Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 28th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
I, ELIZABETH O'DONNELL, of 2 Harrow Alley, Houndsditch, in the County of
Middlesex, Wholesale Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
In marking patterns upon cloth in the manufacture of wearing apparel and the like
it is usual to employ patterns cut out of paper which are placed upon the cloth and
around which patterns lines are drawn upon the cloth with pipe clay or other material.
This mode of marking occupies much time and is therefore costly; moreover there
is a liability to waste of cloth. Now my invention has for its object to enable patterns
to be marked upon cloth in an expeditious manner and by means such that waste of
cloth such as is liable to occur in the wholesale manufacture of wearing apparel and
the like when marking in the usual way, may be obviated. To this end upon a
suitable backing I provide a rib-like or projecting surface or surfaces corresponding in
shape to the outline or outlines of the pattern or patterns to be marked upon cloth,
the material employed in the production of the said surface or surfaces being such as
will readily receive pipe clay or other suitable material such as prepared chalk and will if
provided therewith and afterwards pressed against the surface of cloth impart thereto
a representation in pipe clay (or the like) of the pattern or patterns to be cut out.
The backing may be of any suitable material such as strong brown paper, and the
raised rib like or projecting surface may be made of cord fastened to the backing.
The pressure can conveniently be given by the use of a roller. A series of raised
patterns can be produced upon a single backing which can be wound upon a roller.
If pipe clay or the like be applied to the raised patterns and the surface thereof be
pressed upon the surface of cloth by means of the roller the same being rolled over
the cloth and so unrolling the patterns and backing as the roller advances, the necessary
marking of the cloth will be effected.
Dated this 28th day of April 1887
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ELIZABETH O'DONNELL of 2, Harrow Alley, Houndsditch, in the County of
Middlesex. Wholesale Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In marking patterns upon cloth in the manufacture of wearing apparel and the like,
it is usual to employ patterns cut out of paper which are placed upon the cloth and
around which pattern lines are drawn upon the cloth with pipe clay or other material.
This mode of marking occupies much time, and is therefore costly; moreover, there
is a liability to waste of cloth. Now my invention has for its object to enable
patterns to be made upon cloth in an expeditious manner, and by means such that
waste of cloth such as is liable to occur in the wholesale manufacture of wearing
apparel and the like when marking in the usual way may be obviated. To this end,
upon a suitable backing I provide a rib-like or projecting surface or surfaces corre-
sponding in shape to the outline or outlines of the pattern or patterns to be marked
upon cloth, the material employed in the production of the said surface or surfaces being
such as will readily receive pipe clay or other suitable material such as prepared
chalk, and will, if provided therewith and afterwards pressed against the surface of
cloth, impart thereto a representation in pipe clay (or the like) of the pattern or
patterns to be cut out. The backing may be of any suitable material, such as strong
brown paper, and the raised rib-like or projecting surface may be made of cord
fastened to the backing. The pressure can conveniently be given by the use of a
roller. A series of raised patterns can be produced upon a single backing which can
be wound upon a roller. If pipe clay or the like be applied to the raised patterns and
the surface thereof be pressed upon the surface of cloth by means of the roller, the
same being rolled over the cloth and so unrolling the patterns and backing as the
roller advances, the necessary marking of the cloth will be effected.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 is an underside view of means according to this invention for marking cloth.
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of the same showing part wound on a roller, and part
unwound; and
Fig. 3 a transverse section on the line A, B, Fig. 1.
1 is a backing of suitable material, such as strong brown paper; 2, 2, are rib-like
or projecting surfaces of suitable material, such as cord, secured to the backing 1 in
any suitable manner; it may be by means of glue, or of stitching. The rib-like or
projecting surfaces 2 are arranged to correspond in shape to the outline or outlines of
the pattern or patterns to be marked, as shown, and may be so arranged that nearly
the whole surface of the backing is utilised for patterns, the spaces left between large
pätterns being occupied by smaller ones as shown in Fig. 1.
For convenience in use and in storage, the backing with its patterns may be wound
on a roller 3. By placing this roller carrying a coil of backing with patterns upon

page_text: the cloth or other material 4 (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2) to be marked, and
rolling it over the same, as indicated in Fig. 2, the backing may be unrolled, the
patterns thereon pressed upon the cloth, and the necessary marking thereof effected.
The backing with the raised patterns, after being pressed upon the cloth and unwound
from the roller, will, when made of material such as strong brown paper, re-wind
itself into a coil as shown at the left-hand side of Fig. 2. Improper marking of the
cloth by accidental lateral movement of the backing, which would be liable to occur if
the whole length of the backing was unwound and allowed to remain upon the cloth
or other material marked, is thus obviated.
In lieu of making the backing in long. lengths and providing it with a series of
patterns, as in the example shown, it may be made in short lengths provided with one
pattern only. The pipe clay or chalk is rubbed on to those raised parts representing
the pattern or patterns to be marked on the cloth, and several impressions may be
obtained with one application of pipe clay or chalk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner it is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The method substantially as herein described of marking a pattern or patterns
upon cloth and other material by pressing thereon a suitably mounted rib-like or
projecting surface or surfaces provided with marking material and corresponding in
shape to the outline or outlines of the pattern or patterns to be marked.
2. The use for the purpose referred to in the preceding claim of a backing or
support carrying a rib-like or projecting surface or surfaces capable of being provided
with marking material and corresponding in shape to the outline or outlines of the
pattern or patterns to be marked substantially as hereinabove described for the
purposes set forth.