IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ILLUMINATING OR DEVICING BOOK-' BINDERS' AND LIKE CLOTH FOR BOOK-COVERS."AL
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Phillips Lonsdale Deighton, of 21, Leighton Crescent,
Leighton Road, Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ILLUMINATING OR DEVICING BOOK-'
BINDERS' AND LIKE CLOTH FOR BOOK-COVERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Phillips Lonsdale Deighton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1878.
PHILLIPS LONSDALE DEIGHTON, of 21, Leighton Crescent, Leighton Road,
Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION.
WITH ILLUMINATING OR DEVICING BOOK-BINDERS' AND LIKE CLOTH FOR BOOK-
COVERS."
The object of this Invention is to prepare book-binders' and like cloth by a
particular process while in sheet, or before the cloth is pasted or glued upon the
millboard instead of afterwards, as is now, the case.
For the purposes of my Invention I take the usual book-binders' plain or un-
grained cloth, or it may be other cloth of a similar character having a glazed.
surface or finish, and I wash the said surface by a starchy or earthy body to destroy
the grease or to render the surface suitable for receiving ordinary lithographic
printing ink; I then print the same by the lithographic process in plain ink or in
colours alone or in conjunction with metal in powder to produce the desired
embellishment or artistic effect. If I use metal in powder, particularly the powder
of any of the base metals, I pass the sheet or printed body through a roller press in
order to produce a lustre on or to the metallic surface or surfaces. The sheet of
cloth is then pasted or glued upon millboard, and made up into a book-cover in tho
ordinary way, after which it can be varnished to preserve the colours or metal
surface from the deteriorating influence of the atmosphere.
By my Invention, which is particularly suitable for juvenile literature, presentation
volumes, library novels, and the like, any class of high decorative embellishment
can be produced in effect vastly superior to any that can be produced by the usual
embossing upon a made-up cover or case by the press, either with gold, black ink,
or by blind blocking.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Phillips Lonsdale Deighton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th March 1879.
PHILLIPS LONSDALE DEIGHTON, of 21, Leighton Crescent, Leighton Road,
Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION
WITH ILLUMINATING OR DEVICING BOOK-BINDERS' AND LIKE CLOTH FOR BOOK-
COVERS."
The object of this Invention is to prepare book-binders' and like cloth by a
particular process while in sheet, or before the cloth is pasted or glued upon mill or
other board, instead of afterwards, as is now the case.
For the purposes of my Invention I take the usual book-binders' plain or un-
grained cloth, or it may be other cloth of a similar character, and I wash the
surface of the cloth by a starchy or earthy body to destroy the grease or to render
the surface suitable for receiving ordinary lithographic printing ink; I then print
the same by the lithographic process in plain ink or in colours alone or in con-
junction with metal in powder to produce the desired embellishment or artistic
effect. If I use metal in powder, particularly the powder of any of the base metals,
pass the sheet or printed body through a roller press, in order to produce a lustre
on or to the metallic surface or surfaces. The sheet of cloth is then pasted or glued
upon the mill or other board, and made up into a book-cover in the ordinary way,
after which it can be varnished to preserve the colours or metal surface from the
deteriorating influence of the atmosphere.
I
By my Invention, which is particularly suitable for juvenile literature, presentation
volumes, library novels, and the like, any class of high decorative embellishment
can be produced in effect vastly superior to any that can be produced by the usual
embossing upon a made-up cover or case by the press, either with gold, black ink,
or by blind blocking.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
Illuminating, devicing or embellishing book-binders' plain or ungrained cloth, or
other plain or ungrained cloth, by lithographic ink printing alone or in combination
with colour or colours, metal in powder, or other desired vehicle before the cloth is
made up into book cases, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Phillips Lonsdale Deighton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
Witness,
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent,
.40, Fleet St.,
London.
P. L. DEIGHTON. (L.S.)