IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PATTERNS OR DESIGNS IN METALS ON CLOTH OR FABRICS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Bennett, of the Firm of John Bennett
and Son, of Birch Vale, in the County of Derby, Calico Printers,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PATTERNS OR DESIGNS
IN METALS ON CLOTH OR FABRICS."
Scaled the 16th October 1875, and dated the 19th April 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Bennett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,.on the
19th April 1875.
I, FREDERICK BENNETT, of the Firm of John Bennett and Son, of
Birch Vale, in the County of Derby, Calico Printers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING PATTERNS
OR DESIGNS IN METALS ON CLOTH OR FABRICS," to be as follows :—
This Invention relates to those descriptions of goods known to the
trade as bronze brocade or gold patterns, in which the pattern produced
on the surface of the fabric is in imitation of gold, silver, or bronze,

page_text: and consists in a novel method of applying the metals to produce the
required design.
At present a block is cut to the pattern required, the surface of which
having been dipped in an adhesive matter is applied to the cloth, leaving
thereon the impression required. Another block of the same pattern as
the first is dipped into the required metal, and applied to the adhesive
mixture forming the pattern on the cloth, which takes up the metal and
so forms the pattern.
In my method I put the adhesive matter forming the design on the
cloth by a copper or surface roller; then pass the cloth through a box 1
containing the required metals, which is caused to adhere to the adhesive
matter by means of running the cloth under a roller near the bottom of
the box, which works in the metal, thereby pressing the print against
the metal, causing it to furnish itself.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Bennett in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
BENNETT, of the Firm of John Bennett and Son, of Birch Vale, in the
County of Derby, Calico Printers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Frederick Bennett, Her special license, that
I, the said Frederick Bennett, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Frederick Bennett, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, shall at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein

page_text: 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING
PATTERNS OR DESIGNS IN METALS ON CLOTH OR FABRICS," upon the condition
5 (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Bennett, my exccutors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of 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 I, the said Frederick Bennett, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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) :-
This Invention relates to those descriptions of goods known to the
trade as bronze brocade or gold patterns, in which the pattern produced
on the surface of the fabric is in imitation of gold, silver, or bronzo, and
consists in a novel method of applying the metals to produce the required
design.
At present a block is cut to the pattern required, the surface of which,
having been dipped in an adhesive matter, is applied to the cloth,
leaving thereon the impression required. Another block of the same
pattern as the first is dipped in the required metal and applied to tho
adhesive mixture forming the pattern on the cloth, which takes up the
metal and so forms the pattern.
In my method I put the adhesive matter forming the design on the
cloth by a copper or surface roller, then pass the cloth through a box
containing the required metal, which is caused to adhere to the adhesive
matter by means of running the cloth under a roller near the bottom
of the box, which works in the metal, thereby pressing the print
against the metal, causing it to furnish itself.
In cases of fitting, where the required metal cannot be conveniently
put on the machine, I block the adhesive matter forming the design,
and then pass the cloth through the box as above described.

page_text: Having described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim, the improvements in producing patterns or
designs in metal on cloth or fabrics as hercin described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Bennett, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five
FREDERICK BENNETT. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Frederick
Bennett in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.