OF BOWLS FOR CALENDERS AND "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Moseley, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, India-rubber Manufacturer, for the Invention of
OF BOWLS FOR CALENDERS AND
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OTHER PURPOSES."
Scaled the 12th April 1872, and dated the 1st November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Moseley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st November 1871.
I, CHARLES MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
India-rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOWLS FOR CALENDERS
AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing bowls for calenders and other
purposes of vulcanized or other compound of india-rubber combined
with vegetable or other fibre, which for usual purposes may be in the
proportion of one pound of india-rubber to eight pounds of cotton or

page_text: other suitable fibre; this mixture is rolled into sheets, which are after-
wards cut into discs of the required diameter and then vulcanized; the
discs are then placed upon a metallic centre and compressed by hydraulic
pressure in the ordinary manner. These bowls can be made of any
desired hardness or elasticity, and are intended to be used in lieu of the
ordinary wood bowls.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, India-rubber
Manufacturer, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Moseley, Her 'special licence that
I, the said Charles Moseley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Charles Moseley, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF BOWLS FOR CALENDERS AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Moseley, 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 Scal 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 Charles Moseley, do hereby declaro
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 Invention consists in manufacturing bowls for calenders and other
purposes of vulcanized or other compound of india-rubber, combined
with vegetable or other fibre, which for usual purposes may be in the
proportion of one pound of india-rubber or compound of india-rubber
to eight pounds of cotton or other suitable fibre; this mixture is rolled
into sheets, which are afterwards cut into discs of the required diameter
and then vulcanized; the discs are then placed upon a metallic centre
and compressed by hydraulic pressure in the ordinary manner, being
retained end wise by iron flanges. These bowls can be made of any
desired hardness or elasticity by an admixture of magnesia or other
earthy substance or metallic oxides with the india-rubber, and they are
intended to be used in lieu of the ordinary wood bowls.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Moseley, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.