CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SLIVER, OR SLIVERS OR TOPS FROM WOOL, OR WOOL AND COTTON, OR OTHER SUITABLE FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FREDERICK SMITH, of Dunston Hall, in the Parish of Chesterfield, in the
County of Derby, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of January, in the fifth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Frederick Smith, His especial licence, that I, the said John Frederick
Smith, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Frederick Smith, my exors, adñiors, 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 England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SLIVER,
OR SLIVERS OR TOPS FROM WOOL, OR WOOL AND COTTON, OR OTHER SUITABLE FIBROUS
MATERIALS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Frederick Smith, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and.

page_text: to cause the same to be iurolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chan-
cery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Frederick Smith, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in heating the cylinder of a carding machine, and on which the cards
are placed, with steam; and in further compliance with the said proviso,
I, the said John Frederick Smith, do hereby, describe the manner in which I
perform my said Invention, as follows (that is to say): -
I form the said cylinder of copper or other metal, and not of wood as in the
ordinary way; and having caused this copper vessel to be so made as to be
steam tight, I introduce steam into it through a hollow axis in the ordinary
mode used by engineers for applying steam in such situations, with a waste pipe
to conduct away such parts of the steam as may be condensed; and as the heat
I apply, which should be about two hundred and twenty degrees of Fahren-
heit's thermometer, would destroy the backs of cards made in the usual, way
with leather, I recommend that the teeth or wires of such cards as are to be used
with my said heated cylinder, should be set in block tin or other the like suitablo
metal. And whereas, nevertheless, the said tin or other metal backs to be
used for the cards are not any part of my said Invention, but a cylinder for a
carding machine, on which the cards are to be placed in the ordinary way, made
of metal, and heated by steam by any ordinary apparatus applicable to that
purpose, being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and
never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specifi-
cation of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification
doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the
proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained.
Wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to
my said improvements.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Frederick Smith, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
JOHN FREDERICK (L.s.) SMITH.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid John Frederick Smith came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.