Improvements relating to the Ornamentation of Woven Wire Fabric or other Open Mesh Woven Material.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
[Communicated from abroad by ADAMANT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of Syracuse,
State of New York, United States of America.]
Improvements relating to the Ornamentation of Woven Wire Fabric
or other Open Mesh Woven Material.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex 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:-
The object of this invention is to form upon woven wire fabric or other open mesh
woven material ornamental designs, rosettes, scrolls, letters and the like in solid
relief for decorative and other purposes; also the finishing of the same in bronze
while forming the ornamentation.
To carry the invention into effect the fabric to be ornamented is placed upon
absorbent paper or other suitable absorbent material, felt or cartridge paper being
preferable. The design to be produced upon the fabric can be drawn upon the
absorbent paper to be placed under the fabric, if the fabric is sufficiently coarse to
show the drawing through its meshes. Whiting or plaster of paris is then mixed
with any dry colouring material and glue size until the mixture assumes a pasty
consistency. Any other adhesive material of a plastic nature can be used, whether
mixed in oil or water. The paste or plastic mass is now thinned to such a consistency
that it can be poured from a suitable vessel. The semi-liquid plastic material is
then poured over the fabric following the drawing on the absorbent paper beneath
the fabric, which can be seen between the meshes of the fabric, or the plastic can be
poured at pleasure without having to be guided by a drawing. The plastic material
falling through and into the fabric, will fill the interstices and surround the threads
of the fabric in the form desired, and will adhere to the absorbent material below the
fabric.
When the ornamentation is to be bronzed the bronze is applied by blowing dry
bronze into the soft plastic mass by a suitable bellows. The bronze becomes
incorporated into the surface of the plastic material and when dry will be ready to
receive any desired degree of burnish. The ornamentation is now completed and the
absorbent paper may be removed from the plastic material, if the removal is desired,
when the plastic is partially dry. Instead of pouring the plastic material over the
wire fabric it can be applied first to the absorbent paper and the wire fabric dropped
or pressed into the plastic mass which will fill the meshes of the fabric leaving,
however, an imprint of the meshes of the fabric in the plastic material.
When duplicate work is desired, an open mould, pattern or stencil plate of the
desired design is placed upon the fabric to be ornamented, the latter resting upon
absorbent paper or other suitable absorbent material. The plastic material is poured
upon the surface of the fabric through the openings of the mould, pattern or stencil
to any reasonable thickness or relief desired according to the size of the design or
openings and consistency of the said plastic material. The thickness of the material
from which the pattern or stencil is made does not necessarily limit or determine the
relief of the ornamentation above the surface of the fabric. The ornamentation can
be stippled with a brush giving it a pulled irregular surface. If the surface of the
ornamentation is to be perfectly smooth and the edges round and after removing the
pattern or mould the border or edge of the plastic is not round, a rap or jostle will
produce the desired effect. The absorption caused by the material beneath the fabric
prevents the plastic material from spreading. The plastic material herein named and
many others in common use are of sufficient strength and durability for all ordinary
decorations applied as herein described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
First. The method of ornamenting open mesh woven material or fabric with
plastic material, the same consisting in placing beneath the open mesh fabric absorbent
paper or like absorbent material and pouring over the fabric a semi-liquid plastic in
any desired form which adheres to the fabric and the absorbent material beneath,
substantially as set forth.
Second. The method of ornamenting open mesh woven material or fabric with
plastic material, the same consisting in placing beneath the fabric absorbent paper or
similar absorbent material, pouring over the fabric a semi-liquid plastic in any desired
form which adheres to the fabric and the absorbent material beneath, finishing the
same in bronze while the plastic is soft, and then removing the absorbent material
and leaving the ornamentation upon the fabric, substantially as set forth.
Third. The method of ornamenting open mesh woven material or fabric with
plastic material the same consisting in placing the fabric upon absorbent paper or
similar absorbent material, then placing upon the fabric a stencil or pattern of desired
form, and then pouring over and through the same a semi-liquid plastic which fastens
itself into the meshes of the fabric, substantially as set forth.
Fourth. The method of ornamenting open mesh material or fabric with plastic
material the same consisting in applying to the fabric a semi-liquid plastic material
and bronzing the same while the plastic is soft and adhesive, substantially as set
forth.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.