IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR SINGEING WOVEN FABRICS AND YARNS."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Briggs, of Cleckheaton, in the County
of York, Dyer and Stover, and Horatio Stead, of Halifax, in the
same County, Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR SINGEING WOVEN FABRICS AND
YARNS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Briggs and
Horatio Stead at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 27th April 1875.
We, GEORGE BRIGGS, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Dyer
and Stover, and HORATIO STEAD, of Halifax, in the said County, Machine
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATus for Singeing WOVEN FABRICS And Yarns,”
to be as follows:-
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page_text: purpose we arrange and combine in one machine or apparatus two
different means or apparatus for singeing, namely, a series of gas jets and
a hot plate.
The fabrics or yarns are first drawn off a roller and passed over the
gas jets or flames of gas, and then in continuation over a heated copper 5
plate and wound upon another roller or cuttled. The animal fibres are
singed or burnt off by the flames of gas and the vegetable fibres by the
copper plate, whereby the necessity for repeating the operation of
singeing or passing the said fabrics or yarns twice or more times over
the singeing apparatus is avoided, that is, in having first to pass them 1
over a gasing machine, and afterwards over a heated singe plate, as is
now the practice.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Briggs and Horatio Stead in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
BRIGGS, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Dyer and Stover, and
HORATIO STEAD, of Halifax, in the same County, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Georgo Briggs and Horatio
Stead, Her special licence that we, the said George Briggs and Horatio
Stead, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said George Briggs and Horatio Stead, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SINGEING WOVEN
FABRICS AND YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said George Briggs and Horatio Stead, our executors or adıministrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands

page_text: 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 Scal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Briggs and Horatio Stead,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
The object of this Invention is to singe fabrics or yarns composed
of mixtures of animal and vegetable fibres at one operation. For this
purpose we arrange and combine in one apparatus two methods of
singeing, viz., a series of gas jets and a hot plate.
The fabrics or yarns are first passed over the flames of gas, and then
in continuation over a heated copper plate.
The animal fibres are
singed or burnt off by the flames of gas and the vegetable fibres by the
copper plate, whereby the necessity for repeating the operation of
singeing or passing the said fabrics or yarns twice or more times over
the apparatus is avoided.
The manner in which this Invention is to be or may be performed or
carried into practice will be readily understood by all who are acquainted
with the processes of singeing fabrics or yarns by the two methods
separally, without illustrating the combined apparatus by Drawings, as
the manner of arraying and combining the apparatus may vary
according to circumstances; but what we claim as our Invention is the
combination of gas jets and hot plate in one apparatus, arranged in such
manner that the fabrics or yarns may be passed over both in continuation
or succession for purposes herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Horatio Stead, for and on behalf
of myself and the said George Briggs, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.