IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL WRAPPERS OR PACKINGS FOR FABRICS OR OTHER GOODS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leon Louis Honore Bertou, of the firm of Bertou
and Pottier, of 36, Rue d'Hauteville, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Wholesale and Export Stationers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leon Louis Honore
Bertou at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th September 1857.
the firm of Bertou and Pottier, of
Empire of France, Wholesale and
I, LEON LOUIS HONORE BERTOU, of
36, Rue d'Hauteville, Paris, in the
Export Stationers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF ORNAMENTAL WRAPPERS
OR PACKINGS FOR FABRICS OR OTHER GOODS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the manufacture of a novel description of
wrappings or packages for fabrics or goods of any nature, by the application
of marks or designs, by pressure, to wrappers or packing paper or woven fabrics
of all kinds, whereby trade marks or any required design may be indelibly
produced thereon. These marks or designs may of course be of any form
or nature.
The mode I prefer of producing these marks or designs consists in laying
the paper or fabric to be ornamented upon a zinc plate having the required
design engraved thereon, and upon this sheet is laid a second plate having a
smooth surface, the paper being pressed between the two by passing the plates
through a copper-plate printing machine.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Leon Louis Honore Bertou in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEON
LOUIS HONORE BERTOU, of the firm of Bertou & Pottier, of 36, Rue d'Haute-
ville, Paris, in the Empire of France, Wholesale and Export Stationers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Leon Louis Honore Bertou, Her special license that I, the said Leon
Louis Honore Bertou, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Leon Louis Honore Bertou, my executors, adminis-
trators, or 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF ORNA-
MENTAL WRAPPERS OR PACKINGS FOR FABRICS OR OTHER GOODS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Leon Louis Honore Bertou, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Leon Louis Honore Bertou, 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:-
My said Invention consists in the manufacture or production of a novel
description of wrappers, covers, or envelopes for containing fabrics or goods of
any nature, by the application to such wrappers, covers, or envelopes, of trade
marks or designs of any form or nature, produced by pressure in any con-
venient manner, the mark or design so produced being indelible and of a
transparent nature resembling the ordinary water mark.
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The process which I prefer to adopt for the production of these indelible
trade marks or designs consists in laying the paper or fabric to be treated

page_text: upon a metal plate having the required design engraved in relief on its surface.
Over the paper or fabric I then place a copper or zinc plate, and over that
again are laid one or more sheets of cardboard, and finally another zinc plate.
The whole is then passed through an ordinary copper-plate printing machine,
or is submitted to pressure in any other convenient manner.
Any other hard substance capable of containing a design in relief may be
used in lieu of a metallic plate, such as paper, papier mache, &c., parchment,
stone, or wood.
On removing the paper or fabric after it has been treated in the manner
herein-before described, the mark or design of the engraving will be found to
be indelibly and transparently produced upon it.
Paper or woven fabrics treated in the above manner may be applied in
various ways, such as bands, bags, tickets, boxes, cases, linings, and in general
may be used upon all occasions where wrappers or envelopes are required.
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Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same. is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict
myself to the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to
describe or refer to, as variations may be made therefrom without deviating
from the principles or main features of my said Invention; but what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me.
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,-
First, the production of indelible trade marks or designs upon paper or
woven fabrics by means of engraved surfaces and pressure, as herein-before
described.
Second, the application and use of paper or woven fabrics treated in the
manner herein-before described, as wrappers, covers, linings, or envelopes of.
articles and goods generally.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leon Louis Honore Bertou, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this First day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight.
L. L. H. BERTOU. (L.S.)