THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN MATERIAL FOR THE BACKS OF CARDS."
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Foxwell, of the City of Manchester, in tho
County of Lancaster, Card Manufacturer, for the Invention of "THE
APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN MATERIAL FOR THE BACKS OF CARDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Foxwell at the
Offico of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
November 1857.
I, DANIEL FOXWELL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN MATERIAL FOR THE BACKS OF CARDS," to be as
follows:-
Instead of leather or other materials hitherto adopted for the backs of cards
used in machinery or apparatus for preparing fibrous materials to be spun and
other purposes, I propose to use a felted material composed of cotton, wool,
silk, flax, or other fibrous substances, either separately or in combination, but
not woven, in connection with one or more layers of cloth made of cotton,
linen, or other fibrous material cemented together with any adhesive substance.
I am aware that strong cloth made of woollen and linen have been used
for this purpose, but not felted cloth placed in layers between any other kind
of cloth, by which improvement I gain additional elasticity to the card.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Daniel Foxwell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
FOXWELL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Card Manu-
facturor, send greeting.
WHEREAS IIer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Daniel Foxwell, Her special licence that I, the said. Daniel Foxwell, ny
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel
Foxwell, 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 "THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN
MATERIAL FOR THE BACKS OF CARDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Daniel Foxwell, by an instrument in writing under my band and
soal, 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 Daniel Foxwell, 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) :-
Instead of leather or other material hitherto adopted for the backs of cards
used in machinery or apparatus for preparing fibrous materials to be spun and
other purposes, I use a felted material composed of cotton, wool, silk, flax, or
other fibrous substances, either separately or in combination, but not woven,
in connection with one or more layers of cloth made of cotton, linen or other
fibrous material cemented together with any adhesive substance.
Having thus fully described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be distinctly
understood that I do not claim the use of strong cloth made of woollen and
linen fabrics, as I am aware the same has been used for this purpose; but
I claim as my Invention, and which, to the best of my knowledge and

page_text: belief, has not been hitherto used within the realm, the use of felted cloths
placed in layers between or upon any other kinds of cloth, so as to give
additional elasticity to the card, applicable to the backs of cards, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Foxwell, bave hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteonth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Signed, scaled, and delivered by the
within-named Daniel Foxwell, in
the presence of
DANIEL FOXWELL. (L.S.)
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.