AN-IRON OR OTHER COMB, TO BE APPIXED IN SEVERAL WAYS TO THE EDGE OR ON THE OUTSIDE OF A CURRY COMB, EITHER TO STAND UP, OR BY MEANS OF SPRINGS TO BE LAID 'DOWN AND RAISED UP, FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMBING THE MANES AND TAILS OF HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE, AND TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMBING DIRT AND FILTH FROM HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE IN NEED THEREOF, FOR WHICH THE SAME AND THE PARTICULAR MODE OF USING IT MAY BE APPLIED
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
HOLLICK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Curry Comb Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing
date on or about the Eigliteenth day of April now last past, in the thirty-eighth
year of His reign, was graciously pleased to grant unto me, the said Francis
Hollick, my exors, admors, and assigns, the sole making, using, exercising, and
vending of "AN-IRON OR OTHER COMB, TO BE APPIXED IN SEVERAL WAYS TO THE
EDGE OR ON THE OUTSIDE OF A CURRY COMB, EITHER TO STAND UP, OR BY MEANS OF
SPRINGS TO BE LAID 'DOWN AND RAISED UP, FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMBING THE
MANES AND TAILS OF HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE, AND TO BE USED FOR THE
PURPOSE OF COMBING DIRT AND FILTH FROM HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE IN NEED
THEREOF, FOR WHICH THE SAME AND THE PARTICULAR MODE OF USING IT MAY BE
APPLIED," for the term of fourteen years from the date thereof, within that
part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great. Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso for me, the said Francis Hollick, to describe
and ascertain the nature of my 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 one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and performance of the said
proviso, I, the said Francis Hollick, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
in manner following, that is to say:-
Number (1), a curry comb, the outside or back part thereof upwards, with
a mane and tail comb affixed to the edge thereof. Number (2), a curry comb
with the back part or outside thereof also upwards, with a mane and tail comb
standing up, affixed upon the same. Number (3), a curry comb with the
back part downwards. Number (4), a curry comb with the back part or
outside thereof also upwards, and the two sockets affixed thereon, with a
spring to each of them, to which is affixed a mane and tail comb standing up,
and which by means of the said springs may be laid down and raised up as
occasion may require. Number (5), a curry comb with the back part or
outside thereof also upwards, with two sockets likewise affixed thereon, with a
spring to each of them, to which is affixed a mane and tail comb laid down,
and which by means of the said springs may be raised up and laid down as
occasion may require, and which said mane and tail combs, so severally and
respectively affixed as aforesaid, are to be used for the purpose of combing the
manes and tails of horses and other cattle, and may be used for the purpose of
combing dirt and filth from horses and other cattle in need thereof, as above
mentioned; which said comb, and the manner in which the same is to be
affixed to a curry comb and used, are more particularly described in and by
the Drawings and Figures on the Plans in the margin of these Presents; and
I, the said Erancis Hollick, do hereby declare and affirm that the particulars
above set forth, and in the Plan hereto annexed, do contain a full, true, and
perfect description of the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
In witness whereof I, the said Francis Hollick, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
J. HOLLAND,
FRANS HOLLICK. (L.S.)
A Master Extraordinary in Chancery,
Birnam

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1798, the aforesaid Francis Hollick came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.