Improvements in Methods for Packing Gold and other Decorative Films, and Devices for Applying the same.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
UUMI LEID
Improvements in Methods for Packing Gold and other Decorative
Films, and Devices for Applying the same.
I, WALTER HAMILTON COE, of No. 652 Broad Street, in the City of Providence,
County of Providence, State of Rhode Island, United States of America,
Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
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This invention has reference to improvements in methods for packing decorative
films and devices for applying the same.
The object of the invention is to so pack and deliver the films described as
to obviate the usual waste in the use of the same.
The further object of this invention is to form a package of decorative films
which will facilitate the use of said films.
Another object of the invention is to produce a package of decorative films
adapted to be secured directly in a suitable machine for applying the same.
The invention consists in the peculiar method of cutting the films into narrow
ribbons, providing a backing for the same of substantially a corresponding width
and length, and the combination therewith of a suitable mechanism to receive these
strips or ribbons.
The invention further consists in the peculiar combination of a package of.
decorative films, formed as described, with a device having a handle and a delivery-
roll by which the application of the film is facilitated.
Figure 1 represents a top view of the device for applying the film directly from
the package.
Figure 2 represents a view of the package of films arranged in the improved
manner.
Figure 3 represents an end view of the same.
Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.
Decorative films as heretofore packed and especially gold-leuf, so called, have
been arranged in small books, the sheets of the films alternating with the protecting
leaves of the book. In applying these films for decorative purposes, it has been
the custom to cut these books and the films contained therein into short strips of
approximately the width of the portion to be gilded, the user being obliged to
apply these strips to the work in succession. Owing to the use of these short
pieces, numberless joints in the gilding were made and in order to cover these joints
the strips were lapped, occasioning the use of a large amount of practically waste
material; also, when these joints were not most carefully burnished and secured,
the corners of the films had a tendency to curl, especially when acted upon by the
rays of the sun combined with suitable conditions of the weather.
Furthermore it has been necessary to cut the films considerably wider than
the portion of the article to be gilded, the remainder, after burnishing, being
wasted, and in out-door work, in windy weather, it has been almost impossible to
apply the films satisfactorily.
My improved method of packing the films is devised with the intention of over-
coming the objections thus mentioned, and in carrying my invention into effect, I
take a sheet of film, indicated in Figure 3 of the drawings by the dotted lines 5-5,
and cut the same into strips or ribbons of suitable widths. I then place these
strips upon a protecting strip 6-6, of paper or other suitable material, properly
treated, and if necessary having a slightly adhesive surface. I finally wind these
strips 5-5 and 6-6 around a spool 7 of any suitable shape and in a manner

page_text: so that when unwound, by running the spool over a surface, the film will lie next
said surface.
The spool 7 may be provided with a longitudinal perforation through which a
shaft may extend having flanged ends similar to those marked 8-8, which are
adapted to be held between the thumb and first finger when the film is to be used
in hand-work, this spool 7 being also adapted to be secured in a machine by which
the film is automatically unwound when passed over a surface.
In Figure 1, 9 indicates a handle which has two forwardly-extending arms 10-10
through the ends of which is secured a shaft,- -on this shaft is journaled a delivery-
roll 11 located near the center of the shaft by sleeves or washers. At the portion
of the handle 9 from which the arms extend are located the studs 12-12 and the
bent-spring 13. Between the studs 12-12 is pivoted the shank 14 of a frame
having two arms 15-15, the rear end of this shank resting on the end of the
spring 13, and through the ends of the arms 15-15 extends a shaft on which.
are carried the rotatable disks 16-16,-between these disks is journaled a package-
roll, similar to that above described, the outer end of the protecting-strip of said
roll being glued to the delivery-roll.
It is obvious that by this improved method of packing, the film may be applied
in long lengths without joints, thus saving the extra material now used in over-
lapping the same. As no strain is exerted on the film it will not be broken,
and, as the films are cut in widths to suit the work, very little will be wasted
from the edges,-in out-door work only a small portion of the film is exposed to
the wind and that is held around the spool. The protecting ribbon may be
slightly longer than the film and the overlapping end may be glued down on
to the next lower layer when the winding is completed. The complete packages
may be packed in suitable boxes.
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 :-
Claim 1. The herein described method of packing decorative films, consisting in
cutting, or forming, the films into ribbons, applying these ribbons to protecting
strips having a slightly adhesive surface, and winding the said ribbons and strips
on spools of the same width as the ribbons, constructed to press the film down
on the part to be gilded as the film is unwound therefrom, as described.
2. A device for applying decorative films, consisting of a delivery-roll and a
package-roll independently journaled on. shafts secured in suitable frames.
3. The combination with the handle 9 having the arms 10-10 and provided
with the studs 12-12 and spring 13, and the delivery-roll 11 journaled on a
shaft secured in the ends of said arms, of the shank 14 pivoted between the
studs 12-12 and resting on said spring, the package-roll 7 journaled on a shaft
secured in the ends of said arms, and the disks 16-16 independently rotatable
on said shaft, as described.
DL: 01...
Ml A T 1000
In presence of :-
WALTER HAMILTON COE.
JOSEPH A. MILLER, Jr.
Ha eltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.