IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING MATERIALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BANNERS AND FLAGS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tutill, of No. 83, City Road, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING MATERIALS
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BANNERS AND FLAGS."
Sealed the 3rd January 1862, and dated the 6th July 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tutill at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
July 1861.
I, GEORGE TUTILL, of No. 83, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING
MATERIALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BANNERS AND FLAGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a new method of treating silks and other light
materials for the manufacture of banners and flags.
I propose in the first instance coating the material with a thin solution of
india-rubber, applied with a brush or other convenient means, and left to dry,
when a coat of paint may be applied as the groundwork for the various
designs which are to follow. The paint to be applied should in all cases be
made up with old oil, or oil that has been subjected to the influence of the
atmosphere for a long period, otherwise it will be found the paint will not
thoroughly dry upon the india-rubber solution.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Tutill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
January 1862.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Tutill, Her special licence that I, the said George Tutill,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Tutill, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING MATERIALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BANNERS AND
FLAGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Tutill,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument 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 George Tutill, 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 fol-
lowing statement.
My Invention consists of a new method of treating silks and other light
materials for the manufacture of banners and flags with india-rubber. In
order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I will now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, in the following manner :-I lay on or coat the
silk or other material with a thin solution of india-rubber by means of a brush,
or by any of the well known methods of applying india-rubber solutions to
fabrics, and when this coating has become thoroughly dry, either in a heated
chamber or the open air, I apply a second coating of india-rubber solution,
combined or mixed with linseed oil, and when thoroughly dry I apply a coat
of paint over the solution in order to form the groundwork of the designs
which I intend to produce. The paint should in all cases be made up with
old oil, or oil which has been subjected to the influence or action of the
atmosphere for a considerable period of time, whereby the paint will become
perfectly dry upon the india-rubber solution in a comparatively short time. In
some cases I omit the coating of india-rubber solution and oil before applying

page_text: the paint. The advantages of the application of the india-rubber solution, either
in combination or not with oil, to the silk or other light materials, for the pur-
pose of banners, flags, bannerets, and streamers, are that the materials are
rendered more durable, pliant, flexible, and elastic, and that the paint is not so
liable to crack, or become detached from the banner or flag or other article, thus
causing the design to last for a much longer time than is at present the case;
and also that by this method a banner or flag can be produced in a much less
space of time than by the ordinary process. I prefer to apply the india-rubber
coating to those portions only of the banners or flags which are to be painted,
but in some cases I apply the coating of india-rubber to the surface of the
article to which the work and gilding are to be applied.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention for
Improvements in Treating Materials for the Manufacture of Banners and
Flags," and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark
in conclusion, that I do not limit or restrict myself to the precise details
herein specified as some variations and modifications may readily be introduced
therein, without in any way'departing from the principle of my Invention; but
what I claim as my Invention, and desire to be secured to me by the herein
in part recited Letters Patent, is the application to silk and other light
materials, to be made into banners, flags, bannerets, and streamers, of any of
the solutions of india-rubber, either in combination or not with oil, to be
followed by the coating of paint, as herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tutill, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
J. C. II. SIEVIER,
Clerk to Messrs. Prince & Co.,
Agents for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
G. TUTILL. (Ls.)