IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR FINISHING OF ENDLESS MACHINE BLANKETS OR ENDLESS LAPPINGS FOR PRINTING PURPOSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Dugdale Kay, of Accrington, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer of Patent Fabrics, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR FINISHING OF ENDLESS MACHINE
BLANKETS OR ENDLESS LAPPINGS FOR PRINTING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 15th May 1863, and dated the 4th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Dugdale Kay
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on..
the 4th December 1862.
I, RICHARD DUGDALE KAY, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer of Patent Fabrics, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR FINISHING OF ENDLESS
MACHINE BLANKETS OR ENDLESS LAPPINGS FOR PRINTING PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
I take an endless fabric of wool, cotton, or linen, or of a combination of all
or any of those materials, and which shall have been woven endless of a given.
length or circumference, and width, in a manner well known amongst manu-
facturers of endless fabrics; or I take an endless fabric of the same material
or materials as above, and which shall have been woven as a piece with ends,
the warp thread ends of which piece have been twisted together so as to form
an endless fabric, in a manner also well known to the manufacturers of

page_text: endless fabrics. I apply equally over the outer and inner surface of such
endless fabric, or over either surface, a coating consisting of india-rubber, or a
compound of india-rubber and other substances, and when so coated (if
necessary so to do) I apply as a covering to either or both surfaces a woven
fabric consisting of cotton, linen, or woollen, either separate or combined,
likewise coated with india-rubber, or with such compound as aforesaid. The
coating of such endless fabric may be effected with a brush, doctor, knife, or
roller. I apply the coated covering fabric first to the outer, and then, if
necessary, to the inner surface of the endless fabric by pressure with rollers,
or other suitable tools or instruments.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Dugdale Kay in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
DUGDALE KAY, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer of
Patent Fabrics, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Dugdale Kay, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Dugdale Kay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Richard Dugdale Kay, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR FINISHING OF ENDLESS
MACHINE BLANKETS OR ENDLESS LAPPINGS FOR PRINTING PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Dugdale Kay,
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Dugdale Kay, 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):-
I take an endless fabric of wool, cotton, or linen, or of a combination of all
or any of those materials, and which shall have been woven endless of a given
length or circumference and width in a manner well known amongst manu-
facturers of endless fabrics; or I take an endless fabric of the same material
or materials as above, separate or combined, which shall have been woven as
a piece with ends, the warp thread ends of which piece have been twisted
together so as to form an endless fabric, in a manner also well known
amongst manufacturers of endless fabrics. I apply equally over the outer and
inner surface of such endless fabrics, or over either surface thereof, a coating
consisting of india-rubber, or of a compound of india-rubber and other
substances, and when so coated (if necessary so to do) I apply as a covering
to either or both surfaces a woven fabric consisting of cotton, linen, or
woollen, either separate or combined, likewise coated with india-rubber, or
with such compound as aforesaid. The coating of such an endless fabric may
be effected with a brush, doctor, knife, or roller. I apply the coated covering
fabric first to the outer, and then, if necessary, to the inner surface of the
endless fabric by pressure with rollers or other suitable tools or instruments.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Dugdale Kay, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
RICHARD DUGDALE KAY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Richard Dugdale
Kay, in the presence of
MATTHEW CLAPHAM,
Clerk to Mr. J. Hargreaves Kay,
Solicitor and Patent Agent, Blackburn.