AN Im- PROVEMENT ON OR SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS, SAND, EMERY, AND OTHER SCOURING PAPER OR SUBSTANCES
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
EDWARDS, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Leather and Flock Seller;
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Sixth day of December, in the first year of His reign,
did for Himself, His heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Edwards, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence,
sole privilege and authority, that I, tho said Richard Edwards, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, tho said Richard Edwards, my
exors, admors, or assigns, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN Im-
PROVEMENT ON OR SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS, SAND, EMERY, AND OTHER SCOURING
PAPER OR SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
that I, the said Richard Edwards, shall cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Edwards, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in applying glass, sand, or emery to the surface of
calico, linen, or other woven fabric, by which means I am enabled to produce
a substitute for the scowring papers, and such substitute will be found superior
to the scouring paper now in use. The manner in which I proceed is as
follows: I take a piece of calico or other woven fabric, and lay it smoothly
over a board or other surface, and with paper pulp, or thick paste I fill up
the interstices of such fabric by spreading the pulp or paste evenly over the
fabric; the cloth or fabric so prepared is then to be dried, after which, by
means of a brush, the cement or composition hereafter described is to be
applied evenly over the surface, and then the ground glass, sand, or emery is
to be applied by hand thickly over the surface. The cloth is again to be
dried and then again rubbed over with the cement or composition and dried,
when the substitute for scouring paper will be prepared and fit for use. The
material of which I prepare the cement or composition are as follows:-I
dissolve one pound of good glue in one pint of water, in which half an ounce
of alum has been previously dissolved, such cement or composition being
found by me very efficient in fixing the glass, sand, or emery to the fabric.
Having now described the manner of performing my Invention, I would
have it understood that what I claim as my Invention is the applying of
ground glass, sand, or emery by means of cement to woven fabrics in place
of paper, and thus forming a substitute for the scouring paper now in use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Edwards, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

page_text: In the Matter of a Patent granted to RICHARD EDWARDS, of Dewsbury,
in the County of York, Leather and Flock Seller, for his Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT ON OR SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS, SAND, EMERY,
AND OTHER SCOURING PAPER OR SUBSTANCES;" and bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty.
ISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION entered by William
James Barsham, late of Bow, in the County of Middlesex, but now of
Stratford, in the County of Essex, Manufacturer, assignce of the said
Patent, under and by virtue of a Deed of Assignment made between the
said Richard Edwards of the one part, and the said William James
Barsham of the other part, and bearing date the Twenty-second day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, pursuant to the
provisions of an Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of
His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend
the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
I, tho said WILLIAM JAMES BARSHAM, do hereby declare that since the dced
the said deed of assignment, I have been advised that it is doubtful whether
e wording of the said Specification is such as clearly to limit the claim of
vention to the application of glass, sand, or emery to woven fabrics pulped,
whether it extends to woven fabrics generally, which was not intended, and
r this reason I, the said William James Barsham, do hereby disclaim and
ter as follows, (that is to say,) after the words "My Invention consists in
plying glass, sand, or emery to the surface of calico, linen, or other woven
bric," I hereby make the following alteration, (that is to say,) I add the
ords "which has been pulped." And a little further on in the said Specifi-
tion, after the words "woven fabrics," I hereby make the following altera-
on, (that is to say,) I add the words "which has been pulped." And after
e word "and" next following, I hereby disclaim the words "lay it smoothly
er a board or other surface, and with paper pulp or thick paste I fill up
e interstices of such fabric by spreading the pulp or paste evenly over

page_text: LHC ROTIC.
The cloth or fabric so prepared is then to be aried, after wh
And a few lines further on in the said Specification, after the words "the cloth
is," I hereby disclaim the word "again." And further ou, in the claiming
clause of the said Specification, I hereby make the following alteration, (that
is to say,) after the words "by means of cement to" I hereby add the word
"pulped."
In witness whereof, I, the said William James Barsham, have hereunto
set my hand, this Thirteenth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-nine.
To the Clerk of the Patents of England.
W. J. BARSIIAM.
This is to certify, that the above-named William James Barsham, late of
Bow, in the County of Middlesex, but now of Stratford, in the County of
Essex, Manufacturer, assignce of the said Patent, under and by virtue of a
deed of assignment made between the said Richard Edwards of the one part,
and the said William James Barsham of the other part, and bearing dato
the Twenty-second day of February, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-
seven, pursuant to the provisions of an Act passed in the fifth and sixth years
of the reign of IIis late Majesty King William the Fourth, entituled "An Act
to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions," has applied to me
for leave to enter with you the above-written Disclaimer of part of and Memo-
randum of Alterations, in the Specification of a certain Invention for which
Letters Patent wero duly granted to Richard Edwards, of Dewsbury, in the
County of York, Leather and Flock Seller, under the Great Seal, dated at West-
minster, the Sixth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and thirty,
and on considering of the said application, I directed him to advertize his said
Disclaimer and Alterations in the London Gazetto and the Essex and Suffolk
Times, and such advertizements have been duly made in the said Gazette and
the Essex and Suffolk Times on the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth days of
January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. I have accordingly
granted leave to the said William James Barsham to file his said Disclaimer
and Memorandum of Alterations pursuant to the Statute passed in the fifth
and sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty, intitled "An Act to amend
the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions.
D 34 Dazse
Lincoln's Inn, 14 March, 1839.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid William James Barsham came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Dis
claimer aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of Merch in the won
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