Improved Means for Marking Linen, Wearing Apparel, and other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Marking Linen, Wearing Apparel, and
other Articles.
I, WILLIAM HALLAM of 4 Thirlmere Street, Cheetham, Manchester, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The invention relates to the marking of wearing apparel or linen, and other articles,
and has for object the permanent marking of such by means of what are known as
"transfer papers," to be employed in lieu of ordinary marking ink.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I prepare a material, for
printing the transfer papers, by mixing colouring matters with a mordant, which may
be of the ordinary kind such as used in calico printing, and also with wax, resin,
bitumenous or other adhesive substances, or mixtures thereof.
The transfer papers are prepared by printing upon paper with the compounds, as
above indicated, in the usual manner; and the initial, name, or device printed thereon,
is transferred to the linen, article of apparel, or other object, by means of pressure
from a heated iron, as is now well understood.
The composition thus prepared and printed on the transfer paper, or variations
thereof, is by means of the heated iron, or, equivalent, melted and passed on to and
into the fabric, carrying the colour or colours and the mordant therewith. By
which means the desired colour or colours may be either directly produced on the
article, or be afterwards developed by the action of water, or soap and water, as in
the operation of washing or otherwise. In either case the mordant, through the
action of damping with water or washing, fixes the marking in the fabric, and renders
the same a fast colour.
Variations in the compound and mordant used for this purpose may be made, as
also in the proportions of the substances employed therein, together with the mode
of printing or producing the requisite markings on the transfer paper, without
departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Dated this 14th day of March 1889
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Marking Linen, Wearing Apparel, and
other Articles.
I, WILLIAM HALLAM, of 4 Thirlmere Street, Cheetham, Manchester, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mannor the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The invention relates to the marking of wearing apparel or linen, and other
articles and has for object the permanent marking of such by means of what are
known as " transfer papers" to be employed in lieu of ordinary marking ink.
To accomplish this and to effect iny improvements, I prepare a material, for
printing the transfer papers, by mixing colouring matters with a mordant, which
may be of the ordinary kind such as used in calico printing, and also with wax, resin,
bituminous or other adhesive substances, or mixtures thereof.
The transfer papers are prepared by printing upon paper with the compounds, as
above indicated, in the usual manner, and the initial; name, or device printed thereon,
is transferred to the linen, article of apparel, or other object, by means of pressure
from a heated iron, as is now well understood.

page_text: The composition thus prepared and printed on the transfer paper, or variations
thereof, is by means of the heated iron, or equivalent, melted and passed on to and
into the fabric, carrying the colour or colours and the mordant therewith.
By which means the desired colour or colours may be either directly produced on
the article, or be afterwards developed by the action of water, or soap and water, as
in the operation of washing or otherwise. In either case the mordant, through the
action of damping with water or washing, fixes the marking in the fabric and renders
the same a fast colour.
Variations in the compound and mordant used for this purpose may be made, as
also in the proportions of the substances employed therein, together with the mode
of printing or producing the requisite markings on the transfer paper, without
departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
I will however give three different examples of compounds, which I, in practice,
use for this purpose.
80 parts Wax composition.
Other similar compounds may be employed as variations of the above in accordance
with my invention and all involving the same principle of action.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The preparation of transfer papers, by printing the same with compounds
containing suitable mordants, which, when transferred to linen, articles of apparel,
or other objects, are rendered or developed as fast colours by the action of water in
manner and for the purpose substantially as herein described.
2. The employment of compounds of mordants and colouring or other matters for
the preparing of transfer papers, to be applied to linen, wearing apparel, and other
objects, of the nature and for the purpose as herein described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1820
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent