US740961A - Stencil. - Google Patents

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No. 740,961. PATBN'TBD 00T. 4, was.

B. A. WILcoX.

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BY M M.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 6, 1903;

BLIJAi-r ABBOTT WiLooX, or New YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,961, dated October 6, 1903. Application filed March 11, 1903 Serial No. 143,285. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, t may concern.- i

Be it knownthat I, ELIJAH ABBOTT VWIL; COX, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have invented. anew and Improved Stencil, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and improved stencil by means of which a design of one or more colors may be applied to a porous fabric.

A most important object of the present invention is to provide a stencil of such construction as to adapt it to produce upon the fabric a design having a shaded eect; and another object of the invention is to provide a stencil capable of producing a shaded design upon a fabric and so construced t-hat the edges of the design of the stencil are not liable to curl up, so as to cause or permit the color to flow under the cut edges of said stencil and produce a'design which is irregular and ragged on the edges and smeared.

In short, the present invention has for its purpose the provision of a stencil by the use of which designs may be economically and practically produced on fabrics in one or more colors and having sharpand clearoutlines and shaded bodies, thus producing perfect figures and most artistic effects for the guidance of an embroiderer, for example. This object is well accomplished by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure lis a plan view of a stencil constructed in accordance with my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 are sections on the lines 2 2 and 8 3, respectively.

The stencil consists, essentially, of a body A, of paper or other suitable fabric. The de sign which it is desired to apply is formed through said stencil by perforating it with varying minute perforations, (indicated asa whole by B.) The perforations which are shown in the drawings are very much larger than they are made in the practice of this invention and are exaggerated in size and relative arrangement for clearness of illustration.

Attention is called to the fact that the outline of the design is produced by perforations c and tothe further and very important fact that the perforations in the body of the design vary, being either at different distances from each other or are of different sizes. By thus varying the perforations a shaded effect is produed in the design. It will be understood that the lines of perforations indicated by b, being closer together or larger than the perforations c, will produce a shade of a darker appearance than that which is pro-- duced by said perforations c and that the imperforate sections cl ofthe stencil will leave corresponding uncolored or unprinted -portions within the body of the design. Thus byV properly positioning the perforations with relation to each other or varying the sizes of the same most artistically-shaded designs may be producedl upon fabric in a simple and thoroughly practical way. Moreover, as

'the perfor-ations are very minute and as the contour of the figure as Well as the body thereof is produced by perforations the stencil will be of a,very durable construction and the design will be sharp, clear, and unblurred onits edges as well as in its body.

In case a design is to represent several col-zl ors-as, for instance, a vine with green leaves`\ and a violet-a plurality of stencils is prefx, erably employed, each stencil complement4 ing the other and each contai'ni'g-that portion of the design which is to be produced in one color.

To use the stencil, it is applied over a pori ous fabric Vmade of cotton, linen, or other suitable material and the color is rubbed over the surface of the stencil. The color passes through the perforations and is absorbed by the porous material, with the result that the color passing through the minute perforations coalesees to a greater or less extent in accordance with the relation of the perforationspto each other or the sizes thereof, so that the design upon the fabric is indicated by a solid color, but, however, of different shades, except where an appreciable imperforate section of the design appears in the stencil,lwhich of course remains uncolored in the design and adds to the shaded effect.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- 1. .A stencil consisting of a body in which is formed a number of varying minute per- IOO forations, said perforations being relatively such as to produce a shaded effect in the body of the design.

2. A stencil consisting of a body in which is formed a number of varying minute perforations, said perforations being so arranged as to produce a sharp outline of the design and relatively such within said outline that When the Color is applied to the surface of the stencil the resultant design will have a shaded b`ody.

3. A stencil consisting of a body in which l is formed a number of varying minute perl forations, said pertorationsv being relatively such that when the color is applied to the surface of the stencil the resultant design will have a sharp outline and a body par tially solid and partially shaded.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ELIJAH ABBOTT WILCOX.

Witnesses:

J. E. PEARsoN, FRANK'. OCoNNoR.

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