Improvements in Preparing Ornamental Materials for Decorating Walls and other Surfaces.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Preparing Ornamental Materials for Decorating
Walls and other Surfaces.
I. WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON of Albert Works, Tynecastle, Edinburgh, in the
County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Decorative Architect, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My invention has for its object the improved preparation of decorative materials
for walls and other surfaces.
In carrying out my invention I fix a web of canvas, silk, velvet, plush or
other fabric of suitable texture on a backing of soft or yielding paper by means
of stiff size combined with stucco or whiting and ordinary paste and such as
will set quickly when subjected to pressure and heat. I pass the face of the thus
prepared material in contact with a metal roller having parts of its surface sunken
or recessed according to a pattern, the unrecessed parts being coated by means of a
feed roller with paste or an analogous substance or composition of a kind setting
quickly with pressure and heat, such substance or composition being colored if
desired. In passing in contact with the metal roller the fabric is pressed thereon
by a metal roller heated by steam or gas jets. The heated roller may have &
counterpart of the design cut or formed on it, and the contact or pressing parts
or the entire surface of the roller may be engraved so as by an embossing action
to produce a milled or texture-like surface on the compressed parts of the fabric.
The composition uniting the fabric to the paper backing may be such as whilst
dry and firm in the cold state is by the heat of the roller rendered sufficiently
plastic for the purpose in view.
Dated this Sixteenth day of March 1892.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Preparing Ornamental Materials for Decorating
Walls and other Surfaces.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Albert Works, Tynecastle, Edinburgh, in
the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Decorative Architect, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:―
My invention has for its object the improved preparation of decorative materials
for walls and other surfaces.
In carrying out my invention I fix a web of canvas, silk, velvet, plush, or other
fabric of suitable texture on a backing of soft or yielding paper by means of a
stiff size combined with stucco or whiting and ordinary paste, and such as will
Bet quickly when subjected to pressure and heat. I pass the face of the thus
prepared material in contact with a metal roller having parts of its surface
sunken or recessed according to a pattern, the unrecessed parts being coated by
means of a feed roller with paste or an analogous substance or composition of a
kind setting quickly with pressure and heat, such substance or composition being
colored if desired. In passing in contact with the metal roller the fabric is
pressed thereon by another metal roller heated by steam or gas jets. The heated
roller may have a counterpart of the design cut or formed on it, and the contact or
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page_text: pressing parts or the entire surfaces of the rollers may be engraved or modelled so
as by an embossing action to produce a milled or texture-like surface, which may
be varied on the compressed parts of the fabric.
The adhesive composition uniting the fabric to the paper backing may be such
as whilst dry and firm in a cold state is by the heat of the roller rendered suffi-
ciently plastic for the purpose in view. A workman accustomed to work with
such adhesive compositions can easily obtain the desired condition by varying the
proportion of glue or the strength of the size employed in making it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The making of improved ornamental materials for decorating walls and other
surfaces in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Thirteenth day of December 1892.