IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOF AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Briggs, of Major Street, in the City
of Manchester, Tarpaulin Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOF AND OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 26th April 1872, and dated the 4th November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Briggs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th November 1871.
I, THOMAS BRIGGS, of Major Street, in the City of Manchester,
Tarpaulin Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOF AND OTHER FABRICS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the use of a combination of paper and textile
fabric composed of flax, hemp, cotton, wool, or any mixture of any or
all of them in the manufacture of printed table covers, stair baize, baize
black, tillotings, waterproof clothing, children's picture books, brattice
cloth, waterproof bags, leather cloth, emery and sand papers, air tubing
for mines, boot and shoe linings, oil baizes, roofing cloth, floor cloth, and
other similar manufactures.

page_text: The paper or textile fabric or both are to be covered with a coating
of paste or a water repellent or other adhesive material, and are
then to be pressed into contact with each other. They may or may
not be then passed through oil, tar, or other oxydizable or water
repellent coating, or subjected to any process for rendering them
uninflammable. The combined paper and textile fabric are finished by
being painted, varnished, embossed, or subjected to any other of the well-
known methods of preparing the above-named manufactures.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Briggs in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BRIGGS, of Major Street, in the City of Manchester, Tarpaulin Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Briggs, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Briggs, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Briggs, 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
WATERPROOF AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Thomas Briggs, 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 1, the said Thomas Briggs, 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 :-
This Invention consists in the use of a combination of paper and
textile fabric composed of flax, hemp, cotton, wool, or any mixture of
any or all of them in the manufacture of printed table covers, stair
baize, baize black, tillotings, waterproof clothing, children's picture
books, brattice cloth, waterproof bags, leather cloth, emery and sand
papers, air tubing for mines, boot and shoe linings, oil baizes, roofing
cloth, floor cloth, and other similar manufactures. The paper or textile
fabric or both are to be covered with a coating of paste or a water
repellent or other adhesive material, and are then to be pressed into
contact with each other. They may or may not be then passed through
oil, tar, or other oxydizable or water repellent coating, or subjected to
any process for rendering them uninflammable. The combined paper
and textile fabric are finished by being painted, varnished, embossed, or
subjected to any other of the well-known methods of preparing the
above-named manufactures.
In the manufacture of the articles herein-before mentioned in which one
or both of the surfaces was or were composed of or covered by oxydized
oil, paint, varnish, or other similar coating, it has hitherto been customary
to use a foundation of textile fabric, and in order to prepare the surface
of the textile fabric for the purpose and to render it less porous it has
been coated with "filling," "dressing," size, or other similar substances.
In my improved process the textile fabric is covered on one or both sides
with paper, and the combined paper and textile fabric receives on one or
both sides the coating, ornamenting, or other finishing substances, giving
a better result than can be obtained when the textile fabric is used
alone as a substratum.
It must be understood that I do not restrict myself in the manufacture
of the combination of paper and textile fabric from the use of textile
fabric to which "filling," "dressing," size, or other similar substances,
or any of them, have or has been applied.
In one of the methods in which my Invention may be performed in
the manufacture of printed table covers, the paper or textile fabric or
both are covered with a coating of paste, or a water repellent or other

page_text: adhesive material, such as tar or pitch, by hand or by passing them
through the ordinary and well-known machines for coating or covering
and combining paper and 'textile fabric, whereby the textile fabric is
combined on one side with paper; if necessary they may be dried and
the outer surface or surfaces of the paper or textile fabric or of both are
then painted with the number of coats necessary to obtain the effect
desired, then varnished and afterwards printed, being allowed to dry after
each coating, printing, or varnishing.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that I do not confine
or restrict myself to the precise details or arrangements or mode of
operation which I have had occasion to describe or refer to, as many
variations may be made therefrom without deviating from the principles
or main features of my said Invention; but I would have it distinctly
understood that I lay no claim to the separate and distinct parts of the
processes herein-before described and referred to, except when employed
in combination as and for the purposes above mentioned; but what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as my Invention,
is, the manufacture of printed table covers, stair baize, baize black,
tillotings, waterproof clothing, children's picture books, brattice cloth,
waterproof bags, leather cloth, emery and sand papers, air tubing for
mines, boot and shoe linings, oil baizes, roofing cloth, floor cloth, and
other similar manufactures of a combination of paper and textile fabric,
one or both surfaces of which are coated, painted, varnished, or subjected
to other completing processes necessary in the production of the above-
mentioned manufactures or other similar articles having covered surfaces,
and which may be embossed or not, and may or may not be rendered
uninflammable.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Briggs, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our