IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND TRANSFERRING PATTERNS TO FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Briggs, of Lower Crumpsall, near Man-
chester, in the County of Lancastor, Engraver to Calico Printers,
Richard Hudson, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester afore-
said, Designer, and Henry Grimshaw, of Manchester aforesaid,
Hatter, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND
TRANSFERRING PATTERNS TO FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Briggs, Richard
Hudson, and Henry Grimshaw at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th December 1874.
We, JOHN BRIGGS, of Lower Crumpsall, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engraver to Calico Printers, RICHARD HUDSON, of
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester aforesaid, Designer, and HENRY
GRIMSHAW, of Manchester aforesaid, Hatter, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND
TRANSFERRING PATTERNS TO FABRICS," to be as follows:-
In domestic embroidering it is customary to use a paper upon which
the pattern to be embroidered is printed from a surface block or other-

page_text: wise; this paper is stitched upon the fabric to be embroidered, and when
the embroidering is complete the paper upon which the pattern had been
printed is torn out.
Now our Invention consists in transferring the pattern to the fabric to
be ornamented or embroidered by printing the pattern paper from a
surface block, or otherwise, as usual with the design to be produced in a
bituminous substance or varnish, and transferring the said pattern to
the fabric when required by the application of heat to the back of the
paper on which the pattern has been printed in bituminous substances
or varnish, thereby causing the bitumen or varnish to adhere to the
fabric to be ornamented or embroidered.
By means of this Invention a beautiful clear pattern is marked on to
fabrics of any colour, and when this pattern is to serve as a guide for
embroidery the trouble of tearing away the paper as now customary is
avoided and cleaner work is obtained.
Another advantage of this Invention is that parties buying the pattern
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Briggs, Richard Hudson, and Henry
Grimshaw in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Joun
BRIGGS, of Lower Crumpsall, near Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engraver to Calico Printers, RICHARD HUDSON, of Chorlton-
cum-Hardy, near Manchester aforesaid, Designer, and HENRY GRIMSHAW,
of Manchester aforesaid, Hatter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, tho said John Briggs, Richard
Hudson, and Henry Grimshaw, Her special licence, that we, the said
John Briggs, Richard Hudson, and Henry Grimshaw, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Briggs,

page_text: Richard Hudson, and Henry Grimshaw, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND
TRANSFERRING PATTERNS TO FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said John Briggs, Richard Hudson, and Henry Grimshaw,
our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of our or their hands and sea 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 we, the said John Briggs, Richard Hudson,
and Henry Grimshaw, do hereby declare the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
(that is to say) —
In domestic embroidering it is customary to use paper upon which
the pattern to be embroidered is printed from surface blocks or other-
wise; this paper is stitched upon the fabric to be embroidered, and when
the embroidery is complete the paper upon which the pattern had been
printed is torn out.
Now our Invention consists in transferring the pattern to the fabric to
bc ornamented or embroidered by printing the pattern paper from a
surface block or otherwise as usual with the design to be produced in a
bituminous substance or varnish, and transferring the said pattern to the
fabric when required by the application of heat to the back of the paper
on which the pattern has been printed in bituminous substance or
varnish, thereby causing the bitumen or varnish to adhere to the fabric
to be ornamented or embroidered.
By means of this Invention a beautiful clear pattern of any colour is
marked on to fabrics, and when this pattern is to serve as a guide for
embroidery the trouble of tearing away the paper as now customary is
avoided and cleaner work is obtained.

page_text: Another advantage of this Invention is that parties buying the pattern
papers can apply them to the fabric and produce the same impression
as by block.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, we wish it to be understood that wo
make no claim to any process or apparatus for printing the patterns in
bituminous substance or varnish on the pattern paper as they may be
printed by blocks, or cylinders, or otherwise; but what we do claim as
our Invention of improvements in ornamenting and transferring patterns
to fabrics is, printing tho said patterns with any bituminous substanco
or varnish of any colour on the pattern paper, and transferring them to
the fabrics to be ornamented or embroidered by the application of
hcat.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Briggs, for myself and
on behalf of the said Richard Hudson and Henry Grimshaw, 1
have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-eighth day
of June, One thousand oight hundred and seventy-five.
TATR