An Improvement in Finishing Cotton Velvets and other similar Cotton Piled Fabrics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 2nd Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Jan., 1888
An Improvement in Finishing Cotton Velvets and other similar
Cotton Piled Fabrics.
1 RICHARD SCOTT COLLINGE of the firm of William Edleston and Company Limited
of Sowerby Bridge in the County of York Dyers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the finishing of cotton velvets and other similar cotton
piled fabrics and especially to such as are finished on the face by the process known
as "painting," the object of the invention being to render the colors less fugitive and
to give an additional depth and lustre to the appearance.
My invention consists principally in fixing the color and improving the appearance
of such "painted cotton piled fabrics by the application thereto of a very thin
coating of shellac or other suitable spirit varnish.
I apply this varnish, by preference, in the following inanner. After the goods have
been painted" brushed and dried I apply a very thin solution of the varnish to the
surface of the pile by means of a roller engraved on the face with very fine lines after
which I brush and finish the pile in the usual manner. This application of varnish
will be found to fix the color and to impart an increased lustre and depth thereto.
I do not intend to confine myself to the above described method of applying the
varnish to the pile, as it may be applied by brushes, pads or otherwise.
Dated thie 3rd day of March 1887.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Finishing Cotton Velvets and other similar
Cotton Piled Fabrics.
I RICHARD SCOTT COLLINGE of the firm of William Edleston and Company Limited
of Sowerby Bridge in the County of York, Dyers 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 relates to the finishing of colored cotton velvets, and other similar
cotton piled fabrics whether the same be dyed or finished on the face by the process
known as painting," "the object of the invention being to render the colors less
fugitive and to give an additional depth and lustre to the appearance.
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My invention consists principally in fixing the color and improving the appearance
of such dyed or painted" cotton piled fabrics by the application thereto of a very
thin coating of shellac or other suitable spirit varnish.
I apply this varnish, by preference, in the following manner:
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After the goods have been dyed or painted" brushed and dried apply a very thin
solution of the varnish to the surface of the pile by means of a roller engraved on
the face with very fine lines after which I brush and finish the pile in the usual
manner. This application of varħish will be found to fix the color and to impart an
increased lustre and depth thereto.
I do not intend to confine myself to the above described method of applying the
varnish to the pile, as it may be applied by brushes, pads or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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The improvement in finishing dyed or painted cotton velvets and other similar
cotton piled fabrics by the application thereto of a thin coating of shellac or other
suitable spirit varnish substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore
set forth.
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Donamba 1947
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.