CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
LOMAS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Worsted Spinner, and
ISAAC SHIMWELL, of the same Place, Worsted Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, did, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of December, in the
sixth year of Her reign, give and grant unto us, the said William Lomas
and Isaac Shimwell, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial license,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said William Lomas
and Isaac Shimwell, our exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell, our exors, adiňors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no 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 that part of Her Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in Her Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney,
Sark, and Man, and also in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF

page_text: FRINGES, CORDS, AND OTHER SIMILAR SMALL WARES, AND ALSO IN THE MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso, that if we, the said William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us,
and cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months then next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent, then that the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell, do hereby declare the nature of our
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, is particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to
say) :-
Our Invention consists in the application of the fibres of wool, cotton, or
flax, when such fibres are in the state commonly known by the name of rovings,
to the formation of drapery cords, welting cords, bell cords, cord for making
the petticoats of tassels, and for the weft of plummett or bullion fringes, in the
place of spun yarns, by which means our improved small wares have a more
silky surface, whilst the process of spinning is saved, and consequently, the
time, labor, and expence which it entails. The head or warp of our improved
fringes is composed of a number of spun threads, similar in every respect to the
warps of fringes generally, and the roving, after being suitably prepared, in the
manner to be herein-after described, is woven in to form the fringe in the ordi-
nary manner. The weft or fringe cord formerly and at present used, except in
our improved fringes, is composed of a number of threads of yarn which have
each been previously and separately spun. These threads of yarn, in order to
prepare them for weft or fringe cord, are twisted together and afterwards
dressed. When a cord so formed is used single, the product is denominated
a single bullion or plummett fringe. When two or more such cords are twisted
together to form weft or fringe cord, the process is styled cabling, and the
product is in this instance called a cabled, bullion, or plummett fringe. The
weft or fringe cord of our improved fringes is composed of a roving, which for
this purpose is subjected to the usual processes of twisting and dressing. The
twisting here alluded to is to enable the weft or fringe cord to curl or snarl
into a plummett or bullion after being liberated from the loom, similar to the

page_text: twisting of the aggregated threads on the old plan. In making our cabled
fringes, we adopt the ordinary method of cabling fringe cord, namely, twisting
as many of our single cords together as the thickness of the plummett to be
made may require. Drapery cords and the other articles enumerated are
manufactured by us in the usual manner, but we use a cord made from roving
instead of one composed of spun threads.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and in what manner the
same is performed, we wish it to be understood that we do not claim as our
Invention the exclusive use of the herein-before described process or processes
of making the said manufacture, except so far as the said process or processes
may be employed in and for the application of rovings for the said improve-
ments in fringes, cords, and other similar small wares, as above described.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Lomas and Isaac Shim'well,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Third day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
ISAAC
(L.s.) SHIMWELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of June, in the year
of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her 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.
Enrolled the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three.

page_text: In the Matter of Letters Patent, granted the 8th day of December
1842, to William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell, for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRINGES, CORDS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
SMALL WARES, AND ALSO IN THE MACHINERY OR
PRODUCING THE SAME."
APPARATUS
FOR
DISCLAIMER entered pursuant to the Act passed in the Session of Parliament
held in the 5th and 6th year of King William the 4th, entitled "An
Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
LOMAS and ISAAC SHIMWELL, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Worsted Spinners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, for Herself,
Her heirs and successors, did give and grant unto us, the said William Lomas
and Isaac Shimwell, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eighth day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-two, for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRINGES,
CORDS, AND OTHER SIMILAR SMALL WARES, AND ALSO IN THE MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME:" and whereas since the grant of the
said Letters Patent we have discovered and been advised that so much of
the said Invention as is expressed by the words "and also in the machinery
or apparatus for producing the same," in the title of the said Letters Patent
is not useful: and whereas we are desirous for the reasons aforesaid to
enter a Disclaimer of and in part of the title of our said Invention, and
have obtained leave of Her Majesty's Attorney General, certified by his fiat
and signature, according to the form of the Statute in such case made and
provided, to enter such Disclaimer:
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that we, the said William Lomas and Isaac
Shimwell, for the reasons aforesaid, do hereby disclaim in the title of our said
Invention the words "and also in the machinery or apparatus for producing
the same:" and we, the said William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell, do further
declare that our reason for the said Disclaimer is that above stated, and

page_text: that the said Disclaimer is not such Disclaimer as extends the exclusive right
granted by the said Letters Patent.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Third day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
JOHN BARLOW, J, Solicitor, Manchester,
A Master Extraordinary in Chancery.
To the Clerk of the Patents of England.
This is to certify that the within-named William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell,
both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Worsted Spinners, have
applied to me for leave to enter with you the within-written Disclaimer of part
of the title of a certain Invention for which Letters Patent were granted to
them under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at Westminster, the Eighth
day of December, One thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and having con-
sidered of the said application, and no objection having been made to the same,
I have accordingly granted leave to the said William Lomas and Isaac
Shimwell to file their said Disclaimer, pursuant to the Statute passed in the
fifth and sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth,
entitled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
Temple, June 8th, 1843.
FRED. POLLOCK.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of June, in the year
of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid William Lomas and Isaac Shimwell came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Disclaimer aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three.