IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND PAPER FOR OIL AND TAR CLOTHS, FLOORCLOTHS, TARPAULING, TABLE COVERS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND THE MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Martin Rourke, of the City of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Paper Manufacturer, for the Invention of
IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND PAPER FOR OIL AND TAR
CLOTHS, FLOORCLOTHS, TARPAULING, TABLE COVERS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES,
AND THE MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME."
Sealed the 14th September 1869, and dated the 17th March 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Martin Rourke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th March 1869.
I, MARTIN ROURKE, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Paper Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND PAPER FOR
OIL AND TAR CLOTHS, FLOORCLOTHS, TARPAULING, TABLE COVERS, AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES, AND THE MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in combining textile fabrics with paper in the
paper-making machine.
The textile fabrics consist of calico, linen cloth, hessians, or any
suitable material, and when the combined material is covered with oil,

page_text: tar, or other liquids it can be used as oil or tar cloths, floorcloths, table
covers, and for a great variety of purposes.
The mode of operation is to supply the fabric to the pulp on the
machine wire of the paper-making machine, either under the dandy
roller or a little in advance of it, and the pulp and fabric pass between
the couch rollers, which press them together, and then they follow the
course of the paper in ordinary paper-making machines, and come out
combined together.
The paper may be made from pulp of jute or any material, but I
prefer that made from Manilla ropes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Martin Rourke in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th September 1869..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARTIN
ROURKE, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Paper
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Martin Rourke, Her special license that I,
the said Martin Rourke, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Martin Rourke, my executors, ad-
ministrators, 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 "IMPROVED COM-
BINATIONS OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND PAPER FOR OIL AND TAR CLOTHS, FLOORCLOTHS,
TARPAULING, TABLE COVERS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND THE MODE OF MANU-
FACTURING THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Martin Rourke, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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

page_text: 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 Martin Rourke, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in combining textile fabrics with paper in the
paper-making machine.
The textile fabrics consist of calico, linen, cloth, hessians, or any
suitable material, and when the combined material is covered with oil,
tar, or other liquids it can be used as oil or tar cloths, floorcloths, table
covers, packing, and for a great variety of purposes.
The mode of operation is to supply the fabric to the pulp on the
machine wire of the paper-making machine either under the dandy
roller or a little in advance of it, and the pulp and fabric pass between
the couch rollers, which press them together, and then they follow the
course of the paper in ordinary paper-making machines, and come out
combined together.
The paper may be made from pulp of jute or any suitable material,
but I prefer that made from Manilla ropes.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim, the improved mode of combining by a
continued process textile fabrics and paper for oil and tar cloths,
floorcloths, tarpauling, table covers, packing, and similar articles as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Martin Rourke, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
MARTIN ROURKE. (L.S.)