A MACHINE FOR GLAZING OR POLISHING COTTONS, LINENS, AND MIXTURES, OR CLOTH MADE EITHER OF COTTON OR LINEN, AND CLOTH MADE OF COTTON AND LINEN MIXED TOGETHER AND ALSO ALL SORTS OF CLOTHS OR STUFFS MADE OF COTTON AND LINEN, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND ANY OTHER MATERIAL OR MATERIALS, OF ANY WIDTH OR BREADTH, TO Two YARDS WIDE OR BROAD, OR OF A GREATER BREADTH OR WIDTH
Year: 1788

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
YATES the younger, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Lining Cutter
and Small Ware Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath
been graciously pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, in the twenty-eighth
year of His said Majesty's reign, to give and grant unto me, the said David
Yates, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the. said David Yates, my exors, admors, and
assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said David Yates,
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
Invention of "A MACHINE FOR GLAZING OR POLISHING COTTONS, LINENS, AND
MIXTURES, OR CLOTH MADE EITHER OF COTTON OR LINEN, AND CLOTH MADE OF
COTTON AND LINEN MIXED TOGETHER, AND ALSO ALL SORTS OF CLOTHS OR STUFFS
MADE OF COTTON AND LINEN, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND ANY OTHER MATERIAL OR
MATERIALS, OF ANY WIDTH OR BREADTH, TO Two YARDS WIDE OR BROAD, OR OF A
GREATER BREADTH OR WIDTH," within that part of His Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner
as to me, the said David Yates, my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of

page_text: us, should in our discretion seem meet; and that I, the said David Yates,
my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, 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 therein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted unto me, the said David Yates, my exors, adññiors, 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
complete and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided:
And whereas there is contained in the said Letters Patent a proviso that if I,
the said David Yates, 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 the High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after, the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and be void, as by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may and will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the
proviso therein contained, I, the said David Yates, do hereby declare my said
new Invention is made and performed in manner following, that is to say:-
A side view of the machine is represented in the margin of these Presents.
I, I, L, L, are two upright timbers, which, with two others of the same size
and make, form the four corners of the frame. C, B, is a strong beam,
Two of these beams, laid
tenented into the uprights I, I, L, L, at L and L.
parallel to each other, form the seat for the glazing bench A. A, the glazing
bench, which is a piece of smooth timber cut in a curve, whose radius is the
semidiameter of the glazing wheel W; the length of the curve is one fourth
of the periphery of the glazing wheel W. W, the glazing wheel, in which
are fixed three barrs of steel (polished on outward edge and ground in an
obtuse angle) at a, a, a. These bars of steel glaze the cloth by their friction
over it, and the pressure of the glazing bench A, which presses upwards by
means of the lever H, which pressure is regulated by the hand or foot of the
person who attends the machine. Y is a section of the main shaft, on which
the glazing wheel W is fixed, and the water wheel that works the machine.
E is a roller, on which the cloth is rolled before it is glazed. O is a small
roller, which the cloth passes under before it goes to the glazing bench A,
to keep the cloth tight and prevent it from going on the glazing bench in

page_text: plaits. M is a large roller or drum, which receives the cloth, after it is
glazed, and is turned about by the two spokes or coggs V, V, and makes one
revolution while the glazing wheel makes three. To glaze a piece of cloth
on this machine, the persons who attends it rolls the cloth on the roller E,
and passes the end of it under the roller O, then brings it up to the glazing
bench A, and draws it between that and the glazing wheel W, after which
he skewers the end of the piece to a piece of linen, whose other end is nailed
to the drum M; he has only then to set the water wheel in motion, which
turns the wheel marked W, and the piece of linen, cotton, or other cloth,
will glaze of itself.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the
Fourteenth day of May, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-eight
Signed and sealed, by the said David
Yates the younger, in the presence
of
DAVID YATES, Jun'. (L.S.)
THO. JONES.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-eight.