AN IMPROVED MODE OF ORNAMENTING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Logan and William Gardner, both of Paisley
in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF ORNAMENTING TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 18th March 1870, and dated the 11th November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Logan and William
Gardner at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
l'etition, on the 11th November 1869.
We, JOHN LOGAN and WILLIAM GARDNER, both of Paisley, in the
County of Renfrew, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF ORNAMENTING TEXTILE FABRICS,"
to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention which relates to a new mode of ornamenting textile
fabrics so as to produce appearances or effects hitherto unobtained.
consists in the employment of adherent colouring matters, such as
paint or dye in the fluid state, which is applied to the fabric in the form
of spray, and imparts to the cloth a granular or mottled surface. The
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page_text: fluid colouring matter may be diffused in the form of spray by means of
brushes, or by a blast of air, by a pump, or other suitable apparatus, and
a pattern is formed on the cloth by placing objects of the required shape
on it which interrupts the sprayed colouring matter from touching the
fabric. When the objects are removed after the spraying operation the
pattern appears formed by the original colour of the fabric, after which
the pattern is completed by machine or hand sewing, tambouring,
embroidery, or the insertion of silk, cloth, velvet, or any other coloured
material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Logan and William Gardner in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 18th March 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
LOGAN and WILLIAM GARDNER, both of Paisley, in the County of Ren-
frew, North Britain, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said John Logan and William Gardner, Her special
license that we, the said John Logan and William Gardner, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
John Logan and William Gardner, our executors, administrators, or
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 Kingdoin of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF ORNAMENTING
TEXTILE FABRIC," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said John Logan and William Gardner, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
he performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal 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 John Logan and William
Gardner, 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 :—
Our said Invention which relates to a new mode of ornamenting textile
fabrics so as to produce appearances or effects hitherto unobtained
consists in the employment of adherent colouring matters such as paint,
dye, or other adherent matter in the fluid state, which is applied to the
fabrics to be ornamented by a process of sprinkling or spraying, thereby.
imparting to the surface of the cloth, velvet, or other textile fabric on
which it falls or is put a speckled, granular, or mottled appearance.
The colouring or adhesive matter may be diffused in the required
manner by means of rubbing or shaking brushes, by a blast of air, by a
pump, or blow pipe, or other suitable apparatus, and a pattern when
necessary or desired is formed on the cloth by first (or during the process
of spraying) placing objects of the required shape or form on the cloth,
which said objects interrupt the sprayed colouring or adhesive matter
from touching the fabric, and so when the objects are removed after the
spraying operation the patterns appear formed by the part of the cloth
which has been covered by the said objects. After this process the
sprayed ground pattern or design is completed by the introduction on
the same fabric or one to which it may be affixed or united of tambour-
ing, machine or hand sewing, embroidery, or the insertion or addition
of cord, clotli, velvet, or any other coloured or other material.
Under a second modification the order in which the design or pattern
is produced may be reversed thus:-The pattern or design desired is cut
out of any solid object and through the openings or cuttings in which the
coloured or adhesive matter passes, the part not cut out intercepting
the spray from touching the other parts of the cloth on which no
colouring matter is required. The pattern is then completed by machine
or hand sewing, tambouring, embroidery, or the addition or insertion of
cord, silk, cloth, velvet, or any other coloured material as under the
first modification.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and the system,
mode, or manner in or under which the same is or may be used or
practically carried into effect, we would observe in conclusion that what
we consider novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to us by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,

page_text: the ornamenting of textile fabrics by the employment of sprayed
colouring matter in combination with embroidery, tambouring, machine
or hand sewing, or the introduction of other coloured work, with the
sprayed portions which may form part or whole of any patterns or designs
on textile fabrics as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Logan and William
Gardner, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth
day of March One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
JOHN LOGAN
(L.S.)
WILLIAM GARDNER (L.S.)