IMPROVED PRINTED MATERIALS FOR WINDOW BLINDS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Stead, of Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland,
Manufacturer, trading under the style and Firm of "Stead, McAlpin, and
Co.," for an Invention of "IMPROVED PRINTED MATERIALS FOR WINDOW
BLINDS,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Stead at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th May 1880.
"
JOHN STEAD, of Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland, Manufacturer, trading
under the style and Firm of "Stead, McAlpin, and Co."
IMPROVED PRINTED
MATERIALS FOR WINDOW. BLINDS."
The object of this Invention is to produce a perfect adaptation of the outline of
the design on each side of the material, whereby the impressions on both sides so
accurately correspond with each other as to present the appearance of being an
integral part of the entire material. The impressions of the design or pattern are
obtained by the employment of blocks of wood or metal, upon which the design or
pattern is cut with the utmost accuracy. The material ordinarily used is cotton-
cloth or other suitable stuff of a semi-diaphanous character, so that when the
aforesaid blocks are applied to one side thereof the outline of the design or pattern
appears faintly through the stuff at the opposite side. The stuff is then stretched
on a bench and the second series of blocks applied so as to minutely correspond
with the impressions made on the opposite side of the stuff. The process is
necessarily slow, but the result obtained is most satisfactory.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Stead in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th November
1880.
JOHN STEAD, of Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland, Manufacturer, trading
under the style and Firm of "Stead, MoAlpin, and Co." "IMPROVED PRINTING
MATERIALS FOR WINDOW BLINDS.”
The object of the Invention is to produce a perfect adaptation of the outline of
the design on each side of the material, whereby the impressions on both sides so
accurately correspond with each other that they present the appearance of being
an integral part of the entire material. The impressions of the design or pattern
are obtained by the employment of blocks of wood or metal, upon which the design
or pattern is cut with the utmost accuracy.
The material ordinarily used is cotton-cloth or other suitable stuff of a semi-
diaphanous character, so that when the aforesaid blocks are applied to one side
thereof the outline of the design appears faintly through the stuff on the other
side. The stuff is then stretched on a bench and the second series of blocks is
applied with extreme care and exactness so as to secure the result that the
impressions made by it shall minutely correspond with the impressions made upon
the reverse side of the stuff.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
what I consider new and therefore protected by the above in part recited Letters
Patent is, the improvement of the ordinary process of printing on cotton and such
like material by the addition of the blocks applied to the reverse side of the stuff,
in the manner and as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
In witness thereof, I, the said John Stead, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Signed and scaled ·
in presence of
WILLIAM ROAN,
Eden Town.
JOHN STEAD. (L.S.)