CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLERS AND MOULDS USED IN MAKING PAPER."
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Sullivan, of Footscray, in the County of
Kent, Roller Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN ROLLERS AND MOULDS USED IN MAKING PAPER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Sullivan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
February 1854.
I, THOMAS SULLIVAN, of Foots Cray, in the County of Kent, Roller Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLERS AND MOULDS USED IN MAKING PAPER," to be as
follows that is to say:-
My Invention consists in making rollers and moulds (used in manufacturing
paper) with interstices or spaces runing longitudinally, circularly, vertically,
or obliquely along, around, or across such rollers or moulds used in the manu-
facture of paper, for the purpose of producing lines in or upon paper, to which
such rollers or moulds, as above described, are used in the manufacture
thereof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Sullivan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SULLIVAN, of Footscray, in the County of Kent, Roller Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Sullivan, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Sullivan,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Sullivan, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLERS
AND MOULDS USED IN MAKING PAPER," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Thomas Sullivan, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Thomas Sullivan, 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,
reference being likewise had to the accompanying Drawings:-
My Invention consists in the manufacture of rollers and moulds used in
making paper, so that lines may be produced in the paper at the time of manu-
facturing it, and in such a manner that an uniform surface shall be presented on
the paper after the production of such lines. I may here remark, that I am
aware lines have already been produced in paper at the time of manufacture
thereof, but such lines being produced by means of raised wires necessarily
cause indentations, thereby rendering the surface of such paper uneven; and in
order that the precise nature of my said improvements may be more fully
understood, I will now describe the accompanying Drawings. Figure 1 repre-
sents a longitudinal elevation of a roller with my improvements. Figure 2 is a
section drawn through the line A, B, for the purpose of shewing the sustaining

page_text: rings or dises upon which the longitudinal bars or wires are supported. Figure
3 is part of a sustaining ring, drawn to about the full size, and shewing the
intervals of space thereon. Figure 4 is a part elevation of the roller, shewing
in the arrangement of the longitudinal bars or wires the spaces or interstices
required for forming the lines in paper; and Figure 5 is a view of a frame or
mould, with my improvements therein. The letters a, b, c, represent the spaces
or interstices, the number of which, either in a roller or mould, necessarily
depends upon the width or closeness of the lines to each other, as the case
may be.
When it is required to produce paper with oblique lines, I employ rollers or
moulds with the wires fixed obliquely to the axis of the rollers or to the
sides of the moulds, by which any degree of obliquity may be given to the lines
in regard to the edges of the paper.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark, that my Invention is appli-
cable to the production of lines in most descriptions of paper; and what I
claim is, the manufacture of rollers and moulds (used in the making of paper)
with spaces or interstices therein for producing lines in paper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Sullivan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
CHA R. PILCHER.
THOMAS SULLIVAN. (L.S.)