IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOORCLOTH, AND IN THE MEANS OF ORNAMENTING THE SAME."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Frederick Henson, of No. 15, New Cavendish
Street, Portland Place, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOORCLOTH,
AND IN THE MEANS OF ORNAMENTING THE SAME."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Frederick Henson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st June 1861.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK HENSON, of No. 15, New Cavendish Street, Port-
land Place, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FLOORCLOTH, AND IN THE MEANS OF ORNAMENTING THE SAME," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of floorcloth by the admixture of
flock with the material known as "kamptulicon," so as to produce a flocky
surface of the desired colour; and when required to be ornamented' with any
particular design, pattern, or device, the same may be printed in flock by any
known means; the same printing in flock may also be employed to ordinary.
floorcloth.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Frederick Henson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
FREDERICK HENSON, of No. 15, New Cavendish Street, Portland Place, in
the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and "successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Frederick Henson, Her special licence that the said William Frederick
Henson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Frederick Henson, 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 "İM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOORCLOTH, AND IN THE MEANS OF ORNA-
MENTING THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Frederick Henson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 William Frederick Henson, 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:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of floorcloth or other such like
covered cloth for table or other ornamental covers.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:→
I intend to manufacture floorcloth and other such like articles by the
admixture of flock with the material known as "kamptulicon," so as to
produce a flock surface of the desired color, and when required to be orna-
mented with any particular design, pattern, or device, the same may be printed

page_text: in flock by any known means; the same printing in flock may also be applied
to ordinary floorcloth, American cloth, or cloth used for table covers, either in
plain color, figured, or ribbed.
This description of ornamenting may also be applied by the aid of marine
glue, or the pattern may be burned upon the surface of the "kamptulicon."
Having now described the nature of my said Invention of "Improvements
in the Manufacture of Floorcloth, and the Manner of Ornamenting the
same," I would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim as my Invention, and
therefore desire to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters
Patent, is, the manufacture and ornamenting of floorcloth, table, and other
such like coverings, in the manner herein described, or others substantially the
same, for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Frederick Henson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
WILLIAM FREDERICK HENSON. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.