IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING CLOTH OR FABRICS."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Bennett, of the Firm of John Bennett
and Son, of Birch Vale, in the County of Derby, Calico Printers,
for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING CLOTH OR FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Bennett
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th April 1875.
I, FREDERICK BENNETT, of the Firm of John Bennett and Son, of
Birch Vale, in the County of Derby, Calico Printers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING CLOTH
OR FABRICS," to be as follows:—
This Invention relates to that class of patterns or designs known in the
trade as Swiss or.blue chintzes, but whereas the grounds in such are blue
mine will be black.
In the first place I put in the black ground red, and resist paste
where the yellow is to come by copper rollers in the printing machine;

page_text: run the piece through the indigo vat for light blue, then dye the red and
block yellow. The fabric is then finished in the ordinary way. This
plan saves two blockings.
2. I put on the black and resist paste by the rollers, then block red,
and run through the indigo vat for light bluc, dyc the red, and block
yellow; this would save one blocking.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Bennett in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
Bennett, of the Firm of John Bennett and Son, of Birch Vale, in the
County of Derby, Calico Printers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Frederick Bennett, Her special license, that
I, the said Frederick Bennett, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Frederick Bennett, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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, usc, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING
CLOTH OR FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Frederick Bennett, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Bennett, 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 relates to that class of patterns or designs known in
the trade as Swiss or blue chintzes, but whereas the grounds in such aro
blue mine will be black.
In the first place I put in the black ground red, and resist paste
where the yellow is to come by copper rollers in the printing machine;
run the piece through the indigo vat for light blue, then dye the red
and block yellow. The fabric is then finished in the ordinary way. This
plan saves two blockings.
2ndly. I put on the black and resist paste by the rollers, then block
red, and run through the indigo vat for light bluc, dye the red, and block
yellow. This would save one blocking.
3dly. Or I may put on the black ground and red by the rollers, and
block the resist paste, run through the indigo vat for light blue, dye
red, and block yellow; this also saving one blocking.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it
to be understood that I claim, the improvements in printing cloth or
fabric as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Bennett, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five
FREDERICK BENNETT. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Frederick
Bennett, in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.