Improvements in Transfer Papers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
Improvements in Transfer Papers.
JOSEPH SCOTT 29 Robert Street Cheetham Manchester Lancashire Transfer
Paper Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a means of transferring a design or
pattern from paper to textile or other fabric, which will not melt or dissolve or be
absorbed by the said fabric upon the application of an overheated hot iron.
Instead of the ordinary paint or colour I substitute solid metal dust which will
remain upon the surface, and cannot liquefy or be absorbed by, the material it is
intended to mark, upon the application or pressure of aforementioned overheated
hot iron.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1894
Improvements in Transfer Papers.
I JOSEPH SCOTT of 29 Robert Street, Cheetham, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer of Transfer Papers for Embroidery &c. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to transfer papers used in connection with a heated iron
for transferring designs onto woven or other fabrics or materials for embroidering
or for other similar purposes.
These designs are ordinarily printed on paper by means of ordinary paints or
colors mixed with wax and resin or other bituminous material or composition or
other similar medium which will become adhesive and thus cause the design to be
transferred to the textile or other fabric on the application to the back of the paper
of a heated iron.
A great cause of failure in these transfer papers has been that if the iron is
applied too hot the medium employed has been too much dissolved or liquefied and
the design instead of being merely transferred to the woven fabric has been spread
and entirely absorbed by the fabric so as to be too indistinct to serve the purpose
required.
According to my invention I substitute solid metal dust or bronze powder for the
ordinary paint or color hitherto employed, which I mix in the usual way with the
wax and resin or other medium and print the design onto the paper with such
mixture of metallic dust or powder and wax and resin or other medium, which may
be rendered adhesive by the application of heat; and it will be found that when
transfer papers thus printed are used (even with a very hot or over-heated iron)
the design will be clearly and visibly transferred and however much the medium
may be liquefied the metallic dust or bronze powder will remain on the surface
and will not be absorbed by the textile or other material which it is intended to
mark.

page_text: I prefer to mix one part of beeswax with five parts of resin and to add to half a
pint of this mixture three ounces of gold or other metal dust or powder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The use of metallic dust or bronze powder mixed with wax and resin or other
suitable composition or medium, for printing transfer papers used for marking
designs upon textile and other fabrics or materials for embroidery and other
purposes by the application of a heated iron, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
Doted thin 9th dan of March 1805
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.