An IMPROVED METHOD OF HEATING WOOLLEN CLOTH FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING IT A LUSTRE IN DRESSING
Year: 1824

page_text: FUSSELL'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FUSSELL, of Mells, in the County of Somerset, Edge Tool Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of August, in the fifth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Fussell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power and authority, that I, the said John Fussell, my executors,
administrators, and 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
IMPROVED METHOD OF HEATING WOOLLEN CLOTH FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING IT A
LUSTRE IN DRESSING;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said John Fussell, 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
samme to be inrolled in His 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the 'said
John Fussell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, of
an Improved Method of Heating Woollen Cloth for the Purpose of giving it a

page_text: Lustre in Dressing, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
is fully described and ascertained as follows (that is to say:)-
My Invention consists in an improved method of applying steam to the
heating of woollen cloth (that is to say):-After the cloth is properly dressed
either by gig machine or by hand dressing, I roll it upon a hollow roller or
rollers, so contrived as to receive or enclose the list or forrel, by which process
the stains or wrinkles which are usually produced by rolling the cloth upon
the solid roller or rollers in common use are avoided. I then place the cloth
on end, for the purpose of shifting as much of the water as is usually shifted
previously to racking. In the next place, I submit the cloth to the action of
steam for about three hours, more or less, according to circumstances, either
by suspending it over water in a common furnace, or by placing it in any
apparatus contrived for the purpose, and capable of receiving one or more
rolls of cloth at a time, or by any other convenient and suitable means in
which steam is or may be raised in the usual ways, or conveyed into it from a
detached or separate generator and applied to the cloth; or if desirable the
steam may be introduced into the roller or rollers, care being taken to prevent
the cloth from being strained by the condensed steam from the forrel. The
proper temperature of the steam to be applied to the cloth may be stated at
considerably below the boiling point, but the exact temperature must be regu-
lated by the judgment of the operator, according to the lustro required, and in
some measure also to the capability of the color to withstand a high moist
temperature. When it is desirable to give to the cloth a very high lustre it may
be obtained by shifting less of the water than is usually shifted previously to
racking and raising the steam to a greater degree of heat than required to
produce a less degree of lustre. In this case, however, the roller on which the
cloth is wound should be made to revolve slowly during the process of steaming
by mechanical or other means.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fussell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped), the Ninth day of
October, One thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty-four, in the pre-
JOHN (L.B.) FUSSELL.

page_text: WICKHAM, Extr.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of October, in the
fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, the said
John Fussell came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-four.