A MACHINE OF A NEW CONSTRUCTION, AND IN MIXING AND ADAPTING COLOURS TO THE USE OF THE SAID MACHINE FOR PRINTING, STAINING, AND COLOURING OF SII-KS, STUFFS, LINENS, COTTONS, LEATHER, AND PAPER
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GREENOUGH, of Ludgate Street, London, Apothecary, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters l'atent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westm",
the Tenth day of April, in the fourth year of His reign, did give and grant
unto Thomas Fryer, of Bishopsgate Street, London, Linendraper, me, the
said Thomas Greenough, and John Newbery, of Saint Paul's Church Yard,
London, Bookseller, His especial licence that we, the said Thomas Fryer,
Thomas Greenough, and John Newbery, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention of "A MACHINE OF A NEW
CONSTRUCTION, AND IN MIXING AND ADAPTING COLOURS TO THE USE OF THE SAID
MACHINE FOR PRINTING, STAINING, AND COLOURING OF SII-KS, STUFFS, LINENS,
COTTONS, LEATHER, AND PAPER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso, obliging us, or any one of us, under our hands and seals, or the hand
and seal of one of us, to cause a particular description of the nature of our
said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereunto had), may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Thomas Greenough, do hereby declare the said Invention of a machine of a
new construction, and in mixing and adapting colours to the use of the said

page_text: machine for printing, staining, and colouring of silks, stuffs, linens, cottons,
leather, & paper, is to be performed in the manner following (that is
to say)-
By means of engraved copper cylinders, on which the colours are laid by
smaller cylinders which are put in motion by other plain cylinders; and the
whole work of filling in, cleaning off, and stamping the impressions is per-
formed by the joynt assistance of sundry springs, and the intermediums of coggs
and rings, turned by a wheel worked by either a horse, water, or wind. The
colours and stains made use of are extracted from the different dying drugs,
and fixed by the help of oyl of vitriol, aqua fortis, aqua regia, spirits of salt,
allum, cream of tartar, sal ammoniac, volatile and fixed alkalies, and quick
lime, which are used in various proportions, as the shade of the colour is
required lighter or darker.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Greenough, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Third day of August, One thousand seven hundred
year aforesaid, the said Thomas Greenough came before our said Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Speci-
fication aforesaid was stampt according to the form of the Statute made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
.
Inrolled the Eighth day of August, in the year above written.