A CERTAIN COMBINATION OF PROCESSES WHEREBY A NEW KIND OF DRESS OR FINISH IS GIVEN TO CERTAIN GOODS
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
FERGUSON, of the City of Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland, Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-third day of December, in the fifth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Ferguson, His especial licence that I, the said Joseph Ferguson,
my exors, adiiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Ferguson, my exors, adiñors, 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 Inven-
tion of "A CERTAIN COMBINATION OF PROCESSES WHEREBY A NEW KIND OF
DRESS OR FINISH IS GIVEN TO CERTAIN GOODS;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph Ferguson, 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 to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery 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
Joseph Ferguson, do hereby declare the nature of my said Juvention

page_text: to consist in giving a new kind of dress to twilled, plain, or figured cotton
goods which have been beetled, by submitting them to certain known pro-
cesses not heretofore applied after beetling to produce that effect. And in
further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Joseph Ferguson, do
hereby describe the said processes, and the order in which the same are to be
applied, by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
I take plain, twilled, or figured cotton cloths beetled in the usual way by a
beetling machine for fifty or sixty hours in order to bring them to a very high
gloss, and put them over a damping machine, so as to be completely saturated
with water; I then put them through a drying machine with copper cylinders,
and heated with steam in the usual way, taking care to put them through
when twilled as tight as the cloth will bear without tearing, so as to open out
the twill as much as possible during the drying process. When the cloths are
plain or figured only, and not twilled, then the usual degree of tension applied
to goods in drying machines will be sufficient; and in all cases it is preferable
that the heat and speed of the drying machine be such as to dry the cloth
completely by the time it gets once through, provided the color, if dyed goods,
be such as to admit of it, if not, it should be dried at two or more operations.
The stiffening of the goods should in all cases also be particularly attended to,
in as much as the more firmly they are stiffened, whether before or after
bectling, the more defined and perfect will be the dress.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention the combination of the damping
or saturating and subsequent drying processes with the processes heretofore in
use to produce beetled goods as herein-before described and applied to the
purpose of giving a new kind of dress or finish to such goods as aforesaid;
and such my Invention 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 said dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe that this my said Specifi-
cation 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 Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Ferguson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five.
JOSEPH (L.S.) FERGUSON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of June,
in the year of our Lord 1835, the aforesaid Joseph Ferguson 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
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.