IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER HANGING3
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HENRY VOYEZ, of Acton Street, in the County of Middlesex, Artist, send.
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of
December, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the fourteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Henry Voyez, my exors, adññors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George
Henry Voyez, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Henry Voyez, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER HANGING3;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said George Henry Voyez,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery,
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
bad, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Henry Voyez, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of causing paper hangings to be printed in such
manner that they require to be hung horizontally in place of vertically. And
in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me; but I will
first remark that heretofore paper hangings have been so printed, that the
patterns have run longitudinally on the paper, and in such manner that when
hung vertically the pattern is correctly placed and in its upright position; and
it has been usual in printing paper hangings to repeat the use of the same
blocks or printing surfaces employed along the whole length of each piece of
paper, so that in hanging such paper the same pattern or design is repeated
several times from the floor to the ceiling one above the other. Thus supposing
the chief portion of a design be a rose or other flower or several flowers, such
design would be repeated several times one above the other in a vertical line,
which repetition of the pattern is objectionable, and the only means at present
known of obviating such a state of things is to print the paper from different
blocks or surfaces, which greatly encreases the cost, and the paper cuts, more
to waste in hanging a room. Now by having the paper printed so as to
require to be hung horizontally, a piece of paper may have the pattern repeated
several times in its length, but the repetitions of the pattern, in place of being
one under the other in the lengthway of the paper, will have their vertical or
upright positions across the paper or in a transverse direction, by which means
several pieces of paper, having a common ground or general design, but
differing in the principal object or objects of the design, may be hung
horizontally one above the other from the floor of a room upwards; and in
place of the same design being repeated in a vertical line many times, all
repetition upwards may be avoided, if desired, or only seldom repeated, and
different subjects of design may succeed each other in a vertical direction;
thus supposing that several pieces of paper be printed with one general design,
and suitable for joining horizontally, and that each piece of paper, so far as
the principal portion or portions of the design, be printed with different
devices the upright positions of which are across the paper transversely,
the effect above mentioued will be obtained; and this will be better understood
by further supposing that the first piece of paper near the floor had the
principal part of its design a pheasant, and the next piece of paper hung
horizontally above it had another description of bird, and the third piece of

page_text: paper another description of bird, and so on, there would be no repetition of
the same design in a direction upwards, and the same will hold good in respect
to animals, flowers, birds, and other devices; and although each piece of
paper will be printed with repetitions of the same pattern or principal design,
such pattern or principal design will have its vertical direction across the
paper in place of lengthwise as heretofore; and such pieces of paper having
different devices or designs, with their vertical directions across the paper, may
be hung in different rooms in different order or succession, thus producing
different effects with the same designs of paper hangings. And I would state
that although ordinarily each piece of paper would be printed with repeats of
the same pattern or design in a horizontal direction, yet such horizontal paper
hanging may have different designs or patterns printed thereon, which would
encrease the variety of effects capable of being produced by making paper
hangings capable of being hung horizontally. In carrying out my Invention
the workman will simply vary the making of the blocks or printing surfaces,
so that they will produce the patterns in their upright positions across the
paper, in place of their being in a direction lengthwise of the paper.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the means of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what. I claim is, the
manufacture of paper hangings printed in such manner that they require to be
hung horizontally, as herein explained..
In witness whereof, I, the said George Henry Voyez, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our