IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING VARIOUS ORNAMENTAL EFFECTS UPON FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER SURFACES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Taylor, of Nottingham, Manufacturing
Stationer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING VARIOUS
ORNAMENTAL EFFECTS UPON FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER SURFACES,"
Sealed the 19th June 1857, and dated the 24th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th December 1856.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Nottingham, Manufacturing Stationer, do-
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRO-
DUCING VARIOUS ORNAMENTAL EFFECTS UPON FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER SURFACES,"
to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in producing ornamental effects of the char-
acter of printing simultaneously upon two surfaces of lace and other open
fabrics, in such manner that the pattern or figure produced on the one
surface may correspond or be coincident with that on the other.
The figures or other devices I by preference form of prepared india-
rubber, gutta percha, or combinations of such matters, leather, felt, cork,
or other suitable elastic and yielding material. In some cases I apply
only a thin coating or plating of any of such materials to the outer
surface of other more yielding substances.
In order to insure exact similarity in designs or figures employed to

page_text: produce the corresponding effects or register in the printing process, I
prefer that the material employed for the purpose be prepared in sheets,
to be cut or otherwise formed into two parts at the same time, and I
apply the same to two cylinders rotating together, so as to print the
fabric whilst it is passing between them, the surface speed of the
cylinders being the same, in order to their correct register.
Inks, or other coloring matters, such as now used, may be employed,
or when flock, bronze, gold, or other metallic leaf is used, the pattern will
be printed on the fabric by the aid of varnish or other adhesive matter,
and the flock, bronze, gold, or other metallic leaf subsequently laid, as
when applying such materials to other articles.
Also, the improvements relate to employing lace, or other similar open
fabric as a means of producing a resemblance of such open fabric upon
other but closer fabrics or paper, by coating such lace or other open
fabric with the coloring or other matter to be given off, and then by
pressure causing the same to be given off upon the surface to be
ornamented, by which a resemblance of the open fabric will be obtained
on the surface or surfaces of closer texture.
In carrying out this part of the improvements, I employ, as a means of
insuring complete coating of the lace or other open fabric, a double set
of feeding apparatus for the color or other matter between which such
fabric is passed; each set of feeding apparatus, consisting of a feed
trough, doctor, distributing and other rollers, acting somewhat as the
supplying apparatus in printing machines, and I then pass such fabric
down between a pair of pressure rolleis, over each of which is passed
fabric or paper to be ornamented.
The improvements also relate to producing the required pattern or
patterns from a series of cylindrical printing surfaces acting in succession,
aided by an impressing cylinder or impressing cylinders.
The improvements also relate to imparting various effects to lace or
other
open textures, and simultaneously to fabrics of a closer character,
by causing the two or more fabrics temporarily to adhere together whilst
printing or other coating or partial coating is applied thereto, and then
separating such fabrics, by which the parts of the closer fabric or paper
covered during the printing or other coating process by the lace or other
open fabric will, when such open fabric is removed, show the figure of
such open fabric and part of the effect obtained by the printing or other
process, the other part of which printing or other effects will be retained
by the lace or other open fabric.
Also, the improvements relate to producing metallic effects upon the

page_text: surfaces of thread, by causing the same, when coated by varnish or other
adhesive matter, to be passed under pressure between the surfaces of
gold or other metallic leaf, or to be subjected to a coating of bronze or
other metallic powder.
Also, the improvements relate to printing on wood. For this purpose
the wood is cut in thin slices, which may be strengthened by the applica-
tion to one surface thereof of paper or woven fabric, by which, upon wood
of a common description, I impart, by printing, the resemblance of woods
of a more costly description, as also the resemblance of inlays..
Also, the improvements relate to the application of metallic effects
simultaneously to one surface of a series of threads, and in stripes to
other fabric or material. This I effect by laying the threads side by side
in series, at intervals, on the surface of the fabric or material, where they
are caused temporarily to adhere by the aid of size or other adhesive
matter and pressure. I then by the aid of varnish or other adhesive.
matter apply the metal in leaf or powder to the whole surface. I then
remove the stripes of threads in the series or tapes, which will have the
metallic effect on one surface thereof only, and the fabric or other material
will have the metallic effect thereon in stripes, only intermediate of where
the threads have laid. Bands or tapes of threads thus obtained will be
found suitable as a covering to other threads or other matters.
Also, the improvements relate to coating lace and other open fabrics by
means of flock, bronze, or other metallic or other powder, and gold or
other metallic leaf, the same being caused to adhere to such open fabric
by the application thereto of varnish or other suitable adhesive matter.
And, if desired, in place of either of the effects referred to being alike on
both sides or surfaces of the fabric or threads, they may be different.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, of Nottingham, Manufacturing Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year

page_text: of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said
William Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Taylor, my 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 law-
fully 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 PRODUCING VARIOUS ORNAMENTAL EFFECTS
UPON FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER SURFACES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Taylor, 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 William Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:--
The improvements consist, firstly, in producing ornamental effects of
the character of printing simultaneously upon two surfaces of lace and
other open fabrics, in such manner that the pattern or figure produced on
the one surface may correspond or be coincident with that on the other.
The figures or other devices I by preference form of prepared india-
rubber, gutta percha, or combinations of such matters, leather, felt, cork,
or other suitable elastic and yielding material. In some cases I apply
only a thin coating or plating of any of such materials to the outer surface
of other more yielding substances.
In order to insure exact similarity in the designs or figures employed to
produce the corresponding effects or register in the printing process, I
prefer that the material employed for the purpose be prepared in sheets,
to be cut or otherwise formed into two parts at the same time, and I
apply the same to two cylinders rotating together, so as to print the fabric
whilst it is passing between them, the surface speed of the cylinders being
the same, in order to their correct register.
Inks or other coloring matters, such as now used, may be employed, or
when flock, bronze, gold, or other metallic leaf is used, the pattern will
Le printed on the fabric by the aid of varnish or other adhesive matter,

page_text: and the flock, bronze, gold, or other metallic leaf subsequently laid, as
when applying such materials to other articles.
The improvements relate, secondly, to employing lace, or other similar
open fabric, as a means of producing a resemblance of such open fabric
upon other but closer fabrics or paper, by coating such lace or other open
fabric with the coloring or other matter to be given off, and then by
pressure causing the same to be given off upon the surface to be
ornamented, by which a resemblance of the open fabric will be obtained
on the surface or surfaces of closer texture.
In carrying out this part of the improvements I employ, as a means of
insuring complete coating of the lace or other open fabric, a double set
of feeding apparatus for the color or other matter between which such
fabric is passed; each set of feeding apparatus consisting of a feed trough,
doctor, distributing, and other rollers, acting somewhat as the supplying
apparatus in printing machines, and I then pass such fabric down be-
tween a pair of pressure rollers, over each of which is passed a fabric or
paper to be ornamented.
The improvements relate, thirdly, to producing the required pattern or
patterns from a series of cylindrical printing surfaces acting in succession,
aided by an impressing cylinder or impressing cylinders.
The improvements relate, fourthly, to imparting various effects to lace.
or other open textures, and simultaneously to fabrics of a closer character,
by causing the two or more fabrics temporarily to adhere together whilst
printing, or other coating or partial coating is applied thereto, and then
separating such fabrics; by which the parts of the closer fabric or paper
covered during the printing or other coating process by the lace or other
open fabric will, when such open fabric is removed, shew the figure of
such open fabric and part of the effect obtained by the printing or other
process; the other
part of which printing or other effects will be retained
by the lace or other open fabric.
The improvements relate, fifthly, to producing metallic effects upon the
surfaces of thread, by causing the same, when coated by varnish or other
adhesive matter, to be passed under pressure between the surfaces of gold
or other metallic leaf, or to be subjected to a coating of bronze or other
metallic powder.
For this
The improvements relate, sixthly, to printing on wood.
purpose the wood is cut in thin slices, which may be strengthened by the
application to one surface thereof of paper or woven fabric, by which,
upon wood of a common description, I impart by printing the resemblance
of woods of a more costly description, as also the resemblance of inlays.

page_text: The improvements relate, seventhly, to the application of metallic
effects simultaneously to one surface of a series of threads and in stripes
to other fabric or material. This I effect by laying the threads, side by
side in series, at intervals, on the surface of the fabric or material, where
they are caused temporarily to adhere by the aid of size or other adhesive
matter and pressure; I then, by the aid of varnish or other adhesive
matter, apply the metal in leaf or powder to the whole surface, I then
remove the stripes of threads in the series or tapes, which will have the
metallic effect on one surface thereof only, and the fabric or other material
will have the metallic effect thereon in stripes only intermediate of where
the threads have laid. Bands or tapes of threads thus obtained will be
found suitable as a covering to other threads or other matters.
And the improvements relate, eighthly, to coating lace and other open
fabric by means of flock, bronze, or other metallic or other powder and
gold, or other metallic leaf, the same being caused to adhere to such open
fabric by the application thereto of varnish or other suitable adhesive
matter. And, if desired, in place of either of the effects referred to being
alike on both sides or surfaces of the fabric or threads, they may be
different.
But that the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner I carry
the same into effect, may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe
the means pursued by me.
For printing on both sides of plain bobbin net or other lace, open
muslin, tarleton, leno, or other open fabric, in black or colored inks, or in
adhesive printers' varnish, for depositing thereon colors in powder, flock
powder, metallic bronzes, or leaf metals, as gold and silver, or imitations
of the same, I employ an arrangement of machinery such as is represented
by Figure 1 of the Drawings. F, F, are two form cylinders, on which
are mounted or affixed sprigs, wreaths, or other shapes and devices,
according to the design to be impressed upon the fabric to be printed,
care being taken that the pattern or figure on the surfaces of the two
cylinders be one the counterpart of the other, and registered correctly,
so that the effect produced by the two surfaces may correspond or be
coincident one with the other. These figures or devices I by preference
saw or punch from some sheeting of a suitable thickness, of a slightly
elastic or yielding nature, as vulcanized india-rubber, gutta percha, or
combinations of both, leather, felt, cork, or combinations of any two of
them. The blue lines indicate a piece of lace or other openwork being
ornamented according to the first part of the improvements. The surface
of each of the cylinders F is supplied with the printing or other ornament-

page_text: ing matter by means of a system of rollers somewhat similar to those
used in ordinary type printing. A, at each end of the apparatus, are
the troughs for the supply of the ink or coloring matter or varnish to the
supply rollers A', A'; B, B, B, B, B, B are carrying rollers to the dis-
tributing rollers D, D, which (unlike all the others) are made to traverse
laterally by cams operating upon their axes, by which, and by the aid of
the smaller distributing rollers C, C, C, C, the ink or other matter or
varnish becomes more equally distributed on to the deposit rollers
E, E, E, E, which convey to and lay upon the prominent devices or figures
mounted on the two form cylinders F, F, a thin or regulated film of the
ink or matter or varnish employed, wherewith to coat or impress on both
sides of the bobbin net or other open fabric to be ornamented. This fabric
is previously wound on a beam or reel G, and is thence passed between
the two form cylinders F, F, to the reel H; or it may be carried away for
the matters impressed from the cylinders F, F, to set or dry, or that it
may receive powder colors, flock, bronzes, or leaf metals.
In Figure 1, as also in other of the Figures, some of the parts are shewn
as in section; the red lines indicate the toothed gear, and the arrows the
direction of rotation of the various rollers.
Another method I employ for printing ornamental devices on bobbin
net or other open fabrics on both sides, according to this part of the
improvements, is to use one form cylinder only, with the patterns or
devices mounted thereon, and according to this method I use only one-
half of the machinery or apparatus indicated by Figure 1, and in place
of the second form cylinder F, I employ a pressure cylinder coated
with sheet vulcanized india-rubber or other yielding substance. The lace
or other open fabric is then passed between the one form cylinder F and
such pressure cylinder, and the ink or varnish supplied from the one
trough A, and set of supply, carrying, distributing, and depositing rollers,
is deposited upon the lace or other open fabric on one side, and through
it on to the parts of the pressure cylinder corresponding to and rotating
in connection with the form cylinder F, such impression of ink or varnish
so laid through the fabric on to such pressure cylinder is then given off to
the other side of the fabric, producing a result the same or nearly equal
to the before-described process, by which the sawn or punched shapes or
devices are made to rotate and impress the design in exact register on both
sides of such fabrics simultaneously
In the foregoing processes, when inks are used, I employ therein, as
dryers, such materials as have long been in use for printing purposes, and
I use clarified oils in making them, adding unctious oily scents to

page_text: neutralize any remaining offensive odour. For the deposit of powder
colors, flocks, bronzes, and leaf metals (with the exception next described),
I employ means analogous to those long in ordinary use by printers and
paperstainers for depositing leaf metals upon fabrics in long continuous
webs or lengths. And also upon threads, when operating according to
another part of the improvements, I employ long lengths or webs of paper
or cloth, one side of which is left rough and the other is calendered or
otherwise made smooth; the leaves of metals are then laid over so much
of the rough surface as is required to coat the fabric or series of threads
to be silvered or gilt in close juxta-position to each other, sideways and
endways, and so laid it is rolled on its rollers and afterwards affixed to
a frame, and drawn off or uncoiled and brought into contact with the
varnish coating of fabrics or series of threads, such leaves of metal being
retained by the rough side of the web of paper or block on which it had
been so deposited, until removed by the adhesion of the varnish deposited
on such fabric or fabrics, or such series of threads, when both sides of
either of which are to be silvered or gilt. Two reels or rolls of paper or
cloth (with the leaf metals so laid thereon) are mounted and simul-
taneously uncoiled and deposited on each side of such fabrics or series
of threads. The methods adopted in connection with these processes will
be found more fully described hereafter.
To print or ornament simultaneously fabrics of close texture by giving
thereto the resemblance of figured lace, according to the second part of
my improvements, I employ the following additions and modifications of
the machinery or apparatus represented by Figure 1. The ink or coloring
matter or varnish supply troughs A and rollers A', carrying rollers
B, B, B, B, B, B, traversing distributing rollers D, D, and their smaller
distributing rollers C, C, C, C, and depositing rollers E, E, E, E, are re-
tained, and these rollers E, E, of each side of the apparatus are brought
into close contact, as shewn by Figure 2. G, G, are two endless chains
or metallic bands, composed of a series of links or jointed lengths, adapted
to the surface of the wheels or cylinders H, H, over and with which they
travel. The edges of the lace form F, to be used as the printing media,
are attached to these chains or bands, such lace being first joined into
an endless length or apron by connecting together the two ends thereof at
a suitable part of the design, as indicated by the dotted line z, Figure 3,
which represents a front view of part of the two series of links forming
the endless bands G, G. The lace is extended between these two bands
by being passed over pins or points in their surface, and the lace, thus
affixed and extended, is made to pass between the four composition rollers

page_text: E, E, E, E, as indicated by the blue line F, in order to take from them on
each side and over every part the charge of ink or varnish they con-
tinuously supply. The lace form F, thus coated or charged, passes
between the blanket or pressure cylinders I, I, over each of which the
paper, muslin, silk, or other fabric which is to receive coloring or other
matter from the fabric F is made to pass from the rollers K, K, and they
receive like impressions on one side of each from the lace form F, and an
exact resemblance thereof, when they are conducted away for other pro-
cesses, or are lightly reeled on to rollers L, L. For printing on cloth or
muslins in mucillaginous colors or mordants, I substitute for the parts
of the apparatus A to E, Figure 2, that shewn by Figure 4, in which A, A,
are two felt covered rollers, working in troughs containing the desired
color or mordant; B, B, are two rubbers or doctors, to regulate the
quantity of color to be carried forward for deposit on the felt covered
rollers C, C, between which the ornamental lace form or web F travels,
in manner such as shewn and described in respect to Figures 2 and 3;
the two lengths or webs of cloth, muslin, &c. are delivered from the rollers
K, K, and passed between pressure rollers I, I, as before described and
shewn by Figures 2 and 3.
For printing long lengths of paper, muslin, silk, or other fabrics, and
sliced wood or scaleboard, according to the third part of the improve-
ments, I employ an arrangement of machinery or apparatus shown by
Figure 5, in which the parts A, A, to E, E, E, E, for supplying inks,
carrying, distributing, and depositing the same, are similar to those shewn
by Figure 1, except the omission of upper carrying roller B, on one side,
to cause the form cylinders F' and F to rotate the same way; F' and F
are two form cylinders, each for the reception and impression of different
colors in succession; G is the blanket or pressure cylinder between the
two form cylinders F', F; I is the reel, from whence the fabric or scale-
board to be printed or impressed is uncoiled; H is the reel to receive it
after being impressed, unless otherwise carried away in order to its being
set or dried. On leaving the reel I, the fabric or scaleboard is passed
between the form cylinder F', and pressure cylinder G, to receive the
second impression or color, and is then reeled on to the reel H, or other-
wise conducted away to be set or dried.
In carrying out the fourth part of my Invention, by printing or orna-
menting two dissimilar fabrics in connection at one and the same time by
one manipulation or process, such fabric being, one ornamental lace, the
other paper, muslin, silk, or other close woven fabric. I slightly damp
the two fabrics, and by passing them through ordinary metallic rollers, or

page_text: by other pressure, I cause a slight adhesion of the two fabrics by the size
imparted in the dressing of one or both of them, and partially by such
rolling or other pressure, I imbed the lace into the closer fabric, making
them thereby for the time as one fabric only, which being reeled on to
a reel G, Figure 6, it is made to pass between composition rollers E, E,
and a blanket or pressure cylinder F on one side, and then under the
same to the composition deposit rollers E, E, of the other half of the
machine; the lace side of the combined fabrics is thus the more effectually
and fully coated with inks, coloring matters, or varnish, supplied by the
apparatus such as before described. The combined fabrics thus coated
are, then carried over carrying reel H, for further coating with powder
color, flock, bronzes, or leaf metals. In some case I prefer to calendar
the ornamented surfaces in combination, in other cases I separate the two
when sufficiently set or dry, when it will be found that one entire surface
(the ornamental lace) will be coated or ornamented, and so much of the
other as had not been covered by such lace such ornamentation of the
under close woven fabric being the reverse of the lace, and yet very nearly
resembling it.
In carrying out the fifth part of my Invention, by coating, silvering,
or gilding of threads of cotton, silk, fax, or other yarns, I fix on pins or
spindles, carried by a suitable frame or standard A, bobbins or spools
of the threads to be coated, as shown by Figure 7; these threads, as drawn
or unwound from the spools, are passed through sleys or other suitable
guides B', at distances from each other equal to the thickness of such
threads, thence over a roller C, between composition rollers D, D, D, D,
which have been charged with varnish by supply, carrying, and depositing
rollers E, F, G; the series of threads, being thus coated with varnish, are
carried down to a trough (containing metallic bronze powder) in which
revolve rollers H, H, wrapped with flannel or felt for laying and pressing
on the bronze powder to the series of threads, which then pass up between
a pair of revolving brushes I, I, which remove the non-adhering or loose
particles; the threads are then reeled into hanks for setting, preparatory
to burnishing and winding on spools. When I use leaf metals for the
coating of such series of threads, I employ the same mechanical means up
to the composition rollers D, D. D, D, as in the before-described process,
but I substitute for the bronzing trough rollers and brushes H, H, and
I, the blanket or pressure rollers K, K, Figure 8. I then uncoil from
rollers L, L, webs of paper or cloth, on the inner side of which have
been laid, as before described, layers of leaf metal, covering the entire
surface of such webs, which enclosing between them the series of threads

page_text: coated with varnish, and compressed between the blanket or pressure
cylinders K, K; the leaf metal thereby becomes attached on each side, or
as nearly as possible round each thread, when the two webs of cloth
or paper which have delivered the leaf metals on the series of threads are
separated from the then coated threads, and are reeled upon reels M, M,
and the sheets or series of threads are reeled on reel N, or otherwise
conducted away for setting, preparatory to being brushed (to remove
waste particles), separated, burnished, and wound on spools for use.
The sixth part of my Invention relates to the printing and ornamenting
of thin sliced wood or scaleboard, such as I have long cut from the round,
and of substances from 40 to 80 to the inch, resembling (while cutting)
the uncoiling of cloth from a roller or paper making by a machine. In
printing or ornamenting such wood, when of a common description, as
lime, poplar, horse chesnut, or similar white woods, I dye or stain in
rolls long lengths of such woods, to produce à resemblance to the ground
or color of more costly and deeper colored woods, as mahogany, rosewood,
or walnut. I then, to prevent splitting, and the better to undergo the
printing process, mount on the rougher of the two sides common paper
or calico. I then employ the modification of machinery or apparatus,
shown by Figure 5, but substituting for form cylinders F' and F2 (coated
by sawn or punched devices, and shapes of vulcanized india-rubber or
other elastic coating) cylinders of zinc, or cylinders having zinc surfaces,
these I cause to be engraved or etched by acids, or partly the one and
partly the other, so as to resemble two or more tints in resemblance of
the deeper veins or grain of the more costly wood to be imitated. The
ink trough, supply roller, carrying, distributing, and depositing rollers
A to E', being as when printing lace, muslin, silk, &c. in two colors, and
the manipulations being exactly the same, as before described, when
printing of two colors in quick succession in woven fabrics.
printing in resemblance of the inlays of brass and ebony, tulip, zebra, or
other costly woods, for cabinet and work boxes, panels, styles, or other
similar uses, I select pieces of scale board or sliced woods, the least marked
with veins or grain, and print thereon, by the ordinary printing press or
lithographic process, forms engraved and etched forms of type, metal,
zinc, or brass, such engravings or drawings on stone being to give
impressions resembling the veins of such parts as are desired to resemble
such ornamental woods; in other cases I select such specimens of the
sliced wood as are beautifully or eccentrically marked by veins or grain;
the parts of such designs not being brass or ebony, but such as rosewood
or walnut. I imitate by printing in suitable colored transparent inks,
When

page_text: through which may be seen the original veins or figure of the wood as
naturally grown; when the colors so impressed are dry they are fit for
the manipulations of the cabinet maker and the French polisher.
The seventh part of my Invention, by silvering or gilding of one surface
of a series of tapes of threads, and intermediately ornamenting the paper
or other fabric (on which temporary adhesion has been caused) by gold or
silver stripes, I effect thus:-Spools of threads are mounted on a standard
A, Figures 9 and 10. Each separate thread is passed through one of a
series of perforations in a sley or guide plate B, to lay side by side, a given
number thereof close to each other to make a series of tapes of threads,
these are then passed over small rollers C and carried downward between
felt coated rollers D, D, which have been supplied with a thin solution of
gelatine by felt covered rollers E, E, working in troughs containing such
size. F is a roller, having a web of paper or other fabric reeled thereon;
this is uncoiled and made to pass round a part of the circumference of a
heated metal cylinder G, and thereon are attached and dried the series
of tapes of threads coated by gelatine from rollers D, D, and then reeled
on to roller H, from whence it is removed to be coated (on the surface
having the series of tapes of threads) with varnish, as before described,
and by the arrangement of machinery described in respect of Figure 6,
when leaf metal is deposited from coils of paper or cloth, as before de-
scribed, see Figure 8. When such tapes of threads, thus gilt or silvered,
are reeled off the paper or other fabric on which they had been affixed
for the foregoing manipulations, and reeled on to spools for their use of
spirally coating other threads the metal side outwards.
For carrying out the eighth part of the Invention, when the lace or
other fabric is to be coated on one side only with color, flocks, bronzes,
or leaf metals, and when it is not desired to ornament the paper, muslin,
or other close woven fabric in combination with it, I cause slight adhesion
by damping and pressing the fabric to webs or long lengths of common
paper, gutta percha, or other such slightly impressible surfaces, pressing
them together through metallic pressure rollers to unite the two, and
slightly imbed the fabric into the paper or other matter. I then, when
set or dry, employ the means described and as shown in respect of
Figure 6, so far as the coating with varnish is concerned.
I then separate
the fabric from the paper or other matter, and lay on the fabric alone
powder color, flocks, bronzes, or leaf metals, by similar means to those
before described. When the ornamental articles desired to be coated,
silvered, or gilt, are otherwise than in pieces or webs, as breadths of lace,
footings or insertions, collars, falls, veils, shawls, mantles, scarfs, Honiton

page_text: sprigs and bouquets, window blinds, window curtains, bed furniture, or
any other complete articles in an otherwise finished or dressed state, I
cause by similar means the attachment and partial embedding into paper,
sometimes such articles being a number of one description, at other times
by covering such paper with various assorted articles preparatory to the
coating with varnisn, and then powder colors, flocks, bronzes, or leaf
metals, by means such as described in respect of Figure 6.
Another means I employ for coating of lace on one surface with leaf
metals is to procure such lace to be got up or dressed in gelatine or some
analogous size; I then lay this upon a web of dry flannel which has been
extended on a long table or counter, and on which has been laid leaf
metal covering the entire surface; I then lay over the lace another web
of flannel which has been saturated in hot water and expressed, so as to
discharge most of the water, leaving it moderately damp; the lace with
metal leaves and webs of flannel are then reeled together on to a roller
at the end of the table, and having remained a short time to cause the
gelatine or size dress of the lace to soften and adhere to the leaf metal,
I then pass the whole through a pair of pressure rollers to make the
adhesion more full and complete preparatory to separation and the
brushing away the non-adhering portions of the metal.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details given, as these may be varied;
but what I do claim is,-
Firstly, the producing ornamental effects of the character of printing
simultaneously upon the two surfaces of lace and other open fabrics,
whereby the pattern or figure produced on the one surface may correspond
or be coincident with that on the other.
Secondly, I claim the arranging and combining apparatus, whereby
coloring matter or varnish may be simultaneously applied to the two sides
or surfaces of lace or other open fabric, and then the pattern thereof
imparted to the surfaces of the two other fabrics or paper.
Thirdly, I claim the employing a series of cylindrical printing surfaces
acting in succession, and aided by suitable impressing cylinder or
cylinders to produce patterns or designs, with inks of different colors or
shades of color upon the same surface, as explained.
Fourthly, I claim the so arranging and combining apparatus that effects
of the character described under the fourth head of the Invention may
be simultaneously imparted to lace or other open texture, and to other
fabric of a closer character.

page_text: Fifthly, I claim the means of coating the surface of thread with metals
in leaf or powder.
Sixthly, I claim the printing upon wood to obtain effects in imitation of
other woods of a more costly description, as also of inlays.
Seventhly, I claim the so arranging and combining apparatus, whereby
metallic effects may be simultaneously produced upon one surface of a
series of threads, and in stripes upon the surface of other fabric or
material.
Eighthly, I claim the coating of lace and other open fabrics by means of
flock, bronze, or other metallic or other powder, or gold or other metallic
leaf, as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
WILLIAM TAYLOR. (L.S.)
Witness,
ROBT. A. HARRISON.