An. ImprovemENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DIARIES AND OTHER WORKS.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George de Lara and Viscount Mark de Salomos,
of 154, Fleet Street, in the City of London, for the Invention of,
“ An. ImprovemENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DIARIES AND OTHER WORKS.
PROVISIONAL SPÉCIFICATION left by the said George de Lard and
Viscount Mark de Salomos at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th July 1872.
We, GEORGE DE LARA and Viscount MARK DE SALOMOS, of 154,
Fleet Street, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DIARIES
AND OTHER WORKS WHERE BLOTTING PAPER IS USED FOR INTERLEAVING PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:—
We should utilize the blotting paper used for interleaving purposes
by printing thereon all descriptions of information which will be of
great commercial value to the public, whereas the blotting paper now
used for interleaving purposes cannot be printed on by reason of its
not being properly manufactured, the blotting paper we should use
must be expressly manufactured inasmuch as it contains a greater

page_text: amount of size than the blotting paper now used for interleaving
purposes, and although it contains more size than the ordinary blotting
paper used for interleaving purposes, and is printed thereon, the absorbing
qualities of the blotting paper are not destroyed, nor is the clearness
and distinctness of the information printed thereon destroyed, but
remains the same as though it was not printed on, by reason of the
colour of the paper being a dark one, and the colour of the information
printed thereon being red (or such other colour as will answer the same
purpose) shows through the ink used for ordinary purposes..
The benefit and commercial advantages the public would derive would
be our utilizing the blotting paper for printing thereon a vast collection
of sound and practical information, such as abstracts of Acts of Parlia-
ment, postal information, stamp and other duties, directories of public
offices, insurance offices, banks, trades, businesses, professions, customs,
tariffs, and such other information as will be of great commercial value
to the public, and by so utilizing the blotting paper for printing thereon,
enables us not only to greatly reduce the quantity of printing paper
now used for printing the information given in diaries, but further
enables us to greatly reduce the price of such works by reason of their
not requiring so much paper, and give a far greater amount of sound
and practical information.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George de Lara and Viscount Mark de Salomos
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th January 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
DE LARA and Viscount MARK DE SALOMOS, of 154, Fleet Street, in the
City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said George de Lara and Viscount Mark
de Salomos, Her special licence that we, the said George de Lara and
Viscount Mark de Salomos, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said George de. Lara and Viscount Mark de

page_text: Salomos, our executors, administrators; and assigns, should at any time.
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there.
after 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 IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DIARIES AND OTHER WORKS.
WHERE BLOTTING PAPER IS USED FOR INTERLEAVING PURPOSES," upon the con
dition (amongst others) that we, the said George de Lara and Viscount
Mark de Salomos, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, 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 we, the said George de Lara and Viscount
Mark de Salomos, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our Invention is to utilize blotting paper in a manner
not heretofore practiced with the intention not only to greatly reduce
the quantity of other paper, such as writing or printing paper used in
the manufacture of diaries and other works where blotting paper is used
for interleaving purposes, but further to enable us to greatly reduce
the price of such diaries and other works, and yet afford a far greater
amount of sound and useful information, such as abstracts of Acts of
Parliament, postal information, information relating to public offices,
insurance, banks, trades, businesses, professions, customs, tariffs, stamps
and government duties, and such other information as may be considered
of great commercial or general value to the public.
And in order that the true character and value of our Invention may
be better understood, we will here make comparisons as regards a diary
produced in accordance with our Invention, and well known diaries now
in public use. Thus the solicitors' diary which is sold for five or six
shillings by reason of its containing a vast collection of information,
and such information being printed on printing paper, by the aid of
our Invention could be so produced that it could be sold for a much
simaller sum of money, perhaps at half the price above named, because
the interleaved blotting paper could be utilized for printing upon.
Blackwood's diary also, which is sold for two shillings, could by the

page_text: adoption of our Invention be sold at half the price, and yet be printed
on equally good paper, and contain a larger quantity of sound practical
information than that diary does.
We prefer to use for utilizing blotting paper as herein-before described
the following method, that is, we print thereon various descriptions of
information which may be deemed of value to the public, whether
commercially, professionally, or otherwise; and we prefer to have the
blotting paper we use manufactured expressly for the object in view by
using a greater amount of size than is now usually used in the manufacture
of blotting paper, also to have the ink specially prepared by introducing
in its composition a greater quantity of oil, turpentine, and other
material used in the manufacture of printers' ink so as to give it a
stronger body, and by combining the prepared blotting paper and
prepared ink we are enabled to print on such blotting paper without
injury to its absorbing qualities or the clearness of the printed matter
thereon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
put in practice, we hereby declare that we claim the herein described
Invention of "An Improvement in the Manufacture of Diaries and other
"Works where Blotting Paper is used for Interleaving Purposes," an
important point in which Invention is the treatment of blotting paper
by printing thereon as herein-before described and using the same in
the manufacture of diaries and other works by introducing such printed
blotting paper between the usual leaves of such diaries or works which
have hitherto remained blank.
In witness whereof, I, the said George de Lara, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
GEORGE DE LARA. (L.s.)
THOMAS MORGAN,
Secretary,
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,
21, Cockspur Street, S.W.