A CERTAIN METHOD OF PREVENTING WRINGING AND CRUSHING OF UNWROUGHT SILK IN THE PROCESS OF DYING
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
LEWIS DESORMEAUX, of Spitalfields, in the Parish of Christ Church, in the
County of Middlesex, Silk Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of February, in the thirtieth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said James Lewis Desormeaux, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said James Lewis Desormeaux, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His King-
dom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN METHOD OF PREVENTING
WRINGING AND CRUSHING OF UNWROUGHT SILK IN THE PROCESS OF DYING;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said James
Lewis Desormeaux, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said
Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Lewis Desormeaux, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly
described and ascertained as follows, that is to say:-

page_text: My said Invention consists of the machinery hereunder drawn and described,
which is to be made, constructed, put together, and used in the manner and of
the material mentioned and described in the said Plan or Drawing, and the
explanation subjoined thereto...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE DRAWINGS.
A, A, A, A, Figure 1st, the frame of the machine, put together by braces,
with tenons and mortise, or screw bolts and nuts; B; B; two brays, made fast
in the frame A, A, A, A, with tenon or mortise, or screw bolts and nuts, or
moving up and down in mortises in the frame A, A, A, A; B, Bb, two brays,
made fast in the frame A, A, A, A, with tenon and mortise; or screw-bolts and
nuts, or moving up and down in the mortises C, C, C, C in the frame
A, A, A, A; C, C, two bars of wood, iron, or other metal, applied to the brays
Bb, Bb, also to the axis of the roler E; D, a roler of different diameters, 'made
of wood, iron, or other metal, with its axis revolving in steps or collars made of
wood, iron, or other metal, applied to the brays B, B, D, a roler of different
diameters, made of wood, iron, or other metal; with its' axis' revolving in steps
or collars made of wood, iron, or other metal, applied to the brays Bby B; E,
a roler, made of wood, iron, or other metal, with its axis resting in eyes or
steps in the bars C, C; F, a lever, supported by a roler B; with one end
fastened to the frame A, A, A, A, a weight G'being applied to the other end
by means of a chain, or rope, or the lever F, with the bars C, C; and roler E
may be applied to the under side of the brays B, B, or the brays B, B, or
Bb. Bb, may be compressed by means of springs, weights, or screws: *-H, & cog
wheel, on the axis of the roler D, by which motion may be communicated to
the said roler D, or motion may be communicated to the rolers D and Dd by
tooth and pinion, see Figure 3, or by pullies on each axis, with chains, or
straps, or ropes; I, a cog wheel, on a shaft or axis, by which "motion is
.communicated to the wheel H by means of water, wind, horse, or other power.
Figure 2 represents a section of the frame A, A, A, A, Figure 1, with letters
corresponding with the respective parts of Figure 1.
Figure 3: A, A, represents the rollers, as in Figure 1, with pinion wheels
B, B; C, a roler, with its axis supported by upright standards and revolving

page_text: on its axis; D, D, a piece of cloth, leading round the rollers A and C, by
which hands or skains of silk are conducted to the rolers A, A.
Figure 4 represents the upper brays B, Bb, also the bars C, C, and the roler
E, Figure 1.
Figure 5: A, the press, containing the apparatus represented at Figure 6;
B, B, B, B, the frame supporting the axis; C, C, C, C, the frame supporting
the stampers; D, D, the axis; E, E, a wheel fixed on the axis, containing two
rolers or cogs e, e; F, F, the stampers, made of wood, iron, or other metal;
G represents one of the noggs or square pieces of wood, iron, or other metal,
fastened to the stampers, which are catched by the cogs e, e, of the wheel E, E,
by which means the stampers are lifted and let go alternately as the wheel
E, E, revolves; H, H, tackling for raising the stampers without the assistance
of the machinery, and keeping them suspended at pleasure. In this Figure 5
one stamper is represented suspended, and the other at work upon the spring
wedge F, Figure 6: I, a cog wheel, fixed on the axis D, and turned by the
cog wheel I, Figure 1.
Figure 6: A, A, the back irons; B, B, baggs or wrappers, made of hair
cloth or other materials, containing the silk to pressed or squeezed; C, C, the
fore irons; D, D, the dam blocks; E', the back filling; E2, the middle filling;
E³, the fore filling; F, the spring wedge; G, the driving wedge.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly stampt) by
the within-named James Lewis Desormeaux,
in the presence of
PETER REYNOLDS,
Clk. to Mr. Collins, Spital Square.
P. DESORMEAUX, jun'.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of March, in the
year above written, the aforesaid James Lewis Desormeaux came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the said Twentieth day of March, in the year above mentioned.
Inrolled the said Twentieth day of March, in the year above mentioned.