Im- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANTRACTURE OF ENAMELLED CARDS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Charles Newbery, of President Street West,
Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANTRACTURE OF ENAMELLED CARDS'
"
Sealed the 11th January 1862, and dated the 19th July 1861
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Charles Newbery
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th July 1861.
I, RICHARD CHARLES NEWBERY, of President Street West, Goswell Road, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ENAMELLED CARDS," to be as
follows:-
Heretofore in the manufacture of enamelled cards, cardboard, consisting of
two or more sheets of paper, pasted or cemented together, has been employed,
the surfaces of which have been enamelled, and the cardboard has been cut
up into rectangular pieces, of sizes depending on the use to which they were
to be applied, whether they were for carding fabrics such as lace, or for
making playing or other printed cards, or plain or embossed cards to be used
for various purposes.
Now, my Invention consists in manufacturing cards from suitably prepared
paper cloth. For this purpose the paper cloth is manufactured by causing
surfaces or sheets of pulp or paper to adhere on one or both sides of calico or
other suitable woven fabrics, producing such a thickness as the particular
cards to be manufactured therefrom may require, and using one or more layers
or thicknesses of woven fabric and of paper or pulp, as may be required. The
fabrics are then coated and enamelled in like manner to that in whicli ordinary

page_text: cardboard when prepared for card-making has heretofore been enamelled, and
the sheets thus produced are cut up into suitable rectangular pieces, of the
sizes of the cards required.
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Charles Newbery in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
CHARLES NEWBERY, of President Street West, Goswell Road, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Charles Newbery, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Charles Newbery, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Charles Newbery, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF ENAMELLED CARDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Charles Newbery, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Charles Newbery, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Heretofore in the manufacture of enamelled cards, cardboard, consisting of
two or more sheets of paper, pasted or cemented together, has been employed,
the surfaces of which have been enamelled, and the cardboard has been cut up
into rectangular pieces, of sizes depending on the use to which they were to be

page_text: applied, whether they were for "carding" fabrics such as lace, or for making
playing or other printed cards, or plain or embossed cards to be used for
various purposes.
Now, my Invention consists in manufacturing cards from suitably prepared
paper cloth. For this purpose the paper cloth is manufactured by causing
surfaces or sheets of pulp or paper to adhere on one or both sides of calico or
other suitable woven fabrics, producing such a thickness as the particular
cards to be manufactured therefrom may require, and using one or more
layers or thicknesses of woven fabric and of paper or pulp as may be required.
The fabrics are then coated and enamelled in like manner to that in which
ordinary cardboard when prepared for card-making has heretofore been
enamelled, and the sheets thus produced are cut up into suitable rectangular
pieces of the sizes of the cards required.
"
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully to
describe the manner in which the same is performed.
The
I cause paper cloth to be manufactured in like manner to that heretofore
practised, and of such thickness as the particular purposes to which the same
is intended to be applied may require, and to such preparation or manufacture
of paper cloth I make no claim. The paper is to be on one or both the surfaces
of the cloth or woven fabric used, as may be desired. I cause one or both
surfaces of the paper cloth to be enamelled in like manner to that in which
ordinary paper or cardboard has heretofore been enamelled, which process of
enamelling is well understood, and, separately, is not claimed by me.
compound enamelled cardboards, consisting partly of paper and partly of woven
fabrics, according to my Invention are made in sheets of varying sizes. These
sheets are then cut up into suitable rectangular pieces, according to the purpose
for which the cards are intended, whether they are to be printed or otherwise
used. By these means a new manufacture of enamelled cards is produced,
presenting great strength and flexibility, and consequently superior, for a great
variety of purposes, to the enamelled cards composed of paper only.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Charles Newbery, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
RICHARD CHARLES NEWBERY. (L.S.)