A NEW MANUFACTURE OF WORSTED
Year: 1822

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
WILSON, of Streatham, in the County of Surrey, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Fourth, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighteenth day of October, in the third year of the reign of His
said present Majesty King George the Fourth, after reciting that I, the said
Stephen Wilson, had, by my petition, humbly represented that I had invented
"A NEW MANUFACTURE OF WORSTED," and that I was the first and true Inventor
thereof, and that the same had never been practised by any other person or
persons whomsoever, to my knowledge or belief, did give and grant unto me;
the said Stephen Wilson, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Stephen Wilson,
my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Stephen Wilson, my exors, admors, or assigns, 'should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said
Stephen Wilson, my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in my
or their discretion seem meet, and that I, the said Stephen Wilson, my exors,
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page_text: adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing,
accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term
of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, privileges, and advantages, unto me, the said Stephen Wilson, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of
the said Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case, made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I,
the said Stephen Wilson, 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Stephen Wilson, do by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and intended to be duly inrolled in the said Court, particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, viz,-I declare the nature of my said Invention, and the
process by which the same is performed, by the following descriptions thereof
(that is to say) :-
.
My said Invention doth consist in two wefts of worsted shot on a common
worsted or other warp, such wefts having been spun from five to seven times
harder than for ordinary weaving, and on spindles which have been turned in
contrary directions, forming, when wove and otherwise prepared as herein-
after more particularly described, a kind of crape for ladies' dresses and other
purposes, which I call "British crape."
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS.
Having set up a loom with an ordinary worsted, woollen, silk, or other
warp, which should be composed of yarns about one third finer than the wefts
which are to be used, and which warp should also be rather open, procure a
quantity of weft yarn which has been spun with from five to seven times more
twist than ordinary worsted weft yarn, and on spindles which have been
turned to the right; also an equal quantity of worsted weft yarn, which
has been spun with the same quantity of extra twist, but on spindles which
have been turned to the left, which two kinds of yarn would be under-
stood in the trade by the appellations of yarn spun to the right and yarn

page_text: spun to the left, or yarn with contrary or opposite twists. Make a weft of
each of these kinds of yarn and commence weaving in the ordinary way,
taking care to shoot two shoots of one kind of yarn and two shoots of the other
kind alternately, and not to strike it up so hard with the battens as to
'prevent its afterwards crimpling, as herein-after more particularly described; this
process must be continued till the necessary length of piece is made. The
piece being then cut from the loom, the grease must be taken out, which may
be done in the usual way, and then the piece must be put into boiling water,
which will cause it to shrink up and crape till it is only about three fifths of
the original width of the piece when in the loom. The piece is then scalded
in the ordinary manner, with the exception only that when it is put on the
roller it must be stretched or pulled out to the proper width, which I have
found to be about two thirds of the width when cut from the loom. After the
scalding it will be found to remain at its proper width. The piece is then
dyed, and if it be found to have shrunk again in this operation, it must again
be stretched on a roller and steamed, in like manner as it was scalded before,
steam being now used to prevent injury to the colours. I have herein-before
described my said Invention as made with single yarns. When the yarns are
composed of more threads than one, the twisting must be hard in proportion
to the spinning herein-before described, and also right and left. Now, whether
the two kinds of weft be shot alternately one and one or two and two, or any
other number or numbers or combination of numbers that will produce the
effect required, is not material to the said Invention, though I have found a
series of two and two, as herein-before described, to make the best work;
neither is it of importance to the said Invention that any particular sized yarn
should be made use of, though I prefer the sizes from No. 30 to 60 of the four-
quarter reel. But such a manufacture of worsted, produced by the combina-
tion of worsted weft yarns, twisted as hard as and right and left in manner
herein-before described, being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new and never before used in these Kingdoms, I hereby declare this
to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this said Spe-
cification in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, to comply with
the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained,
whereby it is my intention to maintain an exclusive right and privilege to my
said Invention.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Six-
teenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
Landed and twenty throe
STEPN (L.s.) WILSON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord 1823, the aforesaid Stephen Wilson came before our
said Lord the King in. His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three..