IMPROVEMENTS ST THEN MASTER OF SALDO POR AOTLEMEN'S WEAD
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson,
of Cheapside, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
ST THEN MASTER OF SALDO POR AOTLEMEN'S WEAD"
Sealed the 1st April 1859, and dated the 25th October 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph James Welch
and John Stewart Margetson at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 25th October 1858.
We, JOSEPH JAMES WELCH and JOHN STEWART MARGETSON, both of Cheap-
side, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCARPS FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing gentlemen's scarfs of silk, woollen,
or other suitable fabric in such a manner that the ends can be displayed in a
full stiff form, without the inconvenience of having too stout a fabric round
the neck. We propose making the centre part of the scarf (about the length
of the circumference of the neck) about half the substance of the remaining
parts by changing the shuttle in the process of weaving.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
JAMES WELCH and JOHN STEWART MARGETSON, of Cheapside, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson, Her special
licence that we, the said Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCARFS FOR GENTLE-
MEN'S WEAR," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph
James Welch and John Stewart Margetson, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Stewart Margetson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing gentlemans' scarfs of silk or other
suitable fabric in such a manner that the ends can be displayed in a full stiff
form without the inconvenience of having too stout a fabric round the neck.
We propose making the centre part of the scarf (about the length of the
circumference of the neck) one-half or even less than one-half the substance
of the remaining parts by changing the shuttle in the process of weaving.

page_text: In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
The principal feature of this Invention consists in displaying upon the
breast of the wearer a scarf of a full stiff form without the inconvenience of
being encumbered round the neck with too stout a fabric. For this purpose
we form the scarfs in the process of weaving of less substance in their centres
than at the ends. This is effected by simply changing the weft and shuttle
used in weaving, the ends for another shuttle containing weft of less substance.
The scarfs may be made of silk or partly of silk and other suitable material.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our said Invention of
Improvements in the Manufacture of Scarfs for Gentlemen's Wear," together
with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, we would remark in conclusion that what we claim as our
Invention, intended to be secured to us by the herein in part recited Letters
Patent is, the manufacture of scarfs for gentlemen's wear in the manner and
for the purpose herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Stewart Margetson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JOHN STEWART MARGETSON. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.