A NEW APPLICATION OF A KNOWN MATERIAL TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PLASTERING, PAINTING, PAPERING, WHITE- WASHING, AND COLOURING
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Adshead, of the City of Manchester, Gentle-
man, for the Invention of "A NEW APPLICATION OF A KNOWN MATERIAL TO
BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PLASTERING, PAINTING, PAPERING, WHITE-
WASHING, AND COLOURING."
Sealed the 19th December 1856, and dated the 5th July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Adshead at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th July
1856.
I, JOSEPH ADSHEAD, of the City of Manchester, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW APPLICATION OF A KNOWN
MATERIAL TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PLASTERING, PAINTING, PAPERING,
WHITEWASHING, AND COLOURING," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in employing the painted, glazed, and varnished
fabrics known as oil baize as substitutes for plastering, painting, papering,
whitewashing, and colouring. In performing my Invention, the oil baize may
be applied by glue or paste, or otherwise, to the walls, wainscots, ceilings, wood-
work, or other parts of buildings, or it may be attached to light frames secured
to the walls, wainscots, ceilings, woodwork, or other parts of buildings.
I

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Adshead in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ADSHEAD, of the City of Manchester, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Adshead, Her special license that I, the said Joseph Adshead, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said. Joseph
Adshead, 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. "A NEW, APPLICATION OF A KNOWN
MATERIAL TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR. PLASTERING, PAINTING, PAPERING,
WHITEWASHING, AND COLOURING," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Joseph Adshead, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Adshead, 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):-
The nature of this Invention consists in the use or employment of the
painted or distempered and varnished fabrics known as oil baize or oil cloth
as a substitute for plastering, painting, papering, whitewashing, and colouring
houses, buildings, ships, or vessels.
In performing my Invention, the oil baize or oil cloth is applied by glue,
paste, or otherwise, to the walls, wainscots, ceilings, woodwork, or other parts of
the houses, buildings, ships, or vessels to be ornamented or protected from the
effects of the atmosphere. When the oil baize or oil cloth is used as a sub-
stitute for painting or papering, it may be applied to imitate wood, marble, or

page_text: stone of different colours and descriptions, or it may be otherwise applied for
general decorations. By means of this Invention an economical and highly
ornamental substitute is obtained for the plastering, painting, papering, white-
washing, and colouring usually employed. The oil baize or oil cloth is easily
washed when soiled, and being impervious to external moisture, it is particu-
larly beneficial when applied in damp situations.
Having thus particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I declare that what I claim is, the use or
employment of oil baize or oil cloth as a substitute for plastering, painting,
papering, whitewashing, and colouring, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Adshead, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
H. B. BARLOW,
Manchester.
JOSH ADSHEAD. (L.B.)