AN IMPROVED UMBRELLA
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
FooT, of Church Street, Spitalfields, in the County of Middlesex, Silk
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifteenth day of January, in the fourth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Foot, His especial licence, that I, the said Joseph Foot, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Foot, my exors,
admors, and 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, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
UMBRELLA;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Joseph Foot, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His 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 thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance. with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Foot, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist in
an umbrella stick or frame, covered with. a fabric: or manufacture of silk and
cotton threads made into a web, by shooting. cotton or linen shoots upon a
silk warp, by which means the surfaces: of the said fabric or manufacture show
more silk than cotton or linen, and which said umbrella stick or frame when
so covered as aforesaid constitutes an umbrella more light in the hand, and less
pervious to the rain than those covered with cotton now in use, and less expensive
and more durable than those covered with silk now in use, and in further
compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Joseph Foot, do hereby describe
the manner of performing my said Invention by the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
My said improved umbrella is put together in the usual manner adopted by
umbrella makers, only the covering must be of a fabric made as herein-before
.described; nd an umbrella covered with such a fabric as aforesaid being to
the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new and never before used in
these Kingdoms, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same,
and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all
respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in my said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I do hereby
claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second
day of July, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid Joseph Foot came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written.. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamp'd according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand