IMPROVEMENTS IN RICK CLOTHS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Goodjer Garrard, of Harlow, in the
County of Essex, Barge Owner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN RICK CLOTHS."
Sealed the 22nd December 1868, and dated the 25th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Goodjer Garrard
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Pétition,
on the 25th June 1868.
I, JOHN GOODJER GARRARD, of Harlow, in the County of Essex,
Barge Owner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN RICK CLOTHS," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object a means of providing an immediatè
protection to ricks in substitution for thatching, and consists in the use
of a cloth of canvas, felt, or other suitable material adapted for various
sizes of ricks, and capable of forming either a temporary or a permanent
cover for the same. For this purpose the cloth is cut into the required
pieces to form gores, which are sewn or fixed together except in one
part where an opening is left; in order to admit of the cloth being folded
in so as to make it fit over the top of the rick to which it is intended

page_text: to be applied. When the cloth is required for a temporary covering it
may be composed of ordinary canvas, but when required for a permanent
cover the canvass may be dressed with tar or other suitable dressing, or
the cover may be composed of felt such as is used for roofing purposes,
and the gores or pieces of felt may be united as required by means of
marine glue or other suitable adhesive substance. The edge of the
cloth may be strengthened if required by a "bolting rope," and eyelet
holes may be formed in the canvas or felt, or loops may be fixed to the
said rope for the purpose of securing the cloth to the rick.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Goodjer Garrard in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GOODJER GARRARD, of Harlow, in the County of Essex, Barge Owner,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Goodjer Garrard, Her special licence
that I, the said John Goodjer Garrard, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Goodjer Garrard, my 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 RICK
CLOTHS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Goodjer Garrard, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW 1, that 1, the said Jonn Groodjer Garrard, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is, to
say)
My Invention of "Improvements in Rick Cloths," has for its object
a means of providing an immediate protection to ricks in substitution
for thatching, and consists in the use of a cloth of canvas, felt, or other
suitable material adapted for various sizes of ricks, and capable of
forming either a temporary or a permanent cover for the same. For
this purpose the cloth is cut into the required pieces to form gores,
which are sewn or fixed together except in one part where an opening
is left in order to admit of the cloth being folded so as to make it fit
over the top of the rick to which it is intended to be applied. When
the cloth is required for a temporary covering it may be composed of
ordinary canvas, but when required for a permanent cover the canvas
may be dressed with tar or other suitable dressing, or the cover may be
composed of felt such as is used for roofing purposes, and the gores or
pieces of felt may be united as required by means of marine gluc or
other suitable adhesive substance. The edge of the cloth may be
strengthened if required by a "bolting rope," and eyelet holes may be
formed in the canvas or felt, or loops may be fixed to the said rope for
the purpose of securing the cloth to the rick.
Fig. 1 is a diagram representing in plan a circular rick cloth composed
of several gores A, A, united together by sewing or otherwise, with an
opening or part not sewn at B, admitting of the folding in of the cloth
so as to adapt it for a covering for ricks of different sizes. This opening
might also be made by taking out one or more gores if preferred instead
of in the manner represented at B; C, C, are holes for securing the
cloth to the rick, and D shews the position of a bolting rope when used.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the cloth as applied to the top of a rick; and
Fig. 3 shews the same cloth folded in to fit a smaller rick.
The dotted lines in Fig. 1 represent a rectangular top of a rick. The
cloth may be rectangular in form (instead of circular as represented
and described) with an opening extending from the outer line to the
centre; or a circular cloth may be formed without gores by cutting

page_text: out a circular portion of an ordinary rectangular cloth and making a
radial opening as shewn in Fig. 4.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim
as of my Invention is, the adaptation and application to ricks of a cloth
composed of canvas, felt, or other suitable material, with an opening
by means of which it can be folded in so as to make it fit the tops of
ricks of different sizes, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Goodjer Garrard, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-first day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane,
W.C.
JOHN G. GARRARD. (L.S.)