A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COCOA FIBRE MATS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred George Wallis, of. Abbey Place, St. John's
Wood, in the County of Middlesex, and William Bradshaw, of
Alma Street, New North Road, in the same County, for the Inven-
tion of A
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Canes TIDDE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred George Wallis
and William Bradshaw at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th February 1872.
We, ALFRED GEORGE WALLIS, of Abbey Place, St. John's Wood,
in the County of Middlesex, and WILLIAM BRADSHAW, of Alma Street,
New North Road, in the same County, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
COCOA FIBRE MATS," to be as follows:-

page_text: Hitherto cocoa fibre mats with colored borders have been made of
fibre centres and colored worsted or woollen borders, which borders are
of necessity from half an inch to an inch below centre of mat, whereby
such centre only is useful as a cleanser.
The object of our Invention is to remedy this defect by producing a 5
colored bordered mat of any pattern, the border of which shall be made
of the same material as the centre and on the same level, thus making
the whole of the mat useful and considerably more durable, inasmuch
that the fibre is more durable than the woollen or worsted border.
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We effect our object by making the centre of the mat on the "rod" 1
principle, and the border after the manner known as pulled up" or
"tufted" work, dyeing the fibre used for the border of any required
color.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred George Wallis and William Bradshaw in 1
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRED
GEORGE WALLIS, of Abbey Place, St. John's Wood, in the County of
Middlesex, and WILLIAM BRADSHAW, of Alma Street, New North
Road, in the same County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two,
in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Alfred George Wallis and a
William Bradshaw, Her special licence that we, the said Alfred George
Wallis and William Bradshaw, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Alfred George Wallis and William
Bradshaw, our 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,

page_text: use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COCOA FIBRE MATS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Alfred George Wallis
and William Bradshaw, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, 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

page_text: Letters Patent is, the use of the combination of the two methods of
manufacturing mats, the one known as the rod principle, and the other
as pulled up or tufted work for the purpose herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred George Wallis and William
Bradshaw, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
first day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.
ALF. G. WALLIS.
(L.B.)
WILLIAM BRADSHAW. (L.S.)