IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FULLING, MILLING, FELTING, AND CLEANSING PURPOSES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leeming Webster, of Dewsbury, in the County
of York, Millwright and Machine Maker, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FULLING, MILLING,
FELTING, AND CLEANSING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 14th December 1875, and dated the 19th June 1875.
·PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leeming Webster at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th June 1875.
I, LEEMING WEBSTER, of Dewsbury, in the County of York,
Millwright and Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FULLING,
MILLING, FELTING, AND CLEANSING PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for fulling, milling,
felting and cleansing cloth, felts, yarns, leather, and similar fabrics and
materials which require to undergo one or more of the above processes,
and my improvements consist in the application to each of such

page_text: machines of a separate steam engine, to be employed for driving the said
machine directly, whereby I am enabled to dispense with the use of the
belts, shafting, wheels, and pullics now necessary for communicating
motion from a stationary engine which has to drive other machinery in
the usual manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leeming Webster in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEEMING
WEBSTER, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Millwright and 1
Machine Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 1
give and grant unto me, the said Leeming Webster, Her special licence
that I, the said Leeming Webster, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Leeming Webster, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any timo 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 "Improvements
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FULLING, MILLING, FELTING, AND CLEANSING
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said:
Leeming Webster, my exccutors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leeming Webster. do hereby

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and shewn by
Drawings how the same is to be performed or carried into practice, I
would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details herein set forth, as the same may be modified; but what I claim
as my Invention is, the application of a steam engine to machinery for
fulling, milling, felting, and cleansing, in manner and for the purposes
substantially as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leeming Webster, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.