Patent Model - Improvement in Felted Oil-Cloths

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Media/Materials

Textile, paint

Measurements

3 3/4 x 2 3/4" (9.5 x 7cm)

Description

Sitzler's patent "relates to a new manner of treating felted fabrics to render them useful as floor-cloths. The invention consists in treating felted fabric with gum-catechu and bichromate of potassa, and with oil paint..." (Patent Number 172,348)

Object number

2016.13.57a-d

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Maker

Carl August Sitzler

Charles Theodore Meyer

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Object type

Patent Model

Production place

Kitzingen Bavaria Germany Central Europe Europe Jersey City New Jersey United States of America Central North America North America

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