CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ART OF SCRIBBLING AND CARDING SHEEP'S WOOL
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
HIRST, of Lecals, in the County of York, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of July, in the sixth year of IIis 1eign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successois, give and giant unto me, the said
Henry Hust, and also to William Iirst, of Leeds aforesaid. Manufacturer,
His especial licence, that we, the said Henry Hirst and William Hirst, our
exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Henry Hirst and
William Hirst, our exors, adfiiors, or 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 Bei wick-upon-Tweed, our Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ART OF SCRIBBLING AND CARDING SHEEP'S
WOOL," in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging us, or one
of us, the said Henry Hirst and William Hirst, by an instrument in writing
under our or one of our hands and seals, particularly to descube and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
bong thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Hirst, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention to consist in
combining the tenter-hook willy and the scabbler in one machine, and in a
contrivance for enabling the person who feeds the scribbler which follows
this new machine to place laige sheets as it were of wool on the feedel,
and in a particular direction, instead of the small pieces now thrown on the
feede in the ordinary way. And in further compliance with the said proviso,
1, the said Henry Ilirst, do hereby describe the manner in which our said
Invention is to be performed by the following description thereof, reference
being had to the Drawings annexed, and the Figures maiked thereon, that

page_text: section of our said combined machine, and the rollers R and S aforesaid,
and the Drawing marked C, is a plan of our said combined machine, and of
the rollers R and S aforesaid.
Now whereas we claim as our Invention, first, the combination of a tenter-
hook willy and a scribbler in one frame in such manner as to make the
former feed the latter without the intervention of manual labor; and,
secondly, the application of a roller, whether to a tenter-hook willy, a scribbler,
or a card machine, of a diameter exactly corresponding with the width of the
feed roll of the machine which is to follow. And such our Invention being,
to the best of our knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used
within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be our Specification of our said
Invention, and that I do verily believe this our said Specification doth comply
in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in our
said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore we do
hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to our said Invention.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Henry Hirst, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.