IMPROVEMENTS IN LACE FABRICS
Year: 1866

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William George Edward
Swinnock at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 10th November 1866, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
5. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I; WILLIAM
GEORGE EDWARD. SWINNOCK, of Acton, in the. County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LACE
FABRICS," and have petitioned Her Majesty. to grant unto me,- my. executors,
0_administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for, the same, and have
.made solemn Declaration, that the same has been communicated to me from
abroad by Auguste Pascal, Lace Manufacturer,. of Puy, (Haute Loire),. and
Felix Varenne, Merchant, of Paris, both in the Empire of France...
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William George Edward Swinnock,
5 do hereby declare that the following, Complete Specification, under my hand
and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature, of the said Invention, and in
what manner, the, same. is, to be performed in and by the following statement
(that is to say):
This Invention consists,in (printing designs or patterns: "on"lace or net
O fabrics, or invitations of the same in one or more colors, which may be varied
according to the nature of the subject to be represented, -viz., flowers, fruit,
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page_text: foliage, arabesque designs, or other ornamental fancy subjects. This printing
is effected after the material is manufactured, that is to say, added as an
improvement in lace, net, or imitations of all sorts whatever may be the form,
substance, and color thereof.
By the generic word "lace" I include all Alencon, Brussels, Valenciennes,
or Chantilly laces with a fine ground, blond, guipure, Cluny laces, in a word, all
needle or bone lace whatever may be their denominations, and by net or
imitations of lace net I mean all such articles as are made by machinery in
imitation of lace and net, with designs or patterns; impressions may also be
made on lace, net, or imitations of the same, whether dressed or not, which
have been tinted in one or more colors by any suitable process.
The Invention thus consists in the application of lithographic or other
printing for producing designs on lace, net, and imitations thereof, such printed
articles being more in harmony with the various objects they are intended to
represent, while at same time preserving the beauty of the lace and improving
the same by imitating exactly the colors of the objects intended to be represented
by the designs.
It will be readily understood by manufacturers and others that by the
impression of colors and hues indefinitely variegated, and forming as it were
an addition to the lace design, the article may be brought nearer to a perfect
imitation than heretofore.
The lithographic process is applied in the following manner:-The stone
having received the desired composition and design, the object to be printed
is fixed on paper in the proper position, afterwards operating in the ordinary
way of producing lithographic or other impressions. All kinds of colors,
including those obtained from metals, may be used according to the designs or
ornaments to be obtained, which colors may be fixed by steam or otherwise
accordingly as lace, net, or imitations are to be printed. It will be readily
understood that the impression may be made either on one or both sides
of the articles.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William George Edward Swinnock, have
hereunto set my haud and seal, this Tenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
W. G. E. SWINNOCK. (L.s.)