IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL WINDOW BLINDS AND SUCH LIKE TRANSPARENT DECORATIONS.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Cornides, of No. 4, Trafalgar Square (Office,
for Patents), Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL WINDOW BLINDS AND SUCH LIKE
TRANSPARENT DECORATIONS.
Sealed the 14th November, 1856, and dated the 17th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Cornides at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petitiou, on the
17th May 1856.
I, LOUIS CORNIDES, of No. 4, Trafalgar Square (Office of Patents), Charing
Cross, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL WINDOW BLINDS AND SUCH LIKE
TRANSPARENT DECORATIONS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to transfer lithographic or other impressions,
plain or colored, upon textile and wire-woven fabrics, or suitable perforated
substances, for window blinds and other such like transparent uses.
The following is a convenient mode of ornamenting the aforesaid textile or
wire-woven fabric:-I take a lithographic or other printing impression inade
on transfer paper, and wash it with purified ox gall, and when dry, I coat the
same with a solution of pure gelatine, or gelatine in combination with sugar
in water, and when coagulated to the consistence of jelly, the impression.so
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page_text: coated is then placed upon the textile or wire-woven fabric, or suitable
perforated substance, which is stretched or otherwise held in a suitable frame.
When the impression is perfectly dry, I then wet or damp it with a solution
of acetate of alumina or water, and thus detach the paper from the surface of
the impression, which by the above process has been transferred upon the
surface of the textile or wire-woven fabric. Surfaces thus ornamented may be
protected from atmospheric influences by applying thereto a coating of
collodion or other transparent varnish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Cornides, in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the
1th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
CORNIDES, of No. 4, Trafalgar Square (Office for Patents), Charing Cross, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Cornides, Her special licence that 1, the said Louis Cornides, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Cornides, 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 ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW BLINDS, AND SUCH LIKE TRANSPARENT DECORATIONS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Louis Cornides, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertam 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 Louis Cornides, 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
thereof (that is to say) :-

page_text: My Invention consists in coating, covering, or ornamenting the surface of
textile and wire-woven fabrics with designs, patterns, or devices, and the
employment of such ornamented surfaces in and for the manufacture of
window blinds, and for other transparent decorations.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect as follows:-
MODE OF OPERATING.
I take a lithographic or other plain or colored printed:impression made on
transfer paper,
and well wash the surface of the same with purified ox-gall,
and when dry, I coat or cover such said surface either with a solution of pure
gelatine, or with gelatine in combination with sugar in water, in the propor-
tion of about two parts gelatine to two parts sugar and sixteen parts water,
which I have found answer well in practice, and when the above coating has
become coagulated to the consistence of jelly, I then take the above-
mentioned printed impression and place the coated surface thereof upon the
textile or wire-woven fabric, which is stretched in a suitable frame for that
purpose.
When the surface of the paper impression is dry, I then wet or
damp the same with a solution of acetate of alumina or water only, and by
these means I detach the paper from the surface of the impression formed
thereon, leaving such impression transferred upon the surface of the textile or
wire-woven fabric.
As regards those parts of the gelatine coating which it is desired to remove
and separate from the other parts of the ornamental or other impression, I
soften such parts by the application of warm water thereto, leaving only those
parts of the gelatine coating which constitutes the ornament.
Or, instead of the above, I apply an ornamented elastic medium, manu-
factured according to the processes described in the Specification of previous
Patents granted unto me, the said Louis Cornides, and respectively dated the
Twenty-sixth day of September 1854, N° 2566, and the 19th September
1855, N° 2112; and such said elastic medium 1 propose to fix to the textile
or wire-woven fabrics (previously stretched in a frame) either by means of
the above-mentioned solution of gelatine or any other suitable transparent
cement, by which I ornament the surface of the textile or wire-woven fabric,
and I protect such ornamented surface from atmospheric influence by coating
or covering the same with collodion or other suitable transparent varnish.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in Ornamental Window Blinds and such like

page_text: Transparent Décorations,' together with the best means I am acquainted with
for carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark, in conclusion,
that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in, and, I claim coating, cover-
ing, or ornamenting the surface of textile and wire-woven fabrics by
transferring plain or colored printed impressions thereonto by the means
above particularly described, as constituting improvements in ornamental
window blinds, and such like transparent decorations.
In witness whereof I, the said 'Louis Cornides, have hereunto set inyhand
and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Jun',
4, Trafalgar Square.
LOUIS CORNIDES. (L.S.)