IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
COMBAULD JACOB, of No. 5, Bread Street, in the City of London, Warehouse-
man, 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 Twentieth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the thirteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Combauld Jacob, my exors, adññors, and assigns, Her especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Combauld Jacob, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Combauld Jacob, my exors, adiñors, 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, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PARASOLS
AND UMBRELLAS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I,
the said William Combauld Jacob, should cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled
in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two 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
William Combauld Jacob, do hereby declare that the nature of my 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, that
is to say:-
My Invention consists in the use of a material not heretofore used in
covering the frames of parasols and umbrellas, and the manner in which I
make such fabric or material is as follows:-By shooting a warp made of
cotton, with a weft of silk or of linen, or one combined of silk and linen, or by
shooting a warp made of linen with a weft of silk or of cotton, or one
combined of silk and cotton. And I make such fabric or material either
figured, striped, or plain; if figured or striped, then I weave the figures or
stripes in the same material, or introduce into the warp sufficient silk to make
the borders, stripes, or other ornamental figures required. It is well known
that fabrics made as before mentioned have been for several years past made
for other purposes; I do not, therefore, make any claim to the weaving of
such fabrics, when to be applied to other purposes than the making of parasols
and umbrellas. I have the fabrics woven close and of fine warp and weft, and
for this purpose I prefer that the warp should consist of about eighty threads
to the inch, and the weft of about one hundred and ten threads to the inch;
but this may be varied according to the fabrics desired; and to save waste in
cutting the fabrics into covers, I prefer having the fabric woven twenty-two,
twenty-four, and twenty-six inches in width for umbrellas; and fourteen,
sixteen, eighteen, or thirty-eight inches wide for parasols, being the most
convenient widths for cutting into covers; these widths may, however, be
varied according to the sizes of the parasols or umbrellas required. The
fabrics thus woven are to be cut up and formed into covers to fit frames for
parasols and umbrellas, in like manner to what has been heretofore the case
when silk or other materials have been used as the covering materials; and
parasols and umbrellas so constructed are equal in many respects to silk, and
much less costly in price, and much lighter and more elegant than those made
of cotton or other materials now in use.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
it is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I claim is improve-
ments in the manufacture of parasols and umbrellas by the use of a material
not heretofore used for those purposes, in covering of sticks or frames for
parasols and umbrellas in the manner at present adopted, such material to be
made by combining cotton or linen to be used as warp with silk or linen, or a
combination of silk and linen or silk and cotton to be used as weft, with the

page_text: introduction, where necessary to make such covering figured, striped, or
ornamented, into the warp of a sufficient number of silk threads to form such
figures, stripes, or ornaments. And parasols and umbrellas covered with any
of such fabrics being to the best of my knowledge new, and never before used
in this kingdom, I hereby declare this to be my Specification of the Invention
I claim.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Combauld Jacob, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.