THE APPLICATION OP PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS OR PICTURES UPON FABRICS OR TISSUES FOR REN- DERING SUCH FABRICS OR TISSUES APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Camille Joseph Proal, of No. 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Gentleman, for the Invention of "THE APPLICATION
OP PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS OR PICTURES UPON FABRICS OR TISSUES FOR REN-
DERING SUCH FABRICS OR TISSUES APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES."
-A communication from abroad by Jules Bernard, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Camille Joseph Proal
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th July 1859.
I, CAMILLE JOSEPH PROAL, of No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "THE
APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS OR PICTURES UPON FABRICS OR TISSUES
FOR RENDERING SUCH FABRICS OR FABRIC APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES,"
to be as follows, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in applying one or several photographic impressions
or pictures upon the surface of canvas, cloth, glazed cotton, linen, oilcloth,
leather, or any other kind of fabric or tissue, and employing the said fabrics
or tissues for the manufacture of various useful articles, such as the covers of
blotters, screens, port-monnaies, tea trays, portfolios, book covers, card
boxes, &c. The fabrics after having received the photographic impressions
be ornamented in various ways, and then varnished.
may

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Camille Joseph Proal in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th January 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CAMILLE
JOSEPH PROAL, of Number 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Пler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Camille Joseph Proal, Her special licence that I, the said Camille
Joseph Proal, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Camille Joseph Proal, 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 of
"THE APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS OR PICTURES UPON FABRICS OR
TISSUES POR RENDERING SUCH FABRICS OR TISSUES APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS USEPUL
PURPOSES," communicated to me by Jules Bernard, of Paris, France, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Camille Joseph Proal, 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 per-
formed, 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 Camille Joseph Proal, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
Until now photography has been applied more as an object of art and
entertainment than of commercial utility. Now by this Invention photography
is caused to play a new part in manufactures by combining the useful with
the agreeable.
The process consists in applying to oilcloth, glazed cotton, leather, and
other fabrics or tissues, one or more photographic impressions, and employing
the fabrics thus prepared for making up pads for writing blotters, chimney

page_text: fronts, table covers of any form, lamp and other stands, portfolios, purses, or
money holders, tea trays, covers for books and journals, and other similar
articles, and more especially such articles as boxes and objects of cardboard.
The fabrics having received photographic impressions may be ornamented with
gilt thread, or gilt decorations of any kind, and enriched by designs of various
colours appropriate to the photographic subjects.
The photographic pictures may represent views, portraits, monuments,
battles, or other photographic reproduction; they may be colored or not
colored, ornamented or not ornamented with decorations. A varnish may at
option be applied over the photographic impressions to preserve their duration
and brilliancy.
Having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to me,
and the manuer of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I do
not claim as the Invention communicated to me the application of photo-
graphic pictures or impressions upon oilcloth or other fabrics; but what
I do claim is,―
First, the application of photographic impressions on oilcloth or other
fabrics or tissues for rendering them applicable to purposes of commercial
utility, viz., for covering or making up articles such as those herein enumerated,
as herein-before described.
Secondly, the employment of oilcloth, glazed cotton, and other fabrics or
tissues after receiving photographic impressions for the manufacture of articles
of utility, such as those herein enumerated, and as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Camille Joseph Proal, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, in the year One thousand
eight bundred and sixty.