AN IMPROVED PLASTIC COMPOUND AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PAPIER MACHE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Littlehales, Japanner, of Brearley Street
West, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED PLASTIC COMPOUND AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PAPIER MACHE."
Sealed the 22nd July 1862, and dated the 31st January 1862..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Littlehales at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st.
January 1862.
I, DAVID LITTLEHALES, Japanner, of Brearley Street West, Birmingham,.
in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said. Invention
for "AN IMPROVED PLASTIC COMPOUND AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PAPIER MACHÉ," to be
as follows:-
I take oatmeal, flour; pea, bean, rye, or barley meal,-linseed meal, or other
farinaecous or oleaginous meal, which I mix with tar or other varnish.
until it becomes of a thick pasty consistence ;. I then mould it in dies or form.
it' into sheets as may be required: I then dry it in an ordinary japanner's.
stove; when perfectly dry and hard I saturate it with linseed oil or other
suitable oil, and afterwards finish it with varnish or colours in the same manner.
as is well known and commonly done with articles of papier maché..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Littlehales in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
LITTLEHALES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Japanner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fourth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said David Littlehales, Her special licence that I, the said
David Littlehales, and my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said David Littlebales, and as my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED PLASTIC COMPOUND AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR
PAPIER MACHÉ," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David
Littlehales, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that -I, the said David Littlehales, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, to be as follows:-
, I take oatmeal, flour, pea, bean, rye, barley, or linseed meal, or other
farinaceous or oleaginous meal, which I mix with tar or other varnish until it
becomes of a thick pasty consistence, and then mould it in dies, or form it into
sheets as may be requisite, and then dry it in an ordinary jappanner's stove.
When perfectly dry and hard I saturate it with linseed or any other suitable
oil, and afterwards finish it with varnish or colours in the same manner as is
well known and commonly done with articles of papier maché.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means I
am acquainted with for performing the same, I would have it understood that

page_text: I do not confine myself to the precise details shewn, so long as the peculiar
character of my Invention be retained; and I wish it to be understood that
what I claim is the manufacture of all articles either coated with japan,
varnish, or colors, or without such coating, made from the compound herein
described, such as dress ornaments, as bracelets, brooches, necklaces, belt
clasps, buttons, ear-rings, and also articles of utility, as door knobs, tea-pot,
umbrella, walking-stick, and whip handles, door plates, panels for ship's cabins,
penholders, &c. &c.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Littlehales, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
DAVID LITTLEHALES. (L.S.)