AN IMPROVEMENT IN FOLLING WOVEN WOOLLEN FABRICS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hector Mottet, of Newlay, near Leeds, Dyer, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FOLLING WOVEN WOOLLEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 24th March 1857, and dated the 9th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hector Mottet at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th December
1856.
I, HECTOR MOTTET, of Newlay, near Leeds, Dyer, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FULLING WOVEN WOOLLEN
FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in fulling woven woollen
fabrics. For this purpose, in place of employing water together with soap or
other ordinary material in this process, the woven fabrics (composed, or partly
composed of woollen yarn) are subjected when in contact with steam to the
ordinary mechanical action of the fulling stocks or machines, which are suitably
inclosed to retain the steam.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hector Mottet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HECTOB
MOTTET, of Newlay, near Leeds, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters,
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Hector
Mottet, Her special licence that I, the said Hector Mottet, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Hector Mottet, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FULLING WOVEN
WOOLLEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Hector Mottet, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hector Mottet, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in fulling woven woollen
fabrics. For this purpose, in place of employing water together with soap or
other ordinary material in this process, the woven fabrics (composed or partly
composed of woollen yarn) are subjected when in contact with steam to the
ordinary mechanical action of the fulling stocks or machines, which are suitably
inclosed to retain the steam.
Having thus stated the nature of the Invention, I will proceed more fully to
describe the manner of performing the same.
In place of using soap or other ordinary materials in. the process of fulling
or milling woollen cloths, the process is accomplished when subjected to a
heated moist atmosphere. For this purpose the ordinary fulling stocks or

page_text: machines are employed, but they are covered in, so as to retain. atmosphere of
steam within the covers, and so that the action of the stocks or machines may
be on the cloths or fabrics whilst they are subject to a moist heated atmo-
sphere. The temperature which is believed to be best is about from 110° to
115° of Fahrenheit, but this may be varied, and the steam is preferred
to be introduced in numerous small jets from a perforated pipe or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hector Mottet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
CAMILLE DEPRET,
Vice Consul de Belgique,
à Moscow (Russie).
HECTOR MOTTET. (L.B.)