AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WALL PAPERS, AND IN APPARATUS USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Watson, Foreman to Messieurs Arthur
and Robert Wilcoxon, of Newington Causeway, in the County of
Surrey, Paper Stainers, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF WALL PAPERS, AND IN APPARATUS USED IN SUCH
MANUFACTURE."
Sealed the 16th March 1869, and dated the 7th October 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Watson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th October 1868.
I, JAMES WATSON, Foreman to Messieurs Arthur and Robert Wil-
coxon, of Newington Causeway, in the County of Surrey, Paper Stainers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WALL PAPERS, AND IN APPARATUS USED IN SUCH
MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved process and apparatus whereby
I am enabled to produce wall papers or paperhangings having gold,
silver, or bronze patterns by the aid of the ordinary roller or cylinder

page_text: printing machine. For this purpose I employ the ordinary roller or
cylinder printing machine, and I print the desired pattern upon the
paper in water gold size. The paper is then conducted by rollers
beneath a box or hopper with a narrow aperture containing the gold,
silver, or bronze powder, which distributes the same over the surface
of the paper on which the pattern has been printed, as above described,
immediately after which the paper passes over a revolving beater which
strikes against the back of the paper and throws off the superfluous
metallic dust or powder, which may be from time to time returned to the
hopper and used over again. The paper may then pass between two
flatting" rollers or be dried and rolled at once.
By the use of this method and apparatus, metallic patterns may be
produced by the aid of the roller printing machine (instead of by hand
as hitherto done), and a great economy of time and labor is thereby
effected.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Watson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd April 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WATSON, Foreman to Messieurs Arthur and Robert Wilcoxon, of
Newington Causeway, in the County of Surrey, Paper Stainers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing. date the Seventh day of October; in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Watson, Her special licence that
I, the said James Watson; my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said James Watson, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE

page_text: MANUFACTURE OF WALL PAPERS, AND IN APPARATUS USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Watson,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
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 James Watson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing, and on reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to an improved process and apparatus whereby
I am enabled to produce wall papers or paperhangings having gold,
silver, or bronze patterns by the aid of the ordinary roller or cylinder
printing machine. For this purpose I employ the ordinary roller or
cylinder printing machine, and I print the desired pattern upon the
paper in water gold size. The paper is then conducted by rollers beneath
a box or hopper with a narrow aperture containing the gold, silver, or
bronze powder, which distributes the same over the surface of the paper
on which the pattern has been printed, as above described, immediately
after which the paper passes over a revolving beater which strikes against
the back of the paper and throws off the superfluous metallic dust or
powder which may be from time to time returned to the hopper and
used over again. The paper may then pass between two "flatting
rollers, or may be dried and rolled at once.
"
By the use of this method and apparatus metallic patterns may be
produced by the aid of the roller printing machine (instead of by hand
as hitherto done), and a great economy of time and labor is thereby
effected.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for "An
Improvement in the Manufacture of Wall Papers, and in Apparatus used
in such Manufacture," I will now proceed to describe more in detail the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, and in order that the same may be distinctly understood
I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and

page_text: have marked the same with letters of reference corresponding with those
in the following explanation thereof, that is to say;-
Before the
My improved apparatus consists of a wooden or other box or framing a
in which is mounted a revolving beater 6 and roller c. The paper (which
is represented by the red lines) from the ordinary cylinder printing
machine, after having the desired pattern printed on it in water gold size is
conducted by rollers beneath a box or hopper d placed at the top of the
box a.
A narrow aperture e extending the width of the box a is formed
at the bottom of the hopper through which the gold or other metallic
dust or powder falls on to the face of the paper as it comes from the
cylinder printing machine. The paper then passes down the inclined
piece funder the roller c which tightens the paper and presses the gold
or other metallic dust or powder on to the face of the paper. It then
passes up over the revolving beater 6 on to and up the inclined piece g
to the " flatting" rollers, or it is dried and rolled at once.
paper passes to the " flatting rollers, it has a dull appearance, but
immediately it is pressed the face of the paper presents a very beautiful
effect. The revolving beater b which is made of rods of metal m or other
suitable material fitted at either end to an octogonal or other suitably
shaped board n is turned by means of a strap h from the cylinder
printing machine passing round a pulley on the axle i; it revolves in
the opposite direction to the paper, thus beating back all the super-
fluous dust or powder which falls on to the roller c. A piece is fitted
at the bottom of the box to prevent the gold or other dust from getting
at the back of the box. Holes k are made in the bottom of the box a
for the passage of the superfluous gold or other metallic dust or powder
which falls into tubs, basins, or receivers 7, and may be from time to time
returned to the hopper d and used again. The box may be supported
at any convenient height (on a stand or frame) to suit the requirements
of the operators.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention
for "An Improvement in the Manufacture of Wall Papers, and in Appa-
ratus used in such Manufacture," together with the manner in which
the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I
would remark in conclusion that I claim as my Invention the improved
method of and apparatus for producing by the aid of the ordinary roller
or printing machine wall papers or paper hangings having on them gold,
silver, bronze, or other metallic patterns, substantially as herein-before

page_text: described and as illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings or
any mere modification or variation thereof, being actuated or acting in
the same or a similar manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Watson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
BRISTOW HUNT,
Patent Agent and Solicitor,
1, Serle Street,
Lincoln's Inn.
JAMES WATSON. (L.s.)