CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING CALICOES AND OTHER FABRICз
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
Bus, of Dalmonach Print Field, near Bonhill by Dunbarton, North Britain,
Calico Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Ilis late most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty, and in the eleventh year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Matthew Bush, His special licence that I, the said
Matthew Bush, my executors, adñññors, and assigns, and such others as I, the
said Matthew Bush, my cñors, adñiors, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING CALICOES
AND OTHER FABRICз;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
that I, the said Matthew Bush, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,.
to bo inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same (reference being thereunto had) will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in complianco with the said proviso, I, the said
Matthew Bush, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
in manner following (that is to say):
Part of my improvements in machinery or apparatus for printing, calicoes
and other fabrics are applicable to the tables and apparatus used for block
printing, whereby what are termed the after colours of the figured patterns or
designs are to be filled up or printed in different colours upon calico or other
fabrics, whereon the outlines and the finer parts of such figured patterns or
designs have been previously printed in one, or two, or three, or more colours,
either by a cylinder machine or by a flat press, or by other means. Block
printing is so called, because it is usually performed by small blocks, the under
surfaces of which are carved in relief (or studded with brass pins or with strips
of brass) in a proper manner to form the type of the required pattern in relief.
The prominent parts of that type..in. relief are. furnished with colour, and the
calico being spread out evenly over the surface of a suitable table, the coloured
surface of the block is carefully applied. upon it by the hand of the printer
(guiding the same by his eye), so that its pattern will correspond exactly (or
hit in).with that of the impressions previously printed upon the calico, and
then the block being pressed forcibly down, leaves the required impression
thereon. In this manner successive impressions are made by the block, one
at the end of the other in a longitudinal row along all that length of calico
which is spread out at once upon the table, and a series of such longitudinal
rows of impressions are then printed side by side to cover every part of the
surface of the calico or. other fabric, and all the different block impressions
must fit truly one to another and must likewise correspond with the outlines
and impressions previously printed on the calico; so as to fill up the same anl
form one pattern or design in different colours.
And whereas His late Majesty King George the Fourth was graciously
pleased to grant me His Royal Letters Patent (lated- the Twenty-seventh
March, One thousand eight. hundred and twenty-seven, in the eighth year of
His reign,) for my former Invention of certain improvements in machinery
or apparatus for printing calicoes and other fabrics, and in my Specification
thereof, dated the Twelfth of September, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-seven, and enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery on the
Twenty-seventh of the same month, I described as a part of that Invention an
apparatus to be added to the tables used for block printing, for the purpose
of enabling the printer to extend the calico. or other fabric. very evenly and
flat upon the surface of the table, and which apparatus is particularly intended

page_text: to facilitate the filling up of patterns with after colours by block printing upon
calico whereon the outlines and finest parts of such patterns have been
previously printed by cylinder printing or by flat press printing, or otherwise.
For if the calico so printed. is dyed previous to such block printing of the
after colours, it becomes shrunk up and contracted irregularly, wherefore it
requires to be extended evenly upon the block printing table and stretched out
partially with discretion, in order to extend some parts more than others,.until
the pattern that was previously printed is restored to its true original form and
dimensions, and then the pattern of the after colours that are to be printed by
the block can be fitted correctly to the pattern of the outlines previously
printed And whereas I have since the date of my said former Specification
made extensive and successful use of my said apparatus described therein, I
have in the course of that use invented further improvements (herein-after
described) which are to be used in. addition to my former apparatus and in
concert therewith for the purpose of giving the printer additional facilities
in removing, setting, and fixing those parts. of my former apparatus called
stretchers, whereby the partial and discretionary stretching of the calico or
other fabric is performed, in order to restore the pattern previously printed to
its true original form and dimensions.
Sheet I. of the Drawings hereunto annexed represents a table and apparatus
for.block printing constructed according to my former and my present improve-
ments combined together. The same letters of reference that were used in
the Drawing, Sheet II., annexed to my former Specification, are used to mark
the same parts in-my present Drawing, but the additional and new parts which
constitute my present improvements are marked by numeral characters to
distinguish them. A, A is the table; B, B, the four legs of the frame on
which it lays; G, the piece roller to receive the piece of calico whereon the
outline or finer parts of the pattern.have been previously printed by a cylinder
machine or by a flat press, or otherwise. . The pivots at the ends of the piece
roller G are supported in brackets b, b, which are fastened to the table A at
each edge, and which project out therefrom,.and have upright legs to assist in
supporting them from the floor. A is a ratchet wheel, and e a click to retain the
piece roller G from turning back and unwinding; H is a similar piece roller,
(with its ratchet wheel g and click i) at the opposite end of the table to wind
up the piece of calico after the block printing has been performed; 7 and m
are rollers to conduct the calico horizontally along the surface of the table.
The pivots at the ends of those rollers are supported by the aforesaid brackets
b, b; and other brackets f,f, which are fixed in a similar manner to the oppo-
site end of the table A. Those rollers are a little below the level surface of

page_text: the blanket with which the table is covered; n is a roller beneath which the
calico passes after the block printing has been performed, and it is, then carried
up to a series of other rollers in a frame overhead, then down under other rollers,
making several folds, and exposing an extensive surface before it returns
to the piece roller II, in order that the after colours may become sufficiently
dry to bear rolling up. All which is fully described in my former Specifica-
tion, as also the manner of proceeding to extend the piece of calico on the table
A by turning the rollers G or H until that portion of the piece which covers
the table is stretched with a general tension sufficient to bring it to its exact
length, as is determined by the aid of certain indicators (therein: described),
which are applied on rods K fixed horizontally across each end of the table,
and set so as to point to suitable known marks in the pattern previously
printed on the calico. L, L; are the stretchers, also described in former
Specification, for the purpose of giving an additional tension to any part of that
surface of calico which is extended upon the table, and which may require
partial stretching, in order to rectify distortions of the form of the pattern..
The manner of using those stretchers for such purpose being fully explained in
my former Specification, it is unnecessary to enter into further particulars, and
the more so, as my present additions and improvements do not perform any
thing more than can be done by a careful printer with my former apparatus in
stretching the calico either by general extension produced by the rollers G and
H over the whole surface which covers the table, or else by partial extension
produced by the stretchers L on such parts of that surface as are not brought
to their true form and diniensions by the said general extension.
my
The object of one part of my present improvements is to facilitate and give
exatitude to the application of the stretchers by means of the following
machinery or apparatus, which is to be added to and combined with my aforesaid
former apparatus:-The stretchers L are eight in number, each one is made
with a dovetailed projection from it, marked 1, Figure 4, to enter into correspond-
ing dovetailed grooves formed in eight horizontal rails, marked 2, 3, 4, 5, viz,
four at each end of the table, and each of them extending only half across the
breadth of the table, so that there are four rails and stretchers for, eacli side of
the table, because the table represented in the Drawings is intended for two
persons to print together on the same piece by standing at opposite sides of the
table. Note. To avoid confusion, the apparatus at one side only is marked
with numerals in the Drawings, that on the other side being precisely similar.
If the table is intended for only one person (which is the usual custom in
block printing, then there would be but four horizontal grooved rails, and each
one would extend all across the table, viz, two at each end thereof, in the

page_text: داء
manner herein-after set forth, The, horizontal grooved rails 2, 3, 4, and 5,
are moveable up and down by means of connecting link 6, which descends
from each one to join to as many, horizontal leyers 7, 9, 8, 10, situated beneath
the table, and which are connected in pairs to two other levers 11 and 12, which
are moved when required by means of two handles 13, 14, at the upper ends
of rods.15, which ascend from the ends of the levers 1-1-and 12.. The two
handles 13 and 14 are situated near one end of the table, in the most conve-
nient positions for the printer to apply his hand thereto, and by pressing down
any one of those handles, two of the grooved rails 2 and 4 (or 3 and 5), which
sustain the stretchers L, are brought down together in pairs to press the lower
ends of those stretchers down upon the calico at the opposite ends of the table
at the same time,, in order to stretch the calico partially at such parts as may
require to be so stretched. The arrangement of the several handles, levers,
and stretchers is as follows:-Onc. of the handles, marked 13, is connected
by its upright rod 15, with one end of a long lever 11, the fulcrum of which
is at the other end, and is supported by one of the legs B of the table. The
middle part of the lever, 11 is connected by a short upright link with the
extreme ends, of two levers 7 and 9, which act together as a pair, the fulcrums
of each lever being at the opposite ends of them, and supported by the floor.
The connecting links 6 which sustain the horizontal grooved, rails, 3 and 5 are
jointed to the levers 7 and 9. When the handle 13 is pressed down, it brings
down the two grooved rails 3 and 5 with, the stretchers L, L, which belong, to
them, and the lower ends of those stretchers press down, the calico, into the
space between the end of the table and the rollers 7 and in, as much as the
printer finds to be requisite, in order to produce as much partial extension of
the calico by those stretchers as it may be found to require. in order to rectify.
any distortion that may remain in the pattern, notwithstanding the general
extension that has been previously given by means of the rollers G and H.
The handle. 13 is retained fast after it has been so placed by means of a spring
catch with serrated teeth, which is fixed to the rod. 15, and which catchies
against a fixed stop contained in a bracket which projects out from the leg B
of the table and guides the rod 15. The upper end, of the spring catch projects
up so near to the handle 13 that the workman can reach it with the thumb of
the hand, which grasps the handle, and press back the spring, so as to release
the catch. 17 is a balance weight acting by a cord over pullies situated
beneath the table, to counterpoise the weight of the levers, rods, grooved rails,
and stretchers. In like manner the handle 14 (by means of the levers marked
with the even numbers 12, 8, and 10), operates upon the two grooved, rails
2 and 4, to depress the same and the stretchers L, L, which are attached
:.-

page_text: thereto. 16 is the balance weight to counterpoise that set of levers, exact
duplicates of all the handles with catches; the levers, rods, grooved rails, and
stretchers above described are provided at the opposite side of the table, for
the use of the other printer, if two printers are required to work at the same
table. The reason for providing two handles 13 and 14, and two sets of levers
and grooved rails (viz, one set marked with the odd numbers 11, 7, and 9, 8,
nd 5, and the other set marked with the numbers 12, 8; and 10; 2, and 4) to
operate upon two distinct stretchers at each end of the table, is as follows:-
The two adjacent stretchers, which are at the same end of the talile, are 'sloped
away with contrary obliquities at their lower ends; which act upon the calico,
as is shewn in Figure 4, and hence those two stretchers at the opposite ends of
the table, which are brought (by the aforesaid machinery) to act on the calico at
the same time (viz, the pair carried by the grooved rails 2 and 4, or by the other
pair 3 and 5), are sloped away at their lower ends contrary ways to each other,
in order that both stretchers may concur (by acting one at one end of the table
and the other at the other end) to stretch the calico partially and correct any
distortion of the pattern. The printer must press down one or other of the
handles 13 and 14 accordingly as the distortion which is to be rectified
requires that one or other of the margins of that portion of the breadth of the
calico on which he is preparing to print a longitudinal row of block impressions
should be pulled forwards along the table; for in all cases.those two stretchers
which are brought into action together by the same handle will draw one
margin of the said portion of the breadth of the calico forwards along the
table and the other margin of the same portion backwards along the table, and
thus the stretchers will have the greatest effect to correct distortion. The
stretchers can be slided along in the dovetailed grooves of the rails 2, 3, 4, 5;
to enable them to act successively at different parts of the breadth of the piece
of calico, in order that they may stretch the calico (if need be) 'at cach part
where a longitudinal row of block impressions is about to be printed thereon
previously to printing the same. For this purpose the two stretchers L, L,
which are fitted into the dovetailed grooves of the rails 2 and 3, or 4 and 5; at
each end of the table, are united by the horizontal links 18 with the upper ends
of two long levers 19, both fixed on the same horizontal axis 20, which is sup-
ported by bearings on the floor, so, that both levers must move together. When
the printer moves the two levers 19 by a handle which is formed on the upper
end of one of them, they oblige all the four stretchers to move along in their
respective grooves at the same time with eqaul and similar motions, and there-
fore the stretchers at the two ends of the table will in all cases stand opposite
to the same part of the breadth of the calico. A spring arch 21 with notches

page_text: in it is fixed to the side of the table, to project out therefrom, in order to bear
laterally against the lever 19 and retain it wherever it is placed. Those notches
serve to guide the printer where to place the lever 19, in order to bring the
stretchers opposite to that longitudinal row of block impressions which he is
preparing to print. The usual course of proceeding is for the printer to com-
mence a row of block impressions along that edge of the calico which is farthest
from him (or else along the middle of the piece, if two printers are to work
together at the opposite-sides of the same table, as is provided for in the
Drawing), and having finished that longitudinal row, he commences another
and then another, side by side, and so on, taking care previously to commencing
each such row to examine the original pattern on that portion of the calico
(along which such row is to be printed), and he stretches the same partially
(if requisite), in order to correct any distortion that he can observe in the
original pattern; and according to the direction of the distortion which is to be
corrected, he presses down one or other of the handles 18 or 14, and according
to the extent of that distortion he presses that handle more or less down until
his eye informs him that the pattern is correct, and that it will conform to the
block which he holds in his hand, ready to print therewith, and every tine that
he has thus completed a longitudinal row of block impressions, he must release
the spring catch of the handle 13 or 14, and then move the handle of the
lever 19 forwards one notch of the spring arch 21; that action will move the
stretchers in their grooves so far across the width of the piece as will bring
them exactly opposite to the part where the next longitudinal row is to be
printed. He must then give such a direction and extent of partial stretching.
to that part as may be necessary to restore the original pattern to its true figure,
and so on.
The spring arch 21 is fixed to a block 22 on the bracket 6 by a screw and
thumb nut, so that it can be removed in order to put others in its place, with
different notches therein suitable to the different width of the blocks which are
to be used for different patterns; also by fixing the samé arch 21 higher or
lower (by means of its screw and thumb nut, which for that purpose passes
through a long slit) it will apply to the lever 19 nearer to or further from its
axis 20, and thereby adjust the extent of lateral motion that will be given to
the stretchers in their grooves every time that the lever 19 is moved one
notch, so as to correspond with the width of each longitudinal row of block
impressions. Note.-The two stretchers L, L, which are moved by each of the
rods 18, are united together by means of the joint pin which connects one of
the stretchers with the rod 18, and which pin is fixed fast into one of the
stretchers, as shewn in Fig. 4, and the end of the pin enters into an upright

page_text: groove formed in the other adjacent stretcher. This mode of connection per-
mits the necessary up and down motions of the two stretchers to take place;
but nevertheless both stretchers are compelled to move together by the rod 18.
Note. The upright connecting rods 6 must pass on the outside of the brackets
b and f; and they are guided in their up and down motions by pieces, 22, which
aro screwed against those brackets. The upper ends of the rods 6 are bended
at right angles, and made, flat, to fasten the backs of the grooved rails 2, 3, 4, 5,
to them by screws. The lower ends of the rods 6 are also bended as much as
will enable them to reach to the levers 7, 9, 8, 10, beneath the table; as is
shewn in the different Figures. Note.-Instead of the horizontal cross rails.
2, 3, 4, 5, being made with dovetail. grooves as before mentioned, the aforesaid
flat iron bars which are continuations of the same pieces as the rods 6, but
bended at right angles thereto, may be used to carry the stretchers L, L, the
samo being attached to those flat bars by clasps which surround the bars, and
are fastened to the stretchers by screws with thumb nuts, so as to permit the
stretchers to slide freely along the bars; this is explained in Figure 4. The
said screws being fitted through slits in the stretchers will permit the same to
be fixed to the thumb nuts higher or lower in respect to the horizontal cross
bars, in order to adjust the stretchers, so that the lower end of those stretchers
which act in pairs at the two ends of the table will, when pressed down, come
in contact with the calico at both ends of the table at the same time, and will
consequently produce an equal depressure of the calico down into the spaces
left vacant for that purpose between the ends of the table and the rollers?
and m.
The Drawing, Sheet II., contains a representation of another mode of
effecting my aforesaid improvement, (viz, for facilitating the removing,
setting, and fixing of the stretchers.) The horizontal cross rails 2, 3, 4,
and 5 are nearly the same as before described at Figure 4, Sheet I., each
carrying a stretcher L fitted to slide along upon it; but these rails extend
horizontally all across. the width of the table, and the two ends of each rail
are bended down to form the upright connecting links 6, which are curved
at their lower ends, and jointed to the ends of short arms 7, 8, 9, 10,
or double levers, which are fixed on the ends of two horizontal axes 15, 15,
which extend crossways beneath cach end of the table, and are supported
by bearings which project out from the frame B of the table; each of the
double levers has a third longer arm or lever 16, 16, and the lower ends o
those two arms are connected by a horizontal rod 17. On the extreme end
of one of the axes 15 an upright lever 18 is fixed, with a handle 22 projecting
out horizontally therefrom at the upper end, for the printer to take hold of in

page_text: order to produce the partial stretching of the calico, in the manner before
described, by the aid of the two handles marked 13 and 14, Sheet I.; whenever
the same is required; but the same handle 22 serves to bring either pair of
stretchers 2 and 4 or 3 and 5 into action by moving it either to the right or to
the left of the vertical position of the lever 13, and when that lever is in tlic
vertical position all the four stretchers are taken up out of action from off the
calico. The weight of the two adjacent cross rails 2 and 3 or 4 and 5, which
are at the same end of the table, counterbalance each other without any
balance weights. The weight of the horizontal connecting rod 17 (and which
may be made heavy for that purpose) tends constantly to give the lever 13 an
upright position, and to take all the four stretchers out of action. When the
printer inclines the lever 13 to the left by its handle 22 it brings down the
two stretchers which are carried by the cross rails 2 and 4, one at each end of
the table, which two stretcher's are sloped at their lower ends with contrary.
obliquities, in order that they may concur, as before stated,-in producing a par-
tial stretching of the calico; for whilst one stretcher (at 2) acts on one niargin
of that portion of the breadth of the calico on which the printer is preparing to
begin a longitudinal row of block impressions, and draws that margin back-
wards along the table, the other stretcher (at 4) acts with equal effect on the
opposite margin of the same breadth to draw it forwards along the table. A
hooked claw 23, which is fitted loosely on the stud or center pin of the handle
22, acts in. a row of serrated teeth, which are cut in the upper side of an arch
24 fixed to the frame of the table; that claw 23 detains the lever 13 wherever
it is placed, in order to retain the calico firmly stretched to that extent to which
the printer has found necessary to apply partial sketching, in order to rectify all
distortion of that part of the original pattern which he is preparing to print a
longitudinal row of block impressions. If the printer finds it necessary to give
the partial stretching in the opposite direction to that before mentioned, be
must move the handle 22 of the lever 13 to the right of the vertical position,-
and then it will bring down the other pair of sketchers 3 and 5. Another
hooked clay 25 then drops by its weight into another row of serrated teeth cut
in the other end of the same arch 24, and that detains the lever 13 at any
position in which it may be placed. Note:-The handle 22 is fitted loose on
a stud or pin which projects out from the upper end of the lever 13, so that the
printer can turn the handle round on the pin whilst he holds it in his hand;
and two small stamps project out from the ferrel of the handle 22 to reach out
each way beneath the two hooked claws 23 and 25, and therefore, by turning
the handle 22 round on its stud one way, if lifts up and disengages one claw 23;
or by turning it round the other way it lifts up and disengages the other claw;

page_text: and in order to insure that the printer shall never by forgetfulness begin to
wind forwards the calico along the table before he has released that claw 23 or
25 which holds in the teeth of the arched rack 24, and has placed the lever
13 in the upright position, or permitted it so to place itself in order to take up
all the four stretchers out of contact with the calico, the click e, which holds
the teeth of the ratchet wheel a of the piece roller G, and prevents the same
from. unwinding, may have a long tail 26, the extremity of which may
be bended down and reach out to bear upon the top of an arch 27.which
is fixed to the back of the lever 13, and the end of the tail 26 being
borne up by that arch-27 will effectually, prevent the click e from being lifted
up out of the teeth of the ratchet wheel a; 'unless the lever 13 is first placed
in the vertical position (whereby all the four stretchers must be. taken up
off the calico), and then a notch, which is cut out in the arch 27, will admit
the bended end of the tail 26 of the click e to drop into the notch, and allow
the click e to be disengaged from the teeth of the wheel.a in order to wind a
fresh length of calico upon the surface. of the table.: Note.-When the bended
end of the tail 26 of the click e is thus entered into the notch in the arch 27
it holds the lever 13 fast; hence that lever cannot be moved by accident or
carelessness, nor can any of the stretchers be brought down on the calico
so long as the click e remains disengaged from the teeth of the wheel a,
so as to leave the piece roller G at liberty to turn round. Note.-The appa-
ratus represented in Sheet II. as situated over the table is for another purpose
(as herein-after described). The table as above described, without that appa-
ratus, may be used for block printing, in the same manner as the table. repre-
sented in Sheet I., and then the same kind of rods 18, levers 19, axis 20,
and spring arch 21, as are there represented, should be applied to the table
in Sheet II, to enable the printer to move the stretchers across. the width
of the calico every time that a longitudinal row of block impressions is com-
pleted along the length of the table and preparatory to beginning an adjoining
longitudinal row.
And whereas His late Majesty was graciously pleased to grant. me 'His
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of
October, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in the fifth year of
His reign; for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for printing
calicos or other fabrics; and in my Specification thereof, dated the Seventh
day of April, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and which was then
enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, I described an apparatus
consisting of a small and short cylindrical printing roller, which (together with
a suitable colour 'trough, furnishing apparatus, and doctors) is mounted in a

page_text: moveable frame, and that frame is supported by suitable sliders, which are
capable of moving horizontally, so as to carry the said cylindrical printing roller
with a rolling action over the surface of the calico or other fabric, which is
spread out evenly on a flat table. (or extended over the surface of suitable
rollers), in order to print such calico with a pattern composed of successive
ŕows of the impression from the small short roller, those rows before printed
side by side one after another:. And whereas I did not then contemplate
the printing or filling up of after colours by using that machinery or appa-
ratus in lieu of block printing (excepting in the single case of striped
patterns in which the coincidence of the pattern of the after colours
with the patterns previously printed is only required to be exact in the
breadth way of the calico, without regard to exact coincidence. in the length-
ways thereof), because for want of adequate means of extending the calico
or the fabric on the flat table, so as to restore the pattern that was first
printed thereon to its exact form and size, it did not then appear to me to be
possible to apply my said apparatus of a small printing roller in lieu of block
printing for the purpose of hitting in after colours upon or over a pattern that
had been previously printed on the calico before the same. had been dyed.:
But since I have had extensive practice with my improved tables for block
printing (as described in my aforesaid Specification, dated the Twelfth of Sep-
tember, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and still more since I
have invented my further improvements on and additions thereto, as herein-
before described, and as is represented in the Drawing, Sheet II., I have found
out that the calico can be so truly extended on the table, and the. originál
pattern so exactly restored to its true form and dimensions, as that my former
Invention of a small and short printing roller carried horizontally by suitable
sliders over the printing table, may be applied with advantage to fill in what is
usually done by block printing, viz, to fill up the after colours in a great variety
of patterns previously printed on the calico; and the advantage of such new use
and application of my said small and short printing roller is that by printing
such after colours from the engraved surface of the said roller, instead of from
blocks cut in relief, a greater perfection of impression may be given to alter
colours than has been heretofore done by calico printers, excepting in the case
of certain striped patterns, which I executed on calico (by means of my machinery
represented in Figures 8 and 9 of the Drawing, Sheet II., annexed to my
former Specification, dated the Seventh day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-five) with the after colours printed by an engraved surface,
the impressions thereof being in stripes, which hit in laterally between the
stripes of the previous impressions. But now, by my-present: improvements,

page_text: consisting in the herein-before described additions to my former improvements
on the printing table, together with the new use and application of my former
sinall printing roller in concert, therewith, I am, enabled to print such after
colours from an engraved surfacé, and to hit in the impressions thereof longitu
dinally as well as laterally, with sufficient, exactitude for all patterns which do
not require the utmost accuracy of hitting in for the after colours. The
Drawing, Sheet II:, hereunto annexed; (aud part of which has been herein
before described,) represents my complete,apparatus for printing after, colours
on calico or other fabrics, being a combination of part of my machinery.or
apparatus which was described in my Specification of the Seventh day of
April, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, but so modified in its
construction as to adapt it to act in concert with the printing table for
block printing which is described in my Specification of the Twelfth day of
September, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when that. table
is constructed with the additions thereto, which have been herein before
described. Those parts of the machinery or apparatus now to be described,
which are taken from.my Specification of the Seventh of April, One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-five, are marked with the same letters of reference
as were therein used; but those. letters are changed to. written .characters for
the capital letters and printing characters for the small letters, in order to
avoid confusion with the letters herein-before used. B, B, is the frame which
supports the printing table A, A, made very strong, in cast iron, with branches
28 turning upwards at each end to support two horizontal cross rails M, M,
which are immoveable, and have dovetail grooves in them to receive two corre-
sponding moveable slides 1, 1, from each of which two short legs e, e, stand up to
support the ends of two long parallel rails d, d, which extend horizontally over
all the length of the table, and their adjacent edges are made very straight to
formi a parallel dovetail groove, into which a corresponding slider B, B, is
fitted to move accurately, horizontally, lengthways of the table when the slider
is drawn along in that groove either backwards or forwards by means of the
cords 29, 35, the barrel 30, and pulley 31, with a cog wheel 32, pinion 33, and
a handle 34 to turn the barrel 30 either way round. The middle of the slider
B contains a socket to receive a square upright sliding bar b; which branches
out at its lower end into a fork a, a, and at the lower ends of the two branches of
that fork are the bearings for the gudgeons or pivots at the ends of the axis
or mandrel of my small printing roller 4, which, by the aforesaid horizontal
motion of the slider B in the long groove that is formed between the two rails
d, d, is carried along the table from end to end thereof, and by rolling over the
calico which is spread thereon, it prints the same with the impression of its

page_text: b
engraved surface. The roller 1. is pressed down upon the calico partly by its
own weight. and by that of the upright sliding piece a, a, b, which moves
freely through its upright socket in the middle of the slider B; the pressure.
being aided by a short lever g, which is borne down on the top of the upright
stem by a second lever h, and that lever is loaded with as much weight i
as is requisite. The roller A is short, and only prints a narrow breadth
at a time along the calico (about the same width as is commonly printed
by blocks); having printed one such narrow breadth, it is raised up from
off the calico by lifting up the loaded lever h (or by turning a handle at the
end of a horizontal axis, on which is an eccentric or curve situated beneath the
lever (), and then the slider B, B, is moved back along its long groove to
return the roller to the end of the table, from whence it is to set out again to
print another narrow impression by the side of the former impression, but pre-
viously to so doing the roller must be moved as much endways in the direction
of its length (that is, sideway across the table) as the breadth of the impression
it makes. That is done by shifting the horizontal parallel rails d, d, sideways
or crossways of the breadth of the table, the two sliders 1, 1, which support the.
two ends of those rails being for that purpose moved along in their dovetail
grooves in the two cross rails M, M, with equal notions, by turning a handle F
at the end of a long horizontal axis m, which carries a toothed pinion n at each
end to work in the teeth of two horizontal racks o, o, which are fixed along the
cross rails M, M. Note. At the same time that the roller A and its longi-
tudinal slider d, d, is thus moved over another portion of the breadth of the.
calico, the stretchers L, L, are also moved an equal distance along the horizontal
cross rails 2, 3, 4, 5, by means of two arms 18, 19, which reach out from the
sliders 1, 2, or the rails d, d, and the ends of 18 and 19 (which are formed like
flat blades) descend into the spaces between cach of the two adjacent stretchers
L, L. Each of these blades 19 has a pin projecting out each way from it to
enter into upright grooves which are made iu the backs of the stretchiers L, L.,
so as to permit those stretchers to move freely up or down when required,
but the said pins compel the stretchers to accompany the roller A whenever it
is moved to a fresh portion of the breadth of the calico, and the arms 18 are
previously adjusted so as to place those stretchers always opposite to that part
of the breadth of the calico along which the roller A will print, in order that
the printer may (previously to such printing) apply partial stretching, by a
judicious use of the stretchers moving their handle 22 one way or the other in
the manner herein-before described, (to such an extent as is necessary to rectify
any distortion in the pattern originally printed on the calico, and prepare the
same for receiving the impression of the after colours from the roller 4, which

page_text: is then let down by turning back the handle of the excentric, and it is ready
to start for printing another longitudinal row of its impressions. Note.-The
roller does not come in contact with the calico when it is thus let down, but it
descends upon a piece of waxed cloth, such as is known to calico printers by the
nanie of a cut, which is stretched right across the end of the table, and covers
over the calico as far as the edge of the cut, which extends square across the
breadth of the calico. As the roller rolls along by the motion given to its slider
Bit passes off from the edge of the said cut, and then begins to print on the
calico. The use of the cut is to ensure that all the successive rows of impres-
sions which. are printed by the roller A shall be begun exactly at the same line
across the calico, and a similar cut is fixed across the other end of the table to
terminate those impressions by receiving the roller and preventing it from print-
ing any further than is necessary to join exactly up to the ends of the rows of
impressions that it made before when a preceding portion of the length of the
calico was spread on the table. Another use of the cut is, that it may receive
the first impression that the rollers makes after having stood still instead of
printing that impression on the calico, because there may be some slight
difference in strength of colour between the impression that will be made by
that part of the roller which has remained motionless against the edge of the
doctor and the impression that will be made when the roller gets into regular
motion against the doctor. The slider B, which carries the roller 4, is drawn
steadily along in its groove formed between the two horizontal rails d, d, by a
cord 29, which is fastened to it, and which is wound up by a cylindrical barrel
30; that barrel is mounted between standards erected on one end of the long
rails d, d, and the barrel has a spur wheel 32 upon it, to be turned round by
a long horizontal pinion 33, the axis of which is supported in bearings 36, pro-
jecting out from one of the fixed cross rails A, and the axis is turned round by
the handle 34 at the extreme end of it by a boy. The pinion and wheel enable
him to give a steady progressive motion to the slider and roller, and to draw
the slider B back again, the handle must be turned the contrary way round, and
and it then winds up another cord 85, which is applied on the same barrel 30
(but goes the contrary way round it to the cord 29), and it is conducted over
a pulley 31 at the opposite end of the rails d, d; the end of the cord 35 being
attached to the slider B with a screw link, whicli admits of shortening the cord
as it lengthened out by use. The roller A is furnished with suitable colour
by the same means as are described in my former Specification, viz.,-
a colour trough H fixed over it in the space between the two branches
a, a, of the upright slider b. The inclined front and back I, I, of the
colour trough are made to apply closely at their lower ends to the cylin-
.

page_text: drical engraved surface of the roller A, so as to prevent the escape of
any considerable quantity of colour beyond that which passes away in the
lines engraved therein, and--all the superfluous colour so escaping is scraped
off perfectly clean from the even surface of the roller by the edge of a thin
steel blade v, called a doctor, which is applied to press by its elasticity against
the front of the roller, and another such plate v, called the lint doctor, is
applied at the back of the roller to remove any fibres of cotton that the roller
may gather up from the calico. This furnishing apparatus, being very similar
to that which is commonly used in cylinder printing machines, "requires, but
little explanation, excepting that as the colour is necessarily applied above the
roller, precautions must be taken to prevent any chance of colour escaping from
the colour trough, so as to drop down upon the calico. The colour trough is
composed of two vertical ends H, H, of a triangular form, which are firmly
united together by four horizontal bolts, r, and the inclined sides -I, I, of the
trough are fitted into suitable grooves formed in the ends H, H, and by means
of adjusting screws & those inclined slides--can be slided up or down in their
grooves in order to adjust their lower edges to a proper contact: with the
cylindrical engraved surface of the roller A. The two ends of the roller are
tapered away with easy curves to avoid contact with the calico upon the table;
and to prevent any escape of colour upon those tapering-ends; the ends H; H,
of the trough must be made to fit very close thereto. For this purpose the
two ends H, H, are made of double thicknesses, leaving an open space between
them (that is, within each of the ends H, H,) for the reception of a soft
packing 37, composed of felts and covered over, with a curved piece of wood,
which packing is pressed down upon the ends of the roller by screws 37; so as
to apply closely thereto and prevent any leakage of colour. The copper roller
is fitted on an iron axis or mandril in the usual manner, and the gudgeons 'at the
ends of that axis are received in suitable brasses, which are fitted to the lower
end of the branches a, a, of the forked piece a, a, b. The lowest of each of
those brasses are suspended and fastened to the said branches by an iron loop
for each, which is bended up at both ends (in form of the letter U), in order
to clasp each side of the branch, being received into suitable grooves formed
therein, and retained by inserting a key or cotter with a keeper into a mortice
cut through the two ends of the loop, and also through the metal of the
branch. By driving the two keys the bearing brasses can be drawn up to fit
the pivots of the axis quite correctly, but without confining them from turning
freely round; or by withdrawing the keys and keeper from the mortices the.
loops can be removed from the branches a, a, in order to take out the axis of
the roller when the copper roller requires to be changed for a different one:

page_text: upper
The thin steel plates called doctors are held as usual between two plates called
doctor shears, which are held together by screws to pinch the doctor quite fast
between them. The uppermost of the doctor shears has a pivot at each end
which suspend its weight, those pivots being lodged in bearing brackets which
are screwed to each of the branches a, a, and project out therefrom each way
to receive the pivots of both the doctors. An arın rises up from the uppermost
of the lint doctor shears at one end of it, with a regulating screw X at the upper
end of the arm to bear it off from the branka, and thereby cause the edge of
the lint doctor to press with suitable force against the surface of the roller.
The edge of the loctor is made straight, the two ends which extend out to
apply to the tapering ends of the roller being made to apply correctly thereto
by means of a row of setting screws placed behind or rather beneath it, in order
to spring or bend the edge of the doctor towards the roller at every part of its
length, as is explained in my former Specification; but if the heads of such
screws are found inconvenient of access, the pressure of setting screws may be
applied to the doctor by the intervention of a row of short levers 58, which are
jointed to bosses projecting out from a fixed cross bar situated behind the
lowermost of the doctor shears, and the setting screws acting on the
ends of the levers 58 will cause the lower ends of the levers to press behind
the doctor so as to spring the edge thereof towards the roller. Note.--The
doctor shears must be made to move endways, backwards and forwards, with
a traversing motion in the usual manner of cylinder printing machines.
The doctor then, moving between the lower ends of the lever 38 and the
surface of the roller, will bend-to accommodate itself to that motion. Tho
lint doctor does not require setting screws or traversing motion. Note.-For
some kinds of colour a small roller covered with blanket may be placed in
the colour trough to bear by its weight on the top of the engraving roller, and
cause the colour to enter better into the lines engraved thereon. When the
roller is required to be removed from the machine in order to exchange it for
another roller, all the moving sliders that are over the table, (viz³, the slider
B, its rails d, d, and their sliders 1, 1) must be carried so much sideways
(by turning the handle F, as to remove the roller over beyond the edge of the
table, and the cross rails M, M, are exten-led out sufficiently for that purpose.
Note. In order to adjust the roller to a proper position for commencing its
impression on the calico, so as to ensure the exact hitting in of the pattern of
the after colour (that will be printed by the roller, with the pattern of the
previous impressions, the roller must be turned round in its bearings previous
to letting it down into contact with the cut, so that such contact will begin at
proper part of its circumference. For this purpose a circular plate 38,
the

page_text: (Figure 6,) which is rather less in diameter than the roller, is fitted fast on one
of. tlie extreme ends of the axis beyond its bearing, and the plate 38: has a
notch in the circumference to receive a claw at the end of a dettent 89.
Previously to letting down tlie roller it must be turned round until, the said
notch comes. opposite. to. the end of the claw 39, which being pressed by the
finger into the notch will ensure that. the roller. stands aright for beginning, an'l
then. the claw. is withdrawn and the roller is let down. Note-A still
greater certainty will be attained by, using two opposite.. claws to be pressed
both at once.into. two opposite notches in the circumference of the circular
plate. 38, one notch. being so much wider than the other that it can only
receive its own claw; and: to ensure that the two claws shall be withdrawn
from their respective notches when the roller is let down, a piece 40, formed
like the letter T (inverted thius 1) may be applied between the tivo 'claws;. .its
stem being fixed fast' at its upper end to the slider B, B; and when the
frame a, b, b, and the roller is let down, the piece 40 will certainly tremovo
the said claws. The two claws are fixed by means of clamp screws, as
shewn in the Figure, to admit of adjusting them both to fit their respective
notches.. "The circular plate 38 is jambed fast on a taper. at the end of
the axis, by driving a key into a mortice across the end of the axis; the plate
can be set to bring its notches to its required position, in respect to the
engravings on the roller, by means of 'two (or four) opposite setting. screws,
which are carried by "studs projecting out from the flat surface of tlie
circular plate, and their points bear against the ends of the cross key at
opposite sides thereof. The other end of the axis of the roller is connected
by an axis with a handle. 42, which enables the boy to turn the roller. round'
when necessary. The connection 'may be made by a universal joint to permit
the axis to be inclined upwards, and avoid any risk of touching the calico with
the hand by which the handle is turned. The end of that axis being supported.
near to the handle by a small bracket projecting out froni the slider. B, B;
or otherwise the axis, of the handle may have a small toothed wheel "41 fixed
upon the end of it to take into the teeth of a corresponding wheel, .which
is fastened on the end of the axis of the roller, in the same manner as the
circular plate 38 is fastened on the opposite end thereof; and by drawing tho
axis of the, handle endways in its bearing; the teeth of the two wliecls may
be disengaged when the roller. is prepared to print, and then the handle
can be no impediment to it's motion. Note:-The boy must turn the "roller
round occasionally by means of the said handle whenever the operation: of.
printing by it is. suspended,..so long as to, occasion. any risk that the colours.
resting in the lines engraved on the foller.. might alter its consistency: by

page_text: exposure to the air.
Note. The small quantity of colour which is detained
by the edge of the doctor will make its way off beyond cach end of the doctor
and get upon the tapering end of the roller; but as those ends do not touch
the calico, no harm will be done if .the boy is careful to wipe those ends
occasionally before there is an accumulation of color upon them. Note.-
In case it is found that the impression made by the roller is at all deficient in
clearness, because. the resistance that the friction of the pirots opposes to its
turning causes any slipping of the roller when it rolls over the calico, that
inconvenience may be remedied by means of a catgut band, extended
horizontally between suitable supports projecting out from the ends of the.
long rails d, d, and in a direction parallel to those rails, the said band making.
one turn round a pulley of suitable size, which is fixed on the axis of the upper
cog-wheel 41 and handle 42 above mentioned, in the same manner as the
catgut of a drill bow is passed round the pulley of the drill. This band being
fixed at each end, and taking to and leaving the said pulley at the top
or highest part of the circumference thereof, will cause that pulley to turn
round, when the centre or axis thereof is carried along with the motion of the:
slides B, and that motion will be transmitted by the cog-wheels to the. rollers,
so as to assist in turning it round without depending entirely upon the adhesion
of its engraved surface to the calico, and by giving a suitable size to the said
pulley, and adjusting the tension of the fixed catgut band, the assistance so:
given to the roller may be regulated so as to avoid all risk of any slipping.of
the roller upon the. The pulley must be fitted to the axis with a ratchet
wheel and spring click, that it may not turn the roller backward. Note.-
Two small indicators must be fixed to the two branches a³ of the fork by clamp
screws, which will admit of setting the said indicators in such positions that
their pointed extremities will reach out to proper known marks in the pattern:
of the calico on the table, and thereby guide the printer in setting the cross
sliders 1, 1, (by turning the handle F,) and the longitudinal slider B (by turning
the handle 34), so as to bring the roller to the exact spot where (after being
adjusted by the claws 39) it must be let down at the cut at the end of the
table, and will then, by rolling forward along the calico on the table, hit in the
pattern of its impression with the previous pattern.
And whereas His Majesty King George the Third was graciously. pleased.
to grant me His Royal Letters Patent, dated at Westminster the Fifteenth
day of January, One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in the
year of
His reign, for my improvements on a machine for printing calico and other
fabrics, and in Specification thereof, which was enrolled in the High Court of
Chancery, on the
One thousand eight hundred.
day of

page_text: and thirteen, I described a machine consisting of a common flat press for
printing calico from flat copper plates engraved with a pattern, with my addition
thereto of a revolving segment of cylinder carved in relief, with a pattern
on its convex surface, and so placed as that during its revolution (by means of
suitable wheel-work) it should be brought in contact with the calico to print a
second colour thereon opposite to the top roller of the press; and also
another such revolving segment, to print in like manner a third colour on the
same calico opposite to another roller situated above the top roller; and
I also explained how another additional colour could be printed on the same
calico by means of a moveable block applied by a man during the interval
when the calico is not in motion, such block extending all across the breadth
of the calico opposite to a suitable fixed platform which supports the calico
against the pressure of the block; and in the course of extensive application
of that Invention, I liave invented additions thereto and improvements thereon,
which are represented in the Drawing, Sheet 3, wherein Figure 1 is a
sectional elevation of so much of the machine as will serve to explain my
present improvements. The flat press, with its D roller, top roller, and
sliding plank, are the same as those in common use. The revolving segment
of a cylinder to print a second colour opposite to the top roller, is an engraved
plate, and has a doctor. That segment being applied and turned round in the
same manner as a segment carved in relief was applied in my former Inven-
tion. The platforms are fixed across, as in my former Invention, behind the
calico and blanket, and opposite to which further colours are to be applied to the
calico by moveable blocks extending all across the width of the calico; but I
now use three or four or five such platforms to print in as many colours
in succession from different blocks, a seat being fixed across the frame over
the calico near to each platform for a boy to sit upon, with his legs extended
out or striding across the calico, and his feet 'resting against suitable steps
fixe: at each border of the calico; those boys apply the blocks to the calico
with their hands in those intervals between the action of printing by the press
during which the calico stands still. And part of my present improvements on
such machine consists in the application of an additional endless blanket 50, 50,
which I call a grounding blanket, interposed between the calico and the said
platforms; my grounding blanket 50 circulates over suitable rollers of its
own, quite distinct from the usual endless blanket which is called the press.
blanket, because it passes around the top roller of the press; but it
circulates over another set of rollers quite distinct from my grounding
blanket 50, which latter is put in motion and carried forwards along with
the calico by means of a roller 51 (covered with blanket,) over which it

page_text: passes; and by means of two small rollers 52, 52, my grounding blanket is
caused to wrap around as much of the circumference of the roller 51, as will
cause it to be carried forward by its adhesion to that roller when the same is
turned round, which is done by means of a cog-wheel 53 fixed on the end of
the roller 51, and acting with another. equal spur wheel 54 fixed on the end of.
another roller of the same size over which the press blanket passes, so as to.
turn the same every time that the said press blanket moves forward, (that is to
say,) every time that an impression is made with the flat press, for then the top.
roller of the press being turned, it advances the blanket forwards over its rollers,
and that motion is transmitted by my cog-wheel 54,-53, to my other roller 51-
so as to advance my grounding blanket 50 forwards, exactly the same distance
as the press blanket advances. The use of my additional grounding blanket,
50 is to avoid the intermixture of the colours printed by the press with those
printed by the blocks. The advantages of distinct blankets as applied to cylinder,
printing machines is fully stated in my Specification of the Twelfth of September,
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, being one of the improvements I
had then made; and this part of my present improvement is the application
of the same system to my improved machine of One thousand. eight. hundred.
and thirteen.
.
Another part of my, present improvements is the application of moveable
malls- or knockers,, wherewith the said boys can strike on the backs of
the blocks to give the impressions on the calico after they have laid the
blocks truly thereon, for the blocks being as long as the width of the piece,
they require both hands to lift and place them truly on the calico, and hitherto
the boys have only pressed, the blocks upon the calico by the strength of their
hands. My said moveable knockers are shewn at Figures 2 and 3, and cach
consists of a small frame of cast-iron 56, 56, made in one piece and mounted
on a horizontal axis 57, the ends of which are borne in small bearings 55,
fastened beneath the cross bench whereon the boy sits, the position.being such
that the axis extends between the boy's knees, the end pivots' thereof being.
close to his knees: 58, 58, are two iron malls. fastened at each 'end of the
frame 50 by a screw bolt for each, and in a suitable position for them to strike..
.on the back of the long block m (when, the, same. is properly laid across the
calico) at two places near to each-end of the block. 59 is a small handle
fixed into, the knocker for the boy, to take hold of with his right land, and by
lifting up and putting down that.handle he raises and lowers the malls so as.
to strike with both at once such a blow on the back. of the block as will make
the required impression. That being done he lifts up the malls into the dotted.
position, Figure 2, where they will rest against. the fixed stop 60 by their own;

page_text: weight, the malls 'being then over the boy's thighs and copposite to his belly,
out of the way of the bluck, when he lifts up the block-off the calico and.dips
it in the sieve. to furnish the undercarved face of the block with colour,"
during which interval the flat press makes its impression and radvances.the:
5. calico 'and 'the "press blanket forwards, and by myiwheels 54 and53, iroller
52, 52, and 51, my grounding blanket 50 is also advanced antequal space, iso
as to bring another surface of realico 'over the platforms. The boy having
furnished the block applies it again:upon the 'calico:inttle exact place, which
he knows by suitable marks, and then placing his right hand on the handlo559
o he turns down the niall 'and 'strikes therewith on the back of the block, Jas
before described.
...
Having now described my improvements in machinery and apparatus for
printing calicoes and other fabrics, I do hereby declare that I claim as my
present Invention the addition to and combination with my former Inventions
(described in 'my different Specifications before referred to) of those parts,
herein before...described which are distinguished by numeral characters of
reference in the three Sheets of Drawings hereunto annexed; those said:
additions which constitute my-present improvements are as follows:
Firstly, the addition of my levers,-rods, and other-machinery (herein-before.
described), to the table-for-block printing, in order to give a simultaneous.
action (by means of one handle) to two stretchers situated at tho-opposite: ends;
of the tables, for the purpose of placing those stretchers opposite to any portion
cf the breadth of the calico, and by means of two other handles (either of
which may be used) to depress tivo stretchers upon the calico at opposite ends
5 of the table with equal and sinilar motions for the purpose of stretching-such-
portion of the breadth of the calico partially in such degree and in such a
direction as may be necessary to rectify distortion of the pattern previously
printed on the calico.
Secondly, the additions and application to my aforesaid improved printing
table of the transverse, longitudinal, and vertical sliders over that table,
carrying the short printing roller with its colour furnishing apparatus, as
herein-before described, in order to roll the same along over any portion of
the breadth of the calico that is spread and stretched out on the table (in the
manner herein-before described), such addition and application of the said
roller and apparatus to the table being for the purpose of printing after colours
on the calico and hitting in the pattern of such after colours longitudinally as
well as transversely upon the pattern previously printed.
Thirdly, in a flat plate press containing a revolving segment of a cylinder
for printing a second colour on the same calico against the top roller, and also

page_text: containing platforms to print further grounding colours from blocks applied by
hand on the same calico. I claim the addition and application of a distinct
endless blanket for sustaining the calico whilst it receives those block impres-
sions, that additional blanket, as herein-before described, receiving its motion.
from the press. blanket, which passes as usual round the top roller of the press;
and also I claim the addition to such a flat press of malls or knockers moving.
on axis (in the manner. herein-before described), for the purpose of enabling
boys to knock therewith on the back of such blocks and make the impressions.
without inconvenience from the weight of such malls, and leaving the boys (the
instant after such knocking) with both hands at liberty to lift the blocks..
4.2.1
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Bush, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
MATTHEW (L.S.) BUSH.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1830, the aforesaid Matthew Bush came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,"
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty.