A MACHINE FOR THE BLOTCHING, PRINTING, INTERMIXING, AND VARIAGATING, WITH COPPER PLATES, PURPLE AND RED AND RED AND BLACK COLOURS ON CALLICOS, COTTONS, LAWNS, AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF WHITSTERED LINNENS, FOR FURNITURE, GARMENTS, AND HANDKERCHIEPS
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LONG, of Mitcham, in the County of Surry, Callico Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Long, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, by much study and application, invented and brought to perfection
"A MACHINE FOR THE BLOTCHING, PRINTING, INTERMIXING, AND VARIAGATING,
WITH COPPER PLATES, PURPLE AND RED AND RED AND BLACK COLOURS ON CALLICOS,
COTTONS, LAWNS, AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF WHITSTERED LINNENS, FOR FURNITURE,
GARMENTS, AND HANDKERCHIEPS;" that in regard I was the first and true
Inventor thereof, I most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me
His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of the said Invention,
within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England; His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His
Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant
to the Statute in such case made and provided; His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for
the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-fifth day of February, in the seventh year of His reign, of His
especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs,
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Long, my
executors, adiñiors, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Long, my executors, adiñors, and

page_text: assigns, by myself, or by my deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Long, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times hereafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that
part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His
Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Thomas
Long, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of us, should in our
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas Long, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, accrueing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein and herein-after mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto me, the said Thomas
Long, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the
full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Long, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said"
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully and at large appears.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Thomas Long, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the aforesaid Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, to be in the Plan or Draught thereof hereunto
annexed; the explanation of which Plan or Draught is as follows (that is to
say) -
A, A, A, the frame which contains the cylinders B, B, the upper one of
which must be covered with fine cloth, two thicknesses, quilted and sewed on
very close to cylinder, the spindle of which must be of sufficient length to
come outside of jaumbs A, A, to fix on crosses C, C, which serves to work or

page_text: turn round cylinders B, B, and causes the desired impression on linnen.
1, 1, are forcing pins to force cylinders sufficiently close to make impression
perfect. The linnen is rowled on small rowl D, comes immediately down to
cylinders B, B, as exprest by occult lines 0, 0, and is taken upon rowl E, when
printed, by turning the handle g, which is fixed at the end of the said rowl;
repeat this every impression until the whole peice of
printed. The plates are charged with a brush out
discharged or cleaned with a lath made of lime tree.
plank on which plates are worked. Shift your trough F as you alter your
colour.
linnen on D is intirely
of the trough F, and
G, the table. H is a
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Long, have hereunto set my
hand hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, and in the seventh
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, &c.
RICH BOYFEILD.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Seventeenth day of June,
in the seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the aforesaid Thomas Long came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt
according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Seventeenth day of June, in the seventh year of the
reign of King George the Third, 1767.