IMPROVEMENTS IN D MAT
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Taylor, of Kinghorn, in the County of Fife,
North Britain, Heckle Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
D MAT"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
February 1854.
I, EDWARD TAYLOR, of Kinghorn, in the County of Fife, North Britain,
Heckle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GILL HECKLES OR COMBS FOR TREATING FIBROUS MATERIALS'
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the stocks or holding pieces of gill-heckles as ordi-.
narily used in the manufacture of flax and other fibrous materials; such stocks
are usually made by casting them in metal, but according to the present im-
provement these details are formed or shaped by a drawing or rolling process
from malleable brass or other metal. By this system of production a more
accurate form is secured, whilst the labor required in finishing up the rough
casting is dispensed with. The essential feature then of the new process is the
so directing the shaping of the stocks from malleable metal so that the proper
form may be secured at once without secondary manual labor, various
mechanical means being available for so shaping the metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
TAYLOR, of Kinghorn, in the County of Fife, North Britain, Heckle Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Edward Taylor, Her special license that I, the said
Edward Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Edward Taylor, 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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE
MENTS IN GILL HECKLES OR COMBS FOR TREATING FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Taylor, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
that is to say:-
My said Invention relates to the stocks or holding pieces of gill heckles as
ordinarily used in the manufacture of flax and other fibrous materials; such
stocks are usually made by casting them in metal, but according to the
present improvement these details are formed or shaped by a drawing or
rolling process from malleable brass or other metal. By this system of pro-
duction a more accurate form is secured, whilst the labor required in finishing
up the rough casting is dispensed with. The essential feature then of the new
process is the direct shaping of the stocks from malleable metal, so that the
proper form may be secured at once without secondary manual labor, various
mechanical means being available for so shaping the metal. The brass or other

page_text: metal of which the gill heckle stock is made is drawn of a suitable section by
means of any known apparatus. It is then cut into lengths corresponding to
the gills, and it is drilled in the usual manner to receive the heckle teeth, and
the gill is completed and fixed in position in the usual way."
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I may observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict
myself to the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to
describe or refer to, as many variations may be made therefrom without
deviating from the principles or main features of my Invention; but what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,―
The system or mode of forming the stocks or holding pieces of gill heckles
or combs for treating fibrous materials of brass or other metal drawn or rolled
of a suitable section, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
EDWARD TAYLOR. (L.S.)