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GEORGE W. RAY, OFSPRINGFIELD, mnss ncnusfnr'rs,

Patent No. 54,404, dated May 1, 1866 reissue No. 8,132,.dat ed September 22, 136 8.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. RAY, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden, and State of Massachugotta, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Mode of Preparing Paper for Conversion into Articles of Wearing-Apparel; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description, refer-- ones being bad thereto, and to the accompanying specimens of collars, to which my invention is applied.

a The purpose of my invention is to more closely imitate the linen fabric ofiwhich collars, culfs, and bosoms are made; and consists in preparing and adapting paper, as hereinafter described, to the manufacture of such articles. I v

To enable others skilled in the art to make. and use myinvention, I will proceed to describe its construction and application to use. I A 4 Paper collars and cuffs have become important and extensive articles of manufacture, and many modes of preparing them to imitate the linen collars have been proposed, but as yet no successful resulthas been attained.-

The paper collars in commerce have a plain and smooth surface, very unlike the linen collars they are made to take the place of, except-when they are ornamented by color-sprinting, and these but faintly resemble calico collars.

By my invention I am enabled to imitate not only the fibre and figure of textile fabrics and laces, but the finished gloss or-starched face of such fabrics, thus making an exact inii'fation of the linen collar, whenprepared by all-the appliances of a laundry for use. i

It is accomplished as follows: i i

I take a suitable paper, which possesses a degree of strength, rigidity, and purity, whether backed up by or having combined in it a thin textile fabric to increase its strength or not, and apply any preparation of whits lcad, known as Gremnitz white," or its equivalent, or any common enamel, in its wet, plastic stats, and when dried, I'emboss on its face-or back, or both, any suitable design, such as the imitation of the fibre or texture of linen, or other'fabric, or the figure of Marseilles, or the various figured laces used for ladies" collars, and I then finish tho onamelling process by passing it between calendars or rollers, or by pressing it between metallic plates, to imitate the gloss or surface usually imparted to linen collars. and calls by starchi ng and ironing.

This pressing; or polishing of the surface may be regulated login the surface the desired degree of finish or gloss, more or less, as the casemay be, and-in some styles of goods it may be desired to enamel and emboss or ornament both sides of the collar or end, where both sides of the same may be exposed to view, and where it is desired to carry the imitation to as great a degree of perfection as possible; and, in fact, it is-impossible ..to imitate perfectly some styles of goods manufactured in cloth, withoutembossing or ornameuting in connection with cnamelling both sides. I

It isovidcnt that the paper may be treated in this way before the article of apparel is cut therefrom, or

' the articles themselves may be enamellcd and embossed after being cut from plain paper, asmay be desirable.

This process is susceptible of many modifications known to the art; audit will .be perceived that not ohly is the figured sp n-archer. of tho linen given to the surface of the paper, but the surface of the finest textile collarsand wife, and other articles, is closely imitated.

When my invention is used to imitate ladies collars of lace, the article may be perforated toimitate the open work or embroidery, and may have its edges scalloped or out in any other design, and may be ornamented by color-printing: y

It is obvious that my invention is equally applicable to other articles of paper wearing-apparel' without departing from its principle of operation.

I am aware that articles'of wearing-apparel, made of paper, have been made with enamelled surfaces, but

' as it is welllrnown that the process of finishing the enamelled surface is by heavy pressure, either bstyeen rolls or metallic plates, it will be perceived that a finished enamelled surface will not so easily take or receive fine impressions in the process of embossing.

i use B y lny invention, the nnfinishedlsnrfsoe of the enamel, not hsving been subjected to the hen pressure in the process of finishing, by rolling or pressing, is left soft, and is for more susceptible of receiving any impression, even to the finest 'threod, ind the surfsee on then he rolled or pressed to sny desired degree of hardness and finish. v

The advantages of my invention ere thus very readily perceiverh I do not. olsi n s finished 'ensmelled paper, neither do I claim embossing upon a finished ensmelled surface; but

articles of veering-apparel, all substantially as herein described-- What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I A Paper, embossed and ennmalled upon either one or both sides, whether before or after itsconversio'n into GEO. W. RAY; Witnesses:

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