US582979A - Edmund paulson browne - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

B. BROWNE. ROLL FOR HOLDING AND APPLYING GILDING FILMS. No. 582,979.

Patented May 18, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @EEicE,

EDMUND PAULSON BROIVNE, OF NEXVYORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HASTINGS &

' 00., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROLL FOR HOLDING AND APPLYING GlLDiNG-FILMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,979, dated May 18, 1897. Application filed March 11, 1897. I Serial No. 626,931. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ing character which have invariably been Be it known that I, EDMUND PAULSON made of a cylindric form, it has been neces- BROWNE, a citizen of the United States, resary to effect the unwinding for the applicasiding in the city and county of New York, in tion of the leaf to the surface to be gilded, by the State of New York, have invented cermounting them on special machines in the tain new and useful Improvements in Rolls nature of handle-provided carriers or other for Holding and Applying Metallic Gildingmanipulating and controlling devices, the Leaves, of which the following is a specificaemployment of which it is one of the objects tion. of my invention to avoid. to My invention relates in general to devices It is a further object of my invention to employed in the gilders art both as a receptaavoid the waste and incidental difficulty of cle or vehicle forcontaining and carrying, and application inseparable from a continuous as a convenient means for directly applying, film of leaf, and to substitute in its stead a metallic leaves of the character known as carrier device which embodies a series of in- [5 gilders films, to surfaces to be gilded. dependent short sections of leaf more nearly My invention relates more particularly to in the nature of the leaves employed in that special class of the foregoing devices in booking of gold leaf. which a continuous strip of paper to one sur- 4 To the foregoing ends my invention, genface of which the film or leaf is applied and erally stated, comprehends a continuous strip 20 adheres, is adapted, together with the applied of paper, or equivalent material which is upon and adhering leaf, to be rolled up to form a one of its sides prepared so as to be adhesive roll which serves as a containing receptacle to leaf,which is folded about a central flat or carrier for the leaf,and then to be unwinding-core in a series of continuous longirolled for the purpose of the application of tudinally-extendingsuccessivelyoverlapping 25 the leaf to the surface to be gilded through flat folds,and which is as to the flat porthe medium of the paper strip itself from tions which intervene between but do not which the leaf in the operation of application form part of the bent or folded portions, of is detachable. said folds, provided with a series of sections In the manufacture of rolls of the foregoor lengths of leaf shorter than the folds and 30 .ing character as heretofore conducted, it has so applied as to adhere,all substantially in been customary to either wax or otherwise the manner represented in the accompanying prepare one side of the strip of paper to indrawings and hereinafter described. sure the adherence of the leaf to it; and, also, In the drawings, in addition to treating one side of the strip of Figure 1 represents afolder embodying my 35 paper in the foregoing manner to render its improvements and closed or folded up for surface adhesive,to treat the reverse side storage or transportation.

of the same strip with chalky or kindred pow- Figures 2 and 3 are perspective views sightders to render said surface non-adhesive, so ed in different directions, of the said folder of that the leaf upon the adhesive side may, in Figure 1, representing the leaf-provided strip 40 the wound roll, by no possibility adhere to which composes it as partly-unfolded. 0 the other side,a practice, of course, unnec- Figure 4 is a top plan view upon a reduced essary with paper of such character that, scale ofthe inside or adhesive face of the unwithout special treatment leaf will not nat folded strip as an entirety, showing the series urally adhere to it. of short sections of leaf applied and adher- 5 It has also been the invariable custom to ing to it. apply the metallic leaf in a continuous strip, Similar letters of reference indicate correa result accomplished by overlapping the sponding parts. ends of consecutively disposed short separate In the drawings, sections or leaves to insure literal continuity. A represents the strip of paper, rendered 50 In the practical use of rolls of the foregoadhesive upon one side, which composes the too body proper of the folder and which, as indicated by the brackets to which the letters a are applied, is formed of a series of successive sections or flat folds which are adapted one after another to be successively overlapped upon one another from a central internal flat core of appropriate dimensions, and conveniently, although not necessarily, composed of one or more folds of the paper strip itself or of pasteboard or kindred material, to which the inner end of the strip of paper is fixed, or against which it is laid, to a terminal flap or outside fold which I have in the drawings designated as A Between the sections, folds, or lengths, a, of the strip A, intervene the portions which in the ultimate folded produetconstitute the folds or bends, and which, for convenience of illustration, I have in the drawings desig nated by the letters a B are the short sect-ions or leaves of the metallic leaf, placed upon the inside, or prepared adhesive surface, of the strip of paper, one leaf upon each fold, and each leaf separated from the leaves adjoining it at each of its ends, by the uncovered portion of the strip which in the completed folder forms the fold or bent portion a By not making the leaf continuous I not only secure the advantage of avoiding waste of leaf, as the entire substance of each leaf or section can be applied to the surface to be gilded, but I also save that waste of leaf which would inevitably ensue upon an attempt to bend gilders leaf into such a flat fold as paper is and can be readily bent into for it is a fact that, while leaf can without damage be bent in a circle of large radius, it cannot be abruptly bent,as, for instance, in making the folds of my device,-without being broken or so injured as to cause it to scale.

The free end of the strip may be secured in any preferred manner, conveniently by pointing it to form a tongue o and entering said tongue into a transverse slit a in the fold which in the finished product it overlaps, as indicated in Figure 1.

My device possesses the advantages of being compact and inexpensive, and also being easily handled for the application of the separate sections of the leaf without the necessity of the employment of any handle, carrier, or other device.

Having thus described my invention, I clai1n- A folder for holding and applying metallic gildin g leaves, which consists of a continuous strip of paper prepared upon one of its sides so as to be adhesive, and which is folded about a center into a series of continuous successively-overlapping flat folds the adhesive faces of the flat portions of which are pro- "ided with sections or lengths of leavcs,-substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereunto signed my name this 9th day of March, 1897.

EDMUND PAULSON BRO\VNE.

In presence of SAMUEL J. Evnn'rrr, \VILLIAM R. HANNA.

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