A CERTAIN MODE AND APPARATUS FOR STIFFENING OF ALL SORTS OF SPUN COTTON, OR COTTON SPINNING GENERALLY, CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF TWIST OR WEFT COTTON
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TRAVIS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-ninth day of July now last past, hath given and granted unto me,
the said James Travis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, to make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, during
the term of years therein expressed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN MODE
AND APPARATUS FOR STIFFENING OF ALL SORTS OF SPUN COTTON, OR COTTON SPINNING
GENERALLY, CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF TWIST OR WEFT COTTON;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James
Travis, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of. my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next 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 I, the said James Travis, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in the Plan hereunto annexed, and the following description thereof
(that is to sar):

page_text: First, my Invention consists simply of grating potatoes into fine flour.
Figure 1 is the gratering machine.. A is the hopper; B, the cylindrical grater;
C, the cog wheels by which tho' grater is turned; D, a brush to clear the
potatoes off tho grater after they aro grated or ground; E, trough to
receive the ground or grated potatoes; F, the shaft to turn the wheels, which
may be done either by horse, hand, water, wind, or fire engine, as circum-
stances may need or require. In this preparation I first wash the potatoes
in the common way, and immediately put them into the gratering machine
without peeling, or putting any mixture or other ingredient with them what-
After they are grated into the flour, I wash it in fine sieves, so as to
let the fine floury part of the potatoes thus grated or ground fall to the bottom
of the water in a washing cask or tub for that purpose. I then take it out
and dry it very carefully, and clean, and after adding lime, exposed in the air
till falls into powder, in proportion of one hundred weight to six hundred
weight of such floury part of the potatoes, it is then perfectly prepared for
immediate usc. This preparation is equal, if not superior, to the finest wheat
flour, and is a very considerable saving in expence in the article of stiffening
of twist or weft cotton.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Travis, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of August, in the Thirty-fourth
year of the reign of King George the Third, and in the year of our.
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
JAMES TRAVIS. (L.B.)
רי 2010VISSN
Extra. in Chancery.
JAMES TRAVIS. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-second day of
August, in the year above written, the 'aforesaid James Travis came before.g
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 Twenty-fifth day of August; in the year above written.
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