Improvements relating to Pocket Handkerchiefs and other Textile Fabrics having News or other Matter Printed thereon.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Pocket Handkerchiefs and other Textile
Fabrics having News or other Matter Printed thereon.
I, GEORGE ROBERT SMITHER, of Pasage del Crédito, 2 Entresuelo, Barcelona,
Spain, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the printing of news or periodical literature or other
like matter on textile fabric so that when the printed mattor is no longor required
by the purchaser it can be removed hy washing, and the fabric will-then serve A8 &
pocketbandkerchief, or as a domestic cloth to be used for any purpose to which it
can be put.
The printed matter whether letterpress or illustrations will be printed in ordinary
printers or other suitable ink. If desired an ornamental design may be printed
in permanent or indelible ink around the border of the fabric, to form an
ornament thereon that will not be erased when the other printed matter is
washed off.
I am aware that porkethandkerchiefs and the like have been heretofore used for
the reception of printed matter, but in such cases the printed matter was intended
to be permanent, and was not in the nature of news or periodical literature.
According to my invention the printed matter (with the exception of the border
where such is used) is intended to be easily removable by washing; the printed
matter moreover consists of newspaper or periodical literature with or without
illustrations. These features constitute the novelty of my invention.
Dated this 6th day of March 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements relating to Pocket Handkerchiefs and other Textile
Fabrios having News or other Matter Printed thereon.
1, GEORGE ROBERT SMITHER, of 37 Rambla de las Flores Pral., Barcelona,
late of Pasage del Crédito 2 Entresuelo, Barcelona, Spain, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascortained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the printing of news or periodical literature or other
like matter on textile fabric so that when the printed matter is no longer required
by the purchaser it can be removed by washing, and the fabric will then scrve
as a pockethandkerchief, or as a domestic cloth to be used for any purpose to which
it can be put.
The printed matter whether letterpress or illustrations will be printed in ordinary
printers' or other suitable ink. If desired an ornamental design may be printed
in permanent or indelible ink around the border of the fabric, to form an ornament
thereon that will not be erased when the other printed matter is washed off.

page_text: I am aware that pockethandkerchiefs and the like have been heretofore used for
the reception of printed matter, but in such cases the printed matter was intended
to be permanent, and was not in the nature of news or periodical literature.
According to my invention the printed matter (with the exception of the border
when such is used) is intended to be easily removable by washing; moreover,
the printed matter consists of news or periodical literature with or without
illustrations.
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 :-
A pockethandkerchief or other piece of textile fabric having news or periodical
literature with or without illustrations printed thereon in ink that will readily
wash out, with or without a border printed in indelible ink, substantially as
described and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 6th day of December 1895.
HAZELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.