A NEW AND USEFUL MODE OF PRE- PARING OR VENEERING PAPER, CLOTH, LEATHER, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Whitmore Huntington, of Augusta, in
the County of Kennebec, and State of Maine, United States of
America, for the Invention of "A NEW AND USEFUL MODE OF PRE-
PARING OR VENEERING PAPER, CLOTH, LEATHER, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Samuel Whitmore
Huntington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition and Declaration, on the 11th April 1868, pursuant to
the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WHITMORE HUNTINGTON, of Augusta, in the County of Kennebec, and
State of Maine, United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW AND
USEFUL MODE OF PREPARING OR VENEERING PAPER, CLOTH, LEATHER, AND OTHER
SUBSTANCES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for
the same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the first and
true Inventor thereof.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Whitmore Huntington, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand
and scal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the follow-
ing statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings and
to the letters marked thereon:-
The object of my present Invention is to give to various articles or
objects such as boxes, trunks, and walls of rooms, which have heretofore
been covered with paper, the appearance of being composed or vencered
with wood of various varieties, and preferably run between heated
cylinders to dry and smooth them.
The Invention consists in applying to or veneering sheets of paper,
cloth, leather, and other substances with very thin sheets or vencers of
wood secured thereto by means of paste, glue, cement, or other proper
material. The material thus produced may be applied to paper or other
boxes, cheap trunks, and the walls of apartments in the manner that
ordinary paper, cloth, or leather is applied, the effect of this application
being to give the object the appearance of being veneered with wood
or of being composed entirely of wood, the expense of thus preparing
the material being but little more than that of preparing ordinary housc
wall papers of good qualities and less than that of preparing gilt and
other expensive papers, while the effect produced is infinitely more
desirable and lasting than either of the above.
By means of my Invention very thin sheets or rolls of wood may bc
employed which would otherwise be easily split or broken and thus
enable a much larger number of veneers to be obtained from a valuable
log than could otherwise be the case, and as a consequence allow choice
varieties of veneers to be sold at the price for which inferior ones have
formerly been sold. When applied to the walls of apartments the inter-
position of paper as a medium causes the wood to adhere very securely
to the plastering of such walls which the wood alone would not do.
I claim as a new article of manufacture the product above described
consisting of paper, leather, cloth, or other analogous material covered
or veneered with wood essentially in manner and for the purpose as
herein-before explained.
I also claim applying to the walls of apartments a thin sheet or thin
sheets of wood as a substitute for paper hangings, and so as to give the
walls the appearance of being finished with wood.

page_text: A second portion of my Invention consists in constructing out of
cheap materials in an inexpensive manner a lamp shade of any shape
and design, the interior of which is converted into an excellent reflector
for reflecting the rays downward which would otherwise be absorbed to
a great extent by the material of which the shade is composed. The
Invention consists in constructing the body of the shade of thin sheets
of wood or paper lined with mica, and the whole included in a
suitable border or frame for purposes both of ornamentation and
strength, the reflecting properties of the mica being well known.
The accompanying Drawings represent the body of the shade at a as
made in the ordinary form or any other desirable shape that taste may
dictate, the sheet of mica with which the shade is lined being shown
at b, the two being confined and enclosed by a suitable border or frame c.
A suitable clasp for confining the shade to a lamp is shown at A in the
.Drawings.
My Invention above described enables me to produce a lamp shade
with reflecting powers equal to if not superior to the porcelain shade or
others in use, and possessing the further and great advantage of being
capable of being manufactured at very small cost and without liability
of breakage.
1 would remark that the shade may be made of wood alone or wood
and paper combined.
I claim a lamp shade as composed of wood alone or of wood and paper
combined, or wood and mica combined.
I also claim a lamp shade into the construction of which is
introduced wood in any form.
1 also claim the clasp for confining the shade to a lamp as shown at
A in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Samuel Whitmore Huntington,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 23rd day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1868.
SAMUEL WHITMORE HUNTINGTON. (L.S.)