IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA-RUBBER BAGS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Moseley, of the City of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, India-rubber Manufacturer, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA-RUBBER BAGS FOR
THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATE."
Sealed the 20th August. 1869, and dated the 18th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Moseley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th May 1869.
I, CHARLES MOSELEY, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, India-rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA-
BUBBER BAGS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATS," to be as follows:-
It has heretofore been customary to make india-rubber bags for felt
hats in segments or parts. Now my improvement consists in making
such bags in one piece without joints.

page_text: In performing my Invention I take a sheet of india-rubber of the
required size, and by means of heat and pressure, and moulds of the
desired shape and dimensions, form it into a bag, which is afterwards
vulcanized by the ordinary process.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Moseley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
MOSELEY, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, India-
rubber Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS er most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the 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 successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Moseley, Her special licence that
1. the said Charles Moseley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Charles Moseley, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF INDIA-RUBBER BAGS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Moseley, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and scals, 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 Charles Moseley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say)
It has heretofore been customary to make india-rubber bags of the
form of the crown and brim for felt hats in segments or parts. Now my
improvement consists in making such bags in one picce without joints.
In performing my Invention I take a sheet of india-rubber of the
required size to form the crown and brim of a hat, and by means of heat
and pressure, and moulds of the desired shape and dimensions, this sheet
is moulded into the form required, and is afterwards vulcanized by the
ordinary process. The bags thus produced without seam or joint arc
more durable than those made in the ordinary manner.
Having thus stated the nature and particulars of my Invention, I
declare that I claim, as my Invention, making the india-rubber bags for
felt hats in one piece, and consequently without joints.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Moseley, have hereto set
my hand and scal, this Eighth day of November One thousand
cight hundred and sixty-ninc.
CHARLES MOSELEY. (L.S.)