CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING OR PREPARING SADDLE LINING, SADDLE CLOTH, AND GIRTHS, FOR KEEPING SADDLES IN PLACE ON HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS OF BURDEN
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CLARKE, of South Down, Brixham, in the County of Devon, send grecting.
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 Twentieth day of October, in the first year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Clarke, His especial licence, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Samuel Clarke, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and such others as I,
the said Samuel Clarke, my exors, adñiors, 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,
my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING OR PREPARING SADDLE
LINING, SADDLE CLOTH, AND GIRTHS, FOR KEEPING SADDLES IN PLACE ON HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS OF BURDEN;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that I, the said Samuel Clarke, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part 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
Samuel Clarke, do hereby decribe the manner in which my said Invention is
to be performed, by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
I take a common serge flannel girth, web, or other loom suited for manufac-
turing the articles to which my improvements are applicable, and I remove
one or more (as may be) of the reeds, canes, or splits in the lay slay or
batten (as variously termed) of such loom at the distance apart from one such
enlarged aperture to another of half an inch more or less, as may be required,
so as to admit certain large yarns or chords to pass freely through to form the
ribs which constituto my improvements. The member of reeds or splits
removed at each aperture must be determined by the magnitudo of the yarn,
chord, or ribs required, and without any allowance for the smaller yarn which
compose the other part of the warp, as none are required, pass through the
same aperture with the large. The number of such enlarged apertures in the
slay is determined by the number of ribs required in the fabric (although I
use ribs of any size I recommend for the cloth a rib about the size of a crow
quill, but for the girth a ribs about the size of a goose quill, and hard spun or
twisted). I then take a warp or chain of the common materials, to which I
add certain yarns or chords, harder spun or twisted and of larger size than the
yarns which compose the other parts of the warp, as before stated, which said
larger yarns or chords I so place and arrange in the warp that each one may
pass through its corresponding enlarged aperture prepared for it in the reed or
slay opposite and in a line with it, so that it may accompany and work freely
with the warp of which it is a component part, the warp containing so many
chords as there are enlarged apertures provided and required. The warp or
chain thus prepared, I mount in the usual manner and attach in the usual
way to the warp or yarn beam, and also by the usual fastenings to the cloth
or web beam or rolls for winding the fabrics as it is woven in the said looms,
in the common way of performing it for weaving with the large yarns or chords
arranged as above directed; and I weave or work the said warp, carrying the
large yarn or chords with it, with the woof or weft, as usually performed in
the common way of weaving the respective articles. The larger yarns or
chords thus form ribs in the fabric, which said ribs constitute my improvements.
The cloth thus manufactured I uso and attach in the common or any other
way, as saddle lining or saddle cloth, observing only that the said cloth be so
applied that the ribs may cross the animal, or partly so, or I apply it to tho
sides of the animal. The girth web or girth thus manufactured with the ribs
lengthways, varies in length, width, and quality, to suit the various saddles or
cloths it is to be applied to, which I finish or fasten by buckles sown in the

page_text: common or any other manner required buckles. The girth or cloth when
applied to the animal forms or imprints grooves or ribs in the hair or skin of
somewhat a banded or armadillo-like appearance. Each rib has thus an
obstacle to surmount, which tends to prevent its sliding.
Having thus stated the principle and explained the best way known and.
practised by me for producing the ribs wherein my improvements consist, I
claim the right and privilege of using or adopting any other means or
machinery I may find or devise better suited to effect my object or vary my
pattern.
I claim also the right of forming or adding the ribs to such articles as are
fabricated without it for the purposes stated in my Petent. My improvements
not being in the machinery or means used but in the ribs of whatever materials
composed, or by whatever means produced and of whatever pattern having a
tendancy lengthways, on one or both sides in the girth web or girth, and I
shall consider as an infringement of my Patent any similar ribbed articles,
however produced, made applicable to the purposes for which my Patent is
granted or as a ribbed lining to such articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Clarke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.