AN IMPROVED SOLUTION OR MIXTURE FOR FIXING CERTAIN COLORS EMPLOYED IN PRINTING CALICO AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Penney, of Carrbrook, in the County of
Chester, Color Mixer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SOLUTION OR
MIXTURE FOR FIXING CERTAIN COLORS EMPLOYED IN PRINTING CALICO AND
OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 18th April 1863, and dated the 22nd January 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Penney at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd January 1863.
I, ROBERT PENNEY, of Carrbrook, in the County of Chester, Color Mixer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SOLUTION
OR MIXTURE FOR 'FIXING' CERTAIN COLORS EMPLOYED IN PRINTING CALICO AND
OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the fixing of those colors employed in printing
calico and other fabrics which are produced by means of "catechu," and
usually called "catechu colors;" for this purpose I employ a solution or
mixture made in the following manner, and treat the catechu color therewith:
-I take of the ordinary chloride of calcium of commerce (which may be
made by saturating spirits of salt with quicklime in a powdered state) three,
four, five, or other number of parts, and mix it with one or other required
number of parts of nitrate of copper at eighty degrees, the admixture to be

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made whilst the calcium is in a heated state; and then filtered for use.
would remark that these parts must be varied according to the depth, shade,
or tone of color to be treated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Penney in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
PENNEY, of Carrbrook, in the County of Chester, Color Mixer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Penney, Her special license that I, the said Robert Penny,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Robert Penney, 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
"AN IMPROVED SOLUTION OR MIXTURE FOR 'FIXING' CERTAIN COLORS EMPLOYED
IN PRINTING CALICO AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Penney, 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 Robert Penney, 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:-
My Invention relates to the fixing of those colors employed in printing
calico and other fabrics which are produced by means of "catechu," and
usually called "catechu colors;" for this purpose I employ a solution or

page_text: mixture made in the following manner, and treat the "catechu" color there-
with:-I take of the ordinary chloride of calcium of commerce (which may
be made by saturating spirits of salt with quicklime in a powdered state)
three, four, five, or other number of parts, and mix it with one or other
required number of parts of nitrate of copper at eighty degrees or other
required strength, or of chloride or muriate of copper either instead of nitrate
of copper or in combination therewith, such admixture to be made whilst the
calcium is in a heated state, and then filtered for use. I would remark that
these parts must be varied according to the depth, shade, or tone of color to
be treated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Penney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
ROBERT PENNEY.
(L.S.)