US2220571A - Wallpaper - Google Patents

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NOV. 5, 1940. I B, c; KELLQGG I 2,220,571

WALLPAPER Filed Nov. 1, 1954 Patented Nov. 5, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims;

This invention is related to inserts for catalogs or specimen books made up of wallpaper in miniature sheets that are produced in the characteristic inks employed in wall paper work. It has particular reference to the insert illustrated, described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States, No. A1,368,043, dated February 8,

1921, of Nicholas P. Moses. y

The insert of the Moses patent is produced by printing simultaneously upon a single sheet or web both 'the lling or side wall design and the frieze or border to match the same. This is done so that the frie'ze or border is grouped or assembled with the wall design, that the two may be conveniently and readily displayed together asA a unitary assemblage, and that the effect of the two in their relation to each other may be immediately discernible. In practicing vthe Moses invention the inserts are produced in the natural colors and by the utilization of the inks and pigments characteristic of wall paper production, as distinguished from lithographed sheets or those produced by multi-colored processes which employ oil inks. The value of the Moses invention resides in the ability of the observer of the inserts, whether the latter are bound in catalogs or specimen books or are individually inspected, to View the colorings or shade effects that are presented in the actual sized papers, together with the grouping of the frieze and the filling or wall designs, as they appear in the full sized papers when hung on a wall.

It has been found that in producing the Moses insert according to the manner of printing above described the desired shade effects by way of contrast between the frieze or border and the filling or wall design are not attainable. The true presentation of these shade effects as found in the full-sized stock of the border and wall is not reflected by the inserts, and this results in customer dissatisfaction when purchases are based on inspection of the inserts by the customer as distinguished from inspection of the stock paper itself.

der design with several wall designs it is necessary, when the Moses invention is followed, that such border design shall be cut on each of the rolls having the differing wall design, thus increasing the cost of production and maintenance of the printing rolls, as well as the number of rolls required for the various designs.

The present invention aims to overcome the conditions above recited, and to provide miniature Wall paper inserts in which the frieze or border, and the filling or Wall, as the two are related to each other, more truly will present the colors and shade effects of the stock wall paper than heretofore has been possible.

Furthermore, the invention seeks to effect economies in the number of printing rolls required and the cost of maintenance thereof, and to provide greater latitude in the production of miniature inserts than is possible in following the prior l practices of the art.

With these general objects in View the invention consists in the novel form of wall paper hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a printing roll constructed and cut for laying the design of the filll ing or side wall of the wall paper to be printed;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a miniature sheet of wall 30 paper having the design of the filling or side wall printed thereon in accordance with the use of the roll illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a printing roll constructed and cut for laying the design of the frieze or border of the wall paper to be printed; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the miniature sheetl illustrated in Fig. 2 after the same has been printed by the roll of Fig. 3, and illustrates the miniature sheet in its final form.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view, on an enlarged scale, of the wall paper sheet illustrated in Fig. 4, the dotted lines at the juncture of the frieze or border with the filling or side wall illustrating the overlapping relation of the frieze or border with the adjacent edges of the filling or side wall.

Referring now in detail to the accompanying drawing, it will be understood that the conventional wall paper printing machinery now employed for the production of wall paper is utilized in producing the miniature sheets of the present invention, so that it is not necessary to illustrate such machinery. It is understood also that while the disclosure of the present invention indicates the completed miniature sheet, the printing thereof is effected by printing the usual web of paper that passes through the printing machine, the web subsequently being severed at the desired intervals for giving the miniature sheets the proper dimension both as to length and width, that is required to adapt the same as inserts for catalogs or specimen books.

The printing roll for laying the design of the filling or side wall is designated by the numeral I0. The design II of the pattern of the filling or side wall preferably is included in a series of zones, as indicated in Fig. 1, each zone duplicating the design of the pattern. However, the roll may include but one zone if` desired, it being better econoiny to cut upon the roll a plurality of zones to the extent that the length of the roll will permit.

When a plurality of-zones ofthe pattern are embodied in a single roll they are separated by space bands I2. Thus, when the designs II are laid upon the web I3 of the paper to be printed the imprints I4 of these designs are separated by spaces I5, which spaces later receive the designs of the border to be associated with the design of the filling or side wall.

In Fig.- 3 is illustrated the printing roll for laying the border. This roll isV designated by the numeral I6 and the border design I I is out thereon in an appropriate way in a manner similar to the cutting of the side wall design II of the roll I0. Obviously, the dimension of the border design Il is less than the dimension of the filling or side wall design. Where two or more of the border designs II are included on the printing roll they are separated by space bands I8, the rolls I Il and I6 being entirely blank as to their respective space bands I2 and I8.

The printing of the border design Il is effected subsequently to the printing of the design Il of the lling or side wall pattern. In the passage of the web through the printing machine it will be undertsood that the web is guided in such fashion that the spaces I thereof will be in alignmentwith the designs II of the border roll, so that these designs will be laid upon the web in the spaces I5 which lie between the imprints I4 of the design of the mung or side wan.' n1 this connection it will also be noted that the Width of the spaces I5 is slightly less than the Width of the border designs II. The purpose of this is to effect printing of the border designs II in an overlapped relation with reference to the edges of the imprints I4 of the filling or side wall design, thereby leaving no unprinted portion of the spaces I5, and covering the edges of the imprints I4 so as to impart a proper union of the imprints of the border design with the imprints of the filling or side wall design. The imprints of the border designare designated by the numeral I9.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the border design is printed independently of the printing of the design of the filling or wall but subsequently thereto. In so imposing the design of the frieze or border onto the sheet I3 in the Y spaces I5 thereof, the edges of the frieze or border design will overlap the edges of the filling or wall design. This is clearly illustrated in Fig. 5, the dotted lines 20 indicating the underlying portion of the filling or wall. Thus no unprinted portion of the spaces I5 remains but the two designs are solidly united at their' contiguous edges and presenta unitaryarrangement of the two designs.

.the frieze or border that has been cut upon the printing roll I6.

I claim: l

1. As a new article of manufacture, an insert for catalogs or specimen bookscomprising a sheet of wallpaper including the designs of a filling or wall and the frieze or border printed independently and arranged in overlapped relation.

2. fAs, a new article of manufacture, an insert forcatalogs or specimen bookscomprising a sheet of wallpaper bearing the designs of a filling or wall and thel frieze or border, the lling lor wall design being 'positioned upon the sheet to provide a space atone edge thereof, the frieze or border design beinglaid upon'the sheet and occupying said space, one edge of the frieze or border design lying in overlapped relation to the contiguous edge of the filling or wall design.

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