A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM,
JOYNSON, of Saint Mary Cray, in the County of Kent, Paper Manufacturer,-
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at;
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of February, in the second year of Her.
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the-
said William Joynson, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and.
authority, that I, the said William Joynson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Joynson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,.
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England
and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PAPER;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
William Joynson, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be.
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters.
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Joynson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say)-
My said improvement or improvements in the manufacture of paper consist
in affixing projecting letters, figures, or devices upon a revolving axis carrying
arms, rings, or covered with wire cloth, such as is known by the name of the
dandy roll, the dancer, the top roller, &c. for making paper by rotary ma-
chinery, and whereby I make water-marks in the paper by the indentation
of the said raised letters, figures, or devices while in the process of making
the paper; such a roller is shewn in Figure 1, and the indentations made
by it in the pulp whilst passing underneath it, and lying upon the endless
wire cloth when carried forward by the machine in the direction shewn by
the arrows. Figure 2 represents one end of the said roller; Figure 3, a linear
representation of part of it, with raised. metal letters, and figures arranged
crossways upon it; and Figure 4, another with raised letters mounted length-
ways upon it. These said metal raised letters, figures, or devices may either
be made of round or cylindrical metal wire, such as is shewn on an enlarged
scale at Figure 5, and in the forms of the letters N, S, at Figure 6, or with
flattened sides, and as shewn in Figures 7 and 8, or, still better, with rounded
tops and flattened sides and bottoms; and as shewn in Figures 9 and 10, or,
which is best of all, with rounded tops and tapered sides and flat bottoms;
similar to those shewn in Figures 11 and 12, the letter Y, in Figure 13, being
made of this last-described wire, as is shewn by the two sections shown in
Figure 14, taken at
* in Figure 13. J; Figure 15, is made of the
round wire with flattened sides.
A still neater method of forming these raised metal letters, figures, or
devices would, however, be to make them of metal plates, with rounded tops,
tapered sides, and flat bottoms, and such as is shown at N, in Figure 16.
But although I prefer making the water-marks by placing on a roller pro-
jecting metal letters, figures, or devices, and which said roller is commonly
known by the name of a dandy roller, a dancer, or a top roller, yet I do not
mean or intend to confine myself to this method only, my principal objet being
to form letters, figures, or other water-marks by indentation, and by means
of projecting letters, figures, and devices of metal in various forms, and either
affixed upon rollers or applied in any way so as to produce the desired effect.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Joynson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine..
:
WILLIAM (L.S.) JOYNSON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of August, in
the third year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said William
Joynson came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year of the
reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of August, One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine.