Or RETAINING COTTON AND OTHER ELASTIC SUBSTANCES WHEN PRESSED
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ARCHIBALD
BLAIR, of Bayford, in the County Herts, Esquire, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, on or about the Nineteenth day
of August instant; hath given and granted unto the said Archibald Blair, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole privi-
lege and authority, to make use of a new method invented by him, the
said Archibald Blair, "Or RETAINING COTTON AND OTHER ELASTIC SUBSTANCES
WHEN PRESSED," within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all His Majesty's Islands, Colonies, and Plantations abroad, for the
term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, and to have
and enjoy the full benefit and sole use and exercise of the said Invention during
the term aforesaid; subject nevertheless to a proviso or condition in the said
Letters Patent contained, that if the said Archibald Blair should not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next ensuing the date of the said
Letters Patent, then the same Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly ease, determine, and be
void.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Archibald Blair, in compliance with and
performance of the said condition of the said Letters Patent, doth, by this

page_text: Instrument.in writing under his hand and seal, particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, as well by the several Figures or Delineations of machinery
contained in the margin of these Presents, as by the description or explanation
thereof herein-after also set forth (that is to say):-
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The said Invention consists in using all sorts of wooden, bamboo, cane, and
iron hoops, for retaining elastic packages after the goods have been pressed, and
the method of application is as follows, viz:-Hoops must be prepared of the
proper strength, and of sufficient length to encompass the intended packages,
with one or more holes at each end for rivets or nails. When wooden or
bamboo hoops are used, they must be soaked or steamed to render them
pliant. By grooves in the upper and lower blocks of the presses the hoops are
passed round the bales, and the ends of the hoops may be either riveted, nailed,
or lashed together. By battens being fixed on the interior of the presses,
grooves may be formed on the sides of the bales, that the hoops may not project
too much.
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Figure 1st, a bale of cotton in a press, in a state to be retained. Figure 2d,
a bale retained by hoops of bamboo, the ends fastened by being nailed into the
cotton. Figure 3d, a bale retained by hoops of bamboo, the ends fastened by
the nails being clenched. Figure 4th, a bale retained by iron hoops,
Figure 5th, a mode of fastening the ends of bamboo or wooden hoops, by
clenching the nails. Figure 6th, mode of fastening the ends of wooden or
bamboo hoops, by driving the nails into the cotton. Figure 7th, a bamboo
hoop, with holes for the nails. Figure 8th, mode of fastening the ends of iron
hoops, by nailing into the cotton. Figure 9th, mode of rivetting iron hoops,
the head to be outward. Figure 10th, an iron hoop, with holes for the nails
or rivets; and a scale of feet applicable to Figures 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 7th, and
10th.
In witness whereof, the said Archibald Blair hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twentieth day of August, in the forty-second year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,, Defender of the
Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twentieth day of
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Archibald Blair came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, 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 Twenty-first day of August, in the year above written.