CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF PAPER HANGINGS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Smith, Paper Hanging Manufacturer, and
Jabez Booth, Foreman, both of the Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith, and
Company, Limited, Paper Hanging Works, Hyde Road, in the City of
Manchester, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF PAPER HANGINGS."
Sealed the 3rd January 1865, and dated the 14th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Smith and Jabez
Booth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 14th July 1864.
We, ROBERT SMITH, Paper Hanging Manufacturer, and JABEZ BOOTH,
Foreman, both of the Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith, and Company, Limited,
Paper Hanging Works, Hyde Road, in the City of Manchester, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER HANGINGS," to be as follows
In the manufacture of what is known as glazed or satin paper hangings it
has heretofore been customary to use paper which has been glazed all over.
with one or two coats of satin white, or satin white combined with other
substances, and afterwards printing on the glazed surface the pattern in body
colour, leaving certain portions of the glaze uncovered; the result of this
method of manufacture is that the body colour when applied floats about on
the top of the glaze, and settles or distributes itself in an unequal manner,

page_text: thus giving an uneven and cloudy appearance to the said body colour. To
obviate this defect a glaze of inferior brilliancy is often used, thus detracting
from the worth of the paper hangings.
Now our Invention consists in printing the glaze on a paper previously
grounded with a body colour, by this means a glaze of greater brilliancy may
be obtained, and different coloured glazings can be introduced on the same
body colour in various parts of the pattern, and in addition to the various
coloured glazings on the paper hangings, other patterns may be printed thereon
in the ordinary manner, thus producing paper hangings of great beauty and
richness of design and appearance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
SMITH, Paper Hanging Manufacturer, and JABEZ ВоотH, Foreman, both of
the Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith, & Co., Limited, Paper Hanging Works,
Hyde Road, in the City of Manchester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth, Her special license that we, the
said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth, our
executors, administrators, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER HANGINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or 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..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say):-
In the manufacture of what is known as glazed or satin paper hangings it
has heretofore been customary to use paper which has been glazed all over
with one or two coats of satin white or satin white combined with other
substances, and afterwards printing on the glazed surface the pattern in body
colour, leaving certain portions of the glaze uncovered; the result of this
method of manufacture is that the body colour when applied floats about on
the top of the glaze, and settles or distributes itself in an unequal manner,
thus giving an uneven and cloudy appearance to the said body colour. To
obviate this defect a glaze of inferior brilliancy is often used, thus detracting
from the value of the paper hangings.
Now our Invention consists in printing the glaze on a paper that has been
previously grounded with a body colour in the usual manner, by this means a
glaze of greater brilliancy may be obtained, and different coloured glazings
can be introduced on the same body color in various parts of the pattern, and
in addition to the various coloured glazings on the paper hangings, other
patterns may be printed thereon in the ordinary manner, this producing paper
hangings of great beauty and richness of design and appearance.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood, we will proceed
to describe the accompanying Drawing, which represents in outline part of a
printing machine of the ordinary construction, to which the requisite additions
are applied for carrying our Invention into operation.
a is the cylinder; b, the colour rollers; and c the blanket passing around the
cylinder a in the usual manner; the line d represents the paper to be operated
upon, and which must have been previously grounded with a body color by the
usual means employed for that purpose in manufacturing paper hangings; e is
a roller or bar placed in front of the machine over which the paper passes,
and fand g are two doctors or thin blades of steel or other material, each set
in a stock or back; these doctors are adjustable by set screws or otherwise,
and they act upon the face of the paper to distribute the glaze evenly over the
parts on which it has been printed in stripes; his a roller for pressing the
paper on to the blanket, passing around the cylinder a, and to compensate for
the friction lost by the removal of the paper from the blanket to take it over
the bar e, the object of the roller h is thus to increase the friction on the paper,
it is made with projecting rims fitting between the stripes of glazed or freshly
printed parts. The colour rollers 6 may apply glazings of various colours to

page_text: the paper, or part of the rollers 6 may apply glazings, while others apply body
colour or colours in stripes. or patterns, the number of colour or glazing:
rollers can be increased or diminished according to the pattern desired; and
in addition to the advantage of obtaining a glaze of greater brilliancy than was
heretofore possible, we can combine patterns having glazed stripes of various
colours with body colours in stripes, or other designs both in body and
glazed colours combined, thus producing designs of great beauty and, variety of
effect.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described a convenient,
mode of carrying the same into operation, we wish to remark that the apparatus
above described is only given to illustrate one mode of applying our Invention;
to the ordinary printing machine, but we do not limit ourselves. to any par-
ticular arrangement of machinery as in some cases the arrangement would,
have to be considerably modified, and in other cases the machines now in use:
for printing paper hangings may be employed without any alterations or
additions. We therefore make no claim to any particular apparatus or
arrangement of machinery, but what we do claim is printing or applying the.
glaze or glazed colours to paper that has been previously grounded with a
body colour.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Smith and Jabez Booth, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, the Eleventh day of January One.
ROBERT SMITH. (L.B.)
JABEZ BOOTH.
(LS.)
ROBERT SMITH. (L.B.)
JABEZ BOOTH.
(L.S.)