AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LEDYARD PHILLIPS, of Milksham, in the County of Wilts, Cloth Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of October, in the seventh year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Ledyard Phillips, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,.
that I, the said John Ledyard Phillips, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Ledyard Phillips, my exors, admors, or assigns
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
WOOLLEN CLOTHS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said John Ledyard Phillips, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Ledyard Phillips, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in the application of cocoa-nut oil instead of the oils now in use to that
part of the manufacture of woollen cloths called the scribbling and carding
processes. And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Ledyard Phillips, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention
is to be performed, by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :-
In very warm summer weather, or if scribbling and carding processes of the
manufacture be carried on in rooms heated to a similar temperature, the cocoa-
nut oil may be applied in precisely the same manner as the olive and other
oils heretofore used in the said processes of the manufacture; but in colder
weather, in which the cocoa-nut oil would set or congeal, it will be necessary
to melt it and mix a proportion of olive oil therewith, such proportion varying
from one half to any less quantity, dependent on the degree of temperature of
the room or rooms in which the processes are carried on, one half being suffi-
cient for the work performed in any ordinary winter seasons.
Now, whereas I claim as my Invention the application of cocoa nut, either
alone or mixed with olive oil, or with such other oils, and in such proportions
as will enable it to be worked in cold weather to wool when undergoing the
processes of scribbling and carding in the manufacture of woollen cloths,
whereby I am enabled to cleanse the cloth afterwards more rapidly and
effectually, and ultimately to produce a better article. And such my In-
vention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new and
never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Speci-
fication of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in
the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained, wherefore I
do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ledyard Phillips, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
JOHN LEDYARD PHILLIPS. (L.8.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1836, the aforesaid John Ledyard Phillips came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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.