A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING SILK, COTTON, CALICO, OR OTHER FABRICS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLATES, BLOCKS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE
Year: 1835

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BUDD, of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the fifth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Budd, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Budd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Budd, my executors, administrators, 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 mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed my Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING SILK, COTTON, CALICO, OR OTHER FABRICS, AND IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PLATES, BLOCKS, CYLINDERS, OR ROLLERS USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said John Budd, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, pur-
porting to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled

page_text: in His 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 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
John Budd, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the substitution, in the printing of silk, cotton, calico,
or other fabrics, of engraved plates, blocks, rollers, or cylinders of zinc alloyed
with tin, instead of plates, blocks, rollers, or cylinders of copper, brass, &c. The
chief advantage and improvement arising from the use of such plates, blocks,
cylinders, or rollers of zinc alloyed with tin consists in their great economy, as
their first cost will be considerably less than the present first cost of copper
plates, blocks, cylinders, or rollers; and the loss, when worn out, will be much
less than the loss at present incurred in the re-sale, as old metal, of worn-out
copper or brass plates, blocks, cylinders, or rollers. Another improvement and
advantage arising from my Invention, consists in the increased facility and
economy with which such rollers of zinc alloyed with tin can be manufactured,
compared with copper rollers. The zinc, which should be obtained as pure as
possible, after being melted in the usual way, should receive the addition of the
tin; the proportion of tin which I have found to answer best is ten parts of
tin to one hundred parts of zinc; but these proportions may be varied advan
tageously according to the quality of the metals. The metal or alloyed metal,
after a due mixture has been effected by stirring, should by poured into moulds
of sand of the necessary length and shape; it may be cast into hollow cylinders
by employing a core, and the nietal will be found sufficiently solid. These
cylinders; blocks; &c., are to be turned; hollowed; and fitted to mandrils, or
flatted for plates, the surface hardened by hammering; planished; burnished;
engraved, &c., &c:, in the usual way of preparing metal plates and rollers for
printing.
I claim, therefore, as niy Invention, the exclusive right to employ and to
manufacture, in the way I have described; plates, blocks; cylinders, or rollers of
zinc alloyed with tin, for the printing of silk, cotton, calico; and other fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Budd, have hereunto set niy
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five.
JOHN (L.S.) BUDD.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of July,
in the sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, the
said John Budd came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument afore-
said was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-
fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-five.