IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOOR,
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Howard Kidd and James Chadwick Mather, both
:
of "The Patent Floor Cloth Company's" Works, Bradford, near Manchester,.
in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOOR,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Howard Kidd and
James Chadwick Mather at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 20th October 1866.
We, JOHN HOWARD KIDD and JAMES CHADWICK MATHER, both of "The
Patent Floor Cloth Company's " Works, Bradford, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOOR, LEATHER, BRATTICE, OIL, AND OTHER CLOTHS, AND
IN THEIR MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
Our improvements relate to an improved composition applicable for the
manufacture of floor, leather, brattice, oil, and other cloths, and in the process,
of applying such composition to the cloths or other fabrics.
Our improvements consist in taking the cement or cements described in the
Specifications of the Patents granted to us, and numbered 2840, and dated the
Twenty-third September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four, and numbered 768, and dated the Eighteenth March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, but instead of;

page_text: mixing cork, sawdust, and like materials, we mix the fibre of flax, cotton, wool,
silk, or similar fibrous materials, and sufficient pigments to give the color
required; and our improvement in the process of manufacture consist in "pre-
paring" and mixing the above-named compositions, and applying it to the cloth
or fabric in the manner described in the Specifications of our said Patents, or to
both sides of a fabric as described in the Specification of a Patent granted to
us, and numbered 3370, and dated the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, except that the
composition is taken directly from the mixing machine to the rolling mill, and
does not require to be broken up or heated before coming to the rollers.
By our system the material is applied to one or both sides of the cloth or
fabric, and the surface. is finished ready for embossing, printing, or otherwise
ornamenting at one operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Howard Kidd and James Chadwick Mather in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN.
HOWARD KIDD and JAMES CHADWICK MATHER, both of the Patent Floor Cloth
Company's Works, Bradford, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
John Ioward Kidd and James Chadwick Mather, Her special license
that we, the said John Howard Kidd and James Chadwick Mather, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John
Howard Kidd and James Chadwick Mather, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and 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 FLOOR, LEATHER, BRATTICE; OIL, AND OTHER
CLOTHS, AND IN THEIR MANUFACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others).
that we, the said John Howard Kidd and James Chadwick Mather, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals (or under the hand and.

page_text: seal of one of us), 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 we, the said John Howard Kidd, and James
Chadwick Mather, 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, that is to say :-
.
Our improvements relate to an improved composition applicable for
the manufacture of floor, leather, brattice, oil, and other cloths, and in the
process of applying such composition to cloths and other fabrics.
Our improvements consist in taking the cement or cements described in
the Specifications of the Patents granted to us, and numbered 2340, and
dated the Twenty-third September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, and numbered 768, and dated the Eighteenth
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
but instead of mixing cork, sawdust, and like materials therewith, we mix with
about ten pounds weight of the cement one pound weight of the fibre of flax,
cotton, wool, silk, or similar fibrous materials (in short lengths as in waste
fibre), and sufficient pigments to give the color required; and our improvements
in the process of manufacture consist in preparing and mixing the above-named
composition or compositions, and applying it or them to the cloth or fabric
to be coated in the manner described in the Specifications of our said Patents,
5 or to both sides of a fabric as described in the Specification of a Patent
granted to us, and numbered 8870, and dated the Twenty-ninth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
except that the composition is taken directly from the mixing machine where
the cement and fibre is mixed together to the rolling mill, as being plastic it
does not require to be broken up or heated before coming to the rollers; thus
the heating boxes or chests and endless aprons hitherto used may be dispensed
with, the material composition being fed or thrown into the "nip" of the rollers
in "lumps" by hand, being spread evenly upon and across the fabric by the
action of the rollers.
5
By our improved system or process the material or composition is applied
to one or both sides of the cloth or fabric, and the surface is finished ready
.for embossing, printing, or otherwise ornamenting at one operation.
We have now particularly described the nature of our Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, and claim as our Invention

page_text: the improved composition or compositions, and the process or mode of applying
it to cloths or fabrics as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Howard Kidd and James Chadwick
Mather, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day of
April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven.
11..
JOHN HOWARD KIDD.
(L.S.)
Witness,
PETER J. LIVEEY,.
Patent Agent,
.Manchester.
JAMES CHADWICK MATHER. (LS.)