AN IMPROVEMENT OB IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WEB OR WIRE FOR MAKING PAPER
Year: 1826

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEWIS
AUBREY, of Two Waters, in the County of Herts, Engineer, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Fourth, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of July last past, did
give and grant unto me, the said Lewis Aubrey, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, His special licence, full power and authority, that I, the
said Lewis Aubrey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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, my In-
vention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OB IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WEB OR WIRE FOR MAKING
PAPER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Lewis Aubrey, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso in the said
Letters Patent contained, I, the said Lewis Aubrey, do hereby declare that my
said Invention is fully described and ascertained as follows, that is to say:-

page_text: The object of my Invention of an Improvement or Improvements in the Web
or Wire for Making Paper is to produce the large water mark on wove paper,
made on a machine working with endless wires or moulds, and which I
accomplish by my said improvement or improvements in the web or wire as
follows:-
The warp is to be put in the loom in the usual way, consisting of smali
wires, according to the number of holes to the inch as may be required,
without the large warp being applied until the small spaces in the reed are
filled agreeably to the width wanted, and when properly fixed at both ends,
then a wooden or a metal roller, about five inches diameter and as long as the
loom is wide, is to be fixed resting on two iron bearings at the tail end of the
loom at a little distance below the bottom roller, not quite under the centre.
This roller must have a groove in it so as to take a wooden or metal strip, into
which roller the same is to be fixed by screws, and the said strip must also con-
tain as many pegs of iron, steel, or other metal, as large water marks may be
required in the sheet of paper, standing about a quarter of an inch out of the
roller above the surface, and divided to answer the large divisions left in the
reed, from a quarter of an inch to one inch and upwards, at equal or unequal
distances, as may be desired. The large warp is then to be placed on to each
of the pegs, either circular or otherwise, round the five inch roller until there
be a sufficient length; then each large warp (either circular or otherwise) is to
be passed through the front harness, which should be very strong and placed a
little higher in the work than the small harness; from thence they are to be
passed through large divisions of the reed one by one successively. Large
divisions are left in the reed for the purpose of receiving the large warp, and
the ends made fast to a round iron rod half an inch in diameter. I then place
a metal roller to lay loose on the large warps on a level with the bottom of
the five inch roller, by which means the whole of the large warps are made
tight equally with all the small warps. The weaving is then to be done in
the usual way by throwing to suit the number of holes required, and by
means of a strong harness standing higher than the small ones, as before
described, the large warp is rendered flush with one surface. The size of the
wire required is governed by the number of hole-work, as No. 8 warp, inter-
mixed with No. 15 or 16, when put to work will shew the large longitudinal
water-mark lines commonly seen in laid paper. A warp may also be produced
consisting of wires the same size, with a waft of similar wires with large ones
inserted transversedly at equal or unequal distance, whether circular or other-
wise, so as to produce transversedly the large water-mark lines common in

page_text: laid paper; the wires may be made to any length and width used on machines
or moulds, and of any metal used in wire weaving.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lewis Aubrey, have hereunto my hand
and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, One thousand eight hundred
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirty-first day of October,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Lewis Aubrey came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
O said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Thirty-first day of October, in the year above written.