IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING, FIXING, AND MORDANTING. CLOTH AND YARNS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Kenyon the younger, of Miles Platting,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING, FIXING, AND MORDANTING.
CLOTH AND YARNS."
Sealed the 12th September 1865, and dated the 18th March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Kenyon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th March 1865.
I, THOMAS KENYON the younger, of Miles Platting, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING, FIXING, AND MORDANT-
ING CLOTH AND YARNS," to be as follows:-
I combine prussiates, phosphates, and all kinds of animal matter with
alumina, stannate, tin solutions, or other suitable metals dissolved in alkalies
or acids; or I use the animal matter or matters separate if found desirable.
I also use anatto for bottoming the cloth for indigo and Prussian blue colors.
The proportions I prefer are about 15 per cent. of animal matter to about 25

page_text: per cent. of the alumina, stannate, tin solution, or other suitable metals; the
proportions of anatto to be varied according to the degrees of color required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas. Kenyon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
KENYON the younger, of Miles Platting, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Kenyon the younger, Her special license that I, the said Thomas
Kenyon the younger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Kenyon the younger, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 PREPARING, FIXING, AND MORDANTING
CLOTH AND YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Thomas Kenyon the younger, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one or their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Kenyon the younger, 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) :-
I combine prussiates, phosphates, and all kinds of animal matter with
alumina, stannate, tin solutions, or other suitable metals dissolved in. alkalies
or acids; or I use the animal matter or matters separately if found desirable.
The proportions I prefer are about fifteen per cent. of prussiates, phosphates,

page_text: and animal matter to about twenty-five per cent. of the alumina, stannates,
tin solution, or other suitable metals.
Having described the nature and particulars of my Invention, I desire it
to be understood that I claim the improvements in preparing, fixing, and
mordanting cloth and yarns as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Kenyon the younger, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Thomas Kenyon
the younger, in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
THO. KENYON, JUN. (L.B.)