IMPROVEMENTS IN DRYING GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF HOSIERY
Year: 1851

page_text: WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day of December
(One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one), in the fifteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Webster, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial license, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that. 1, the said James Webster, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said James Webster, my exors,
admors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DRYING GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF HOSIERY;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that I, the said James Webster, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso. I. the said
James Webster, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:
My Invention consists of so forming the interior of the shapes on which
gloves, stockings, socks, and other articles of hosiery are dried that the heated
fluid used therein may be caused to circulate, and, consequently, to pervade all
parts, and so as nearly as may be that all parts of such shapes will be equally
heated. And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 and Figure 2 show a vertical section and external views of shapes
for receiving gloves, mits; and Figure 3 is a horizontal section thereof: Figures
4. 5. and 6 show a vertical section, an external view, and a horizontal section
of a shape for stocking and socks, by which it will be seen that in each shape.
there are partitions which divide the shape and separate channels so as to
cause the heated fluid to circulate within the shape. Thus, according to the
arrangement shown for gloves at Figure 1, the steam is admitted from a proper
steam pipe at a: it passes up into the first finger and down into the thumb at b and
having circulated within the thumb, the steam passes back at e into the second
finger, and so on through the other channels shown, and then away at d to a
waste pipe c. And in respect to the shape for stockings shewn at Figure 4,
the steam enters at a, passes to and circulates in the foot and leg, and then
away at d to a waste pipe e. as indicated by the arrows; shows a recess or
water joint, into which the lower end of each shape dips. I would. however,
remark. that the arrangements of channels to cause circulation within the
shapes may be varied from those shown in the Drawing, so long as the
arrangement is such as to produce an effective circulation of the heated fluid.
When other articles of hosiery than those above shewn are to be similarly
dried, then the shapes of the proper form and hollow are to have partitions or
channels to cause the fluid to circulate within the shapes. And I would
state, that I do not claim the making of such like shapes hollow, or
admitting heated fluid into hollow shapes when circulation is not obtained a
therein. Figure 7 shows a bench with several such apparatus, together with
a steam and waste pipe applied thereto; and Figures 8 and 9 shew two
transverse sections thereof.

page_text: JEFFERSON.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same according to the best information I possess, I would have
it understood that what I claim is the making of shapes for drying gloves and
other articles of hosiery with means of producing circulation of the heated
fluid therein.
In witness whereof, I. the said James Webster, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
JAMES (L.S.) WEBSTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of April, in
the year of our Lord 1852. the aforesaid James Webster came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her 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.
Enrolled the Ninth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two.