IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINE PRINTING
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Dugdale Kay, of Accrington, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINE PRINTING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Dugdale Kay
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
⚫ 2nd September 1854.
I, RICHARD DUGDALE KAY, of Accrington, do hereby declare the nature of
the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINE PRINTING" to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to that part of the material used for machine
printing called the lapping, and consists of using a series of thin fabrics coated
on one side with india-rubber cement. These cemented fabrics are folded face
to face, with the uncemented surface outside; one of such folded fabrics is
then wound on to the cylinder to the thickness required. The pressure in the
act of winding will cause the cement to permeate through every fold of the
fabric, and the whole will become one solid mass.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Dugdale Kay in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
DUGDALE KAY, of Accrington, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year of our Lord

page_text: One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Dugdale Kay, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Dugdale Kay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Dugdale Kay, 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 MACHINE PRINTING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Dugdale Kay, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Richard Dugdale Kay, 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 tho
following statement thereof (that is to say):-
:-
The improvements relate to that part of the material used for machine
printing called the lapping, and consists of using a series of thin cotton fabrics,
or fabrics of linen warp and cotton weft, coated on one side with india-rubber
cement. These cemented fabrics are folded face to face, with the uncemented
surface outside; one of such folded fabrics is then wound on to the cylinder
to the thickness required. The pressure in the act of winding will cause the
cement to permeate through every fold of the fabric, and the whole will
become one solid mass.
In witness whereof, I, 'the said Richard Dugdale Kay, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JNo. F. STANSFIELD, Sol',
Accrington.
R. D. KAY. (L.S.)