IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTORE OF PACKING MATERIAL SUCH AS IS USUALLY EMPLOYED FOR LINING CASES AND FOR PACKING GOODS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Witty, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTORE
OF PACKING MATERIAL SUCH AS IS USUALLY EMPLOYED FOR LINING CASES
AND FOR PACKING GOODS."
Sealed the 17th October 1872, and dated the 26th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Witty at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th April 1872.
I, JOHN WITTY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING MATERIAL SUCH AS IS USUALLY EMPLOYED FOR
LINING CASES AND FOR PACKING Goods," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the compound waterproof packing material
such as is usually employed for lining cases used for packing goods for
exportation, the object of the Invention being to produce a material

page_text: for that purpose which shall be water repellent, clean, or free from the
waterproofing material or compound on both sides, and at the same
time strong and inexpensive.
The Invention consists, firstly, in combining two thicknesses of paper
with the water repellent material or compound between them. I take
two continuous lengths of paper paper of the same quality, or one of
them may be white or other paper of a finer quality. I then by any
ordinary well-known means coat one side only of one of the lengths
of paper with a suitable waterproofing or water repellent material or
compound, and then press the two lengths of paper firmly into contact
by passing them together between rollers or otherwise. The two papers
will thus be caused to adhere together, and the waterproofing material
or compound being between the two, both sides of the compound packing
material thus produced will be perfectly clean.
The second part of the Invention consists in combing longitudinal
yarns or threads of cotton or other fibrous substance with the paper
and waterproofing material or compound for the purpose of giving
strength or toughness to the same. I take a single continuous length
of brown or other paper, and having coated one side only thereof with
a suitable waterproofing or water repellent material or composition,
I press into contact therewith a number of yarns or threads laid parallel
to each other and so close together as almost to cover the waterproofing,
and thus protect the contents of the package from contact therewith.
The yarn or thread may be wound on an ordinary yarn beam about
the width of the paper, and be pressed through a reed over a roller
whilst the coated paper passes over another roller in contact therewith,
by which means the yarn or threads will be evenly laid.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
5 and grant unto me, the said John Witty, Her special license that I,
the said John Witty, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Witty, 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, uso, 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 PACKING MATERIAL SUCH AS IS USUALLY EMPLOYED FOR LINING CASES AND
FOR PACKING GOODS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Witty, 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 John Witty, do hereby declaro
the nature of the 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) :-
This Invention relates to the compound waterproof packing material
such as is usually employed for lining cases used for packing goods
for exportation, the object of the Invention being to produce a material
for that purpose which shall be water repellent, clean, or free from the
waterproofing material or compound on both sides, and at the same time
strong and inexpensive.
The Invention consists, firstly, in combining two thicknesses of paper
with the water repellent material or compound between them. A take
two continuous lengths of paper, both of which may be ordinary brown
paper of the same quality, or one of them may be white or other
paper of a finer quality. I then by any ordinary well-known means
coat one side only of one of the lengths of paper with a suitable

page_text: herein-before described for the purpose of giving additional strength or
toughness to the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Witty, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witnessed by
JOHN HUGHES,
Clerk to George Davies, O. E.
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
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JOHN WITTY. (L.S.)