IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, LEAVES, FOLIAGE, GRASSES, AND FRUIT
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, LEAVES, FOLIAGE, GRASSES,
AND FRUIT." A communication from abroad by Casimir Constant Ballin, of
Paris, France.
Sealed the 28th March 1877, and dated the 23rd October 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd October 1876.
"
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS,
LEAVES, FOLIAGE, GRASSES, AND FRUIT."
This Invention of improvements in the manufacture of artificial flowers, leaves,
foliage, grasses, and fruit, relates to the preparation of new fabrics or materials,
from which the flowers, leaves, foliage, and grasses, are manufactured as herein-
after described.
The Invention consists,-
1st. In the preparation of new fabrics or materials for the above purpose.
And, 2ndly. In the improved products manufactured thereof.
The following is the method of preparing the materials:-I take a suitable woven
fabric and coat it with a layer of india-rubber, which may be afterwards vulcanized
if required. And on this india-rubber surface I apply with a brush, or by printing,
or by immersion, or in other manner, paint, or varnish of a resinous nature and of
the tint required for the finished article. The leaves or other articles are then
shaped and embossed or stamped from the fabric thus prepared.
Instead of the paint or varnish being colored, as described, the india-rubber itself
may be colored, and the fabric in this case being coated with the india-rubber
only.
The india-rubber coating or coatings may also be dispensed with, and one or
more thicknesses of the paint or varnish be applied directly upon the fabric. Other
matters may be mixed with the india-rubber with a view to facilitate the
inanufacture.

page_text: Instead of the foundation being composed of a woven fabric, as described, either
paper, felt, leather, wood, or other material possessing sufficient tenacity may be
employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th April 1877.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL
FLOWERS, LEAVES, FOLIAGE, GRASSES, AND FRUIT." A communication from abroad
by Casimir Constant Ballin, of Paris, France.
This Invention of improvements in the manufacture of artificial flowers, leaves,
foliage, grasses, and fruit, relates to the preparation of new fabrics or materials
from which the flowers, leaves, foliage, and grasses are manufactured as hereafter
described.
The Invention consists,--
First. In the preparation of new fabrics or materials for the above purpose.
And, Secondly. In the improved products manufactured thereof.
The following is the method of preparing the materials:-I take a suitable woven
fabric and coat it with a layer of india-rubber, which may be afterwards vulcanized
if required; and on this india-rubber surface I apply with a brush, or by printing,
or by immersion, or in other manner, a paint or varnish of a resinous nature and of
the tint required for the finished article. The leaves or other articles are then
cut out or otherwise shaped and embossed or stamped from the fabric thus
prepared.
Instead of the paint or varnish being colored, as described, the india-rubber itself
may be colored, the fabric in this case being coated with the india-rubber only.
Various matters may be mixed with the india-rubber with a view to facilitate the
manufacture of the products, and especially the embossing.
Instead of the foundation being composed of a woven fabric I may use, paper,
felt, leather, skins, sheets of wood, or other material, and in fact any resisting
surface suitable for the manufacture of artificial flowers and foliage.
The rubber coating or coatings may also be dispensed with, and one or more coats
of the paint or varnish be applied directly upon the fabric. The fabrics thus pro-
duced in the forin of strips or sheets to be employed for the manufacture of the
artificial products before mentioned resemble in appearance American cloth, oil-
cloth, moleskin, oiled silk, &c. A material with an oilcloth finish more parti-
cularly has never hitherto been employed for these purposes.
Having described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improved fabrics or materials
for the manufacture of artificial flowers, leaves, foliage, grasses, and fruit, as
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
.