AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF PRINTING OR ORNAMENTING WOOLLEN OR OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE FARRICS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Léon Godefroy, Son of the Firm of Vve. L. Godefroy and
Son, of Puteaux, near Paris, Printer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PROCESS OF PRINTING OR ORNAMENTING WOOLLEN OR OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE
FARRICS"
Scaled the 15th August 1876, and dated the 10th March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Léon Godefroy at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th March 1876.
LÉON GODEFROY, Son of the Firm of Vve. L. Godefroy and Son, of Puteaux,
near Paris, Printer. "AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF PRINTING OR ORNAMENTING
WOOLLEN OR OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE FABRICS."
The object of my Invention is to give to fabrics of wool or of wool and cotton,
as well as to fancy fabrics and other cloths, a new mixed appearance, which I call
Pulveribeige."
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The process consists,―
First. In the application by block or cylinder printing of a dotted, granite, or
other ground design to one or both sides of an unbleached woollen or woollen and
cotton fabric.
Second. In fixing the same by steam.
Third. In submitting the fabric thus printed and fixed to fulling.
And, fourth. In dressing or finishing the said fabric.
Independently of the ground design, which can be if necessary limited to lines,
stripes, or blanks, another design may be placed over it, to further vary the effect
of my new fabric.
Instead of printing upon the fabric the printing can be applied to the threads in
skeins and to the warps, which can then be woven and fulled.
By my process of printing, fixing, and fulling, I produce mixed effects directly
upon the fabrics.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Léon Godefroy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th September
1876.
LÉON GODEFROY, Son of the Firm of Vve, L. Godefroy and Son, of Puteaux,
near Paris, Printer. "AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF PRINTING OR ORNAMENTING
WOOLLEN OR OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE FABRICS."
The object of my Invention is to give to fabrics of wool or of wool and cotton,
as well as to fancy fabrics and other cloths, a new mixed appearance, which I call
Pulveribeige."
The process consists,―
First. In the application by block or cylinder printing of a dotted, granite, or
other ground design to one or both sides of an unbleached woollen or woollen and
cotton fabric.
Second. In fixing the same by steam.
Third. In submitting the fabric thus printed and fixed to fulling.
And, fourth. In finishing or dressing the said fabric.
Independently of the ground design, which can be if necessary limited to lines,
stripes, or blanks, another design may be placed over it to further vary the effect of
my new fabric.
Instead of printing upon the fabric the printing can be applied to the threads in
skeins and to the warps, which can then be woven and fulled.
By my process of printing, fixing, and fulling I produce mixed effects directly
upon the fabrics.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the process of producing a
mixed appearance or mixed effect in woollen or other similar textile fabrics by
printing, fixing by steam, and fulling, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Léon Godefroy, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six
Witness,
JULES ARMENGAUD,
Civil Engineer,
At Paris,
Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23.
LÉON GODEFROY. (L.S.)