Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
HUBBALL, of Clerkenwell Close, in the Parish of Saint James', Clerkenwell, in
the County of Middlesex, Japanner, and WILLIAM ROBERT WALE KING, of
Union Court, Holborn Hill, in the City of London, Tin Plate Worker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most gracious Majesty King George the Third, in and by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster the Sixth day of August last, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Hubball and William
Robert Wale King, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that we, the said Thomas
Hubball and William Robert Wale King, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by ourselves, or by our deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as we, the said Thomas Hubball and William Robert
Wale King, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and to all times hereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and:
vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,.
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-.
Tweed, in such manner as to us, the said Thomas Hubball and William.
Robert Wale King, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us or
them, shall in our or their discretion seem meet, our Invention of "A NEW.

page_text: AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING ARTICLES, JAPANNED, PAINTED, OR SIZED,
WHETHER MADE OF PAPER, WOOD, OR ANY METALLIC SUBSTANCE, AS ALSO LEATHER,
OILCLOTHS FOR TABLES OR FLOORS, AND WAINSCOT, OR PLAISTER WALLS, OR
PARTITIONS; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso for
making the same void, in case we, the said Thomas Hubball and William
Robert Wale King, or one of us, shall not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Thomas Hubball and William Robert Wale King, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed as follows, that is to say:―
The object of our Invention is to ornament all kinds of articles, whether
made of paper, wood, or any metallic substance, either japanned, painted, or
sized, also to ornament leather, oilcloths for tables or floors, or plaister or
stucco walls or partitions, by and with the use of iron ore used in the way
herein-after described. that is to say, the articles, videlicit, the paper, wood, or
any metallic substances, leather, oilcloths for tables or floors, or the plaister or
stucco walls or partitions intended to be ornamented, are first painted, japanned,
or sized in the usual way, and made smooth by rubbing with pummicestone
powder with any sort of cloth. The said articles or the walls or partitions
intended to be ornamented are then covered with a coat of gold size, or any
other glutinous liquid, such as is generally made use of for gilding, and which
is put on with a hair brush. The said articles or the walls, or partitions so
intended to be ornamented, are then to remain until they are almost dry.
We cut out of paper, parchment, or any other thin substance, the pattern
intended to be produced on the said articles, or the walls or partitions, and
when the articles, or walls or partitions are nearly dry, as above stated, such
paper, parchment, or other thin substance is placed on them. We then rub
such parts of the said articles, walls, or partitions, as are not covered with the
paper in which the pattern is so cut out as aforesaid with a fine powder pro-
duced from iron ore, and which fine powder is rubbed on the said articles,
walls, or partitions with leather, cotton, or other soft substance, (and the
mode of obtaining which powder is after stated). This being done, the pattern
upon the said articles, wall, or partition is complete, and they are then

page_text: finished in the usual way of japan goods, namely, by coating them two or
three times with copal varnish, letting that dry, and polishing them with pum-
mice, sand, and rottenstone in the usual way of finishing japan goods, when
they have the appearance of damask. This powder is obtained from the
iron ore in various ways, but the way we consider best, is by pulverizing it in
a mortar, after which it should be slacked by water, and then washed and
stirred about, and the finer parts poured into a vessel, and then let stand to
settle, after which the water should be poured off, and the sediment dried
either in the sun or by the fire, and it is then fit for use.
In witness we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Seventeenth
day of September, One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
THOS. HUBBALL. (L.S.)
W. R. W. KING. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventeenth day of Sep-
tember, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Hubball and
William Robert Wale King, came before our Lord the King, in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained in form above written, and also the Specification
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made
and provided.
and provided.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day day of September, in the year above-men-
tioned.