Improved Method of Producing Ornamental Printing or Designs upon Hat Leathers, Hat Linings, and Hat Tips.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Producing Ornamental Printing or Designs
upon Hat Leathers, Hat Linings, and Hat Tips.
We, THOMAS WEBB, of Waterloo Road. Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Manufacturer, and JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Hempshaw Lane, Stockport, aforesaid,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to produce a coloured or variegated ornamental
printing or embossed design or trade mark upon such articles as hat linings leathers
or tips.
The method or process consists essentially in first applying a coloured piece of
material to the leather or other article to which it is caused to adhere, then coating
with gold leaf or other metallic leaf and embossing over this with a die, producing
as a result a design parts of the relief of which stand up in a colour and material
contrasting with the article upon which the design is stamped.
In carrying out the invention the article or material is prepared for stamping or
embossing and to the surface is applied a small piece of a coloured material. This
piece of material may be of circular or other form according to the position it is
intended to take in the design and is prepared with size or other adhesive
material on both sides so that on one side it may adhere to the article and on the
other side the gold or other metallic leaf may adhere to it.
The article when thus prepared is embossed or imprinted with a die cut to any
design or with any lettering or figures thereon, and the part to which pressure is
applied has the gold or other leaf impressed into it and the other parts stand up in
relief and when the superfluous gold is brushed away those parts of the design
stand up in relief in a colour differing from the other part of the article.
It will be evident that the design may be further ornamented by the use of two
or more of these adhesive pieces of material each of different or alternating
colours.
By this means a very effective and ornamental design is produced.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Producing Ornamental Printing or Designs
upon Hat Leathers, Hat Linings, and Hat Tips.
We, THOMAS WEBB, of Waterloo Road, Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Manufacturer, and JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Hempshaw Lane, Stockport, aforesaid,
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 :-
This invention is designed to produce a coloured or variegated ornamental
printing or embossed design or trade mark upon such articles as hat linings leathers
or tips at one operation of stamping.
The method or process consists essentially in first applying a coloured piece of
material to the leather or other article to which it is caused to adhere, then coating
with gold leaf or other metallic leaf and embossing over this with a die, part only
of the design of which is imprinted on the added material producing as a result a
design parts of the relief of which stand up in a colour and material contrasting
with the article upon which the design is stamped.

page_text: It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which
as an example it is shown applied to a hat leather to indicate the weight and
quality of the hat.
Fig. 1. Front view of the completed design.
Fig. 3. Front view of the added piece of material before being embossed or
stamped.
Fig. 2. Front view of same after being stamped (removed from its position in
the design).
The hat leather A or other article is prepared for stamping or embossing in the
usual way and to part of the surface upon which the design or trade mark is to be
applied we apply a small piece of material a differing from the leather or other
article A to which it is applied in colour or material or both so as to offer a
decided contrast thereto, and also to the gold or other material with which it is
to be printed.
The piece of material a may be of circular or other form according to the
position it is intended to take in the design and may be of paper, textile, or other
material. It is prepared with size or other adhesive material on both sides so that
on one side it may adhere to the article and on the other side the gold or other
metallic leaf may adhere to it.
The piece of material a is placed upon and caused to adhere to the article upon
which the design or trade mark is to be embossed and when thus prepared and
gold or other metallic leaf placed over it is embossed or imprinted with a die cut
to any design or with any lettering or figures cut thereon.
The die is cut in the ordinary way for embossing and to the part that stands up
in relief little or no pressure is applied in the stamping while to the other part
which receives the pressure the gold or other colouring material is impressed and
caused to adhere. When the superfluous gold is brushed away from those parts of
the design which stand up in relief the part to which the piece of material a
has been applied stands up in relief in a colour differing from the other part of
the design.
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In the drawing the lettering is in relief the "2 oz. formed on the piece of
material a being of one colour and the "Superior Quality' in the colour of the
original material a two coloured design is thus produced at one stamping.
It will be evident that the design may be further ornamented by the use of two
or more of these adhesive pieces of material each of different or alternating
colours.
By this means a very effective and ornamental design is produced in two or more
colours at one operation of stamping.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The method of producing an embossed design in two or more colours upon
hat leathers hat linings and hat tips which consists in applying and causing to
adhere to the surface of the article one or more pieces of material of the colour
required coating with gold leaf or other metallic leaf and stamping with an
embossing die a part of the design of which is embossed on the added material
substantially as described.
2. In the embossing of ornamental designs or printing upon hat leathers linings
or tips the combination with the article to be printed of a piece of material of
different colour or texture upon which part of the design is embossed and stands
out in relief in a different colour substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 4th don of Amount 1902
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.