IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOFING OR MAKING WATERPROOF AND STRENGTHENING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS FELTS BY MEANS OF ADHERING SUCH FELTS TO A WOVEN FABRIC BY USE OF DISSOLVED INDIA-RUBBER OR ANY OTHER PROAL
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Mortimer Job, of 46, Cannon Street, in
the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATERPROOFING OR MAKING WATERPROOF AND STRENGTHENING WOOL
AND OTHER FIBROUS FELTS BY MEANS OF ADHERING SUCH FELTS TO A
WOVEN FABRIC BY USE OF DISSOLVED INDIA-RUBBER OR ANY OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Mortimer Job
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th July 1874.
I, ALFRED MORTIMER JOB, of 46, Cannon Street, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOFING OR MAKING WATERPROOF AND
STRENGTHENING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS FELTS BY MEANS OF ADHERING SUCH
FELTS TO A WOVEN FABRIC BY USE OF DISSOLVED INDIA-RUBBER OR ANY OTHER

page_text: WATERPROOF GUM OR PREPARED OIL FOR DOMESTIC AND OUTDOOR USE," to be as
follows:-
For an improved method of strengthening and waterproofing wool
felt and any other fibrous felt for the use of covering floors or footings,
for lining of carriages, covering of furniture, making of carriage
aprons, travelling bags and clothing, boots and shoes included, and
bookbinding.
My method is by means of india-rubber dissolved, or any other clastic
waterproof gum or prepared oil, to insert the same between the woven
fabric and wool felt or any other fibrous felt to adhere the two
substances together, and thereby strengthen the felt and make the same
waterproof..
I also reserve to myself the right to use the woven fabric, either plain
or ornamental printed..
In some cases by means of such adhesive substances I mix with
cork or any other suitable substance) waterproof the surface of such felt
without sheeting, also the binding of books with such felts, as before
described, without waterproofing the same, and japanning the surface
of the woven fabric adhered to the felt.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Alfred Mortimer Job in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
MORTIMER JOB, of Number 46, Cannon Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, Her special licence
that. I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, my executors, administrators,

page_text: and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, 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 WATERPROOFING OR MAKING WATERPROOF AND STRENGTHENING WOOL AND
OTHER FIBROUS FELTS BY MEANS OF ADHERING SUCH FELTS TO A WOVEN FABRIC
BY USE OF DISSOLVED INDIA-RUBBER OR ANY OTHER WATERPROOF GUM OR
PREPARED OIL FOR DOMESTIC AND OUTDOOR UBE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, my executors or admi-
nistrators, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, 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) :-
For an improved method of strengthening and waterproofing wool.
felt and any other fibrous felts for the use of covering floors or foot-
ings, for the lining of carriages, covering of furniture, making of
carriage aprons, travelling bags and clothing, boots and shoes included,
and bookbinding.
My method is by means of india-rubber dissolved, or any other
clastic waterproof gum or prepared oil, to insert the same between the
woven fabric and wool felt or any other fibrous felt to adhere the two
substances together, and thereby strengthen the felt and make the same
waterproof.
I also reserve to myself the right to use the woven fabric, either plain
or ornamental printed.
In some cases by means of such adhesive substances I mix with cork
or any other suitable substance, waterproof the surface of such felt

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without sheeting; also the binding of books with such felts, as before
described, without waterproofing the same, and japanning the surface of
the woven fabric adhered to the felt.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Mortimer Job, have
heretofore set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, 5
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.