IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LADIES' BONNETS OR HATS
Year: 1845

page_text: MARIA STOWELL, of Gloucester Placo, Islington Green, in the County of
Middlesex, Straw Bonnet Manufacturer, and THOMAS LITTLE, of Hoxton Old.
Town, in the said County of Middlesex, Willow Square Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twentieth day of March, (One thousand eight hundred and
forty-five,) in the eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and,
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Anna Maria Stowell and Thonias.
Little, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole.
privilege and authority, that we, the said Anna Maria Stowell and Thomas:
Little, our exors, adiiors, and assigns, and such others as we, the said Anna;
Maria Stowell and Thomas Little, our exors, admiors, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after, 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, in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,.
and in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, our Inven-:
tion of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LADIES' BONNETS OR HATS;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging us, the said Anna
Maria Stowell and Thomas Little, to particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, :

page_text: by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months: next and immediately after the
date of the said in part récited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, referenco
being thereto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Anna Maria Stowell and Thomas Little, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, is
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement and
Specification thereof, that is to say:
The Invention consists in the production of woven tissues or fabrics, com-
pounded of substances, materials, and articles, simple or manufactured, of which
such woven tissues or fabrics have not hitherto been compounded or made, and
in forming thereof ladies' bonnets or hats. The practical character of the said
Invention, or the method by which we carry the same into actual effect,
consists in varied combinations of the several substances, materials, and
articles, simple of manufactured, as aforesaid, in woven tissues. or fabrics,
effected by the ordinary methods of weaving, and producing such said sub-
stance, materials, and articles. The substances, materials, and articles we
adopt and use for the aforesaid purpose being as follows, that is to say:-For
the warp of the fabric or tissue we use willow, cordinet, silk cord, ribband,
velvet strips, fabrics or threads of gum caoutchouc, or its compounds, or any
fabric, simple or compounded, of flax or cotton; and for the weft we use velvet
in strips or in other forms, ribband of any description, cordinet, willow, or
chip, straw of any description, and in any of its ordinary states of preparation,
silk cords or braids, chenille, manilla grass, and all other grasses, gimp, glass in
threads, Berlin wool in its ordinary state of preparation, willow, gold or silver
threads 'or. their compounds, the threads of other metals. or their compounds,
any kind of fancy trimmings, simple or compounded, of different. materials, as
cotton, silk, horse hair, camel hair, whalebono, cano, or any vegetable and
fibrous substance. We make the warp of any one or more of the above-
mentioned substances, and the weft of any one or more of the other above-
mentioned substances, or we make both the warp and the weft, or either of
them, of any of the above-mentioned substances compounded with. any other of
them.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and also in what
manner the same is to be carried into practical effect, we now declare that we
claim, as of our Invention therein, the fabrication and manufacture of woven.
tissues or fabrics composed of any of the substances, materials, and articles,

page_text: either simple and singly, or compound and commingled with other of the sub-
stances, materials, and articles which we have herein described and specified..
In witness whereof, we, the said Anna Maria Stowell and Thomas Little,
have hereunto set hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September,.
in the year of our Lord One-thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Anna Maria Stowell and Thomas
Little came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was.
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One:
thousand eight hundred and forty-five.