A METAL PAINT, AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME BY PAINTING IN GOLD AND IMITATION GOLD, SILVER, OR OTHER METAL COLOR ON VELVET, CLOTH, AND OTHER FABRICS HAVING A PILE OR WOOLLY OR FLOSSY SURFACE."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and Moritz Anton
Verkrüzen, sole Partners of the firm of Verkrüzen & Co., Designers, &c.,
of 96, Hatton Garden, London, E.C., for the Invention of "A METAL
PAINT, AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME BY PAINTING IN GOLD AND IMITATION
GOLD, SILVER, OR OTHER METAL COLOR ON VELVET, CLOTH, AND OTHER FABRICS
HAVING A PILE OR WOOLLY OR FLOSSY SURFACE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen
and Moritz Anton Verkrüzen at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th January 1861.
We, THEODOR ANTON VERKRÜZEN and MORITZ ANTON VERKRÜZEN, sole
Partners of the firm of Verkrüzen & Co., Designers, &c., of 96, Hatton
Garden, London, E.C. do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A METAL PAINT, AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME BY PAINTING IN GOLD AND
IMITATION GOLD, SILVER, OR OTHER METAL COLOR ON VELVET, CLOTH, AND OTHER
FABRICS HAVING A PILE OR WOOLLY ON FLOSSY SURFACE," to be as follows, viz. :-
To produce on fabrics having a pile or woolly surface, &c., a painting, sketch,.
or drawing of a brilliant golden or other metal color, real or imitation, as a
substitute of or an improvement on what has hitherto been produced by

page_text: embossing, printing, or by embroidery in gold, &c., and which Invention is
applicable to all kinds of drawing & sketching, &c., for cushions, table covers,
&c., &c., and for all ornamental purposes generally of every description.
The ingredients of the paint used are gold and silver powders, bronze powders
of all colors, white of egg, gum, ox gall, white paint and sepia, which are
mixed according to consistency' required, that is, more metal for a greater
effect, or less for a softer shading, they are not all used at same time, as for
instance sepia is only used when gold requires to be slightly put on, and
in the same way the other ingredients are generally only partly used according
to color of ground to be painted on, and according to tint of paint required,
which consequently necessitates a great variety of different proportions and
mixtures, whilst often only two or three of the ingredients are used alone.
The application is an artistical manipulation acquired by instruction and
practice.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and Moritz Anton Verkrüzen in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THEODOR
ANTON VERKRÜZEN and MORITZ ANTON VERKRÜZEN, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Iler reign, did, for Ierself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and Moritz Anton Verkrüzen, Iler
special licence that we, the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and Moritz Anton
Verkrüzen, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and Moritz Anton Verkrüzen, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "A METAL PAINT, AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME
BY PAINTING IN GOLD AND IMITATION GOLD, SILVER, OR OTHER METAL COLOR ON
V VET, CLOTH, AND OTHER FABRICS HAVING A PILE OR WOOLY OR FLOSSY SURFACE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Theodor Anton S
Verkrüzen and Moritz Anton Verkrüzen, our administrators or executors, by

page_text: an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or one of our
or their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and
Moritz Anton Verkrüzen, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
―
Our Invention relates to the ornamentation of all textile fabrics having a
raised pile, wooly, flossy, or other like surface and of any color, by painting
thereon in the manner and by the process hereinafter described any suitable
design in gold, imitation gold, silver, or other metal color or colors. The
process of the said ornamentation is as follows, viz. first in preparing the
gold, silver, or other metal color, and secondly in forming or producing the
required designs therewith; the paint consists of metal powder, metallated
spirits, gum arabic, and water in the following proportions, and prepared in
the following manner, viz:-For gold, silver, bronze, &c. one part of metal
powder of the respective kind or color required, one part of the solution
of equal parts of water and gum arabic (by bulk) for the base of the metal
paint, a similar base may also be prepared by one part of metal powder, and
substituting the white of egg for the gum arabic, adding a little flake white and
sepia to give consistency when found desirable, we however prefer the base
prepared as first described.
Having thus prepared the base or bases according to the color required,
we then make a dilute consisting of metallated spirits and distilled or clean
water in the proportion of two-thirds of the latter to one-third of the former,
then by mixing equal quantities of the base and dilute, a metal paint having
the requisite qualities is obtained. The base and dilute, however, are not
to be mixed except when used, and must be kept separate until so required.
For any metal colour or other color required we use the metal powder of
that color, and mix and prepare as above described.
In forming or producing the required design we use sable or hair brushes,
and therewith apply the paint to the fabric and work it in-upon-the surface-
thereof until the required depth or gradations of metal color are obtained;
in shading, we add more or less of the dilute according to the depth of shade
required; in giving the fine lines and finishing touches we use a very small
proportion of the dilute.
By this principle and process we produce ornamented textile fabrics and

page_text: obtain a peculiar ornamentation, the designs, whether in gold, silver, or other
color are produced upon and nearly even with the surface of the fabric, but
embedded therein sufficiently to insure a permanent adhesion without being
embossed, or otherwise indenting the surface of the material, and these
peculiarly ornamented fabrics or principle of producing designs therein in
metal colors we claim as our Invention.
In witness whereof, we, the said Theodor Anton Verkrüzen and Moritz
Anton Verkrüzen, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
fifth day of July, 1861.
T. A. VERKRÜZEN. (L.S.)
M. A. VERKRÜZEN. (L.S.)
T. A. VERKRÜZEN. (18.)
M. A. VERKRÜZEN. (L.S.)