CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FINISHING WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin
Chester, Manufacturer, and
Hardon, of Stockport, in the County of
Lee Lec, of the City of Manchester, Mer-
chant, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FINISHING WOVEN
FABRICS."
Sealed the 23rd October 1860, and dated the 5th May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Hardon and Lee
Lee at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 5th May 1860.
We, EDWIN HARDON, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Manufacturer,
and LEE LEE, of the City of Manchester, Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FINISHING WOVEN
FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention is particularly applicable to the imparting of a lustrous or
brilliant appearance to fabrics woven of spun silk or silk waste, in order to
make such fabrics resemble fabrics woven of net or organzine and tram silk.
In performing our Invention the fabric is woven by hand or power, and
singed by fire in the usual manner, then dyed, if requisite, and stiffened with
any known or usual material. The fabrics are then subjected to the action of
stampers or beetles, similar to those used in beetling cotton or linen fabrics.
By this means the requisite lustre is imparted to the spun silk or silk waste
fabrics. For some purposes this mode of finishing may be applied to net or
organzine and tram silk fabrics.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwin Hardon and Lee Lee in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we. EDWIN
HARDON, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Manufacturer, and LEE LEE.
of the City of Manchester, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Edwin Hardon and Lee Lee, Her special licence that we, the said Edwin
Hardon and Lee Lee. our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Edwin Hardon and Lee Lee, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FINISHING WOVEN FABRICS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edwin Hardon and
Lee Lee, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of our or of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edwin Hardon and Lee Lee, do hereby
declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
Our Invention is particularly applicable to the imparting of a lustrous or
brilliant appearance to fabrics woven of spun silk or silk waste, in order to
make such fabrics resemble fabrics woven of net or organzine and tram silk.
In performing our Invention the fabric is woven by hand or power, and singer
to remove any loose fibres in the usual manner, then dyed, if requisite, and
stiffened with any known or usual materials; the fabrics are then subjected to
the action of stampers or beetles, similar to those used in beetling cotton or
linen fabrics.
By this means the requisite Justre is imparted to the spun silk or silk

page_text: waste fabrics. This improved mode of finishing may be applied to some
descriptions of fabrics made of net or organzine and tram silk.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the mode of per-
forming the same, we declare that we claim the improved mode of finishing
fabrics of spun silk and silk waste, and certain descriptions of fabrics made of
net or organzine and tram silk, as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edwin Hardon and Lee Lee, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Third day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
EDWIN HARDON. (L.S.)
LEE LEE.
(L.S.)