IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES, AND IN THE APPLICATION OF DESIGNS TO CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF SURFACES
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WIL-'
LIAM BETTS, of Smithfield Bars, in the City of London, Rectifier, and
GEORGE WILLIAM JACOB, of Canonbury Street, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, by Her Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster;
the Thirtieth day of November, in the eleventh year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said William
Betts and George William Jacob, our exors, admors, and assigns, Her'
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
William Betts and George William Jacob, our exors, adñors, and assigns,
and every of us, by ourselves, or by our deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as we, the said William Betts and George William Jacob,
our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times hereafter, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
and Her Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and also within the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark; and Man,
and all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES, AND IN THE APPLICATION
OF DESIGNS TO CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF SURFACES;" in which Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso requiring that we, the said William Betts and-

page_text: George William Jacob, shall particularly describe our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, .or under the hand and seal of one of us, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calenda
months next and immediately after the date of the now reciting Letters
Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Betts and George. William Jacob,, do and each of us doth hereby
declare that the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in
and by this present Instrument in writing under our hands and seals, in the
words herein-after written.
of
But before we proceed to describe our improvements in the manufacture of
capsules it may be proper to state that-Patent- Metallic Capsules have been
hitherto usually made in this country according to the Specification for the
metallic capsules enrolled by John Thomas Betts, on the Eleventh day
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for improvements
in covering and stopping the necks of bottles; but, according to such
method. of manufacture the pattern or letters produced on the capsule are
without colour or similar ornamental design. Now the object of that.part
of our Invention which relates to the manufacture of capsules is, to cause the
capsule to be printed or embossed, or indented in colours, or.ornamented with
a. colored design, and which is performed in the following manner:-We mix
a thick lithographers' varnish, with boiled linseed oil until it is about the
consistence of tracle.. We then grind upon a common painters' stone as,
much dry color as will readily mix with this varnish, and then add a small
quantity of japanners! gold size, and mix the whole well together. The color,
being thus prepared, we apply it by an ordinary printers' roller or other suit-
able means to the die or engraved surface by which the capsule is stamped.
We then take an unembossed capsule, and having carefully removed any
grease or dirt from the top. of such capsule, we place it upon the die or
engraved surface. having the colour so applied, when, by means of the pressure
for stamping, the capsule. becomes embossed, ornamented, or printed in color..
Another method by which we attain our object is by charging the raised.
portions of the die either with the mixture or color lastly above described, or
with the varnish and japanners' gold size, only; and after the capsule has.
been embossed or printed, as above described, and before the color or varnish
has become set.or hardened, we apply gold or silver leaf, or Dutch metal leaf
to it, or we dust on bronze or any dry. pigment or powders with which we
wish to, ornament such capsule.

page_text: Having now described how to carry our aforesaid Invention into effect,
we declare that we do not claim as new. the manufacture. of capsules,
but we do claim as new the manufacture of capsules having a design
embossed or printed in colors thereon. Our improvements in the appli-
cation of designs to certain descriptions of surfaces consist in the application
of color or varnish to certain hard surfaces, .as glass, wood, stone, tin plate,
or iron; and, before such. varnish or color has become dry, in applying
gold or silver leaf, bronzes,. flock, or other dry pigment, so as to produce a
legible pattern or letters on such glass, wood, stone, tin: plate, or iron which
cannot easily be removed, or rubbed off. And we practice our Invention in
the following manner :-
We grind very fine upon a stone a sufficient quantity of burnt stone ochre
with boiled linseed oil, and to this mixture. we add about eleven times the
quantity japanners gold size, and mix the whole of these well together;
we then charge with this mixture the type or types, block, or engraved
printing surface by means of the ordinary printers' rollers or other suitable
means. We then apply to these types or. other printing surface a roller or
flat piece of printers' composition, previously rubbed over with powdered
French chalk, and then apply this printed roller or piece. of composition to the
surface on which we wish to produce the pattern or letters. As it seldom
happens that the roller or piece of composition is perfectly printed the first
time, we generally fasten the printing surface, and place the flat piece of com-
position in a frame of wood or iron, which. moves upon a hinge, the same or
similar to that used for the tympan of an ordinary printing press, in such a
manner that it repeatedly can be brought down. evenly upon. such. varnished.or
colored types or other printing surface, and made to fall repeatedly on the
same spot; and if the pattern is not then. printed upon it with sufficient dis..
tinctness, we again charge such type or other printing surface. with. varnish: or:
color, and again apply the piece of composition; and we repeat: this process:
until the pattern is sufficiently printed. on such piece. of composition.. We
then take the bottle or glass, wood, stone; tin plate, iron, or other hard surface
to which we intend to apply our design, and we press or roll it. with a slight
pressure upon such printed composition, and immediately afterwards we apply
gold or silver leaf or Dutch metal leaf, or we dust on bronzes, flock, or other
dry pigment or powder. We then suffer this to remain for about twenty-four
hours, until dry; and if additional protection be required, the pattern may be
furnished with a drying varnish, and the method we generally adopt for bottles
or round articles is to charge a flat piece of printers' composition with varnish,
and then to roll such bottle or round article upon such charged piece of.
composition.

page_text: Having now described this part of our Invention, and the method of prac-
tising the same, we would remark that we do not claim as new the production
of a pattern upon glass, wood, stone, or iron, or other similar surfaces, by trans-
ferring the pattern from the types a block or other printed surfaces by mearis
of glue and treacle simply, the same being part of the Patent granted to me,
the said George William Jacob, for "A New and Improved Manufacture of
Printed, Patterned, Ornamented, Colored, Embossed, and Moulded Surfaces,"
dated the Twelfth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and forty-
six, but we do claim as new the printing on glass, wood, stone, tin plate, iron;
or other hard surfaces in the method herein described, and then applying
gold, silver, or other leaf, or dusting on bronze, flock, or other dry pigment
or powder.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Betts and George William
Jacob, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Thirtieth day of
May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
forty-eight.
(L.S.)
GEORGE WILLIAM (L.B.) JACOB.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named. George William Ja-