MY NEW PLAN OR METHOD OF MANU- FACTURING PAPER OF SUPERIOR STRENGTH AND DURABILITY FOR BILLS OR NOTES, OR OTHER USES REQUIRING STRENGTH
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDMUND
RICHARD BALL, of Albury Mills, in the Parish of Albury, in the County of
Surrey, Paper Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Ninth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and seventeen,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edmund Richard Ball, my heirs, exors, admors, and assigns, His special
licence that I, the said Edmund Richard Ball, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edmund Richard Ball, my exors, adiñors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, "MY NEW PLAN OR METHOD OF MANU-
FACTURING PAPER OF SUPERIOR STRENGTH AND DURABILITY FOR BILLS OR NOTES, OR
OTHER USES REQUIRING STRENGTH;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said Edmund Richard Ball, within the space
of two calendar months, to be computed from the date of the said Letters
Patent, to cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inscribed and ingrossed,
by writing under my hand and seal, in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edmund Richard Ball, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described and ascer-
tained by the following explanation thereof, that is to say:―
The nature of my said Invention consists in the use of new floss silk, new
flax, hemp, or tow, Russia duck, and Irish linens, in the composition of
paper, in the proportions following; that is to say, four pounds of new floss
silk; forty pounds of new flax, hemp, or tow; twenty-eight pounds of Russia
duck; twenty-eight pounds of Irish linens; which quantities will be sufficient
to make one engine of pulp or stuff; and the manner in which these materials
are converted into paper is as follows:-First, thoroughly cleanse the several
materials aforesaid, then cut them very short for the engine, and which is the
common engine now in use for the manufacturing of paper; then place the
Russia duck and Irish linens therein, and thereby, and by laying down on plate
the roll of the engine (washing at the same time), reduce these materials in
the space of three hours into long half stuff or pulp. Then put the flax, hemp,
or tow, in the engine, laying the roll of the engine down on plate somewhat
harder than required for the Russia duck and Irish linen, and continue
washing and cutting these materials for half an hour. Then case the roll from
the plate of the engine, and put therein the floss silk, and continue washing
for half an hour longer; then tap up the engine, and set it a beating (putting
in smalts or any other material necessary to produce the required color), till
the said several materials are reduced into pulp for use, and which will take
sixteen or eighteen hours to do, according to the thickness or thinness of the
paper required the longer period, the thinner the paper. The several
materials aforesaid being thus compounded and prepared, empty the same
from the engine into a chest, for the purpose of serving the common vat now
used in the manufacturing of paper; and from thence the paper is made from
the materials aforesaid by means of wire moulds, in the same manner as is
done with common paper of the usual materials. The several materials herein-
before specificated being thus manufactured into paper, the same is then laid
on felts or flannel by the coucher. After which it is pressed, and then taken
from the felts and laid in quantities by sheets on each other. It is then
pressed a second time, and each sheet separated. The pressure is then re-
peated till a proper surface is obtained upon the paper. After which it is
pressed again, and hung up to dry; when dry, it is taken off the lines and
sized in size or glue prepared from parchment cuttings for that purpose, which
prevents the ink sinking when written or printed on. The paper is then dried
and brought into the finishing room, where the knots are taken out, and the

page_text: good sheets are separated from the bad. The paper is then pressed again, and
told out into quires and reams, in order to receive the mark of the Excise
for the payment of the duty; which done, it is fit for use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Richard Ball, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
EDMUND RICHARD (L.B.) BALL.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the
presence of (the interlineations
between the fourteenth and fif-
teenth, and fifteenth and sixteenth,
and eighteenth and nineteenth
lines being first made),