THREAD OR YARN, WHICH IS PRODUCED BY MIXING AND SPINNING TOGETHER CERTAIN MATERIALS INTO ONE AND THE SAME SINGLE THREAD, AND WHICH THREAD SO MIXED AND SPUN IS CAPABLE OF BEING MANUFACTURED INTO HOSIERY, FLANNELS. KERSYMERES, CLOTHS. AND ALL OR MOST OTHER ARTICLES WHICH THE MATERIALS OF WHICH IT IS COMPOSED ARE CAPABLE OF BEING SEPARATELY MANUFACTURED OR WORKED
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
CARTWRIGHT, of Loughborough, in the County of Leicester, Hosier, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of May, in the thirty-fourth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Richard Cartwright, His especial licence
that I, the said Richard Cartwright, during the terin of years therein men-
tioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, in England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THREAD OR YARN,
WHICH IS PRODUCED BY MIXING AND SPINNING TOGETHER CERTAIN MATERIALS INTO
ONE AND THE SAME SINGLE THREAD, AND WHICH THREAD SO MIXED AND SPUN IS
CAPABLE OF BEING MANUFACTURED INTO HOSIERY, FLANNELS. KERSYMERES, CLOTHS.
AND ALL OR MOST OTHER ARTICLES WHICH THE MATERIALS OF WHICH IT IS COMPOSED
ARE CAPABLE OF BEING SEPARATELY MANUFACTURED OR WORKED;" which said
Invention is entirely new and of my own contrivance, and not known to any
person or persons save and except those to whom I have communicated the
same for the sake of their approbation as to its utility, and those whom I
have been under the necessity of employing in working the same, and is not
made by any person or persons save myself; and in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Cartwright, by an
instrumentin writing under my hand and soal, to cause a particular description

page_text: of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
forined, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
• NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Cartwright, do hereby describe and ascertain my said lavention,and
declare that the said single thread or yarn by me invented is composed and
made as follows (that is to say):-
By mixing sheep or lambs' wool of British growth together with cotton wool
of any growth, and then carding the said mixture of sheep or lambs wool and
cotton wool upon any of the machines now in use for carding sheep or lambs'
wool separately, or cotton wool separately; and after such carding, then by
spinning the said mixture into a single thread or yarn.by means of any of the
machines now in use forspiuning woollen yarn separately, or cotton yarn sepa-
rately; and as it is proper (as well in order to give strength to the article to be
made, as because sheep or lambs' wool curlsupandshortensa little in carding.)
that the sheep or lambs' wool to be so mixed should be a little longer than the
cotton wool with which it is mixed, (that is to say,) in the proportion of nine
to eight. Ifit happen that the sheep or lambs' wool is of too great a length,
the same, before mixing, is to be reduced to the proper length in manner
following (that is to say)-By carding the same upon such cards as are com-
monly used for carding wool or cotton, but having transverse grooves or spaces
made therein between the teeth or needles thereof, according to the plan or
Drawings and explanation thereof hereunto annexed,at such intervals as will
give to the sheep or lambs' wool the length required to proportion the same to
the cotton wool, in the manner above stated; which grooves or spaces must be
of sufficient width to admit a pair of shears, and may be made by taking out
the teeth or needles of the common cards now made, or by omitting the teeth
or needles in making new cards, and by cutting and dividing the wool laid
smoothly upon such cards with a pair of shears along the said grooves orspaces.
And as to the proportion which the quantity of sheep or lambs' wool to be so
mixed should bear to the quantity of cotton wool, this must depend upon the
qualities required for the articles intended to be made of such thread
And it is to be observed, that in proportion as the quantity of sheep or Inubs'
wool used is greater. the warmth of the article made will also be greater, and
in proportion as the quantity of cotton wool used is greater, the less the article
unade will shrink in washing. The quantity of sheep or lambs' wool used by
me, the said Richard Cartwright, for the fabrick of articles of hosiery and
Hannels (and which are the only articles hitherto made by me) has been to the
oryarn.

page_text: quantity of cotton wool in the proportion of five to four, or as near thereto as
can be, and this proportion I have found is best adapted to such articles, and
1 recommend this proportion as best uniting the quality of warmth with the
advantage of not shrinking in washing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Cartwright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of June, One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-four.
RICH CARTWRIGHT. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Third day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Richard Cartwright 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 stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Fourth day of June, in the year above written.

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Explanation of the above Plan or Drawings.
The letters A.B.C and D in Figures 1 and 2 represent the Lear Sheet or Piece of Leather through, which the Teeth or Needles of a Card are pust
The letter shows these parts when the Teeth or Needles are retained and the latter the Spaces, Intervals or Grooves where they are taken out ramnitted
and where the Shears are intended to pass in order to reduce the Wool laid smoothly thereen to a proper length for mixing and spinning with the
fitton Wed. Pignon 1 is the Prant of a leaf or Sheet of a Card haring the Greens at the Distance of one Inch from each other.
Figure 2 is the Prent of a Leaf or Sheet of a Card haring the Greaves at the Distance of me Inch and one eighth of an inch from each other.
The orresponding Leaf or Sheet of each Pair of Hand Cards must have arresponding Grooves In Engine Cards the tip Cards neal have no Grooves.
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