IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Balfour Meldrum, of New Jersey, United
States of America, but at present residing at Dundee, in the County of
Forfar, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING
TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 31st December 1867, and dated the 12th September 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Balfour Meldrum
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th September 1867.
I, JOHN BALFOUR MELDRUM, of New Jersey, United States of America,
but at present residing at Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PRINTING TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention, which relates to the application of aniline colours for the
purpose of printing textile fabrics made of jute, or of which jute is a component
part, whereby improved and more durable appearances are produced upon
them, consists as follows:-The cloth in the grey bleached or dyed state is
employed, and the colours to be used are mixed with a solution of gum and
starch. The solution is applied to blocks or rollers cut to the pattern desired,

page_text: and the impression is transmitted to the web in the ordinary manner
of printing.
As constituting this Invention, and as novel and original, it is intended to
claim the printing of grey bleached or dyed jute cloth or yarns with aniline
colours, so that goods made of that material may have an improved appearance
and retain their colours more durably than hitherto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Balfour Meldrum in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BALFOUR MELDRUM, of New Jersey, United States of America, but at present
residing at Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Balfour Meldrum, Her special license that I, the said John
Balfour Meldrum, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Balfour Meldrum, my executors, administrators, or
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 PRINTING TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Balfour Meldrum, 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 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 Balfour Meldrum, 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:-
My said Invention, which relates to the application of aniline colours for the
purpose of printing textile fabrics made of jute, or of which jute forms a

page_text: component part, whereby improved and more durable appearances are pro-
duced upon them, consists as follows:-The cloth in the grey bleached or
dyed state is employed, and the colours to be used are mixed with a solution
of gum and starch, the solution is applied to blocks or rollers cut to the pattern
desired, and the impression is transmitted to the web in the ordinary manner
of printing. The application of aniline colours to the printing of goods of
the class herein-before referred to produces certain new and improved appear-
ances of a very durable nature which have not hitherto been effected by
printing with ordinary colours, and the production of these improved and
durable appearances constitutes the chief feature and main object of the
present Invention. The cloth used may be woven of grey or unbleached
yarn, or bleached or dyed yarn, and if woven of grey or unbleached yarn
the cloth may be bleached or dyed after being woven if required.
It is to be understood that under this Invention is comprised the printing of
ordinary carpeting, druggets, rugs, or other floor coverings.
Having now described the nature of my said said Invention and the manner
in which the same may be practically carried into effect, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim as the
Invention. secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent,
is,―
The application of aniline dyes for printing of jute fabrics or fabrics in
which jute is a component part for the purpose of rendering the appearances
produced more brilliant and durable than hitherto, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Balfour Meldrum, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
J. B. MELDRUM. (L.S.)