AN IMPROVED PASTE FOR FIXING AND BRIGHTENING ANILINE AND PIGMENT COLORS IN PRINTING ON COPTON, WOOLLEN, SILK, OR MIXED FABRIOS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Clayton, of Radcliffe, in the County
of Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PASTE FOR FIXING
AND BRIGHTENING ANILINE AND PIGMENT COLORS IN PRINTING ON COPTON,
WOOLLEN, SILK, OR MIXED FABRIOS."
Sealed the 6th August 1869, and dated the 10th February 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Clayton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th February 1869.
I, JOSEPH OLAYTON, of Radcliffe, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
PASTE FOR FIXING AND BRIGHTENING ANILINE AND PIGMENT COLORS IN PRINTING
ON COTTON, WOOLLEN, SILK, OR MIXED FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This paste is intended to be used for thickening aniline and pigment
colors employed in printing woven fabrics, and at the same time it
fixes the colors and brightens and greatly improves their appearance.
The paste may be used either as a substitute for or in conjunction
with the egg albumen hitherto employed for that purpose, being much

page_text: less costly, and is composed of water, kid glue, turpentine, and blood
albumen.
The proportions and method of manufacture which I have found to
answer best in practise are as follows:-
First boil four pounds of kid glue in two and a half gallons of water
till dissolved, stirring it well all the time. When boiled down to about
two gallons add thereto two gallons of turpentine and boil again;
then cool down to about 110° Fahrenheit, and add four gallons of blood
albumen at a strength of about three pounds per gallon, mix well and
stir for about four hours. To prepare for use take one gallon of the
above preparation and mix therewith an equal quantity of blood
albumen solution (at a strength of about a pound and a half to the
gallon), and to this mixture add the anniline or other color as
required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Clayton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th August 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
CLAYTON, of Radcliffe, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
Victoria, by Her
February, in the
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Clayton, Her special
License that I, the said Joseph Clayton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Clayton,
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
"AN IMPROVED PASTE FOR FIXING AND BRIGHTENING ANILINE AND PIGMENT
COLORS IN PRINTING ON COTTON, WOOLLEN, SILK, OR MIXED FABRICS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Clayton,

page_text: 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 I, the said Joseph Clayton, 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 (that is to say):-
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The paste is intended to be used for thickening aniline and pigment
colors employed in printing woven fabrics, and at the same time it fixes
the colors and brightens and greatly improves their appearance. The
paste may be used either as a substitute for or in conjunction with the
egg albumen hitherto employed for that purpose, being much less costly,
and is composed of water, kid or other glue, turpentine, and blood
albumen. And I may here remark that when employing this mixture
I am enabled to use egg albumen therewith made by beating up both
the yolk and the white of the egg together, and thus effect a considerable
economy in this ingredient.
The proportions and method of manufacture which I have found to
answer best in practise are as follows:-
First boil four pounds of kid glue in two and a half gallons of water
till dissolved, stirring it well all the time. When boiled down to about
two gallons add thereto two gallons of turpentine and boil again; then
cool down to about one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit. and add
four gallons of blood albumen at a strength of about three pounds per
gallon previously dissolved in either water, buttermilk, or blood, mix
well and stir for about four hours. To prepare for use take one gallon
of the above preparation and mix therewith an equal quantity of blood
albumen solution (at a strength of about a pound and a half to the
gallon), and to this mixture add the anniline or other color as
required.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention
for an improved paste for fixing and brightening aniline and
pigment colors in printing on cotton, woollen, silk, or mixed fabrics,"
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be por-
formed or carried into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that

page_text: I claim as my Invention, the manufacture of a paste for fixing and
brightening aniline colors composed of water, kid or other glue,
turpentine and blood albumen, either with or without the addition of
buttermilk or egg albumen, or both, substantially as heroin before more
nextionlesly desonibod
I claim as my Invention, the manufacture of a paste for fixing and
brightening aniline colors composed of water, kid or other glue,
turpentine and blood albumen, either with or without the addition of
buttermilk or egg albumen,
albumen, or both, substantially as herein before-mere-
particularly described
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Clayton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
particularly described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Clayton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witnessed by
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
JOSEPH CLAYTON. (L.s.)