brush and trough could be employed to effect my purpose.
By the word colours, I include paints, pigments, dyes or chemicals.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use and application of any convenient number of revolving or reciprocat.
ing brushes and stationary bars in combination with colour troughs so arranged as
to flirt or spray colours on to textile and other fabrics or paper substantially as and
for the purposes described.
2. A textile or other fabric or paper ornamented by traversing it over or near
revolving brushes so as to produce a coloured spray or rain effect substantially as
and for the purposes described.