IMPROVEMENTS IN BANDS FOR BINDING MORE EFFECTUALLY DANDEM OD PARCELS OF LACE AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Dilks, of Parliament Street, in the
Town of Nottingham, Lithographer and Embosser, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BANDS FOR BINDING MORE EFFECTUALLY
DANDEM OD PARCELS OF LACE AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 13th February 1854, and dated the 23rd November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Dilks at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd November 1853.
I, JAMES DILKS, of Parliament Street, in the Town of Nottingham,
Lithographer and Embosser, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BANDS FOR BINDING MORE EFFECTUALLY
THAN HERETOFORE PACKETS OR PARCELS OF LACE AND OTHER ARTICLES" to
be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the use and application of bands or strips
of linen, cotton, or other suitable woven material, and the combining
thereof with plain or embossed paper by the aid of any suitable adhesive
material, for the purpose of strengthening the paper and preventing it
from tearing when used for binding packets or parcels, and thereby
rendering such bands capable of more effectually binding and securing
them than when bands of paper only are employed, as hitherto prac-
tised.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Dilks in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 22nd May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J,
JAMES DILKS, of Parliament Street, in the Town of Nottingham,
Lithographer and Embosser, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Dilks, Her special
licence that I, the said James Dilks, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Dilks, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 BANDS
FOR BINDING MORE EFFECTUALLY THAN HERETOFORE PACKETS OR PARCELS OF
LACE AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said James Dilks, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, 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 James Dilks, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the combination of cotton, linen, or any
other textile fabric with paper, plain or ornamental, to be used as bands
for binding or more effectually securing lace goods or other articles than
is effected by the paper bands now in use, whereby lace goods and

page_text: other articles may be secured against the damage or injury to which
they are now liable, and to which they are frequently subjected by the
breaking of the paper bands.
The manner in which I effect the combination of the textile fabric
with the paper is by pasting or cementing the same thereto, either in
sheets or in continuous lengths, as commonly practised in the mounting
of maps and pictures.
The compound fabric thus produced, whether plain or ornamental, is
then cut into strips, or embossed and cut into strips in the manner prac-
tised in making paper bands, or cut into strips and then embossed.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not claim
the manufacture of paper bands for binding parcels of lace and other
goods, such having been long known and in use; nor do I claim the
manufacture of bands for such purposes from cotton, linen, or any other
textile fabric; nor do I claim the process of pasting or cementing textile
fabrics to paper, nor any other of the processes herein-before mentioned;
but what I do claim as my Invention is,―
The combination of cotton, linen, or any other textile fabric with
paper, either plain or ornamental, for the manufacture of bands for.
binding packets or parcels of lace and other articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Dilks, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Middle Pavement,
Nottingham.
JAMES DILKS. (L.S.)