A NEW METHOD OF FIGURING AND ORNAMENTING, BY MEANS OF PRESSURE, EMBOSSMENT, OR OTHERWISE, CLOTHS OR STUFFS OF WOOLLEN, LINEN, COTTON, VELVET, SILK, OR SATTIN, OR ANY MIXTURE OF THOSE MATERIALS
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PAUL
NEWMAN, of Melksham, in the County of Wilts, Clothier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at.
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of July, in the Thirty-ninth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Paul Newman, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the
said Paul Newman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 "A NEW METHOD OF FIGURING AND ORNAMENTING,
BY MEANS OF PRESSURE, EMBOSSMENT, OR OTHERWISE, CLOTHS OR STUFFS OF WOOLLEN,
LINEN, COTTON, VELVET, SILK, OR SATTIN, OR ANY MIXTURE OF THOSE MATERIALS;"
in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Paul Newman, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one.
calendar month next and immediately 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
Paul Newman, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say):-
By embossment I mean the communicating or imparting to cloths, stuffs, or
piece goods (of whatever materials composed), capable of receiving the
impression any figure or design raised upon the surface, so as to form a kind of

page_text: bas releif, and this I perform by causing such figures or designs as I intend to
impress on the cloth, &c., to be engraved, cut, or sunk on blocks, boards, or
planks of holly (or other wood proper for purpose), of such length and breadth
as may best suit the cloth, &c. to be ornamented or embossed, and of such
thickness as will bear the pressure (without cracking) of the rollers through
which they are to pass in the operation of embossing, hereafter described. The
size of the blocks which I use for kerseymere is about three feet long, thirty
inches wide, and one inch and a half thick. The most convenient method of
performing this operation of embossing is to be provided with two blocks of
wood, as before described, of equal size, and cut or engraved exactly alike with
the ornament or figure to be embossed or impressed, then lay one end of the
piece of goods that is to receive the impression on one of these blocks and
press it with the block through two metal rollers or cylenders, in the same
manner as is used in printing by copper plates, and with such force as will give
a perfect impression at one passage through them; observing that before the
whole of the first block has passed, through the rollers, the second, which is
made to accord exactly with the pattern of the first, is fastened to it by means
of hooks and eyes. inserted near the ends of each-(or-by any other convénient
means), and when this last is drawn a small way through, the blocks are again
separated, and the first fixed to the end of the second in the same manner, and
so toties quoties untill the whole length required is--compleated. In order to
give firmness and durability to the impression or embossment, it is necessary
that one of the rollers. (the upper one will generally do best) be kept heated
during the passage of the cloth stuffs, &c., either by hot irons introduced at
one end in the manner practised- by calenderers, or by any other means that
the workmen may prefer. The degree of heat &-pressure will easily be
found out by a,little practise, as both will vary according to the nature of the
different articles to be-embossed. When goods of short lengths are required
to be embossed, the common screw- or any squeezing press may be used, taking
care that sufficient heat be imparted to the cloth, &c. during the process, but I do
not apprehend: such presses can in any case be so advantageously, employed as
the rolling press...
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In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Newman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal; this Eighth day of August, thirty-ninth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by tlie grace of God, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth; and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
PAUL NEWMAN. (L.s.).

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighth day of August, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Paul Newman 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.
Inroned the Twenth day of August, in the year above written.