Improvements in Ornamental Materials for Decorating Walls, Ceilings, Floors, and other Surfaces.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ornamental Materials for Decorating Walls,
Ceilings, Floors, and other Surfaces.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Albert Works, Tynecastle, Edinburgh, in the
County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Decorative Architect, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to produce novel and pleasing effects in
decorative work in a simple and economical manner.
In carrying out my invention I take a cotton or other suitable woven fabric in
which an ornamental pattern has been produced by weaving with variously colored
yarns or threads, the texture of the fabric being plain or more or less varied or
ornamental; and having caused such fabric to adhere to a backing of paper,
I
have it varnished and scumbled with a transparent or semi-transparent varnish.
In order to prepare the decorative material care must be taken to have it mounted
on the paper in an accurate manner and so as to avoid distortion of the pattern.
For this purpose I, according to one modification, stretch the woven fabric on a
table of a suitable length such as twelve yards, the table having upon it guiding
or register lines and points with which corresponding lines and points in the
pattern of the fabric must be made to coincide. The adjusted fabric may be held
by pins or clipping devices applied at the edges. The woven fabric is first prepared
with a suitable size compound; and afterwards the backing paper softened and
pasted is applied, pasted side downwards, upon the fabric, the right or best side of
which is downwards. The table is by preference constructed for the application of
heat, by means of steam or otherwise, for setting and drying the backed fabric.
Instead of a flat table being used the paper may be applied to the woven fabric
when stretched or adjusted upon a cylinder or roller or set of rollers.
Afterwards, for finishing, the backed fabric is laid with its face uppermost and
is treated with size once or oftener, and when the size is dry a clear varnish is
applied, and a finish of scumbling with oil or water color.
In the case of floors, my intention is to apply the improved decorative materials
on borders or any parts of the floors of apartments not usually covered with
carpets.
The improved decorative material may be embossed, the indentations at the back
due to the embossing action being filled up in some cases as when to be applied to
floors.
Dated this Fifteenth day of September 1893.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ornamental Materials for Decorating Walls,
Ceilings, Floors, and other Surfaces.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Albert Works, Tynecastle, Edinburgh, in the
County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, Decorative Architect, 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, that is
to say -
My said invention has for its object to produce novel and pleasing effects in
decorative work in a simple and economical manner.

page_text: In carrying out my invention I take a cotton or other suitable woven fabric in
which an ornamental pattern has been produced by weaving with variously colored
yarns or threads the texture of the fabric being plain or more or less varied or
ornamental; and having caused such fabric to adhere to a backing of paper, I have
the whole varnished and scumbled with a transparent or semi-transparent varnish.
In order to prepare the decorative material care must be taken to have it
mounted on the paper in an accurate manner and so as to avoid distortion of the
pattern. For this purpose, I, according to one modification, stretch the woven
fabric on a table of a suitable length, such as twelve yards, the table having upon
it guiding or register lines and points with which corresponding lines and points in
the pattern of the fabric must be made to coincide. The adjusted fabric may he
held by pins or clipping devices applied at the edges. The woven fabric is first
prepared with a suitable size compound; and afterwards the backing paper softened
and pasted is applied, pasted side downwards, upon the fabric, the right or best
side of which is downwards. The table is by preference constructed for the
application of heat, by means of steam or otherwise, for setting and drying the
backed fabric.
Instead of a flat table being used the paper may be applied to the woven fabric
when stretched or adjusted upon a cylinder or roller or set of rollers.
Afterwards, for finishing, the backed fabric is laid with its face uppermost and is
treated with size once or oftener, and when the size is dry a clear or tinted varnish
is applied, and a finish of scumbling with oil or water color. The improved
decorative material may be embossed, the indentations at the back due to the
embossing action being filled up in some cases, as when to be applied to floors, with
pulp or other material, the backing being then preferably of thin sacking or similar
fabric instead of paper.
In some cases either before or after varnishing I apply irregular coloring by
hand, and when the material is embossed there may be pasted in the embossed
surfaces insertions of different textile fabrics, or other decorative materials, such as
thin wood veneers and mother of pearl. In some cases also there may be produced
a slight "impasto" effect with a suitable plastic material either in a set or uniform
design or in an irregular manner, so as to break the monotony of the woven
pattern.
In the case of floors my intention is to apply the improved decorative materials
on borders or any parts of the floors of apartments not usually covered with
carpets.
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:
The improved ornamental materials for decorating walls, ceilings, floors, and
other surfaces, consisting of particolored woven fabrics and paper combined treated
and finished substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twelfth day of June 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.