AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTH
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERICK DAVIS, of the Parish of Pitchcombe, in the County of Gloucester,
Clothier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of April last, for Himself, His heirs and succes-
sors, did give and grant unto me, the said Charles Frederick Davis, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said
Charles Frederick Davis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of them, by myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Charles Frederick Davis, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, the Dominion Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my In-
vention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTH;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Charles Frederick Davis, by an instrument in 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 two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, referrence being thereto had, will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Frederick Davis, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the
following description thereof, that is to say :-
My improvement consists in combining the substance, durability, and dress
of felted woollen cloth with the elasticity of the stocking piece, and the
manner in which the same is performed is as follows:-The yarn is to be a
single thread, prepared and spun from the wool by the 'processes commonly
used in the preparation and spinning of yarn for the manufacture of felted
woollen cloth. The thread so prepared and spun is to be woven in a common
stocking frame, or a frame upon the same principles, instead of the loom
commonly used for felted cloths. When the cloth is taken out of the frame,
list taken from felted cloth or made for the purpose should be sewed round
the edges, and then the cloth.should-be finished.-in-the same manner and by
the same processes as the felted cloths in common use are when taken from
the loom. If found convenient, "two or more pieces-mayibe (sewed together,
and the list sewed round the outside of the whole.
And I, the said Charles Frederick Davis, do hereby declare and affirm-that
the particulars above set forth do contain a full; true, and sperfect description
of the nature (of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
.be.performed.
In witness" whereof, I, 'the said Charles Frederick Davis, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, in 'the year of our Lord
W ALEXANDER.
DAYIC (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of June, in the
year abovementioned, 'thetaforesaid Charles Frederick Davis came:before our
Lord the King in.His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor.of the Statute.in &
.that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Fifth day of June in the year above written.