AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WALL PAPERS, AND IN APPARATUS USED IN 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
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 the production of wall papers or paper-
hangings having a raised or embossed pattern either in metal or colors

page_text: (or a combination of both) in such a manner that such raised or embossed
pattern shall not be injured or defaced by the subsequent pasting and
hanging of the paper. In the first place I print the required pattern
"in the flat" upon the surface of the paper either in the ordinary manner
or in the manner described in the Provisional Specification accompanying
another Petition filed by me on the day of the date hereof; I then
prepare a block with a raised surface corresponding exactly with the
raised pattern to be produced, carving all the required lines and inden-
tations thereon. I cover the printing table with a surface of india-
rubber and washleather (or with any other suitable elastic substance),
and I lay the printed paper face downwards thereon; I then dip the
carved block into a sieve of oil color or other suitable adhesive substance
not soluble in paste or water, and having adjusted the same immediately
over the back of the pattern on the paper by means of guide pins (as
is well understood by printers), I apply pressure thereto either by means
of the ordinary "dolly" or in any other convenient manner. This will
have the effect of raising or embossing the pattern upon the paper and
at the same time charging the indentation at the back of the same with
the oil color or adhesive substance. The paper is then placed face
downwards in an ordinary "flocking drum" and the indentations filled
with flock or other other similar substance. This paper when the oil
color is dry may be pasted and hung in the usual manner without in any
way injuring or defacing the raised or embossed pattern and will have a
most novel and beautiful effect.
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

page_text: 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 MANUFACTURE OF WALL PAPERS, AND IN APPARATUS USED IN SUCH MANU-
FACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Watson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, 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, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the production of wall papers or paper-
hangings having a raised or embossed pattern either in metal or colors
(or a combination of both) in such a manner that such raised or embossed
pattern shall not be injured or defaced by the subsequent pasting and
hanging of the paper. In the first place I print the required pattern "in
the flat" upon the surface of the paper either in the ordinary manner or
in the manner described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
me on the Seventh day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, No. 3066. I then prepare a block with a raised surface
corresponding exactly with the raised pattern to be produced, carving all
the required lines and indentations thereon; or I place nails, or studs, or
strips of metal or other suitable substance on the surface of the block
and so form the required pattern. I cover the printing or embossing
table with a surface of india-rubber and washleather (or with any other
suitably elastic substance), and I lay the printed paper face downwards
thereon, or I lay it with the face upwards and emboss or depress it in
that position, in this manner forming the raised portions from the face

page_text: of the paper; I then dip the carved block into a sieve of oil color or
other suitable adhesive substance not soluble in paste or water, and
having adjusted the same immediately at the back of the pattern on the
paper by means of guide pins (as is well understood by printers) or
by other equivalent means, I apply pressure thereto by means of the
ordinary "dolly" or in any other convenient manner. This will have
the effect of raising or embossing the pattern upon the paper and at the
same time charging the indentations at the back of the same with oil color
or other adhesive substance; the paper is then placed face downwards
in an ordinary "flocking drum" and the indentations at the back of
the paper filled with flock or other suitable ingredients or substance.
This paper when the oil color is dry is pasted and hung in the usual
manner without in any way injuring or defacing the raised or embossed
pattern and has a most novel and beautiful effect.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
"An Improvement in the Manufacture of Wall Papers, and in Apparatus
used in such Manufacture," together with the manner in which the
same is to 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 the means or apparatus for raising or embossing patterns on
printed or other paper for wall papers, substantially as herein-before
described or any mere modification or variation of such method or
means.
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.)