CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CLEANING, MILLING, OR FULLING CLOTH
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HIRST, of Leeds, in the County of York, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fifth day of March, in the sixth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Hirst and also to John Wood, of Leeds aforesaid, Manufacturer,
His especial licence, that we, the said William Hirst and John Wood, our
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Hirst and
John Wood, our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
ho 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, our Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CLEANING, MILLING, OR FULLING CLOTH;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging us, the said William
Hirst and John Wood, by an instrument in writing under our or one of
our hands and seals, particularly to describe the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same
to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Hirst, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention to consist
in the introduction of steam into the side, back, or other parts of a fulling
stock, in such manner that the said steam shall enter into the folds and
meshes of and damp and heat whatever cloth may be put into the said fulling 5
stock for the purpose of fulling, and continue to do so during the whole process
of fulling, whereby the use of soap during the said process is rendered unneces-
sary; and in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said William
Hirst, do hereby describe the manner in which we perform our said Inven-
tion, by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing 1
annexed, and the letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The Drawing represents the principal parts of a fulling stock. A, A, is a
small pipe pierced with holes, through which the steam is admitted into the
side, back, or other parts of the fulling stock. This pipe A, A, is fed with 1
steam by means of a feed pipe leading from any ordinary steam boiler, and this
feed pipe should be furnished with a waste pipe to carry off any water which
may be formed by the condensation of the steam, and which said water ought
not to be allowed to mix with the cloth of it can be avoided during the process
of fulling. Now whereas a fulling stock into the side, back, or other parts 2
of which steam is introduced in such manner as to enter into the folds and
meshes of and damp and heat whatever cloth may be put into the said
fulling stock for the purpose of fulling, and continue to do so during the
whole process of fulling, thereby rendering the use of soap unnecessary in the
process of fulling, is to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, 2
and has never before been used within His said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, or Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do therefore hereby declare this to be our Specifica-
tion of such a fulling stock as aforesaid, and that I do verily believe this our
said Specification doth comply in all respects fully, and without reserve or 3
disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent granted to us, the said William Hirst and the said John Wood con-
tained, whereby we hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to
our said improvements.
In witness whereof, I the said William Hirst, have hereunto set my hand s
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
(L.B.) HIRST.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid William Hirst 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 stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.