AN IMPROVED STAMP FOR MARKING LINEN AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Vernon Hadlow, of 8, Prince Albert Street,
Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Engraver, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED STAMP FOR MARKING LINEN AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL."
Sealed the 15th July 1859, and dated the 9th May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Vernon Hadlow
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th May 1859.
I, FREDERICK VERNON HADLOW, of 8, Prince Albert Street, Brighton, in the
County of Sussex, Engraver, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED STAMP FOR MARKING LINEN AND OTHER WEARING
APPAREL," to be as follows:-
My Invention is an improvement upon metallic stamps and other means
now in use for marking linen and other wearing apparel, by substituting in
lieu of the metallic stamps and other means now in use for marking linen and
other wearing apparel, stamps made of boxwood or other absorbent material.
The marking inks now in use may be applied to the stamp by means of a
piece of woollen cloth laid upon a piece of india-rubber cloth, or other flat
non-absorbent substance.
What I claim as my Invention is, the stamp above described, composed of
boxwood or other absorbent material, and not the mode of using the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Vernon Hadlow in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
VERNON HADLOW, of 8, Prince Albert Street, Brighton, in the County of
Sussex, Engraver, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Frederick Vernon Hadlow, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick
Vernon Hadlow, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Frederick Vernon Hadlow, 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 "AN IMPROVED STAMP FOR MARKING LINEN AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Vernon
Hadlow, 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 Frederick Vernon Hadlow, 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, that is to say :-
My Invention is an improvement upon metallic type dies, stamps, and
plates, and other means now in use for marking linen and other wearing
apparel, and also linen and other fabrics for household use, for private and
other purposes, not mercantile, by substituting in lieu of the metallic type
dies, stamps, or plates, type dyes or stamps made of boxwood or other
absorbent material, with the letters, words, figures, or other devices thereon,
engraved or formed in bold relief. The marking ink now in use, or any other
that may hereafter be found to be suitable for the purpose, may be applied to
the type dies or stamps, by means of a piece of woollen cloth laid upon a

page_text: piece of india-rubber cloth, or other flat non-absorbent substance; by saturating
the woollen cloth with a small quantity of the marking ink, and then pressing
the type dies or stamps above described upon the woollen cloth so saturated.
What I claim as my Invention is, the type dies or stamps above described,
composed of boxwood or other absorbent material, and not the mode of using
the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Vernon Hadlow, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this 22nd day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
FREDERICK VERNON HADLOW. (L.S.)