IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF PAPIER MACHÉ OR OTHER JAPANNED WARES, WOOD, IVORY, OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Bettridge, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ORNAMENTATION OF PAPIER MACHÉ OR OTHER JAPANNED WARES, WOOD, IVORY,
OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS."
Sealed the 2nd November 1863, and dated the 7th May 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Bettridge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th May 1863.
I, JOHN BETTRIDGE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF PAPIER MACHÉ OR OTHER JAPANNED WARES, WOOD,
IVORY, OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as follows (that is to say):-
This Invention has for its object the inlaying of articles of papier maché or
other japanned wares, wood, ivory, or other similar materials, with aluminium
or its alloys, by which I can obtain ornament in imitation of the more precious
metals, such as gold or silver, without their liability to tarnish, with less
weight and at much lower cost.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Bettridge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BETTRIDGE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Papier Maché Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Bettridge, Her special license that I, the said John Bettridge, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Bettridge, 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 ORNAMENTATION OF
PAPIER MACHÉ OR OTHER JAPANNED WARES, WOOD, IVORY, OR OTHER SIMILAR
MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Bettridge, by an instrument in writing under my band and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 John Bettridge, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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-
This Invention has for its object the inlaying of articles of papier mâché or
other japanned wares, wood, ivory, or other similar materials, with aluminium
or its alloys, by which I can obtain ornament in imitation of the more precious
metals, such as gold or silver, without their liability to tarnish, with less
weight and at much lower cost. This may be carried out by any of the
ordinary modes of inlaying the more precious metals, papier mâché or other
japanned wares, as now practised, varying the process when necessary accord-
ing to the class of material to which the inlay is being attached.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim the improvements in the

page_text: ornamentation of papier mâché or other japanned wares, wood, ivory, or other
similar materials, by inlaying articles formed of such materials with aluminium
or its alloys, as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bettridge, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN (L.s.) BETTRIDGE.