THE APPLICATION OF IMPRESSED OR EMBOSSED PATTERNS OR DESIGNS TO CERTAIN FABRICS KNOWN AS BOTANY OR CANTON CLOTH, TAFFETALINE VICTORIA OR GLORIA
Year: 1884

page_text: I, BENJAMIN MARTIN HOOD, of the firm of Edward Scharff & Co, of Hick Street,
Vicar Lane, Bradford, in the county of York, Merchants do hereby declare the
nature of the said invention for "THE APPLICATION OF IMPRESSED OR EMBOSSED
PATTERNS OR DESIGNS TO CERTAIN FABRICS KNOWN AS BOTANY OR CANTON
CLOTH, TAFFETALINE VICTORIA OR GLORIA" to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce upon certain fabrics known as Botany
or Canton Cloth, Taffetaline, Victoria or Gloria, impressed or embossed patterns or
designs, and thereby to render them more valuable and attractive in appearance
than the fabrics herein before mentioned have been when in their plain state, or
having a border or pattern woven therein, in which condition only such fabrics
have been hitherto in use.
The fabrics referred to are composed of worsted and cotton combined, the warps
thereof being cotton and the wefts being worsted.
The pattern or design is impressed or embossed upon the fabrics by means of
inetallic, wooden or composition rollers; upon the surface of such rollers the required
pattern or design is engraved, raised or otherwise produced, or the fabric may be
pressed by rollers upon a plane surface upon which such pattern is engraved, raised
or otherwise produced.

page_text: UMILETE
OF
EMBOSSED
I, BENJAMIN MARTIN HOOD, of the firm of Edward Scharff and Co, Hick Street,
Vicar Lane, Bradford in the County of York, Merchants, do hereby declare the
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IMPRESSED
"THE APPLICATION
nature of my invention for
PATTERNS OR DESIGNS TO CERTAIN FABRICS, KNOWN AS BOTANY OR CANTON
CLOTH, TAFFETALINE, VICTORIA OR GLORIA," and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of my invention is to produce upon certain fabrics, known as Botany
or Canton cloth, Taffetaline, Victoria, or Gloria, impressed or embossed patterns or
designs, and thereby to render them more valuable, and attractive in appearance,
than the fabrics hereinbefore mentioned have been in their plain state, or when
having a border or pattern woven therein, in which condition only, such fabrics
have been hitherto in use.
The fabrics referred to are composed of worsted and cotton combined, the warps
thereof being cotton, and the wefts being worsted.
The pattern or design is impressed or embossed upon the fabrics by means of
metallic, wooden, or composition rollers; upon the surface of such rollers the required
may be
pattern or design is engraved, raised, or otherwise produced, or the fabric
pressed by rollers upon a plane surface, upon which such pattern is engraved, raised,
or otherwise produced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I make
no claim to the method of, and apparatus for, producing impressed, embossed, or
raised patterns, or designs upon fabrics, but what I claim is
The production upon certain fabrics, composed of a cotton warp and a worsted
weft, and known as Botany or Canton Cloth, Taffetaline, Victoria or Gloria, of
impressed, embossed, or raised patterns, or designs.