CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING, BLEACHING, AND DYEING FLAX AND HEMP; AND IN MIXING THEM WITH OTHER TEXTILE SUBSTANCES
Year: 1852

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ARMAND Le Comte de FONTAINEMOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, send
greeting.
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 Seventh day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the fifteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Peter
Armand le Comte de Fontainemoreau, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her
especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Peter
Armand le Comte de Fontainemoreau, my exors, adññors, 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, and in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey,. Alderney, Sark, and
Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WASHING, BLEACHING, AND DYEING
FLAX AND HEMP; AND IN MIXING THEM WITH OTHER TEXTILE SUBSTANCES,"
communicated to me from abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained,
proviso that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontainemoreau, 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

page_text: hand and seal, to be enrolled 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 there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Peter Armand le Comte de Fontainemoreau, do hereby declare that the
nature of the 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.
The Invention communicated to me consists,-
Firstly, in the washing, bleaching, and dyeing of flax or hemp.
Secondly, in the mode of producing a jasped thread composed of several
colours; and,
Thirdly, in the process of mixing flax and hemp with cotton, silk, wool, or
any other textile substances.
The first part of the Invention consists in washing, bleaching, or dyeing flax
or bemp when those substances have been previously submitted to all the
preliminary and necessary operations for spinning, and the passing through the
bobbins and fly frames. In that state I wind up the bobbins in skeins, and I
wash, bleach, or I dye them by the usual process; and when these skeins are
bleached or dyed, and either dry or not, they are put on bobbins to continue
I could also bleach or dye
the spinning upon the mule by the usual process.
the flax or hemp on the bobbins when they come out from the bobbin and fly
frames, but I prefer to have it wound up first into skeins.
The second part of the Invention relates to jasping or marbling, by means
of several colours, the same thread, by the union of several tufts of flax or
hemp, bleached and dyed, and joined to the said thread between the operations
of the bobbin and fly frames and the mules, as herein-before stated. When I
prepare threads composed of several tufts of flax or hemp it will be advan-
tageous to arrange the part of the mule on which are placed the bobbins in
such a manner as to set a number of them proportionate to that of the spindles
to be put in operation. I give the name of tuft to the matters to be spun
when they are in the state of preparation between the bobbin and fly frame
and the spinning machine.
The third part of the Invention relates to the process for mixing flax or liemp
with cotton, silk, wool, or any other fibrous substance. I operate this mixture
upon the mule after the flax or hemp has passed through the whole of the
first preparatory operations for spinning, and including the passage through
the bobbins and fly frames.
When I combine with this mixture either cotton,

page_text: silk, or any other fibrous substances which have been completely spun, that is
to say, when they are in a state of thread, it is necessary to dispose the mule
so that these thread, it is necessary to dispose the mule so that these threads
pass only between the last pair of rollers, otherwise the flax or hemp being
in a state of tuft, and the silk, cotton, wool, or other fibrous substances in a
state of thread, it will be impossible for the last to yield to the drawing of
the rollers; it would break continually, and therefore the operation would bo
impracticable.
And having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to me,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that what I claim as new, and intend to be protected by the said Letters
Patent is,―
Firstly, the mode of washing, bleaching, or dyeing flax and hemp after having
passed through the bobin and fly frame, as herein-before described.
Secondly, the mode of mixing in a thread colored tufts of flax or hemp, as
herein-before described.
Thirdly, the arrangements of rollers on the mule for mixing threads of silk,
cotton, wool, or of any fibrous substances, with tufts of flax or hemp, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine-
moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of
April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.