IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE, ADAPTATION, AND APPLICATION OF ARTICLES IN PAPER TO CERTAIN PURPOSES OF OR FOR PERSONAL USE, COMFORT, AND HYGIENE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Loder, of 19, Salisbury Street, Strand,
and Southampton Row, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE, ADAPTATION, AND APPLICATION OF ARTICLES
IN PAPER TO CERTAIN PURPOSES OF OR FOR PERSONAL USE, COMFORT, AND
HYGIENE."
Scaled the 24th March 1876, and dated the 12th October 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Loder at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th October 1875.
I, RICHARD LODER, of 19, Salisbury Street, Strand, and Southampton
Row, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE, ADAPTATION, AND APPLICATION OF ARTICLES
IN PAPER TO CERTAIN PURPOSES OF OR FOR PERSONAL USE, COMFORT, ANd
HYGIENE," to be as follows:-
For certain purposes, as the coverlets for beds and such like and
similar purposes, and as a substitute for blankets and such like articles

page_text: of covering I take a sheet or sheets of paper of suitable size and shape,
and I perforate the paper with holes of suitable size and according to
any suitable design or arrangement and disposition of the holes or
perforations, and which when two thicknesses of paper are employed
should be so disposed as not to be immediately opposite cach other when
they are superimposed or combined together.
In some cases a tape binding or edging may be added, or an extra
strip or edging of paper may be applied to strengthen and to prevent
tearing. For such purposes I prefer to use the best quality of brown
paper made from tarred rope, and without the addition of clay and such
like argillaceous, argillocalcareous, or argilloarenaceous matter, although
strong white or colored papers may be employed, such as "cartridge
paper," and those papers made in long webs for drawing office require-
ments are admirably suited for such purposes.
For articles of personal wear and for application to and use about the
person I form them of various shapes in paper, each being perforated as
before described, and either with or without tape, ribbon, or other strip
bindings and strengthenings suitably applied, disposed, and attached, as
for example for chest warmers and lung protectors, waist and abdominal
belts, and such like articles, as also for kuce and elbow caps and
protectors, for night and travelling socks, and for railway travelling foot
warmers, and for a variety of other purposes whereby local application
of such articles the heat of the body may be healthfully retained and
the radiation or escape of animal or bodily heat be checked, controlled,
and regulated.
For use in the presence of certain diseases or under diseased conditions
of the person or body, the articles may be first steeped in or otherwise
treated with antiseptic or other suitable preparations, such as carbolic
acid, and coated or prepared with or be combined with medicinal or
medicated materials, suitable for or adapted to the particular nature of
the disease or disorder.
For articles intended for external use and wear, as for example, for
chest protectors they may be made up of two thicknesses of material,
the external one may be printed or ornamented according to taste and
to imitate shirt patterns and other designs.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by Musah Ann Loder, of No. Southampton Row, in the
County of Middlesex, Widow, and Administratrix of Richard Loder,
late of No. 19, Salisbury Street, Strand, and Southampton Row,
London, and Charles Loder, of 9, Clifden Rd., Clapton, Adminis-
trator of the Personal Estate of Richard Loder, aforesaid, in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MUSAH
ANN LODER, of No. , Southampton Row, in the County of Middlesex,
Widow, and Administratrix of Richard Loder, late of No. 19, Salisbury
Street, Strand, and Southampton Row, London, and CHARLES LODER,
of 9, Clifden Rd., Clapton, Administrator of the Personal Estate of
Richard Loder, aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto the said Richard Loder, Her special
licence that he, the said Richard Loder, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as he, the said Richard Loder, his 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 MANUFACTURE, ADAPTATION, AND APPLICATION OF ARTICLES IN PAPER TO
CERTAIN PURPOSES OF OR FOR PERSONAL USE, COMFORt, and Hygiene," upon the
condition (amongst others) that he, the said Richard Loder, his
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under his, 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
imediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Musah Ann Loder, and Charles
Loder, as such Administrators as aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature

page_text: 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 thereof:
For certain purposes, as for the coverlets for beds and for such like
and similar purposes, and as a substitute for blankets and such like
articles of covering, we take a sheet or sheets of paper of suitable size
and shape, and we perforate the paper with holes of suitable size and
according to any suitable design or arrangement and disposition of the
holes or perforations which when two thicknesses of paper are employed
should be so disposed as not to be immediately opposite each other when
they are superimposed or combined together.
In some cases a tape binding or edging may be added or applied to
strengthen and protect the edges and to prevent tearing. For such
purposes we prefer to use the best quality of brown paper, not heavy
or thick, but made from tarred rope, without the addition of clay and
such like argillaceous, argillocalcarcous, or argilloarenaceous matter,
although for many purposes strong white or colored paper may be used
or employed instead of brown paper sheets, such for instance as cartridge
paper, and those papers made in long webs for drawing office require-
ments are admirably suited for some of such purposes.
For articles of personal wear and for application to and use about the
person, we form them of various shapes in paper, such being perforated
as before described, and either with or without tape, ribbon, or other
strip bindings and strengthenings suitably applied, disposed, and attached
thereto, as for example, for chest warmers and lung protectors, waist
and abdominal belts, and such like articles, as also for knee and elbow
caps and protectors, for night and travelling socks, and for railway
travelling foot warmers or heat retainers, and for a variety of other
purposes where by local application of such articles the heat of the
body may be healthfully retained, and the radiation or escape of animal
or bodily heat be checked, controlled, and regulated.
For use in the presence of certain diseases or under diseased conditions
of the person or body the articles may be first steeped in or otherwise
treated with antiseptic or other suitable preparations, or be coated or
prepared with or be combined with medicinal or medicated materials
(such as carbolic acid, camphorated preparations, vaporisable antiseptics,
or antiseptics employed in the form of fine powders either directly

page_text: applied or in sachets) suitable for or adapted to the particular nature of
the disease or disorder to which the punctured or perforated paper
articles have, in whatever shape or form they are made up, to be applied
for personal wear or use.
For articles intended for external use and wear and also where worn
in view, as for example for chest protectors, they may be made up of two
thicknesses and of two or more kinds of material, thus the external one
may for instance be printed or ornamented according to taste, and in
some cases and for certain purposes to imitate, say, shirt patterns or
other designs, according to the purpose for which they are required.
In combination with the perforated sheets of brown paper or cartridge
or other such paper for making up some of the articles, such as those
intended for use about the person in travelling, where the article requires
greater flexibility as at knee and elbow joints, say, thin or tissue paper
or thin pliable or elastic material may be introduced "
to give a hinge-like action to some part of the article to be worn.
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For railway travelling and more particularly to give third class
passengers some of the personal comforts in cold weather afforded by
the use of first class carriages to first class passengers, we make up the
proposed paper materials into such articles as travelling leg warmers or
over boots and leggings for men, and into each leg "with the boot or
shoe on the foot" is inserted, for leggings and stockings for use by ladies
to be easily drawn on over the boots and stockings, and up to or over the
drawers or frill or other terminations of the under clothing; for loose
sleeves or armlets or arm coverings for use in railway travelling or for
outside driving or riding, and for sleeveless jackets; for abdominal belts
and chest protectors; for caps for men and bonnets for women, each
with ear pieces, and in some cases with back flaps to cover and protect
the back of the neck, also other articles for numerous other purposes of
a suitable shape and configuration made up in a suitable manner,
according to the purpose for which such articles so made up are
intended to be used or employed. But we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we do not intend to make or set up any claim for the
shape of nor for the mode of making up any or either of the articles
mentioned apart from or disassociated from the use or employment for
such purposes of punctured or perforated sheets of paper, whether used
alone, singly, or several in combination, or perforated sheets of paper

page_text: used in combination with a textile or other fabric or material or materials
as herein described, but what we claim is, the use or employment for
the purposes herein set forth (or either of them) of a sheet or sheets or
pieces of perforated or punctured paper either alone, singly, or with
several thereof, combined or employed in combination, or combined
with a textile or other fabric or material or materials as herein described
and set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Musah Ann Loder and Charles
Loder, the Executors of the said Richard Loder, aforesaid, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, respectively, this Tenth day
of April, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
H. H. M. SMITH,
19, Salisbury Street,
Strand, W.C.
MUSAH ANN LODER. (L.S.)
CHARLES LODER.
(L.S)