IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOCKED FABRICS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BRINDLEY, of Queenhithe, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of
January (One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two), in the fifteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Brindley, my exors, admors and assigns, Her
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
William Brindley, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Brindley, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOCKED FABRICS, AND
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that I, the said William Brindley, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be
inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Brindley, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:-
My Invention relates, first, to the manufacture of flocked fabrics from
paper and other fabric which has previously been made waterproof.
Secondly, my Invention relates to the covering of what are called die and
pressure made covered buttons, with waterproof paper prepared to resemble
japanned or what is called "patent leather."
In carrying out the first part of my Invention, if the fabric required to be
"flocked" be paper, I prepare the same so as to make it waterproof, as
described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me the Twenty-eighth
day of February, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and then
apply upon the surface of such paper any of the well-known adhesive materials
adopted by paper-hanging manufacturers in causing flock to adhere to paper
for paper hangings, and I apply the flock to the surface of the paper so
prepared with adhesive material, as is usual in the manufacture of ordinary
flocked paper, adapting as they do different colored adhesive material to the
different colored flocks, and the same may be applied either entirely over the
surface of the paper or only on parts of the surface, and in pattern, as is well
understood by flock paper makers, and according to the purposes to which such
flocked paper are to be applied. In applying flock to linen and other woven
fabrics, I first make the same waterproof by the process described in the said
former Specification for waterproofing paper, and then proceed as already
described with respect to flocking paper. I would state that I do not find it
necessary, in applying flock to paper and other fabrics prepared as above
referred to, to use size or other preparer previous to the application of the
adhesive means, as is now commonly the case in applying flock to paper.
Paper prepared as above explained will be found very useful for papering
walls, especially external walls and situations where there is damp; also to
the covering of die and pressure made covered buttons, such as described
under the second part of the Invention, and paper or other fabric so prepared
will be found very useful, amongst other purposes, to the covering of books.
In some cases I apply the flock, as above explained, to both sides of the
fabric, and when so applied to thick paper fabric the same will be found very
useful to be cut up into gun waddings; and when applied to both sides of
woven fabric, will be found useful; and if done in pattern and as it may

page_text: be in different colors, very ornamental, as waistcoatings and for other articles
of dress.
In carrying out the second part of my Invention, I take paper prepared as
described in the aforesaid Specification, and apply thereto a coating or coatings
of japan, in like manner to what is adopted in japanning leather; and I have not
therefore thought it needful to describe such process here, as my Invention does
not consist in the process, but in the application of such japanning to paper
prepared as described in my said former Specification, and applying such
japanned paper to the covering of what are known in the trade as die and
pressure made covered buttons. I adopt like means in the covering of such
buttons to what are adopted by die and pressure made covered button
makers in covering such buttons with silk and other woven fabrics.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would have it
understood that what I claim is,―
First, the application of "flock" to papers and other fabrics prepared as
above referred to.
And, secondly, I claim the manufacture of buttons of paper prepared as
above explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Brindley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
WILLIAM (L.s.) BRINDLEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of July
in the year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid William Brindley came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.