AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED ORNAMENTING FABRICS. LEATHER PAPER. ANd other SurfACES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marc Klotz, of No. 77, Rue Rambuteau, in
the City of Paris, in France, Merchant, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
ORNAMENTING FABRICS. LEATHER PAPER. ANd other SurfACES."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Marc Klotz at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 4th November 1852, pursuant to the 9th section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
J, MARC KLOTZ, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN ORNA-
MENTING FABRICS, LEATHER, PAPER, AND OTHER SURFACES." to be as
follows:-
This new process for applications of ornaments is applicable to all
kinds of fabrics, to leathers, papers, and indeed to any surface.

page_text: The ornaments applied may be made of tissue, cloth, leather, paper,
or of any substance that can be cut or moulded, and that may be made
to adhere on other surfaces by means of a suitable glue and a certain
pressure.
The objects, when still in the state of leaves or pieces, are coated on 5
the wrong side with a glue composed of gum lake and spirits of wine
in the following proportions :-
Gum lake,
Spirits of wine at about 34°.
They are then left to dry, and afterwards cut out with punches or by 1
hand. I make use afterwards of a guide, consisting of a metallic
plate, or of some suitable substance pierced inside, with an opening
having exactly the shape of the exterior outline of the object that has
been cut.
This guide is placed in the stuff or object to be ornamented, so that 1
its opening corresponds to the place to be occupied by the ornament;
this latter I place afterwards in this opening, taking care to place the
side coated with glue in contact with the fabric or surface. I after-
wards place above it a goffer iron, having exactly the shape of the
object to be applied. This goffer has in hollow all the designs or
ornaments that it may be wished to be shown in velvet on the object
on which they are to be applied. The part of this goffer iron that
enters the guide at a height greater than the thickness of this guide, so
that the guide will never be pressed when the goffer iron will be acted
upon to print the object to be applied. The goffer iron must first be
heated, so as to obtain a better impression, and especially that the heat
may cause the glue with which the ornament is coated to melt, and
thus make both substances adhere. The goffer iron may be pressed
either by hand or by some mechanical contrivance, and that it may
act the better in all parts of the object to be applied care must be
taken to place the object to be ornamented on a compressible sub-
stance, such as a sheet of india-rubber, or on several pieces of stuff,
paper, &c. Instead of coating with glue on of the sides of the object
to be applied, a lining of paper or tissue may be used; it should be

page_text: glued on both sides, and placed between the stuff and the object to
be applied.
In witness whereof I, the said Marc Klotz, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in Paris.
Taken and acknowledged by the
within-named Marc Klotz, at
Paris, this Ninth day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-two,
Before me,
MARC KLOTZ. (L.S.)
Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Paris,
(L.S.) THOMAS PICKFORD.