US250301A

US250301A - William h

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Publication number: US250301A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-11-29
Anticipated expiration: 1898-11-29

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" UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM H. R. TOYE, on NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE FABRIC ORNAMENTING AND MANUFACTURING ooMPANY, on SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF ORNAMENTING FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,301, dated November 29, 1881,

Application filed August 17, 1881. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. R. Tom,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have in-.

from each other; in distributing and more or less intermingling the different masses or deposits of color; and, finally, in subjecting the powdered surface to pressure, whereby the colors are fixed to the fabric through the medium of the adhesive ground first applied. In said Letters Patent 1 have also described the necessary mechanical instrumentalities for carrying out the said process of ornamenting fabrics.

My present invention relates to the application of an adhesive substance or composition, technically termed a size, to the surface of a fabric as a ground for the subsequent application of the dry color.

The invention consists in the application of adhesive sizes or grounds of two or more different colors, each color occupying a diderent portion of the surface to be decorated, or overlapping each other, whereby the ornamental efl'ect of the completed fabric is materially enhanced.

My improvement may be advantageously employed in connection with the apparatus and process set forth in said Letters Patent, although not confined thereto.

The adhesive substance or size which I prefer to employ is that used in the aitsfor example, in printing, as a medium for causing bronze-p0 wder to adhere to paper-Which consists of a composition of equal proportions, by

weight, of commercial varnish and white lead. When prepared in this way the size forms a ground of a white or neutral color, and hence has comparativelylittle effect upon the appearance of the fabric when finished.

In carrying out my present invention I prepare the said adhesive substance or size of various colors, as the taste orjudgment of the operator may dictate, by mixing proper commercial coloring materials therewith, and I apply these different-colored sizes to different parts or the same part of the surface to be ornamented, in any suitable manner, preferably by a process of printing. The patterns may be arbitrarily arranged in any combination preferred. Thus, a ground may be laid upon paper in stripes or hands or geometrical or other ornamented figures, different portions of which may be composed of different-colored sizes. These may be placed upon different portions of the surface of the fabric, or one over the other upon the same portion, or partly overlapping and partly separate, substantially in the manner employed in the well-known process of ornamental printing in inks of different colors. After this preliminary operation has been completed, dry colors or bronze-powder may be distributed and intermingled thereupon, in accordance with the process set forth in my former Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to, or any other convenient or desired method of ornamentation may be employed.

The resultant artistic effect is thus far superior in depth, richness, and variety to any which can be obtained by the employment of a single groundcolor, and hence the process constitutes a material improvementin the art.

I do not desire to confine myself to the use of the particular method of applying dry col ors upon the adhesive grounds as set forth in my former Letters Patent, although my improvement is peculiarly adapted to be used in connection with, or more properly as a part of, the process therein set forth; but it may also be used with manifest advantage in con nection with other modes of applying dry colors or bronze-powder to a sized surface.

I claim as my invention- The hereinbefore-dcscribed. process of orna- In testimony whereof I have hereunto submenting fabrics, which consists in an applicascribed my name this 16th day of August, A.D.

cation of an adhesive ground of two or more 1881.

separate colors upon the same or different WILLIAM H. R. TOYE. parts of the fabric, in connection with the de- Witnesses: position of powdered colors or bronze-s ther-e- CHARLES A. TERRY,

upon. I MILLER O. EARL.