IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS FOR COVERING WALLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Fisher of Herne Hill in the County of Surrey
for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS FOR
COVERING WALLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Fisher at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th August 1882.
SAMUEL FISHER of Herne Hill in the County of Surrey "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS FOR COVERING WALLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
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The improvements relate to the manufacture of decorative coverings waterproof
or otherwise for walls or for other purposes-The improvements consist in treating
fabrics of linen cotton paper or felt by saturating them with a solution of gum and
albumen or size, and pipe clay; stretching them upon suitable frames, one side of
the material being coated with a preparation of size, ground cork and drying oil,
until the desired thickness is obtained, the other, or face side, being painted in oil
or other preparation of colours as many times as necessary and rubbed to a smooth
surface and finished to the desired tint. When sufficiently dry the material treated
as above is passed under one or more embossing rollers or presses heated by any
convenient means-the embossed portions are afterwards filled in by hand or by a
spreading machine with a preparation of drying oil, resins, and ground cork, in
order to prevent the sinking or obliteration of the embossed design and also to
preserve the waterproof character of the fabric. Ground cork is used as being light
in weight but any other suitable substance may be employed. The designs may
be afterward ornamented with diverse colours or gilt. In treating silks, velvets
satin cloths or other fabrics having a finished face the first saturating process is
omitted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Samuel Fisher in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th February
1883.
SAMUEL FISHER, of Herne Hill, in the County of Surrey "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS FOR COVERING WALLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
"
The improvements relate to the manufacture of decorative coverings waterproof
or otherwise for walls or for other purposes. The improvements consist in treating
leather, fabrics of linen, cotton or felt, by saturating them with a solution of gum
and albumen or size, and pipe clay; stretching them upon suitable frames one side
of the material being coated with a preparation of size, ground cork and drying
oil, until the desired thickness is obtained, the other, or face side, being painted
in oil or other preparation of colours as many times as necessary, rubbed to a
smooth surface and finished to the desired tint. When sufficiently dry the material
treated as above is passed under one or more embossing rollers or presses heated by
any convenient means. The embossed portions are afterwards filled in at the back
by hand or by spreading machine with a preparation of drying oil, resins, and
ground cork, in order to prevent the sinking or obliteration of the embossed design
and also to preserve the waterproof character of the fabric. Ground cork is used
as being light in weight but any other suitable substance may be employed. The
designs may be afterwards ornamented with diverse colours or gilt. In treating
silks velvets satin cloths or other fabrics having a finished face the first saturating
process is omitted.
The proportions I prefer for the original saturating composition are 2 pounds
blood albumen dissolved in one gallon of cold water and 2 pounds of pipe clay dry,
mixed to a thin paste-the two are then incorporated and the material is plunged
therein it is afterwards squeezed through a mangle to effect a thorough distribution
of the mixture and remove what is superfluous-it is then dried in frames and
painted as previously described and the back is coated with a composition of drying
oil or varnish and fine dry cork dust in the proportion of 1 gallon of the former to
a gallon by measure of the latter. After embossing I fill in the sunken portions
with the same mixture of oil or varnish and cork dust.
What I claim is the employment of the oil and cork dust to give a substance
and leather like feel and appearance to a thin material such as linen or cotton or
other substances combined with, and the manufacture and use of a solid filling to
the embossed portions of a fabric to render it permanent and waterproof all
substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.
In Witness whereof I the said Samuel Fisher have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 15th day of February A.D. 1883.