Iм- PROVEMENTS IN BLOCKS OR SURFACES FOR PRINTING FROM
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Henry Holloway, of Manchester Square,
in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN BLOCKS OR SURFACES FOR PRINTING FROM."-A communica-
tion from abroad by Noah Pomeroy, of Bristol, Connecticut, United
States of America.
Sealed the 29th July 1864, and dated the 4th February 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Henry Holloway
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th February 1864.
I, GEORGE HENRY HOLLOWAY, of Manchester Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BLOCKS OR SURFACES FOR PRINTING FROM," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in preparing or forming a plastic or flexible sur-
face for printing from. I proceed as follows:-I prepare a mould or matrix
according to the matter, subject, or design to be printed, and pour into such
mould a plastic material composed by preference of glue and sugar. This
composition is heated, melted, thoroughly mixed, and while hot is poured into
the mould and pressed down so as to enter into all the hollows and spaces
therein; when cold the block of composition is removed and a plastic surface
for printing from is the result. While I prefer to use glue and sugar as my

page_text: plastic composition I do not confine myself thereto as vulcanized caoutchouc
and other compositions which will remain flexible after becoming set will
answer the purpose of this Invention.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Henry Holloway in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd August 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HENRY HOLLOWAY, of Manchester Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Henry Holloway, Her special licence that I, the said
George Henry Holloway, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Henry Holloway, 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 BLOCKS OR SURFACES FOR PRINTING
PROM," (communicated to me from abroad by Noah Pomeroy, of Bristol,
Connecticut, United States of America,) upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said George Henry Holloway, 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 George Henry Holloway, 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 consists in preparing or forming a plastic or flexible surface
for printing from. I proceed as follows:-I prepare a mould or matrix
according to the matter, subject, or design to be printed, and pour into such

page_text: mould a plastic material composed by preference of glue and sugar. This
composition is heated, melted, thoroughly mixed, and while hot is poured into
the mould and pressed down so as to enter into all the hollows and spaces
therein; when cold the block of composition is removed and a plastic
surface for printing from is the result. While I prefer to use glue and sugar
as my plastic composition I do not confine myself thereto as vulcanized
caoutchouc and other compositions which will remain flexible after becoming
set will answer the purpose of this Invention.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, preparing or
forming plastic or flexible blocks or surfaces for printing from, substantially in
manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Henry Holloway, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.
GEORGE HENRY HOLLOWAY. (L.S.)