IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ART OF PRINTING, PAINTING, OR. STAINING SILK, COTTONS, WOOLLEN AND OTHER CLOTHS, AND PAPER, PARCHMENT, VELLUM, LEATHER, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, BY MEANS OF BLOCKS OR SURFACE PRINTING
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LEIGH BRADBURY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,
the Fifteenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three,
give and grant unto me, the said John Leigh Bradbury, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Leigh Bradbury, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, during the terin of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my invented or found-out "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ART OF PRINTING, PAINTING, OR. STAINING SILK, COTTONS, WOOLLEN AND OTHER
CLOTHS, AND PAPER, PARCHMENT, VELLUM, LEATHER, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES,
BY MEANS OF BLOCKS OR SURFACE PRINTING;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Leigh Bradbury, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Leigh Bradbury, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
new-invented Improvements in the Art of Printing, Painting, or Staining

page_text: Silk, Cottons, Woollens, or other Cloths, and Paper, Parchment, Vellum,
Leather, and other Substances, by the Means of Blocks or Surface Printing,
to consist, first, of a new description of table on which the substance is to be
printed or stained; and, secondly, a new arrangement of the block to enable
the worker to pitch or lay successive blocks correctly on the substance to be
printed (that is to say):
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Corresponding with each repetition of the sketch or block I place points
in the table, perpendicular to the surface, and of a length sufficient to stand
above the surface of the blanket on which the cloth is to be printed, and also
above the cloth itself when spread on the blanket in the block corresponding
with the said points; and instead of what are now called pitch points, I place
small holes, the use of which arrangement is as follows:-The table being
prepared with the blanket, and the points standing sufficiently above the cloth,
should be laid on even, with the points also passing through it. The block is then
worked in the usual way, except that instead of placing it on the cloth guided
by points on the block, as in the old way, the points in the table pass through
the holes in the block placed at the pitch points on the said block, so that the
worker cannot err, but may lay any number of blocks exactly in the same
place.
I declare the above to be an exact description of my plan, and that the
materials and substances used are such as are in common use, and well known.
The points may be of steel, or any metal or substance sufficiently hard, and
the holes in the block through which these points pass may be in brass, iron,
copper, or any other metal or substance fastened to the block. It is evident
that the table with the points, holding correctly the cloth, and guiding the
block, may be adapted to perfect machines for surface printing, either with
rollers or blocks worked by machinery, by means known and in use; but I
claim the said description of table as my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Leigh Bradbury, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of January,One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-four.
JOHN LEIGH (L.s.) BRADBURY.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first
duly stamped), in the presence of
JAMES HAMPSON,
Of Manchester,
A Master in Ch

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of January,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Leigh Bradbury came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
5 And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of Jenner in the voor shave written