IMPROVEMENTS IN MT.... OF DADER HANGINGS THE MANUFACTURE
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jabez Booth, Foreman of the Heywood, Higgin-
bottom, Smith, and Company Limited Paper-hanging Works, Hyde
Road, in the City of Manchester, for the Invention of." IMPROVEMENTS IN
MT....
OF DADER HANGINGS"
Sealed the 25th July 1865, and dated the 6th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jabez Booth at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
February 1865.
I, JABEZ BOOTH, Foreman of the Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith, and
Company Limited Paper-banging Works, Hyde Road, in the City of
Manchester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER HANGINGS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is applicable to the manufacture of embossed paper hangings,
and it consists in producing the requisite embossed surfaces in the following
manner-The paper to be embossed is first covered with a coating of satin
white or other suitable material, and while in a damp state it is passed
through an ordinary printing machine provided with a roller, the surface of
which is embossed, engraved, or cut in relief with the pattern required. By
this means time and labour are economised, as it has heretofore been requisite
to pass the paper through several operations to obtam an inferior result. By

page_text: my Invention the pattern produced is permanent, while in the present method
of manufacture the pattern is effaced or injured by the damping requisite to
attach the paper to the wall.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jabez Booth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JABEZ
BOOTH, Foreman of the Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith, and Company,
Limited Paper-hanging Works, Hyde Road, in the City of Manchester,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand cight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Jabez Booth, Her special license that I, the said Jabez Booth, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I the said Jabez Booth, 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 lawfully 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
HANGINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jabez
Booth, 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 Jabez Booth, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manuer 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 is applicable to the manufacture of embossed paper
hangings, and it consists in producing the requisite embossed surfaces in the
following improved manner :-The machinery employed is of the ordinary
construction, and the improved mode of manufacture is illustrated by the

page_text: accompanying Diagram. The paper to be embossed, indicated by the dotted
line c, is first covered with a coating of satin white or other suitable material
by passing between the padding roller a and the cylinder b, forming part of
an ordinary printing machine; the padding roller is fed by the endless sieve
a passing around the rollers d, the lower one of which is supplied with the
satin white or other material by the roller e, revolving as usual in a color
trough f; after this padding operation has been performed, the paper is or
may be printed in the ordinary manner by the color rollers 9 and h, and then
it passes, still in a damp state, between the cylinder b and the roller i, the
surface of which is embossed, engraved, or cut in relief with the pattern
required; the roller i is pressed against the paper by regulating set screws,
as in machines of the usual construction. In some cases more than one
embossing roller i may be employed. The paper with the embossed pattern is
then dried and formed into rolls ready to be used in the ordinary manner. By
means of these improvements time and labor are considerably economised,
as the operations requisite for manufacturing embossed paper hangings from
the plain paper are performed successively and uninterruptedly, whereas it
has heretofore been requisite in manufacturing such paper hangings to pass
the paper through several operations. Another great advantage resulting from
this improved mode of manufacture is that the embossed pattern produced is
permanent, whereas in embossed paper hangings manufactured in the ordinary
manner the pattern is effaced or injured by the damping of the paste requisite
to attach the paper to the wall.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the manner
of performing the same, I declare that I claim the manufacture of embossed
paper hangings by successive continuous operations as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jabez Booth, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this First day of August, One thousand eight hundred and