MAKING AND MANUFACTURING CAPS AND HATS, AND RENDERING THEM PERFECTLY WATERPROOF, AS ALSO ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, SILK, LINEN, COTTON STUFFS, PASTE- BOARD, AND OTHER MANUFACTURES AND SUBSTANCES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING WORKED UP INTO BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, WOMEN'S HATS OR BONNETS, AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL, SO AS TO BE USED ON ALL OCCASIONS WHERE A POWER OF REPELLING WET OR MOISTURE MAY BE REQUIRED
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, We, JOHN
WALKER, of Tufton Street, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, within the City
and Liberty of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Army Accoutrement
Maker, and GODFREY ALPHEY, of Peter Street, in the said Parish of Saint
Margaret, within the City and Liberty aforesaid; Painter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Third Day of November now last past, hath given and granted unto us,
the said John Walker and Godfrey Alphey, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority to make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, during the term of years therein expressed, our Invention of
"MAKING AND MANUFACTURING CAPS AND HATS, AND RENDERING THEM PERFECTLY
WATERPROOF, AS ALSO ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, SILK, LINEN, COTTON STUFFS, PASTE-
BOARD, AND OTHER MANUFACTURES AND SUBSTANCES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING
WORKED UP INTO BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, WOMEN'S HATS OR BONNETS, AND OTHER
WEARING APPAREL, SO AS TO BE USED ON ALL OCCASIONS WHERE A POWER OF REPELLING
WET OR MOISTURE MAY BE REQUIRED;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging us, the said John Walker and Godfrey Alphey, by.
an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, to cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next after the date of the said recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Walker and Godfrey Alphey, in
compliance with the said proviso in the said Letters Patent mentioned and
contained, do hereby declare that the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which.. the same is to be made and performed, is particularly
described and ascertained in the following Specification or manner herein-after
mentioned (that is to say):-
In and for the making and manufacturing of our new invented caps, which
are principally intended for the use and wear of the military, we take a suitable
piece or pieces of the manufacture called pasteboard, and cover both sides
thereof with linen cloth, or any other texture wrought in a loom, which we
cement thereto by glue or paste, or paste and glue mixed, out of which the cap
is then cut, and shaped on a block or otherwise, according to the shape and
fashion the same is ordered to be made, and as circumstances may require.
The seams or joinings of the pasteboard are united by sewing, and by glue or
paste, or paste and glue mixed, and also by slips of leather, linen, or other
wove texture, glued or pasted over the same, both inside and out, where found
necessary. It is then painted, both inside and outside, with any kind of oil,
paint, or oil and lampblack, which latter is greatly to be preferred, with one
or more coats, as circumstances may require. When this is dry it is then
to be covered with one or more coats of japan or varnish, mixed with lamp-
black or ivory black.
The peak or rim of the cap, together with the cape behind, agreeable to the
quality and fashion ordered to be made, is also to be painted, japanned, or
varnished on one or both sides, as may be thought necessary, in like manner as
the other parts of the cap arc.
When the peak or rim, together with the cape
and lining, are affixed to the crown in the usual manner, the cap is then
.finished; exclusive of any ornament or ornaments that may be thought.proper
.to affix to the same.
The men's hats are made in the same manner and with the same materials
as the crown of the cap, except being principally covered with silk, linen,
cotton, or other texture wrought in a loom, cemented to the pasteboard in
like manner as described for the cap; and also except that such breadth is
given to that side or inner part or edge of the flap or rim that is next the
crown as will admit of its being inched or notched and turned up so as to lie
close to the side of the crown, and is to be united thereto by sewing and with
the same cement as applied to the cap and other articles. The parts so turned
up, sewed, and cemented to the crown are to be covered with leather or any