AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGING PAPERS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Paul Balin, of Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23,
at Paris, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGING PAPERS."
Sealed the 25th March 1873, and dated the 11th October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Paul Balin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th October 1872.
I, PAUL BALIN, of Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23, at Paris, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HANGING PAPERS," to be as follows —
The object of my Invention is an improved mode of manufacturing
hanging papers, and consists in the application of the means employed
in the manufacture of stained papers combined with stamping and
rolling, or with one of these means alone, to a roll of very supple paper
stained beforehand or to any cheap material, both only serving as a
backing to the silk or other slight fabric that I afterwards apply with
paste. This silk or other fabric is sometimes thin when intended for

page_text: transparent work, that is to say, when the printing is done before the
pasting of the fabric, and sometimes it is thicker when the processes
above mentioned (printing) come above the fabric. When the silk is
applied to paper as just mentioned I obtain a material intended to bo
applied more particularly to walls; when on the contrary the silk is
pasted upon calico or other fabric the flexible material thus produced
can be employed as curtains or hangings. By this improved process I
imitate the different appearances of silk fabrics, reps, embroidered
muslins or embroidered tulles, in fact all kinds of fabrics woven, em-
broidered, and others.
As above described the said silk or other fabric thus applied to paper
or calico is submitted to all the ordinary processes of hanging paper,
combined with rolling and stamping; or the said fabric may serve as a
silky transparency upon paper which has already been submitted to all
the processes before the application of the fabrics, except those of rolling
and stamping, which are always done last in this case.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Paul Balin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PAUL
BALIN, of Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23, at Paris, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Paul Balin, Her special licence that
I, the said Paul Balin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Paul Balin, my 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU.

page_text: FACTURE OF HANGING PAPERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Paul Balin, my executors or administrators, by an in-
strument 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 Paul Balin, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention of an improvement in the manufacture of hanging
papers consists in the application of the means employed in the manu-
facture of stained papers combined with stamping and rolling, or with
either of these means alone, to a roll of very supple paper, first colored
or stained, or to any suitable cheap fabric, such paper or fabric only serving
as a backing to a silk or other slight fabric that I afterwards apply with
paste. This silk or other fabric is sometimes thin when intended for
transparent work, that is to say, when the printing is done before the
pasting of the fabric, and sometimes it is thicker when the processes
above mentioned (printing) come above the fabric. When the silk is
applied to paper as before mentioned, I obtain a material intended to be
applied more particularly to walls; when on the contrary the silk is
pasted upon calico or other fabric, the flexible material thus produced
can be employed as curtains or hangings. By this improved process I
imitate the different appearances of silk fabrics, reps, embroidered
muslins or embroidered tulles, in fact all kinds of fabrics woven, em.
broidered, &c.
As above described the said silk or other fabric thus applied to paper
or calico is submitted to all the ordinary processes of paper hangings,
combined with rolling and stamping; or the said fabric may serve as a
silky transparency upon paper which has already been submitted to all
the processes before the application of the fabric, except those of rolling
and stamping, which are always done last in this case.
Any kind of silk fabric may be employed or other thin fabrics, and
as a lining or support to this silk or other fabric any kind of paper can
be employed, but preference is given to a paper which, though tough, is

page_text: fine and supple, colored according to the color of the fabric to be applied
whether this fabric be pasted to it before or after the processes employed
in the manufacture of paper hangings; or there can be employed as a
lining or support any kind of cheap fabric, which before pasting thereto
of the silk, may be submitted to the same processes as the paper when
it is intended to produce the effect by transparency.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the
manufacture of hangings or hanging papers by applying a silk or other
fabric upon colored or stained paper, or upon calico or other cheap 1
fabric combined with the processes of printing and of rolling and
stamping, substantially as and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Balin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
82, Boulevard Magenta,
at Paris.
P. BALIN. (L.S.)