IMPROVE- MENTS IN PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAPIER MACHÉ, AND IN PRESERVING VEGETABLE MATTERS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BRINDLEY, of Nelson Terrace, Twickenham, in the County of Middlesex, Papier
Maché Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the Thirteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Brindley, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Brindley, my
exors, admiors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said William Brindley,
my exors, admňors, or 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 Eugland,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAPIER MACHÉ, AND IN PRESERVING
VEGETABLE MATTERS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said William Brindley, should cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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

page_text: 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 Brindley, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
My Invention. consists:-First, of improvements in..producing ornamental
designs in papier maché.
And secondly, my Invention consists of improvements in preserving vege-
table substances. And-in order that my Invention may be fully-understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
In producing ornamental surfaces in papier maché. I cause sheets of paper
in the wet state as they come from the sieve to be accumulated one on the
other to the thickness desired, as is well understood in making button board
and also articles for japanners;-but-in-place-of-causing these series of sheets
to be pressed, I at once place them on the oiled pattern surface, whether sunk
or in relief, and I then subject the papier maché and the pattern to pressure,
first, however, applying a sheet of waterproof paper (oiled paper) on the upper
surface, and then four or five sheets of paper from the sieve on to that water-
proof paper. I then press the pattern surface and the wet paper together in
a press, after which I cause the whole to be clamped together and placed in a
stove, as is well understood in making like articles of papier maché, and the
object of using the wet sheets of paper before pressing is that they may take
more sharp impressions, and that materials such as leaves and flowers of plants
and trees may be used as the pattern surfaces, or parts of the pattern surfaces;
which being very delicate would not admit of the green paper being used after
having been pressed. In making up a pattern surface, 'I generally employ
panel board, but other material may be used, and I place or affix leaves or
flowers or other matters thereon to produce the pattern surface, such matters
being all oiled, and then on them I lay the accumulation of green wet impressed
paper, and then, as above described, I subject them to pressure and stoving,
by which I obtain an ornamental pattern in reverse, and which may be used
in that state by japanners or others, or it may be used as a mould or die for
obtaining papier maché or impressions therefor.
The second part of my Invention consists of preserving leaves and flowers
and 'stalks of plants by subjecting them to oil and stoving in like manner to
what papier mache is done for this purpose. I cause the plants' or flowers, or
parts thereof, 'to be placed between oiled paper and then stoved; and I'employ
a heat of fröm 250° to 300° of Fahrenheit; by these means plants and parts
of plants may be preserved

page_text: Enrolled the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty.