COLOURING PAPER ON THE SURFACE
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Paul, Paper Stainer, of the City of
Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, for the Inven-
tion of "COLOURING PAPER ON THE SURFACE."
Sealed the 20th December 1853, and dated the 20th June 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Paul at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th June 1853.
I, JOHN PAUL, Paper Stainer, of the City of Manchester, in the
County Palatine of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "COLOURING PAPER ON THE SURFACE" to be as
follows:-
The colour to be supplied by side boxes, having therein rollers
revolving in the colour, or otherwise, as the petitioner may decide upon.
Brushes will then traverse and spread the said colour on the paper; it
will then be finished or smoothed off by means of one, two, or more
brushes, the said brushes again traversing over the paper by means of
a cross cut or double screw fixed horizontally, the same having affixed
a rotary and also an eccentric motion, obtained by means of a rack,

page_text: with tooth and pinion fitting and fitted thereto; the paper is carried
forward by a movement attached to the framework, with an endless
blanket, and passed on as coloured, and cut into lengths as required.
This machine can be worked by manual labour, or by power, and will
have as near as possible the motion of the hand, but more regular and
certain in the evenness of the work, and thereby doing away with a
highly pernicious employment in which poisonous mineral colours are
used, and females and young children at present principally employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Paul in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 20th December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN PAUL, of the City of Manchester, Paper Stainer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in this seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Paul, Her special license
that I, the said John Paul, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Paul, 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 "COLORING OR
STAINING PAPER, WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND OTHER FABRICS ON THE SURFACE,
IN SHORT AS ALSO IN LONG LENGTHS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Paul, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Paul, 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):
There will be a trough containing the color, with adaptation for
heating the same; as also a tap for bringing the color on to the paper
and other fabrics, and regulating the supply on the same; with an
agitator traversing along its inner surface; the color will then be
spread by means of one or more brushes, having a compound rotary
and traverse motion by right and left hand cut screw, rack, and pinion;
the paper and other fabrics will then be finished and smoothed off by
means of two or more brushes, having a compound eccentric and traverse
motion from crank; and the aforesaid screw and rotary motion from
centre on crank; the table is carried forward by a movement attached
to the framework with an endless blanket, and passes on, colored and
cut into lengths as required. This machine can be worked by manual
labor, or by power, and will have as near as possible the motion of the
hand, but more regular and certain in the evenness of the work, and
thereby doing away with a highly pernicious employment, in which
poisonous mineral colors are used, and females and young children at
present principally employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Paul, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
throo
Signed in the presence of
HENRY BONSOR.
JOHN PAUL. (L.S.)