CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HEATING DYE CISTERNS AND SOAP CISTERNS USED IN THE PROCESS OF CALICO PRINTING
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Taylor, of Clayton Bridge, Newton
Heath, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico
Printer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HEATING
DYE CISTERNS AND SOAP CISTERNS USED IN THE PROCESS OF CALICO
PRINTING."
Scaled the 24th January 1853, and dated the 20th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Taylor at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th November 1852.
I, RICHARD TAYLOR, of Clayton Bridge, Newton Heath, near
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN HEATING DYE CISTERNS AND SOAP CISTERNS USED IN THE PROCESS OF
CALICO PRINTING" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the heating of dye cisterns and soap
cisterns by means of steam chests, cylinders, or similar apparatus
placed in such cisterns, by which arrangement the steam is pre-
vented mixing with the dye liquor or soap liquor, which is more
uniformly heated without being weakened by the admission of steam
as heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
RICHARD TAYLOR, of Clayton Bridge, Newton Heath, in the County
of Lancaster, Calico Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Taylor, Her
especial license that I, the said Richard Taylor, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Taylor, my executors, administrators, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HEATING DYE CISTERNS
AND SOAP CISTERNS USED IN THE PROCESS OF CALICO PRINTING," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Taylor,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should parti-
cularly 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 Richard Taylor, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say):
The nature of my Invention of "Certain Improvements in Heat-
ing Dye Cisterns and Soap Cisterns used in the Process of Calico
Printing" consists in heating such cisterns by means of steam

page_text: chests, without allowing the steam to mix with the dye liquor or
soap liquor; and the manner in which it is performed and carried
into effect is by the introduction of one or more steam chest, coils
of piping, or similar apparatus for containing steam, into the dye
cistern or soap cistern, so that the liquor becomes more uniformly
heated without being weakened by the admission of steam as hereto.
fore. And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and
belief, new and never before practised, I deliver this as my true and
faithful Specification of the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Taylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Before me,
CHARLES COOPER,
A Master Extraordinary in Chancery.