IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL STRIPS, EDGING, BINDING, BORDERING, AND FRINGE TO BE USED FOR DRAFT STOPS, DUST EXCLUDERS, EDGES OF SHELVES, AND FOR BINDING AND ORNAMENTING FURNITURE, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Golding, of Globe Factory, Globe Road, Mile End,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL STRIPS, EDGING, BINDING, BORDERING, AND
FRINGE TO BE USED FOR DRAFT STOPS, DUST EXCLUDERS, EDGES OF SHELVES,
AND FOR BINDING AND ORNAMENTING FURNITURE, AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES."
Sealed the 13th September 1878, and dated the 5th June 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Golding at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th June 1878.
ALFRED GOLDING, of Globe Factory, Globe Road, Mile End, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL STRIPS,
EDGING, BINDING, BORDERING, AND FRINGE TO BE USED FOR DRAFT STOPS, DUST
EXCLUDERS, EDGES OF SHELVES, AND FOR BINDING AND ORNAMENTING FURNI-
TURE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of ornamental
strips, edging, binding, bordering, and fringe to be used for draft stops, dust ex-
cluders, edges of shelves, and for binding and ornamenting furniture, and for other
purposes.
For this purpose, I take india-rubber or gutta percha, or compounds of either or
both of these materials, combined or not with other materials as is now well under-
stood; and according to my Invention, I mould, cut, or otherwise work the same to
the desired size and shape, and I emboss, perforate, press, mould, or cut such
material into any desired form with fringed, vandyked, scalloped, or other orna-
mental or plain edges.
I also paint, color, gild, silver, bronze, enamel, varnish, or otherwise ornament
the surface of such material so shaped as above described, so as to produce any
desired ornamental effect.

page_text: The advantages of my Invention are, that the material will yield to anything
continually rubbing past it, for instance, the placing and removal of books on
shelves, friction of dresses and other articles when on doors, opening and closing of
cupboards, doors, cases, windows, and other articles, and roturn to its foriner
position, that it may be washed and still retain its appearance much longer than 5
any other thing now in use for similar purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alfred Golding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th December
1878.
ALFRED GOLDING, of Globe Factory, Globe Road, Mile End, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL STRIPS,
EDGING, BINDING, BORDERING, AND FRINGE TO BE USED FOR DRAFT STOPS, DUST
EXCLUDERS, EDGES OF SHELVES, AND FOR BINDING AND ORNAMENTING FURNI-
TURE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of ornamental
strips, edging, binding, bordering, and fringe to be used for binding and ornamenting
furniture, and for other purposes.
For this purpose, I take india-rubber or gutta percha, or compounds of either or
both of these materials, combined or not with other materials as is now well under-
stood; and according to my Invention, I mould, cut, or otherwise work the same to
the desired size and shape, and I emboss, perforate, press, mould, or cut such
material into any desired form with fringed, vandyked, scalloped, or other orna-
mental or plain edges.
I also paint, color, gild, silver, bronze, enamel, varnish, or otherwise ornament
the surface of such material so shaped as above described, so as to produce any
desired ornamental effect.
The following is a description of one mode I have found to answer in carrying
my Invention into effect; I place the india-rubber, gutta percha, or compound in
moulds of suitable shape, according to the design it is desired to produce, I screw it
down under heavy pressure and then vulcanize it.
After taking the strips from the moulds, I in some cases attach by solution or
otherwise to the back or smooth side thereof, webbing made preferably of T form
in section, by which the same may be connected to shelving or other articles. I
then color the ornaniental surface of the strips with colors prepared as follows:-
I take about one pound of shellac, ounces of isinglass, one and a half pints of
liquid ammonia, four ounces of gum arabic, one and a half pints of methylated
spirit, one ounce of resin, a gill and a half of Burgundy oil. I mix these in-
gredients well together in a steam-jacketed pan, and then spread the composition
on the strips with a brush in a warm atmosphere; by this means I obtain a good
color enamel which will not crack.

page_text: For gilding, I spread a solution of gold size, and with a camel hair brush I lay
on a composition of gold; I then hang up the strips in a high temperature for
about three days. Silver, bronze, or colors may be applied in any desired pattern
by similar means.
The advantages of my Invention are that the material will yield to anything
continually rubbing past it, for instance, the placing and removal of books on
shelves, friction of dresses, and other articles when on doors, opening and closing of
cupboards, doors, cases, windows, and other articles, and return to its normal
position, whilst at the same time it may be washed and still retain its appearance
much longer than any other thing now in use for similar purposes.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode in which
I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details herein described, as any known mode of working and ornamenting
india-rubber and gutta percha, and their compounds, may be employed in the
manufacture of ornamental strips, edging, binding, bordering, and fringe, according
to my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Golding, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
ALFRED GOLDING. (L.S.)