AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BONNET FRONTS AND RUCHES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dearman Dunnicliff, of Nottingham, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BONNET FRONTS
AND RUCHES."
Sealed the 22nd May 1860, and dated the 9th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dearman Dunnicliff'
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th December 1859.
I, JOHN DEARMAN DUNNICLIFF, of Nottingham, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BONNET
FRONTS AND RUCHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
bonnet fronts and ruches, and consists in applying warp or loop-made fabrics
in the banding of the goffered fabrics used in making bonnet fronts and ruches
in substitution of the bobbin-net, or of the tape or muslin weavings produced
by longitudinal warp and transverse weft heretofore used for such purposes..
I have found that warp or other loop-made fabrics, by reason of the manner
of their manufacture, present a quality peculiarly suiting them for the manu-
facture of bonnet fronts and ruches. In carrying out my Invention, the warp.
or other loop-made fabric is stiffened and folded into the form of the band, and
the gofferred fabric is then fixed or cemented into the band in the ordinary
manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Dearman Dunnicliff in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DEARMAN DUNNICLIFF, of Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Dearman Dunnicliff, Her special licence that I, the said
John Dearman Dunnicliff, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Dearman Dunnicliff, my executors, administrators,
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 AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BONNET FRONTS AND RUCHES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Dearman Dunnicliff,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one 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 I, the said John Dearman Dunnicliff, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
bonnet fronts and ruches, and consists in applying warp or loop-made fabrics
in the banding of the goffered fabrics used in making bonnet fronts and ruches
in substitution of the bobbin-net or of the tape or muslin weavings produced
by longitudinal warp and transverse weft heretofore used for such purposes.
I have found that warp or other loop-made fabrics, by reason of the manner
of their manufacture, present a quality peculiarly suiting them for the manu-
facture of bonnet fronts and ruches. In carrying out my Invention, the warp
or other loop-made fabric is stiffened and folded into the form of a band,

page_text: and the goffered fabric is then fixed or cemented into the band in the ordinary
manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dearman Dunnicliff, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JNO. D. DUNNICLIFF. (L.S.)