IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING ELASTIC STOCKINGS AND OTHER ELASTIC BANDAGES AND FABRICS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, WILLIAM
BROWN, of East Street, Cambridge Heath, in the County of Middlesex,
Weaver, send greeting.
Brown, Her
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing dato at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of
October, in the twelfth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
especial license, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Brown, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said
William Brown, my exors, adñiors, and 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 MANUFACTURING ELASTIC STOCKINGS AND
OTHER ELASTIC BANDAGES AND FABRICS;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Brown, by an instru-
ment in writing 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 Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery, within six 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described and
ascertained by the words and figures following, that is to say :-

page_text: My Invention consists of an improvement in manufacturing elastic stockings,
elastic knee caps, elastic shirts, elastic drawers, and other elastic bandages
and fabrics, by weaving them circular and into prescribed shapes without a
seam, and which may be done in the following manner, that is to say:-
You must use a Jacquard machine, and a reed with fifty dents to an inch,
and one cord to each dent, and four lashes to each cord; and the reed must be
three times in length the required width of the article to be made when con-
tracted for use, as herein-after mentioned. The mounture of the Jacquard
machine must have eight shafts to work by quarter reeds. The warp must be
upon forty-two bobbins at the least, and it may be of silk, and if of silk, the
same must be a 1050/4 treble. The shute must be india rubber thread of a
number adapted to the strength of spring or according to the elasticity
required. The rule paper must be number 8 and 8. A diagram of the article
to be made must be drawn on the rule paper in such a manner and of such
dimensions as will be requisite for making the article in the loom three times
the width required for use. In reading the rule paper all must be taken,
excepting the diagram drawn thereon of the article to be made, which must
be left for the shafts to work, and the shafts must rise in the following manner;
namely, for the first shute rise the first and fifth shafts; for the second shute
rise the first, second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh shafts; for the third shute
rise the third and seventh shafts; for the fourth shute rise the first, third,
fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth shafts; and so on till the work be finished.
There must be fifty shutes to the inch, namely, twenty-five shutes to the inch
at top, and twenty-five shutes to the inch below. When the article is taken
out of the loom it will be three times the width required for use, and it must
then be contracted by hot air to the required width, according to the ordinary
methods now in use for such purposes. Of the above process I claim as new
the combined methods of weaving elastic fabrics circular and into prescribed
shapes without a seam.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
WILLIAM (L.S.) BROWN.
Signed and seal'd by the within-named
William Brown, in the presence of
W. B. COOPER,
17, Hatton Garden, Solicitor.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of April, in
the year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid William Brown came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.