IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING GEOMETRIC PATTERNS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Littlewood, of 93, London Wall, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING GEOMETRIC
PATTERNS."
Sealed the 12th May 1857, and dated the 13th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Littlewood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th December 1856.
I, GEORGE LITTLEWOOD, of 93, London Wall, in the City of London, .do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING
GEOMETRIC PATTERNS," to be as follows:-
This Invention is applicable to printing in colors geometric patterns, such
patterns, for example, as those used for Berlin work; and the Invention
consists in printing such patterns by means of a printing block composed, of
type held in a suitable form; these type are either square in section, or, of
other regular form capable of fitting together, so as to make up a solid block:
In connection with these type, shorter pieces of metal circular in section are
used; these picces are called raising pieces, and have pins projecting from
their upper ends which fit into holes in the bottom of the type.
When the printing block is to be prepared for printing one of the colors, of.
a geometric pattern, the form with the printing block is turned upside down;.
and a,raising piece is placed under each of the type which is required to print,

page_text: and the pin of the raising piece enters the hole in the bottom of the type.
When the required number of raising pieces have been put under the type
the form and printing block is again turned over, and the type which have not
been furnished with raising pieces fall below the level of the others, the
printing block is clamped firmly together by suitable screws, and is then ready
for printing. When the required number of copies of this color has been
struck off, the block is re-arranged for printing the next color of the pattern,
and so on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Littlewood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
LITTLEWOOD, of 93, London Wall, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Littlewood, Her special license that I, the said George Littlewood,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Littlewood, 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
PRINTING GEOMETRIC PATTERNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said George Littlewood, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Littlewood, 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 :-
This Invention is applicable to printing in colors geometric patterns, such

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printing. I would remark that it is not necessary that the face of the type
should be of the same form as the body, as it may have an ornamental or
other device formed on it, as is shewn by the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Littlewood, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
E. BARKER.
GEORGE LITTLEWOOD. (L.S.)