AN IMPROVE- MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRILLINGS TO BE APPLIED TO WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Cash and Joseph Cash, the younger, both of
the City of Coventry, Manufacturers, for the Invention of" AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRILLINGS TO BE APPLIED TO WEARING
APPAREL"
Sealed the 15th March 1861, and dated the 20th September 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cash and Joseph
Cash at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 20th September 186").
We, JOHN CASH and JOSEPH CASH, the younger, both of the City of
Coventry, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRILLINGS TO BE APPLIED TO
WEARING APPAREL," to be as follows:-
Hitherto frillings for ladies' under clothing and otherwashable apparel have
been formed by hand. Strips of the cambric, linen, cotton, or other similar
material have been first cut of the required breadth, then one of the edges has
been hemmed or stitched, and the other has been whipped and gathered.
Now, our Invention consists in forming such frillings entirely in the loom,
by weaving them of the breadth required with two beads or selvages, one on
each edge, or by weaving one of the edges with a fancy edge, and by weaving
in, near that edge which is to form the base of the frill, a loose thread, which,
on being drawn, gathers up the frilling into the breadth of plaits required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Cash and Joseph Cash in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
we, JOHN
CASH and JOSEPH CASH, the younger, both of the City of Coventry, Manu-
facturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty,in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Cash and Joseph Cash, the younger, Her special licence that we,
the said John Cash and Joseph Cash, the younger, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Cash and Joseph
Cash, the younger, our 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 IN-
PROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRILLINGS TO BE APPLIED TO WEARING
APPAREL," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Cash
and Joseph Cash, the younger, or one of us, our executors, or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or 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 John Cash and Joseph Cash, the
younger, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):-
Hitherto frillings for ladies' under clothing and other washable apparel have
been formed by hand. Strips of the cambric, linen, cotton, or other similar
material have been first cut of the required breadth, then one of the edges
has been hemmed or stitched, and the other has been whipped and gathered.
Now, our Invention consists in forming such frillings entirely in the plain
or figured ribbon loom,by weaving them of the breadth required with two beads
or selvages, one on each edge, or by weaving one of the edges with a fancy
edge, and by weaving in, near that edge which is to form the base of the frill,

page_text: one or more loose threads, which, on being drawn, gathers up the frilling into
the breadth of plaits required. The material of which the frilling is composed
is woven, by preference, in one continuous length, of, say, twelve yards, by
which means the joining or connecting together short lengths, hitherto
necessary in hand-made frillings, is altogether avoided.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim, the manu-
facture of frillings in manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cash, for myself and on behalf
of the said Joseph Cash, the younger, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
5
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named John Cash, in the
presence of
GEORGE THOrpe.
JOHN CASH. (L.S.)