IMPRAREMENTS IN A DRIVING WATER WADED TO PADED
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dove, Principal of the Commercial College,
Ripponden, near Halifax, in the County of York, for the Invention of
"IMPRAREMENTS IN A DRIVING WATER WADED TO PADED"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dove at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th August 1864.
I, WILLIAM DOVE, Principal of the Commercial College, Ripponden, near
Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING WATER-MARKS IN PAPER," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application or use of water-marks in paper,
as aids to instruction in writing, drawing, arithmetic, book-keeping, correspon-
dence and similar purposes, by having the water-marks produced in the paper
suitable to the purpose which it is required to be applied to or used for.
Also in the application and use of water-marks on envelopes, writing papers,
and other papers, for the name and address of the owner or user of such papers,
not only as guides in writing thereon, but as a security against any improper
using thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Dove in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th February 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME. I, WILLIAM
DOVE, Principal of the Commercial College, Ripponden, near Halifax, in the
Counts of York send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS er most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent. bearing date the Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Dove, Her special licence that . the said William
Dove, my executors, administrators. and assigns. or such others as I.
the said William Dove, 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
night make, use, exercise, and vend. within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man. an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS FOR APPLYING WATER-MARKS IN PAPER," upon
the condition (amongst others) that. I, the said William Dove. 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 1. the said William Dove, 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 (that is to say):-
This Invention consists in the application or use of water-marks or other
similar marks or lines in paper. as aids to instruction in writing, drawing,
arithmetic, book-keeping, correspondence, and similar purposes, by having the
water-marks or other similar marks or lines produced in the paper suitable to
the purpose for which it is required to be applied to or used for.
The manner in which this Invention is to be or may be performed or put
into practice is as follows:-Water-marks or other similar marks or lines for
this purpose may be produced in paper by any of the well known means and
methods or apparatus either by wires or other contrivances. or by embossed,
punched, or engraved plates, or by other suitable means employed while the
paper is in the pulpy or moist state in the manufacture thereof, or by re-
moistening the paper after it is manufactured. and then subjecting it to the
action of wires engraved, punched, or embossed plates or cylinders, or by any
other means, whereby such marks or lines can be produced in paper. I propose
to have copies, patterns, or forms produced by these means in different kinds
of letters and figures, and designs, and in variety of styles of hand-writing,

page_text: and in such combination of lines or forms of characters, or letters, figures, and
representations. by or in drawings and designs as are or may be required for
the purpose of teaching the several subjects herein-before named, or other
similar objects.
The manner or mode of use or application is by causing the pupils to trace
and delineate or mark upon these water-marks or other similar lines in the
paper with pen and ink, lead pencil, or other marking or drawing instruments,
and thereby develope the true forms of such letters, figures, drawings, or
designs. By which process or practice the hand can be taught to move freely
in a prescribed manner, or form and direction, thereby acquiring a precision
and freedom in the action thereof. Also the eye may become educated to
accuracy of form and correct delineation of figures or characters and designs.
Having thus fully described the nature of my said Invention, and explained
the manner in which the same is or may be performed or carried into prac-
tical operation, I would have it understood, that I do not confine myself to
nor do I claim any particular means or method of producing water-marks or
lines or designs in paper for the purposes herein set forth, but what I do claim
as of my Invention, and which I believe to be new within the realm is. the
application and use of water-marks or other similar marks or lines in or on
paper. as aids to instruction in writing, drawing, arithmetic, book-keeping,
correspondence and similar purposes or any one of or all of these.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dove, have hereunto sel my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William
the presence of
Dove, in
JOHN CHAPMAN WILSON.
W. DOVE. (L.S.)