THE APPLICATION UPON CLOTHS, RIBANDS, VELVETS, TRIMMINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS OF CRYSTALLINE AND METALLIC MATTERS, GOLD, SILVER, AND OF ANY COLOUR
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington Street,
Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"THE APPLICATION UPON CLOTHS, RIBANDS, VELVETS, TRIMMINGS, AND ALL
KINDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS OF CRYSTALLINE AND METALLIC MATTERS, GOLD,
SILVER, AND OF ANY COLOUR." A communication from abroad by the Firm of
Bessy frères, Appréteurs d'Etoffes, Rue Marengo, No. 3, St. Etienne (Loire),
France.
Sealed the 17th May 1878, and dated the 26th November 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th November 1877.
WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "THE APPLICATION UPON CLOTHS, RIBANDS, VELVETS,
TRIMMINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS OF CRYSTALLINE AND METALLIC
MATTERS, GOLD, SILVER, AND OF ANY COLOUR." A communication from abroad
by the Firm of Bessy frères, Appréteurs d'Etoffes, Rue Marengo, No. 3, St. Etienne
(Loire), France.
This Invention consists in the creation of a type of novel textile fabrics termed
"diamantés." It is a sowing or sprinkling upon cloths, ribands, velvets, "passe-
menteries," and any textile fabric of glittering or sparkling-particles of crystalline or
metallic materials, which existing more or less closely, in more or less quantity, in
colour of gold, silver, or of any colour, with spaces reserved if desired for producing
patterns, or without such reservations, embellishes the fabric and gives it an appear-
ance which it is proposed to term " diamenté," which constituting a novel effect
in kind and particular type, may properly form the subject matter of Letters
Patent.
But beyond the creation of what may be termed an article of fashion there is
in this Invention a second patentable novelty which results from the actual process

page_text: by which this result is attained. It consists in the use for producing the said
embellishment termed "diamanté" of matters herein designated as crystalline, that
is to say, transparent and sparkling, which may be either gelatinous, like purified
isinglass and fecula, or non-gelatinous, like glass, or sometimes metallic, like gold
and silver; these matters which may be variously colored, previously powdered or
otherwise reduced to grains or particles more or less minute, have in them when
they are gelatinous the means of fixing them; when they are not gelatinous they
are mixed with powdered gum arabic or other suitable adhesive matter; these
pulverized materials are then made to fall upon the fabric, which is so arranged,
stretched, and travelling over rollers, that is to say, upon the part of the fabric
which has not yet been passed to the action of a heated cylinder placed beneath it. A
jet of steam, more or continuous, is directed upon this part of the fabric which has
just been, so to say, sprinkled; the effect of this is to render the surface of the
gelatinous grains or particles moist and sticky, or to dissolve the gum arabic, if it be
used, so that the dissolved particles seize the particles of crystalline matter which
may be in contact with them, and the passage of the piece upon the hot cylinder
then brings about the sticking and the drying. The picce of textile fabric is then
freed from the particles of crystalline matters which the adhesive matter has not
fixed to it.
The use of a jet of steam is important, inasmuch that steam does not affect the
shades of colour of the fabric like water, which might be used to damp the fabric
before sprinkling.
It will be understood from the above how easy it is to proportion, according to
the article, the quantities of matters and the more or less thickness of embellishment,
and how by the aid of paper cut out and placed upon the fabric certain parts might
diamanté" and others reserved, so that all kinds of contours and patterns may
be formed.
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This Invention, which is particularly important in relation to velvets, plushes,
and similar fabrics, results therefore in the creation of new types of textile fabrics
at the same time that it constitutes a process not less novel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st May 1878.
"
WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent. THE APPLICATION UPON CLOTHS, RIBANDS, VELVETS,
TRIMMINGS, AND ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS OF CRYSTALLINE AND METALLIC
MATTERS, GOLD, SILVER, AND OF ANY COLOUR." A communication from abroad
by the Firm of Bessy frères, Appréteurs d'Etoffes, Rue Marengo, No. 3, St. Etienne
(Loire), France.
This Invention consists in the creation of a type of novel textile fabrics termed
"diamantés." It is a sowing or sprinkling upon cloths, ribands, velvets, "passe-
menteries," and any textile fabric of glittering or sparkling particles of crystalline
or metallic materials, which existing more or less closely in more or less quantity
in colour of gold, silver, or any colour, with spaces reserved if desired for producing
patterns, or without such reservations, embellishes the fabric and gives it an appear-
ance which it is proposed to term "diamanté," which constituting a novel
effect in and a particular type, may properly form the subject matter of Letters
Patent.
These
But beyond the creation of what may be termed an article of fashion there is in
this Invention a second patentable novelty which results from the actual process by
which this result is attained. It consists in the use for producing the said embel-
lishment termed "diamanté" of matters herein designated as crystalline, that is to
say, transparent and sparkling, which may be either gelatinous, like purified
isinglass and fecula, or non-gelatinous, like glass, or sometimes metallic, like gold
and silver; these matters, which may be variously colored, previously powdered or
otherwise reduced to grains or particles more or less minute, have in them when
they are gelatinous the means of fixing them; when they are not gelatinous they
are mixed with powdered gum arabic or other suitable adhesive matter.
pulverized materials are then made to fall upon the fabric, which is arranged,
stretched, and travelling over rollers, that is to say, upon the part of the fabric
which has not yet passed to the action of a heated cylinder placed beneath it. A jet
of steam more or less continuous is directed upon this part of the fabric which has
just been, so to say, sprinkled; the effect of this is to render the surface of the
gelatinous grains or particles moist and sticky, or to dissolve the gum arabic, if it be
used, so that the dissolved particles seize the particles of crystalline matter which
may be in contact with them, and the passage of the piece upon the hot cylinder
then brings about the sticking and the drying. The piece of textile fabric is then
freed from the particles of crystalline matters which the adhesive matter has not
fixed to it.
The use of a jet of steam is important, inasmuch that steam does not effect the
shades of colour of the fabric like water, which might be used to damp the fabric
before sprinkling.
It will be understood from the above how easy it is to proportion according to
the article the quantities of matters, and the more or less thickness of embellish-
ment, and how by the aid of paper cut out and placed upon the fabric, certain parts
might be "diamanté" and others reserved, so that all kinds of contours and
patterns may be formed.
This Invention, which is particularly important in relation to velvets, plushes, and
similar fabrics, results therefore in the creation of new types of textile fabrics, at
the same time that it constitutes a process not less novel.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention communicated
to me as aforesaid, and in what manner the same is or may be performed, what I
claim as secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the

page_text: application of sparkling, crystalline, or metallic matters to all kinds of textile fabrics,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
F
ADRAN
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)