IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURETM OF ⚫ CLOTHS COMPOSED OF WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS OR FIBROUS SUBSTANCES COMBINED WITH INDIA-RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA, OR BALATA, OR ANY OF THEIR COMPOUNDS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Moseley, of the Chapel Field Works, Ardwick,
in the City of Manchester, Manufacturer of India-rubber and Gutta
Percha, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE™ OF
⚫ CLOTHS COMPOSED OF WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS OR FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
COMBINED WITH INDIA-RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA, OR BALATA, OR ANY OF THEIR
COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 7th October 1864, and dated the 8th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Moseley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th April 1864.
I, DAVID MOSELEY, of the Chapel Field Works, Ardwick, in the City of
Manchester, Manufacturer of India-rubber and Gutta Percha, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE.
OF. CLOTHS COMPOSED OF WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS OR FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
COMBINED WITH INDIA-RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA, OR BALATA, OR ANY OF THEIR
COMPOUNDS," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in the manufacture of a cloth coated or covered
with india-rubber, gutta percha, balata, or any of their compounds, either
vulcanized or in their raw or unvulcanized state.

page_text: The cloth is inlaid or tessellated in a variety of colours and patterns so as
to render it suitable for floorcloths, table mats, and for various other uses
or purposes.
.
The process I prefer to adopt in this manufacture is as follows:-I coat or
cover a piece of woven or felted cloth, of woollen, cotton, flax, or other fibrous
substance with india-rubber, gutta percha, or balata, or their compounds, by
means of rollers, or by spreading it in a stato of solution, which cloth is
coloured with vermillion, indigo, chrome, metallic oxides, or any other
colouring matters. I then cut the cloth by means of a knife or by a screw
press, or otherwise, into different shapes and forms, such as octagons, hexagons,
circles, or any patterns or designs. I then take the pieces or patterns so cut,
and place them upon a piece of linen or other cloth made adhesive by means
of india-rubber, glue, or any gelatinous substance, so as to form different
patterns or designs in imitation of earthenware, tiled floors, or otherwise. After
a sufficient number of pieces or patterns have been put together to make the
length and width required, I pass the whole through a callender or between
rollers, so as to make the joints. perfectly even and good. In order to render
the now tessellated cloth unaffected by heat or cold, I then vulcanize it either
by steam or water in the manner known as "Hancock's " process, or by
saturating it with a solution of bisulphuret of carbon and chloride of sulphur
in the manner known as "Parkes' " process, but I do not confine myself to
vulcanize the cloth as I find it advantageous in some cases to leave it in its
unvulcanized state. In coating the cloth with india-rubber I do not always
use pure or unadulterated. india-rubber, but I mix with it by means of
a masticator or by rollers, cotton, woollen, flax, hair, or other fibres,
minerals, metallic oxides, cork, or any other substances suitable for the
purpose to which the cloth is to be applied. I also find, when great substance
or strength is required, that it is necessary to use more than two thicknesses of
cloth combined together as above described, and in other cases it is only
requisite to use one cloth. In some cases no cloth is requisite, but the india-
rubber, gutta percha, or balata, or their compounds are combined with fibrous
substances alone; or the surface of the cloth may be printed in imitation of
the tessallated cloth by the ordinary block-printing process or by rollers, and
I use a solution of india-rubber, or of oil, or other varnishes, and print in
different patterns and colours upon-the cloth covered with india-rubber, gutta
percha, and balata, or their compounds.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Moseley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th October 1864.
:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
MOSELEY, of the Chapel Field Works, Ardwick, in the City of Manchester,
Manufacturer of India-rubber and Gutta Percha, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said David Moseley, Her special license that I, the said David Moseley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said David
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 CLOTHS COMPOSED OF WOVEN OR FELTED FABRICS OR FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
COMBINED WITH INDIA-RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA, OR BALATA, OR ANY OF THEIR COM
POUNDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David 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 ascer
tain 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 David Moseley, 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):
"
My improvements consist in the manufacture of cloth coated with india-
rubber, gutta percha, balata, or any of their compounds, either vulcanized or
in their raw or unvulcanized state.
The cloth is inlaid or tessellated in a variety of colors and patterns so as to
render it suitable for floorcloths, table mats, and for various other uses or

page_text: The mode of operation I prefer to adopt in this manufacture is as follows:-
I coat or cover a piece of woven or felted cloth of woollen, cotton, flax, or
other fibrous substance, with india-rubber, gutta percha, or balata, or their
compounds, by means of rollers, or by spreading in a state of solution the
india-rubber, gutta percha, or balatá, or their compounds, colored. with
vermillion, indigo, chrome, metallic oxides, or any other coloring matters. I
then cut the prepared cloth by means of a knife, or by a screw press or otherwise,
into different shapes and forms, such as octagons, hexagons, circles, or any other
patterns or designs. I then take the pieces or patterns so cut, and place them
upon a piece of linen or other cloth made adhesive by means of india-rubber,
glue, or any suitable.gelatinous or glutinous substance so as to form different
patterns or designs in imitation of earthenware, tiled floors, or otherwise. After
a sufficient number of pieces or patterns have been put together to make the
length and width required, I pass the whole through a callendar or between
rollers, so as to make the joints perfectly even and good. In order to render
the now tessellated cloth unaffected by heat or cold, I then vulcanize it either
by steam or water in the manner known as "Hancock's"
process, or by
saturating it with a solution of bisulphuret of carbon and chloride of sulphur,
in the manner known as "Parkes" process, but I do not confine myself to
vulcanize the cloth, as I find it advantageous in some cases to leave it in its
unvulcanized state. In coating the cloth with india-rubber I do not always
use pure or unadulterated india-rubber, but I mix with it by means of a
masticator, or by rollers, cotton, woollen, flax, hair, or other fibres, minerals,
metallic oxides, cork, or any other substances, according to the purpose for
which the cloth is to be applied. I also find when great substance or strength
is required that it is necessary to use more than two thicknesses of cloth
combined together as above described, and in other cases it is only requisite
to use one cloth. In some cases no cloth is requisite, but the india-rubber, gutta
percha, or balata, or their compounds are combined with fibrous substances
alone. Or the surface of the cloth may be printed in imitation of the
tessellated cloth by the ordinary block printing process, or by rollers, and I use
a solution of india-rubber or of oil or other varnishes, and print in different
patterns and colors upon the cloth covered with caoutchouc, gutta percha, and
balata, or other compounds.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the manner
of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself
to the details given, as the same may be considerably varied and modified; but
what I do claim is, the manufacture of compound cloth composed of woven or

page_text: felted fabric or fibrous substances as a ground or foundation, and ornamented
in imitation of inlaid or tessellated work by the application thereto of various
patterns and designs in detached pieces, or by printing, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Moseley, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, One thousand eight
bundred and sixty-four.