THE APPLICATION OF AN IMPROVED COVERING FOR THE ROLLERS USED IN THE SEVERAL PROCESSES OF PRE- PARING, DRAWING, SLUBBING, ROVING, SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DOUBLING OF WOOL, COTTON WOOL, FLAX, SILK, MOHAIR, OR ANY OTHER FIBROUS MATERIAL OR SUB- STANCE, OR SO MANY OF SUCH ROLLERS AS REQUIRE OR ARE DEEMED TO REQUIRE COVERING FOR SUCH SEVERAL PROCESSES, OR ANY OF THEM
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
RADCLIFFE, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Machine Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Nineteenth day of December, in the second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Radcliffe, Her especial license that I, the said John Radcliffe, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Radcliffe, my exors,
adñiors, 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 England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE APPLICATION OF AN
IMPROVED COVERING FOR THE ROLLERS USED IN THE SEVERAL PROCESSES OF PRE-
PARING, DRAWING, SLUBBING, ROVING, SPINNING, TWISTING, AND DOUBLING OF WOOL,
COTTON WOOL, FLAX, SILK, MOHAIR, OR ANY OTHER FIBROUS MATERIAL OR SUB-
STANCE, OR SO MANY OF SUCH ROLLERS AS REQUIRE OR ARE DEEMED TO REQUIRE
COVERING FOR SUCH SEVERAL PROCESSES, OR ANY OF THEM;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Radcliffe, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly 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 enrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said 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 Radcliffe, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention con-
sists in the application of caoutchouc or indian rubber to form the surface or
covering of those rollers of the machinery used in the several processes afore-
said which require covering or would be improved by it; and, in further com-
pliance with the said proviso, I, the said John Radcliffe, do hereby describe
the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following
statement thereof, that is to say.:-
'
And
I take indian rubber which has been manufactured into sheets, and cut
strips of the width and length suited to the roller to be covered. The strips
are wrapped round the roller with indian-rubber solution or cement, or other
fastening, one or more over the other, according as the surface of the roller
requires to be more or less elastic, or more or less thickly covered.
to prevent undue adhesiveness in the surface or covering of caoutchouc or
indian rubber, and to remove any oily or greasy matter therefrom, I apply
nitric acid or vitriol whenever the same may be requisite. Now, whereas it is
evident that if the whole roller were made of indian rubber it would answer
equally well in many cases, and native indian rubber might be used instead
of indian rubber which has been manufactured into sheets or otherwise;
but whereas I claim, as my Invention, the application of caoutchouc or
indian rubber in any way to form the surface or covering of any rollers, or
any part or parts thereof, used in the processes aforesaid, which now require to
be covered in the ordinary way, or which would be improved by being covered
with caoutchouc or indian rubber, as I propose; and such my Invention being,
to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used
within that part of Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, 'Her said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and
that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects,
fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore. I do hereby claim to
maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Radcliffe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
".
JN° (L.S.) RADCLIFFE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid John Radcliffe. came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.