IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS FOR BOOKBINDERS AND OTHERS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Wood, of 30, Barbican, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS FOR BOOKBINDERS AND
OTHERS."
Sealed the 31st July 1855, and dated the 5th March 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Wood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th March 1855.
I, JAMES WOOD, of 30, Barbican, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS FOR BOOKBINDERS
AND OTHERS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of applying Dutch leaf by block or surface printing,
combined with the use of a printing fluid to produce adhesion, and to retain
the Dutch leaf from tarnishing. For this purpose suitable designs are
prepared on blocks or surfaces in the ordinary manner, and a preparation
of printing fluid is employed, consisting of "thin," "middle," and "strong
transparent varnish, mixed and boiled together with bees wax, and oil of
lavender is added to the mixture whilst still hot. The impressions on the

page_text: woven fabric are produced in the ordinary manner of surface printing, and the
Dutch metal leaf is to be applied thereto. The woven fabrics may be thus
printed with Dutch metal leaf, before or after the embossing of such fabrics
in the usual manner, to imitate leather, and otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Wood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th September 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WOOD, of 30, Barbican, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Wood, Her special licence that I, the said James Wood, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Janies Wood,
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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
WOVEN FABRICS FOR BOOKBINDERS AND OTHERS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said. James Wood, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James- Wood, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists of applying Dutch leaf by block or surface printing,
combined with the use of a printing fluid to produce adhesion, and to retain
the Dutch leaf from tarnishing. For this purpose suitable designs are
prepared on blocks or surfaces in the ordinary manner, and a preparation of
printing fluid is employed, consisting of varnish mixed and boiled together

page_text: with bees wax, oil of lavender being added to the mixture whilst still hot.
The impressions on the woven fabrics are produced in the ordinary manner of
surface printing, and the Dutch metal leaf is to be applied thereto. The
woven fabrics may be thus printed with Dutch metal leaf, before or after
the embossing of such fabrics in the usual manner, to imitate leather, and
otherwise.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I
prefer to operate when embossing and gilding book covers. For this purpose
I use an ordinary flat printing press; on the bed of which I place a metal block
of the description ordinarily used by embossers. This metal block is heated
by gas
or otherwise to the temperature required, as is well understood in the
trade, and the plain book covers are laid on the block by register points, and
the covers are embossed or "blind blocked," as it is termed in the trade, in
the ordinary manner. When all the covers to. be made to the particular
pattern have been "blind blocked" the block is cooled, and an adhesive com-
position is rolled on to it by a composition roller of--the description-ordinarily
used by printers.

page_text: fabric may afterwards be milled in the ordinary manuer, and made up into
book covers, or applied to other purposes.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the exact details described; but what I claim is, the applying "Dutch
metal" leaf to woven fabrics by printing with adhesive composition on to the
woven fabric, and then applying the "Dutch metal" leaf to the printed
surface, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Wood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JNO. COOK,
4, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.
JAMES WOOD. (L.S.)