IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLOTING OR WRAPPERS FOR COVERING WOOLLEN FABRICS KNOWN AS LONG ELLS AND SPANISH STRIPES SUITABLE FOR THE INDIA AND CHINA MARKETS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Walton Wallis, of Sowerby Bridge, in
the County of York, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TILLOTING OR WRAPPERS FOR COVERING WOOLLEN FABRICS KNOWN AS
LONG ELLS AND SPANISH STRIPES SUITABLE FOR THE INDIA AND CHINA
MARKETS."
Sealed the 11th October 1867, and dated the 12th April 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Walton Wallis at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th April 1867.
I, JOSEPH WALTON WALLIS, of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of
York, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLOTING' OR WRAPPERS FOR COVERING WOOLLEN FABRICS
KNOWN AS LONG ELLS' AND SPANISH STRIPES SUITABLE FOR THE INDIA AND CHINA
MARKETS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application and use of the aniline colouring
matter known as roseine in the printing of such "tilloting" or wrappers
instead of the common pink colour heretofore used for that purpose, by which
the effect produced on these articles is materially improved.
In order to apply or use this colouring matter for printing such articles, I
prepare it in the following mauner :-I dissolve the said aniline in a solution
of alum and add gum arabic in suitable quantities to form a pigment or paste
of proper consistency to be supplied to ordinary printing blocks so that I can

page_text: use this colouring matter instead of and in a similar manner to oil paints for
the printing of these wrappers, whereby besides producing a better or more
brillient effect thereon it can be applied to the printing of white or unprepared
fabrics to which oil colours are not applicable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Walton Wallis in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th October 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WALTON WALLIS, of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, in the County of York,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Walton Wallis, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Walton
Wallis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Walton Wallis, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TILLOTING OR WRAPPERS FOR COVERING WOOLLEN FABRICS KNOWN AS
LONG ELLS AND SPANISH STRIPES SUITABLE FOR THE INDIA AND CHINA MARKETS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Joseph Walton Wallis
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 Joseph Walton Wallis, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the application and use of the aniline colouring
matter known as roseine in the printing of such "tilloting or wrappers

page_text: instead of the common pink colour heretofore used for that purpose, by which
the effect produced on these articles is materially improved.
In order to apply or use this colouring matter for printing such articles, I
prepare it in the following manner :-I dissolve the said aniline in a solution
of alum, and add gum arabic in suitable quantities to form a pigment or paste
of proper consistency to be supplied to ordinary printing blocks, so that I can
use this colouring matter instead of and in a similar manner to oil paints for
the printing of these wrappers, whereby, besides producing a better or more
brilliant effect thereon, it can be applied to the printing of white or unprepared
fabrics to which oil colours are not applicable.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Walton Wallis, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
JOSEPH WALTON WALLIS. (L.S.).
Signed, sealed and delivered, by the
within-named Joseph Walton Wallis,
in the presence of
ARTHUR B. CROSSLEY,
Clerk to Wm. Tasker,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Bradford.