IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CALYXES OF TISSUE FOR ARTIFICIAL Moss ROSES, AND IN THE POLYSEPALUS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Antoine Burnier, Artificial Flower Manufac-
turer, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Republic of
France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF CALYXES OF TISSUE FOR ARTIFICIAL Moss ROSES, AND IN THE POLYSEPALUS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Antoine Burnier at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th December 1875.
I, ANTOINE BURNIER, Artificial Flower Manufacturer, of No. 82,
Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Republic of France, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CALYXES OF TISSUE POR ARTIFICIAL Moss ROSES, AND IN THE
POLYSEPALUS OF SUCH FLOWERS, AS WELL AS IN MOSSY FLOWERS IN GENERAL," to
be as follows:-

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polysepalus of artificial moss flowers in exact imitation of those parts in
natural moss flowers. This is effected by the employment of wool or
cotton material, which is either cut or moulded into the form of these
parts. Each polysepalus is then glued to the calyx before the addition
of the stem, which consists of a small india-rubber sprig, and when
these three parts are united a glutinous matter known as mordant
mixtion or oil mordant is passed all over the external surface; this
matter serves to fix the artificial moss, which consists of raw unbleached
silk dyed green, which is dropped all over the parts, and to conceal any
gaps which might occur and injure the effect. Immediately after the
application of the silk a powder formed of green broken wool is scattered
over the whole, and then allowed to dry 24 hours; the body of the flower
is then fixed; the calyx, polysepalus, and stem being now quite dry a
slight layer of the glutinous matter referred to is placed over the outside,
and another wooly powder is scattered over it, which mixed with colour
produces an exact imitation of the natural flower.
This novel mode of making the calyx and polysepalus of moss flowers
in tissues is much more economical and natural than the present mode
of employing india-rubber in such manufacture.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Antoine Burnier in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTOINE
BURNIER, Artificial Flower Manufacturer, of No. 82, Boulevard
Sébastopol, Paris, in the Republic of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Antoine Burnier, Her special licence
that I, the said Antoine Burnier, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Antoine Burnier, my executors,

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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 THE MANUFACTURE OF CALYXES OF TISSUE FOR ARTIFICIAL Moss ROSES, AND IN
THE POLYSEPALUS OF SUCH FLOWERS, AS WELL AS IN MOSSY FLOWERS IN GENERAL,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Antoine Burnier,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Antoine Burnier, 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 :-
The object of the present Invention is to manufacture the calyx and
polysepalus of artificial moss flowers in exact imitation of those parts
in natural moss flowers. This is effected by the employment of wool
or cotton material, which is either cut or moulded into the form of those
parts. Each polysepalus is then glued to the calyx before the addition
of the stem, which consists of a small india-rubber sprig, and when
these three parts are united a glutinous matter known as mordant
mixtion or oil mordant is passed all over the external surface; this
matter serves to fix the artificial moss, which consists of raw unbleached
silk, dyed green, which is dropped all over the parts, and to conccal any
gaps which might occur and injure the effect. Immediately after the
application of the silk a powder formed of green broken wool is scattered
over the whole, and then allowed to dry for twenty-four hours; the body
of the flower is then fixed; the calyx, polysepalus, and stem being now
quite dry a slight layer of the glutinous matter referred to is passed over
the outside, and another wooly powder is scattered over it, which mixed
with colour produces an exact imitation of the natural moss flower.
This novel mode of making the calyx and polysepalus of moss flowers

page_text: in tissues is much more economical and more natural than the present
mode of employing india-rubber in such manufacture.
In witness whereof, I, the said Antoine Burnier, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
E. HÉBRÉ.
ANTOINE BURNIER. (L.S.)