AN IMPROVED FABRIC FOR WALL HANGINGS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark of the firm of A. M and
W. Clark of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent'
Agents, for an Invention of AN IMPROVED FABRIC FOR WALL HANGINGS
AND OTHER PURPOSES A communication to him from abroad by Alcander
Hutchinson of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th August 1882.
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ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of the firm of A. M. and W. Clark of 53 Chancery
Lane in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agents, AN IMPROVED FABRIC FOR
WALL HANGINGS AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Alcander Hutchinson, of Paris, France.]
[A communication to him from abroad by
This Invention consists in the manufacture of a new product or fabric intended
principally for use as a substitute for paper hangings for covering walls, but also
applicable for book binding for covering boxes and fancy articles generally.
The body of this fabric is a peculiar and novel composition of waterproof,
agglomerating and textile matters, the latter being in the form of loose fibres
distributed throughout the mass in order to impart the necessary coherence, tenacity,
and suppleness to the fabric. The composition of ingredients hereinafter
specified in the form of a plastic mass is rolled or otherwise spread out in a thin
layer or film either upon a paper or other backing or not as it will be sufficiently
coherent without. When it has acquired sufficient consistency it may be used as a
ground or fabric upon which to produce ornamental designs in water or oil colors
by painting, stencilling, printing, or with blocks or rollers, or otherwise, or by the
application of flock, metals, and other matters in the ordinary way of making paper
hangings. The surface of the ground or fabric may also be embossed or manu-
factured with designs or surfaces in relief or otherwise, and the above described
methods of ornamentation by the application of coloring, and other matters may be
employed conjointly or not therewith.

page_text: The ingredients of this compound are caoutchouc, oxygenated linseed oil; matters
of a non-hygrometric nature (such as cork, cocoa fibre, oak, earths such as sienna
earth, ochres, metallic oxides, particularly oxide of iron) reduced to an impalpable
powder. Waste filaments of wool, cotton, hemp, jute, and other textile fibres
together or separately. If the ground of the pattern is to be white, the oil and the
cork of which the body of the fabric is principally composed, should be decolorised
before being used in the manufacture of the fabric, or I may add thereto_inert
pulverulent substances of a white color, or in the case of a colored ground I may
add inert pulverulent substances of any color desired. may also incorporate with
the compound metallic powders and other substances capable of producing a pearly
lustre and iridescent effects, so that the ground will have a special ornamentation of
its own distinctive from the various effects produced by the ordinary methods of
making and ornamenting paper hangings.
This ground may also be grained in imitation of morocco and other leather,
granite and other substances; it may also be moiréd and otherwise ornamented.
This fabric may be made to resemble in all respects ordinary paper bangings as
regards appearance, but it possesses for the purposes of a wall covering very
material advantages over the paper hangings ordinarily used; viz-it may be glued
to the wall with glue instead of with paste, and it consequently adheres much more
strongly; owing to the nature of the compound or body of which it is composed, it
is absolutely waterproof and therefore prevents the exudations due to the humidity
of the wall, and it may be thoroughly washed and scoured so that after lengthened
usage its original freshness of appearance will be retained, and considerable
economy will therefore be effected by its employment.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd February 1883.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of the Firm of A, M, and W, Clark of 53 Chancery
Lane in the County of Middlesex Patent Agents "AN IMPROVED FABRIC FOR
WALL-HANGINGS AND OTHER PURPOSES " A communication to me from abroad by
Alcander Hutchinson of Paris, France
This Invention consists in the manufacture of a new product or fabric to which
is given the name of "Texol" intended principally for use as a substitute for paper
hangings for covering walls, but also applicable for book binding for covering boxes
and fancy articles generally.
The body of this fabric is a peculiar and novel composition of waterproof,
agglomerating and textile matters, the latter being in the form of loose fibres
distributed throughout the mass in order to impart the necessary coherence, tenacity,
and suppleness to the fabric. The composition of ingredients hereinafter specified
in the form of a plastic mass is rolled or otherwise spread out in a thin layer or film
either upon a paper or other backing or not as it will be sufficiently coherent
without. When it has acquired sufficient consistency it may be used as a ground
or fabric upon which to produce ornamental designs in water or oil colors by
painting, stencilling, printing, or with blocks or rollers, or otherwise, or by the
application of flock, metals, and other matters in the ordinary way of making paper
hangings. The surface of the ground or fabric may also be embossed or manu-
factured with designs or surfaces in relief or otherwise, and the above described
methods of ornamentation by the application of coloring, and other matters may be
employed conjointly or not therewith.
The ingredients of this compound are caoutchouc, oxygenated linseed oil, matters
of a non-hygrometric nature (such as cork, cocoa fibre, oak, earths such as sienna
earth, ochres, metallic oxides, particularly oxide of iron) reduced to an impalpable
powder, waste filaments of wool, cotton, hemp, jute, and other textile fibres together
or separately. If the ground of the pattern is to be white, the oil and the cork of
which the body of the fabric is principally composed, should be decolorised before
being used in the manufacture of the fabric, or I may add thereto inert pulverulent
substances of a white color, or in the case of a colored ground I may add inert
pulveruient substances of any color desired. I may also incorporate with the
compound metallic powders and others substances capable of producing a pearly
lustre and iridescent effects, so that the ground will have a special ornamentation of
its own distinctive from the various effects produced by the ordinary methods of
making and ornamenting paper hangings.
This ground may also be grained in imitation of morocco and other leather,
granite and other substances; it may also be moiréd and otherwise ornamented.
This fabric may be made to resemble in all respects ordinary paper hangings as
regards appearance, but it possesses for the purposes of a wall covering very
material advantages over the paper hangings ordinarily used viz:-it may be glued
to the wall with glue instead of with paste, and it consequently adheres much more
strongly; owing to the nature of the compound or body of which it is composed, it
is aboslutely waterproof and therefore prevents the exudations due to the humidity
of the wall, and it may be thoroughly washed and scoured so that after lengthened
usage its original freshness of appearance will be retained, and considerable economy
will therefore be effected by its employment.

page_text: Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is
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As a new article of manufacture, the improved fabric herein termed "Texol
and consisting in the combination of the materials, herein specified, with either an
external backing or with loose fibres of wool cotton and the like incorporated in
the body of the plastic material, the whole as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Alexander Melville Clark have hereunto set
my hand and seal this third day of February A.D. 1883.
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