CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS UPON MACHINES FOR SHEARING CLOTH
Year: 1822

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COLLIER, of Compton Street, Brunswick Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, send greeting."
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day
of September, in the third year of His reign, did give and grant unto me,
the said John Collier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Collier,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS UPON MACHINES FOR SHEARING CLOTH," in such manner
as to me, the said John Collier, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should in my discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso, that if I, the said John Collier, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,

page_text: determine, and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Collier, do hereby declare that my aforesaid Invention consists in divers
variations, additions, and improvements of certain parts of the machine or
machines now used for shearing or cropping the pile from woollen and other
cloths or piece goods which require such operation, whether the same be
woven or not, and which more particularly apply to such parts of a machine
for this purpose, for which His late Majesty King George the Third was
graciously pleased to grant me His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand one hundred and eighteen, and of which a Specification was duly
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery on the Fourteenth day of March then
next following; and as I still preserve nearly the same general form and
arrangement of apparatus in my present Invention and improvements as here-
tofore.
The Drawings hereunto annexed, and distinguished as Figures 1, 2, and 3,
represent one of the general forms or dispositions in which I arrange or place
my aforesaid machinery for working; Fig. 1 being a side elevation or view of
such machine in its compleat working state; Fig. 2, a plan of the same, or the
appearance it would assume if viewed from above; and Fig. 3, another eleva-
tion or side view of the machine, shewing its appearance when viewed from the
part marked front in Figs. 1 and 2. From these Figures it will appear that
the general form of this machine is very nearly similar to that described in my
aforesaid Specification of the Fourteenth of March, One thousand eight
hundred and eighteen; and as I apply the cloth or other fabric to be shorn or
cropped in a manner similar to that which is therein described, so I hereby
expressly declare that I do not claim as parts of my present Invention either
the form, construction, or operation of any of the parts of this machine, so far
as the same have been described and set forth in my aforesaid former Speci-
fication, and are similar. But in order to render the nature of my present
Invention and improvements, and their mode of operation, the more obvious,
without the trouble of referring to my aforesaid former Specification, I shall
briefly describe the use and operation of this machine, and shall then set forth
the improvements that I have made, and which alone constitute the subject of
the present Patent.
The letters A, A, wherever they occur in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, indicate the
framework of the machine, for the same letters of reference are used through-
out this Specification to denote the same parts in these Figures; B, B, the

page_text: floor or platform on which the cloth or other fabric to be shorn or cropped is
laid in regular plaits or folds, as at C; P, the uppermost end of the parcel of
cloth. C about to be shorn or cropped, and which is coloured.red in Fig. 1, (the
other Figures having no cloth upon them,) is conducted over the top of the
regulating board E (only seen in Fig. 1), and from thence over the top of the
preparing cylinder F, under the conducting cylinder G, between the cylinder
brush H, for cleaning the back of the cloth or other fabric, and the pile-
raising cylinder I, over the delivering cylinder K, and from thence between
the bed L and the cutting cylinder M, by which it is shorn or cropped after
which it passes over the conducting cylinder N (see Figs. 1 and 2 only) and
under the stretching cylinder O and finishing cylinder P, and from thence over
the discharging cylinder Q, into the hopper or funnel S, by which it is finally
distributed upon the platform B in regular folds, as shewn at D in Fig. 1 ; and
as the two extremities of the piece of cloth are sewed together, its entire length
may, thus be operated upon by the machine; and should. it require to pass the
cutters more than once, it will only be necessary to move the clotli from the
situation D to C and to turn it the other side upwards, as described in my
aforesaid former Specification, in order to prepare it for such second or any
future passage of the machine. The power for working this machine is to be
applied as heretofore to the axis of the larger rigger R, and the several cylin-
ders aforesaid revolve on their axles, and; are turned by riggers or band wheels
applied to the ends of such axles in situations which will be sufficiently obvious
by referring to the three several Figures 1, 2, and 3. T, T, are riggers. for
keeping the several bands or straps that communicate the motion to these
riggers or band wheels, duly stretched for that purpose by means of the lever
carriages V, V, and weights U, U, hanging upon them; and W is a pedal or
tredle, acting by a rod X, X, on each side upon the moveable carriage Y of
the cutting cylinder M. By pressing with the foot upon this tredle the cutting
cylinder is instantly raised from the bed L, by which its action can at any time
be suspended. Z, Z, Z, is a curved lever, operating upon the band or strap of
the large rigger R for throwing it, out of gear, by which the whole machine is
stopped.
Having thus given a general account of the machine and its operation, I
shall now proceed to enumerate and describe the several alterations, additions,
and improvements, which are comprised in my present. Invention, and which
constitute the sole objects of my present. Patent. In the first place, I now
carry my cloth or other fabric to be cropped or shorn from the platform B over
a cylinder or roller F, which revolves by its end rigger and line or band a, a,
or is moved in any other convenient manner in a direction opposite to that in

page_text: which the cloth moves, as indicated by the two arrows near E and F, Fig. 1.
This cylinder F, which I call the preparing cylinder, has its surface entirely
covered with wire cords, put on in fillets or any other convenient manner, or
else is covered with bristles, in the manner of a brush, its purpose being to
separate and lay the pile, or bring it into a fit state for shearing, and at the
same time to clear the cloth of all dirt, shearing dust, or impurities, all which
are brushed off into the long box or trough 6, in which the cylinder works.
The cloth or other fabric in passing from the parcel C to this cylinder passes
over the top straight edge of the board C, Fig. 1, which is adjustable by
screws, as at d by which this board may be raised higher or depressed, and
thus the fabric to be shorn in passing to the conducting cylinder G can be
made to press with more or less force against the preparing cylinder F, as
occasion may require. The cylinder G is merely to change the direction of the
cloth, and the cylinder H is covered with bristles to clear the back of the cloth
from any loose matter that may be upon it; I is the pile-raising cylinder, covered
with plush or bristies, and K is the delivering cylinder for carrying the goods
to the cutters. These three last cylinders are disposed and supported in very
nearly the same manner as described in my aforesaid Specification, and there-
fore form no part of the present Invention, except only that the roller I, which
was therein described as being covered with plush, I now only use in that state
for finishing, and I generally supply its place by a cylindrical hair brush to
raise the pile in all first operations. From the delivering roller K, I now pass
the cloth or other fabric immediately to the bed and cutting cylinder L and M,
which I now construct as follows:-And first of the bed. The profile or section
of the bed I now use is seen at L, Fig. 1, but is more distinctly shewn at L in
Fig. 4, which is drawn half the actual size. It consists of a bar of wrought or
cast iron, brass, or other sufficiently hard and stiff materials, the upper edge of
which is perfectly straight from end to end, and when viewed in profile or
transverse section assuming the irregular angle-shaped appearance shewn at
Fig. 4; e, being the top or edge upon which the shearing takes place; f, a
recess opposite the end of the spring cloth holders g, which was described in
my aforesaid former Specification. This metal bed has no springs of any kind,
and must even be free from elasticity, on which account it is supported or
borne up by the braces h, h, Figs. 1 and 3, described as aforesaid, or in any
other equally strong and effectual manner; neither has it any lengthwise
motion, for the aforesaid bar must be firmly fixed by its two end cheeks and
pivots u to the sides of the frame A, A, by proper screws, which admit of its
being adjusted so as to be parallel and equidistant in every part of its top
edge from the cutters, and which adjustment must be made before setting it to

page_text: work. This bed bar must of course exceed in its length the width of the
widest fabric to be shorn upon it. A rebate or sunk groove is formed on one
side of this bar throughout its entire length, and of sufficient capacity to contain
a straight wire as at e, Figs. 1, 4, and 5, and a thin plate of metal k is so
fixed by screws or rivets immediately above this groove as to overhang it, and
prevent the wire from being withdrawn, and yet leaving a sufficiont opening to
permit the passage and sliding backwards and forwards of a double-glazed
linen or silk cloth I, l, which is passed round such wire, being at the same time
strengthened by a thickness of leather, and is firmly sewed [to it, and which
turns over the point or upper edge e of the bed and hangs down on the
opposite side, where it is again sewed in such form as to leave a cavity to
contain the weight m, which is a straight bar of iron or other metal of the
entire length of the bed bar, in one or more pieces, and which by its weight
has the effect of keeping the said glazed linen or silk cloth tightly and evenly
strained or stretched. Over the said top edge e of the bed underneath the said
glazed linen or silk cloth are placed several thicknesses of velvet, plush, or
other elastic cloth, the whole of which, together with the said glazed linen or
silk cloth covering, are sewed on the side next the said groove to a thin strip of
brass or other metal, n, n, Figs, 4 and 5, by means of which the whole of the
said coverings and the wire in the groove can be made to move or slide
laterally upon the said bed bar, for which purpose small arms or handles like
o are fixed upon the said strip of brass n, n. Fig. 5 is a front view, drawn to
same scale, of the last above described bed bar, with its covering and appur-
tenances (broken off in the centre on account of its great length), in which the
same letters refer to the same parts; L, L, being the bar itself; f, the cavity
for the spring cloth holder; i, the groove for the wire; 1, 1, the linen or silk
covering; k, the strip for preventing the escape of the wire; n, n, the strip of
brass or other metal by which it is moved, and o, o, two of the handles for
moving it. These may be moved by the hands, but I prefer giving motion to
them by letting their ends pass into the links of an endless chain, which passes
over a pulley p and a toothed pulley or pinion q, Fig. 5, which may be moved
by a handle or key, as shown at 2, Fig. 4. By means of this motion the
length of the bed can be accommodated to any width of cloth to be shorn,
because by shifting the coverings 1, 1, away from either end of the bed bar, as
at S, Fig. 5, such a depression will take place as will protect the list of the
cloth placed over it from the action of the cutters. The other end t of the
coverings may overhang the bed bar without detriment. Raising the handler,
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, causes the whole bed L to turn on its pivot U, and thus it
inay be instantly withdrawn from the cutters, precisely in the same manner as

page_text: described in my aforesaid former Specification. The cloth or. other goods in
passing over the aforesaid bed is operated upon by the cutters, the lowest or
ledger blade of which is perfectly flat and straight, and is fitted up, applied,
and used in the manner described in my aforesaid Specification; w, Fig. 1,
being one of the pivots upon which the carriage of this blade turns, and x, x,
the set screws (one being placed in each corner of the carriage) by which the
cutting edge of the blade is brought to a proper state of adjustment to the
table. The male or upper cutting cylinder is, however, now differently con-
structed, and this new arrangement and construction of cutting cylinder I
claim as part of my present Invention. The general appearance of this
cylinder when detached from the machine is shewn in perspective at Fig. 6,
which is drawn one-sixth of the actual dimensions. XI now make this cylinder
entirely of wrought or cast iron or steel, and after it has been truly turned to
its pivots in a lathe spiral grooves are cut in its surface, about eight in
number, and so set out that each groove goes about four times round the
cylinder in passing from one end of it to the other. Into these grooves I
introduce the cutting blades, which are of the best thin plate steel, and not
projecting more than about half an inch from the face of the cylinder, about
half the width that I formerly made them; and instead of fixing them in their
places by blocks of wood and pewter, I now fill the remainder of the grooves
upon the said cylinder, and which are made rather tapering on one side
towards their bottoms (but not in so great a degree as heretofore), with a long
strip or strips of brass, which fold round the cylinder, and are fixed in their
|_ places by screws at short distances, (as is clearly seen in Fig. 6, and at L in the
same Figure, which shows an end view of such cutting cylinder. The cutting
cylinder, so formed and constructed, must then have the whole exterior edges of
its blades carefully examined while it turns upon its proper axis or gudgeons,
and by filing, grinding, or other means the whole of them must be put into a
true cylindrical shape, and no one part be permitted to be more or less pro-
minent than the others, for upon this perfection of form does the good operation
of my cutting cylinder chiefly depend. This cutting cylinder so formed and
prepared I use in conjunction with my greaser, as described in my aforesaid
former Specification, but instead of permitting that greaser to lie constantly on
the cutting edges of the blades of my cylinder, as therein described, I find it
more advantageous to apply it occasionally, which I now effect as follows:-
The greaser consists of a strip of strong leather y, y, Figs. 1 and 2, of the
same length as the cutting cylinder; but instead of this leather being im-
moveably fixed at one of its edges, as formerly described, it is now attached to
a stiff strip of brass or other metal having pivot screws at it extreme ends,.as"

page_text: shown at 2, 2, Fig. 2; by these it is tightly strained between the two levers *, *,
Figs. 1 and 2, which are held in their parallel position by the stretching bar †,
as shewn distinctly at Fig. 2. These levers turn on shifting centres (see Fig. 1),
by which, and the stretching screws on the two ends of the greaser, it may be
placed more or less over the cutting cylinder M, and at any required length to
its cutting blades. The stretching bar † is attached by means of the con-
necting piece to the lever a, b, c, turning on the pivot or centre 6; and a
is an iron ball or other weight adjustable on the screwed end of this lever, so
that its effective power may be varied. This weight must be just sufficient to
keep the end à of the lever a, b, c, depressed, by which the greaser y, y, will
be kept elevated or free from contact with the cutting blades of the cylinder
M. The cylinder K has three pins à, à, à, projecting from one of its ends;
as it revolves the pins strike upon and depress the end c of the lever a, b, c,
whereby the greaser is each time brought down and kept in contact with
the cutting blades, by which they are greased and kept in good cutting
order. The leather of the greaser y, y, must have its under side occasionally
supplied with oil, and altho' I mention three striking pins upon the cylinder
K, as finding by experience that this number answers well, yet their num-
ber may be encreased or diminished, as occasion may require, and which
will depend upon the nature and hardness of the steel of the blades, or an entire
ring may occasionally be fixed upon the pins for keeping the greaser in constant
contact with them, provided the cutters may require such an application. The
cutting cylinder so formed and arranged as aforesaid I find much more suffi-
cient than any other revolving cylinder heretofore used for the same purpose,
and I therefore consider it a material point in my present Invention. This
cutting cylinder is fixed in a carriage Y, turning upwards upon the joint or
centre e, Fig. 1, and is adjusted to its proper distance from the ledger blade
and bed by the screws f, f, and is turned by a band or cord from the large
rigger R, and the cloth in passing from the bed and cutters goes over the
cylinder N, Fig. 1, which is adjustable to different heights by the screw g, to
regulate the angle at which the cloth shall leave the bed, all which last circum-
stances belong to my former Inventions, and are described
my aforesaid
Specification; they are, therefore, only now stated in explanation of the
action of the machine, but are not claimed as any part of the present Invention.
The cylinder O, Fig. 1, is to assist the last-mentioned cylinder N in regulating
the aforesaid angle; from this the cloth passes immediately to the taking-off
cylinder Q, without any further operation in my former machine. But I now
introduce as a part of my present Invention and improvements the soft'
cylindrical brush P, being of the full width of the piece to be shorn, and which,"

page_text: by revolving more rapidly than the cloth moves, but in the same direction, has
the effect of finishing it, by laying and smoothing the pile, removing any shear-
ing dust or flocks that may stick to it, and putting it in a fit state for the
examination of the workman as it passes over the delivering cylinder Q into
the hopper S, which together with its means of movement for delivering the cloth
in regular folds at D, is described in and forms part of my former Invention.
But I now add the roller r, r, Figs. 1 and 2, which is covered with plush, and
bears with its own weight upon the delivering cylinder Q, in order to maintain
the cloth in a smooth state while passing away from the machine; and lastly,
I declare that in covering the aforesaid cylinders with cloth, or plush, or hair, or
bristles I do not preserve the double screw form of placing these materials
upon the surface of such cylinders, which was described in my aforesaid former
Specification, but I now cover them evenly and equally over the whole surfaces.
The herein-before described improvements, and the machine to which they are
applicable, is only for shearing cloth or other fabrics from end to end; but
Fig. 7 shews a perspective view of another kind of upper cutter which I
use for shearing cloths or other fabrics from list to list, by an alternating
instead of a rotatory motion, and which I use in conjunction with one or two
flat ledger or under blades, as shewn in profile or end view at Fig. 8. In this
arrangement a cylinder, or the half of a cylinder which has been truly turned
to its axles or gudgeons is made of cast or wrought iron, or other sufficiently
strong metal, and grooves are cut for the introduction of blades or cutters,
which are put in and fixed by brass slips and screws, in the manner that has been
already herein-before described for my cylindrical revolving cutters, except only
that such cutters, instead of being eight in number, and extending from one end
to the other of the cylinder, and twisting several times round it, in the present
instance I use but two parallel cutters of short length, which are placed at
certain distances from each other, which must depend upon the stroke or
quantity of swing or oscillation that is intended to be given to the cylinder, and
they must in all cases be so disposed, that if a line a, b, Fig. 7, be drawn
from the highest end c of one of the cutters in a direction parallel to the axis
of the cylinder, it will cut or intersect the lowest end a of the cutter that is
next to it, or vice versa to the end that some one part of a blade or pair of
blades shall constantly be bearing upon or in contact with the two flat leger
blades e, f, Fig. 8, where g, h, shews an end view of such a cutting cylinder;
g being the axis upon which it vibrates, and h the cylinder, and the blades;
e, f, the two opposite ledger blades; while the red line shews the cloth in .a
situation to be operated upon while it moves over the angular point of the bed t,
which is of metal or hard wood, made perfectly level and straight, and covered

page_text: as herein-before mentioned with plush or velvet, and finally with glazed linen
or silk cloth. Oscillating motion may be given to this cutting cylinder in a
variety of ways; but the mode that I have adopted, and which answers very
well, is to attach an arm or crank k to one end of the axis g of the cylinder h,
and to attach this by a swinging connecting rod or piece 1 to a turned pin, in
which can be set at different distances from the centre of the wheel or rigger n
by sliding in the long hole o, o; by this the quantity of motion in the cutter
may be regulated at pleasure, and that motion is given either by teeth or cogs
round n, or by a strap, band, or any of the usual modes; but this is not
material, since I do not claim the method of giving such motion, but merely
the constructing, selling, and using such cutters as are last herein-before
described, and which act against one, or, which is much better, two opposite
ledger blades, and cut both in their back and forward motion; for the same
reason I do not describe the method of mounting, supporting, or adjusting the
said cutting cylinder, ledger blades, or bed, because any of the usual and
accustomed means of performing these operations (some of which have been
noticed or described in this or my aforesaid Specification) will suffice. But I
feel it right to state, from the experiments I have so far made, that this form of
cutter does not answer, from the nature and violence of its motion, if it is per-
mitted to traverse in a carriage over the piece of cloth, as is usual in shearing
from list to list, but it. answers well and produces a new and desirablo
effect if the cloth moves over the table while the cutters keep one immovable
position. This form and application of cutter may therefore be applied in
place of the revolving cutter M in the machine herein-before described, but I
prefer its application in a fixed position for shearing cloths from list to list on
a frame or shearing table invented by me for that purpose, and shown at
Figs. 9 and 10, Fig. 9 being a plan or bird's-eye view of such a frame (broken
off at the centre on account of its great length); and Fig. 10, an end elevation
or view of the same from one end, for the purpose of showing the rollers for
containing the cloth, and the manner of disposing and working the same.
this machine the width of the frame from a. to b, Fig. 9, must be at least
twice as great as the width of the widest cloth to be shorn upon it, because the
cloth, together with the rollers c, d, Fig. 10, upon which it is wound, are made
to shift from one end to the other of the frame, in order that every part of the
width of such cloth may be operated upon by the cutters, which are placed
about the middle of the said frame. Thus, in the plan view, Fig. 9, a set of
cutters, similar to those shown and described by Figs. 7 and 8, would be placed
across the frame somewhere about its centre, or in the situation shewn by the
dotted line e, e, immediately above the cloth to be shorn, which is coloured
In

page_text: green and marked f,f, while its selvages are for distinctions sake coloured red
to shew their direction. The bed t, Fig. 8 and 10, is properly fixed and
adjusted immediately under the cloth and the said cutters by firm supports
from the bottom of the machine, since this bed must not move with the cloth
but retain one fixed position, and the cutters obtain their oscillating motion as
aforesaid from the rigger g which, by its axis and the cog wheels i, i, also
gives motion to the piece of cloth under the cutters. For this purpose the
rollers c and d for holding the cloth are mounted on a frame or carriage k, k,
Fig. 10, running on wheels or friction rollers 1, 1, in grooves provided for
that purpose at the bottom of the frame. As the cloth is wound upon either
of the rollers c or d it must be unwound from the other, and it is in
this way kept duly and tightly stretched in the direction of its length by
friction weights or springs, or ratchet wheels and palls, or clicks, attached
to the ends of the rollers, and it is stretched in the opposite direction or
from selvage to selvage by the contrivance shewn at Fig. 9. m, m, are two
straight bars of the stretching frame.. One of those bars is made adjust-
able by screws to different widths of cloth, so that one bar may be placed on
each side or under each selvage. Each of these bars has a row of strong
steel points standing upwards upon it, for the purpose of holding the edges or
selvages of that part of the piece of cloth that is under operation; and the
more effectually to produce this end, n, n, are two flaps, turning upwards on
hinges, so as to expose the said points while the cloth is placing upon them,
and having holes corresponding to the places of the said points, so that when
the said flaps are shut down the points may enter such holes, by which the
cloth is prevented from escaping. 0, 0, 0, 0, shew a system of iron bolts or
turn buckles, each of which turns on a centre pivot fixed upon the stretching
bars m, m, in such manner that one ond of each turn buckle overlaps the said
flaps and prevents their rising again; the opposite ends of the said turn
buckles are attached by pivots to the connecting rods r, r, r, r, which meet in
the centre at the handles, which slides backwards and forwards in the guiding
pieces t and u. In the lower part of Fig. 9 the handle s is shewn in such a
position that the connecting rods 1, 1, form a straight line, by which all the
turn buckles are thrown into the position for holding down the flap n; but in
the upper part of the said Figure the handles is pushed away from t, by which
the said turn buckles may be turned away from the flap, so as to permit it to
rise for disengaging the cloth, so soon as the cloth is engaged upon the points;
it must be stretched by the screws herein-before mentioned for that purpose,
when it will be ready for shearing; to effect which it is carried under the
cutters aforesaid in a direction from a towards band from 6 towards a, Fig. 9,
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page_text: alternately, by the chains or straps p, p, p, p, moving over the rollers q, q, their
motion being derived, as aforesaid, from power applied to g. v, v, are adjust-
able or stretching rollers, for the purpose of keeping the chains p, p, duly
strained. The cloth rollers shewn at C and D in Fig. 10 cannot be seen in
Fig. 9, since they are hidden by being immediately under the piece of cloth
ff, but their positions are marked in that Figure by dotted lines at c, d.
In describing Figs. 4 and 5 I omitted to state that a, a, is a kind of list
guard, or rather an indicator, to point out where the coverings of the bed
terminates, as this would be hidden when the cloth is upon it. This guard or
indicator consists merely of a plate of iron or steel x, x, screwed or rivetted
to the end of the brass plate n, and projecting as far beyond it as the ordinary
width of the lists of cloth, after which it turns back over the cloth in the same
shape or diminished down to a wire, as shewn in the Figure, but terminates in
either case exactly at the ends of the covering of the bed, as herein-before
described, thus marking the line from which the list will be protected by
falling into the depression betweens and e; and also in Fig. 7, x, x, x, x,
are strips of leather of the same height as the cutters, and fixed between each
of them to act as greasers by being occasionally oiled.
The foregoing is a true and faithful description of my aforesaid Invention
and improvements, and such a one as I believe will be clear and intelligible to
all competent persons.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Collier, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
JOHN (L.S.) COLLIER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of October, in
the third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, the said
John Collier came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument afore-
said was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth
year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and