AN IMPROVED STAMP FOR PRINTING ON CHINA, EARTHENWARE, METAL, WOOD, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Simpertus Klůh, of Stoke-upon-Trent, in the
County of Staffordshire, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED STAMP
FOR PRINTING ON CHINA, EARTHENWARE, METAL, WOOD, OR OTHER
SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 7th October 1873, and dated the 23rd April 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Simpertus Klůh at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd April 1873.
I, SIMPERTUS KLUH, of Stoke-upon-Trent, in the County of Stafford-
shire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED STAMP FOR PRINTING ON CHINA, EARTHENWARE, METAL, WOOD, OR OTHER
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows (that is to say) :—
My Invention has reference to an improved stamp, to be employed
for printing coloured devises or otherwise upon earthenware or other
substances, and consists in forming the stamp as follows:-
The devise is first cut in relief on hard metal such as steel or brass,
a cast is then taken in lead or tin from which an elastic mould in
india-rubber or composition thereof or other elastic material is obtained
by pressure and heat, the clastic stamp or mould thus formed is then

page_text: mounted on a handle or otherwise through the intervention of a pad
of flexible india-rubber sponge by the combination and arrangement of
which the said elastic stamp is enabled to be advantageously employed
in printing plain or coloured ornaments or other devises or designs upon
the china or earthenware in lieu of the old system of transfer paper as:
at present
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Simpertus Kléh in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd October 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIMPERTUS
KLUH, of Stoke-upon-Trent, in the County of Stafford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto. me, the said Simpertus Kluh, Her special licence.
that I, the said Simpertus Kluh, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Simpertus Kluh, 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 "AN IMPROVED STAMP FOR
PRINTING ON CHINA, EARTHENWARE, METAL, WOOD, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Simpertus Klub,
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
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 Simpertus Kluh, 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 :—
The object of my Invention is to produce an elastic stamp or mould
which can be mounted on a handle or otherwise through the-intervention

page_text: of a pad of flexible india-rubber sponge by the combination and
arrangement whereof the said elastic stamp is enabled to be advan-
tageously employed in printing plain or colored ornaments or other
devices or designs upon the china or earthenware in lieu of the old system
of transfer paper as at present.
And the nature of the means whereby I effectuate the object above
mentioned consists in constructing or forming an improved stamp to be
employed for the aforesaid purposes of printing plain or colored devices
or ornaments upon earthenware or other substances, such stamp being
made or formed in manner herein-after described.
And I will now in further compliance with the aforesaid condition in
the said Letters Patent contained, proceed to fully and particularly
describe and ascertain in what manner my said Invention is to be
performed or carried out in practice, that is to say :-
The device, pattern, or ornament desired is first cut or produced in
relief on or in hard metal, such as steel or brass, from which a cast is
taken in lead, tin, or other such like metal, from which an elastic
mould in india-rubber or composition thereof, or suitable elastic material
is obtained by pressure and heat, and thus an elastic mould or stamp
is produced which can be mounted and used as herein-before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the Invention of
an improved stamp for printing on china, earthenware, metal, wood, or
other substances, the same being of the nature and construction herein
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Simpertus Klub, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of October, in the year of
Lowl One thousand night hundred and seventy-three
0
Witness,
EDWARD WILLIS SALE,
Wedgwood House,
Stoke-on-Trent.
SIMPERTUS KLÜH. (L.S.)