A MACHINE FOR CRIMPING, PLEATING, AND GOFFERING LINENS, MUSLINS, FRILLS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TURNER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass and Iron Founder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-seventh day of April, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-
four, on the fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John
Turner, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authoriry, that I, the said John Turner, ny exors, admors, and
assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR CRIMPING, PLEATING,
AND GOFFERING LINENS, MUSLINS, FRILLS, AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Turner,
shall 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 His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months 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, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation 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 Turner, do hereby declare that the nature of any said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say) :-
The box contains
It consists of an iron box with a lid made of brass, on the top side of which
is a fluted crimp plate. (See the annexed Plate, Letter A.
an iron heater. (See Letter B.) The machine is to be used with a brass
roller fluted (to correspond with the crimp plate), which is fixed in a frame
and attached to an handle made of wood, so as to be applied to the crimp plate,
and used or worked with one hand. (See Letter C.) The hook, see Letter D,
is for taking out or putting in the heator. The box may be made in a variety
of forms, and of any other sufficient hard metal; the lid also may be made of
steel, iron, or other hard metal, and the top side of an arched form; and the
crimp plate may be made loose, so as to slide or fix to the box by screws or
pins; and the roller may be made of iron or other hard metal, and may be
fixed to the box so as to be worked with a windlass. The roller also may
be made to work or revolve on an axis or a pivot.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Turner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.