CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY RIBBONS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Ormerod, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Calico Printer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY RIBBONS, AND IN THE MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH."
Sealed the 17th December 1861, and dated the 22nd June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Ormerod at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
June 1861.
I, ROBERT ORMEROD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY RIBBONS AND IN
THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists in printing patterns or devices in the form of ribbons
upon calico or other fabrics in the piece by means of the well known method
of engraved cylinders, the cylinders being engraved with the required ribbon
designs and the coloring apparatus adapted as usual. When the entire piece
is printed the ribbons so produced are to be severed or divided by an arrange-
ment of cutters and wound upon spools as ordinary ribbons, and are to be
employed for trimmings and other suitable purposes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Ormerod in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
ORMEROD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Ormerod, Her special license that I, the said Robert
Ormerod, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Robert Ormerod, 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 the Isle of Man, an Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY RIBBONS
AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I, the said Robert Ormerod, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Robert Ormerod, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
--
My Invention consists in printing patterns or devices in the form of ribbons
upon calico or other fabrics in the piece by means of the well known method
of engraved cylinders, the cylinders being engraved with the required ribbon
designs and the coloring apparatus adapted as usual. When the entire piece is
printed the ribbons so produced are to be severed or divided by an arrangement
of cutters and wound upon spools as ordinary ribbons, and are to be employed
for trimmings and other suitable purposes.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings illustrative of the same.

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a portion of a cylinder having the various ribbon designs
a, a, formed upon its surface. If the pattern is to be printed in one color only
one cylinder is used, the whole design being engraved thereupon, but if more
colors are employed, each color is printed by a separate roller and parts only of
the entire design are engraved upon each roller as in the printing of ordinary
designs of many colors. The dotted lines b, b, shew the termination or selvedge
of each ribbon pattern, and indicate the places where the piece is subsequently
to be divided by cutters into ribbons for trimmings and other purposes.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of performing the same, I would remark in conclusion that I claim
printing patterns or designs in the form of ribbons upon calico or other surfaces
whilst in the piece by means of engraved cylinders, such printed pieces being
afterwards subdivided into ribbons as herein-before described, set forth, and
fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Ormerod, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
ROBERT ORMEROD. (L.s.)