A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS OF FINISHING WOOLLEN CLOTH
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Wilson, Finisher, and George Lendrum,
Manufacturer, both of Huddersfield, in the County of York, for
the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS OF FINISHING
WOOLLEN CLOTH.”
Sealed the 27th August 1872, and dated the 29th February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Wilson and
George Lendrum at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 29th February 1872.
We, JOSEPH WILSON, Finisher, and GEORGE LENDRUM, Manufacturer,
both of Huddersfield, in the County of York, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OR
MEANS OF FINISHING WOOLLEN CLOTH," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to obtain upon an ordinary tweed or a
dry finished cloth the lustre of a worsted or a cloth-faced finish.
To obtain our new or improved finish upon an ordinary tweed or dry
finished tweed the cloth is first pressed by ordinary means, and placed

page_text: on rollers and steamed, and afterwards washed out in hot water. The
cloth is then cut and further pressed as before, again steamed on rollers,
and lastly, placed on wood rollers and boiled in water in the usual
way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Joseph Wilson and George Lendrum in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 29th August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
WILSON, Finisher, and GEORGE LENDRUM, Manufacturer, both of Hud-
dersfield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Wilson and George
Lendrum, Her special licence that we, the said Joseph Wilson and
George Lendrum, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Joseph Wilson and George Lendrum, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS OF FINISHING WOOLLEN CLOTH,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Wilson
and George Lendrum, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Wilson and George

page_text: manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
The object of this Invention is to obtain upon an ordinary tweed or a
dry finished cloth the lustre of a worsted or a cloth-faced finish.
To obtain our new or improved finish upon an ordinary tweed or dry
finished tweed the cloth is first pressed by ordinary means, and placed
upon rollers and steamed, and afterwards washed out in hot water. The
cloth is then cut and further pressed as before, again steamed on rollers,
and, lastly, placed on wood rollers and boiled in water in the usual
way.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our
said Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or
may be performed, we would have it distinctly understood that we claim
as of our Invention, the method or means of finishing woollen cloth as
herein fully described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Lendrum, for and on behalf
of myself and the said Joseph Wilson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
GEORGE LENDRUM. (L.S.)
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
(Tasker & Brierley,)
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.