A NEW COMBI-
Year: 1833

page_text: SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ROBINSON WILLIAMS, Esquire, late of Norfolk Street, Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, but now of 14, Lamb's Buildings, Bunhill Row, in the said
County, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in the third year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Thomas Robinson Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and such others as I, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, my executors,
administrators, 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, and also in all His said
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A NEW COMBI-

page_text: NATION OF FIBROUS MATERIALS, FORMING BY MEANS OF MACHINERY ARTIFICIAL
SKINS, WHICH MAY BE APPLIED TO THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH SKINS, LEATHER,
VELLUM, AND PARCHMENT ARE NOW USED;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso that I, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, shall
cause a particular description of 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, to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Robinson Williams, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in a new combination of fibrous materials, forming artificial skins,
by means of machinery. I suspend fibrous materials in air instead of water;
and I draw, deposit, and lay the same on woven or perforated sheets or forms
of metal, wood, or cloth, by means of a partial exhaustion of the air under or
on the opposite side of the same. I dip or saturate the so-laid fibrous mate-
rials in adhesive compositions, whereby I complete my new combination; I
make use of some machinery well known; and I likewise use combinations of
machinery, consisting of parts and modifications of machines now first com-
bined and connected together, which have not been, as I verily believe, so
combined or connected heretofore. It may render the subject of my Invention
more clearly understood by observing that my new combination of fibrous
materials is in contradistinction to the present mode of reducing fibrous
materials into a state of pulp suspended in water, as in the manufacture of
paper; also to the process of spinning and weaving, as in woven fabrics, and
also to that of felting, as furs, wools, hairs, and other substances, are felted
together. And in farther compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Robinson Williams, do hereby describe the manner in which I per-
form my said Invention by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawings annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon,
that is to say:-
Process (A). Figure 1, A, B, represents a carding engine, on the feeding
end of which I place the fibrous material, whether silk, cotton, flax, hemp,
wool, fur, or hair alone, or mixtures of any of them, previously cleansed and
opened by machinery in common use, as picker, devil, or willie. I sometimes
use each material separately, as silk or cotton; at other times half of each;
again, /, silk and %, cotton, guiding my operations in using or mixing those,
or any of the other materials, according to the work proposed. When passed

page_text: through the cards it is deposited upon the doffer or last card C. The usual
mode of taking off materials from the doffer of a carding engine is by means
of a comb and apparatus called a comb crank, which delivers them in a thin
silver or tissue; but the fibre in that case is too much in a longitudinal
direction with the sliver to suit my purpose, therefore I make use of a fan (D),
covered on the top (1), and moved with considerable velocity, which blows the
material (2), finely opened from the doffer into the air, from which suspended
state it is drawn, laid, and deposited, upon an endless revolving apron or band
of woven metallic wire or cloth, or other perforated substance, or of wooden or
metallic slats or rods (3, 4,) extended round the two rollers (5, 6); and in
order thus to lay the material equally upon the revolving apron, and to make
a continuous batt, fleece, or sheet, I produce a partial exhaustion of the air in
the box (E), which is open on the top, and fitted between the apron 3, 4.
This partial exhaustion of the air may be produced at some distance from the
machine, if required, provided it be connected with the box (E) by covered
troughs or pipes, by any of the usual methods of exhausting; but it is here
represented as I generally produce it by means of a fau F fixed under the floor
upon which the carding engine stands, and moved with any required velocity
(the sides next the axle being placed near two openings in the side boxes
(7, 8.) which are connected with E), its revolution causing a sufficient
exhaustion from its centre, consequently in the box E through the boxes 7, 8.
The batt, thus formed upon the endless apron, moves onwards, until it reaches
and is received into an adhesive composition contained in a dipping box or
cistern G, between the large roller H and the smaller ones a, b, c, d; thence it
passes up between the two large rollers H, I, which may be adjusted to any
required thickness of the batt by the lever and weights (h, i,) and plummer
blocks of the roller I. The best adhesive composition which I know consists
of four or five parts of strong glue, carefully soaked in cold water, to one or
two parts of flour or starch, made into a thin paste in cold water, mixed
together, put into the cistern G, and gradually heated up to the boiling point
by means of steam, which is introduced either through a pipe coiled round the
inside of the cistern, or a double bottom thereto. The heat may be obtained
by direct fire, but steam is preferable in all respects. The adhesive com-
position may be varied; but after many experiments with glue, flour, starch,
and also with gums that soften by heat and water, I have found the above-
mentioned composition best for general use. The batt of fibrous material
now passed through and saturated in the cistern is continued by the web K
over the drying machine in common use, of which L, M, N, are three hollow

page_text: metallic cylinders, heated through steam pipes (9, 10, 11, 12,) and stuffing
boxes (13, 14, 15).
Process B. Figure 2, A, B, also represents a carding engine; C, the
the doffer, and the material (2) flowing from it by the fan F; D, the
exhausting fan; E, the exhausting box, which is here made to revolve upon
its centre at the bottom by means of a large circular rim G, within which the
air is drawn. On the top of this box are other lesser openings, upon which
are placed any required forms (example b, c, &c.), set upon wheels, the
centres of which are open for the air to pass through, but which are kept in
their places by rims on their under sides, similar to that of the exhausting
box E. They receive a slow revolving motion from an upright spindle (d) and
pinion (e), placed exactly over the centre of the box E. A sufficient quantity
of the fibrous material having been deposited on one form, another made in
two halves (3, 4), is placed over the material and inner form, and the whole
removed together, and dipped into the adhesive composition before described,
which saturates it. The material thus combined is taken from the forms
and dried. The forms may be made of any perforated substance of sufficient
strength, but I prefer them of copper or zinc.
Process (C). Figure 3, A, B, C, is the frame cylinder and usual arrange-
ment of the common picker, having, however, a greater number of spiked
teeth on the circumference of the cylinder (but without what are called
opposition teeth). The fibrous material is placed upon the feed apron D, and
when opened by the rapid revolution of the teeth on the cylinder, it is
deposited upon the endless revolving apron E, and thence passes on to the
compressing rolls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, the upper of which are weighted upon
the lower; from these it passes into and through the cistern F, precisely as
represented in process A. The adhesive composition used in this process is
generally similar with that mentioned in process A, except that I sometimes
add a little pitch or rosin, which may be easily melted with the composition if
it do not contain too much water.
Process D.--For some purposes, whether the artificial skin be required to be
formed of a fine texture, or of considerable thickness and strength, and to be
submitted to pressure, or to be stamped into various forms and irregular
figures, my manner of proceeding is as follows, videlicet:-Having formed the
requisite batt fleece or sheet out of the fibrous material by means of the
machinery described under processes A or C, I place the same between
frames of woven wire or perforated sheets of metal, wood, wicker work, or
cloth, for support, and to prevent its derangement; then I dip or saturate the

page_text: same in the adhesive composition, and when sufficiently dried or cooled,
submit it to the necessary pressure, or to the stamping by dies into the forms
required.
Process E. For other purposes, I find it convenient to spread evenly over
one side of two sheets of the thinner article, formed by the means detailed in
process A, the adhesive composition, which soon dries sufficiently to prevent
its running; between these two sheets I place a batt formed out of the
fibrous material, of any required thickness, by means of the machinery
described under processes A or C, as may be most suitable and convenient
(the prepared or glutinous sides of the sheets of the thinner material being
next the upper and under sides of the said batt). The whole thus laid is
placed between heated dies or forms, and submitted to powerful pressure, thus
at the same time softening the adhesive composition, and forcing it through
the batt, which receives and when cold retains the forms and shapes of the
dies.
Process F. In applying the artificial skins combined according to processes
A and C, for the purposes of smoothing and polishing, as fish skins are now
used, I scatter upon the sheets, whether thick or thin (immediately after they
are dipped into the adhesive composition), either emery, sand, or powdered
glass, and which when dry become completely incorporated and united with
the skin. I should here observe, in addition to the foregoing descriptions,
that I consider the processes detailed under A and C as those most explana-
tory of my new manner of combining fibrous materials, forming, by means of
the machinery therein described, the artificial skins; for example, A the finer,
and C such as are required to be of a thicker and strong texture; and that
the processes B, D, and E, are generally more descriptive of the manner in
which, whether formed of a fine texture or of considerable thickness and
strength, they may be submitted to pressure, or stamped by means of dies, so
that they shall receive and retain the figures, shapes, or forms thereby
impressed into or upon them.
I do hereby declare this to be the Specification of my new Invention, and I
claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
THOS R. (L.S.) WILLIAMS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of August, in the
fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, the
said Thomas Robinson Williams came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
Instrument aforesaid 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.
Innalled

page_text: In the Matter of a Patent granted to THOMAS ROBINSON WILLIAMS,
Esquire, late of Norfolk Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
but now of No. 14, Lamb's Buildings, Bunhill Row, in the said
County, for "A NEW COMBINATION OF FIBROUS MATERIALS, FORMING BY
MEANS OF MACHINERY ARTIFICIAL SKINS, WHICH MAY BE APPLIED TO THE
PURPOSES FOR WHICH SKINS, LEATHER, VELLUM, AND PARCHMENT ARE
NOW USED," bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to which
said Letters Patent a Specification was duly inrolled.
DISCLAIMER and MEMORANDUM of alteration proposed to be entered
by Forbes McNeill, of Bunhill Row, in the County of Middlesex, Felt
Manufacturer, assignee of the said Patent, with the Clerk of the Patents
of England, pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth and sixth year of the
reign of His late Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Law touching
Letters Patent for Inventions."
(The words printed in italics are in red ink in the original.)
I, the said Forbes McNeill, do declare that the said Specification describes
he Invention to consist of a peculiar manufacture resulting from suspending
ibrous materials in air, and drawing, depositing, or laying the same on to
woven or perforated surfaces by a partial exhaustion of the air under or on
the opposite side of such surfaces. And I have been advised and believe that
the manufacture so produced is not wholly new, and I have also been advised
and believe that the Title in the said Patent, and recited in the said Specifica-
tion, is too extensive, and that part of the Title does not correctly express the
object of the Invention, for which reasons I am desirous to disclaim and alter,
and do hereby disclaim and alter, parts of the said Title by striking out the
words "a new," and inserting the words "improvements in producing a"
before the word "combination." And I also strike out the words "artificial
skins which may be applied to the purposes for which skins, leather, vellum,
and parchment are now used," and I insert the words "by suspending fibrous
materials in air, and drawing, depositing, or laying the same on to-woven or
perforated surfaces by partial exhaustion of the air under or on the opposite
side of such surfaces," after the words "fibrous materials." And I also insert

page_text: the words "a batt, sheet, or fleece of fibres," after the word "machinery."
And I have been advised and believe that the said Specification is so drawn as
to leave it in some doubt whether the machinery, or some parts of the
machinery, are not claimed as new, and whether the applying adhesive
mixtures to sheets of fibres is not claimed as new; for which reasons I am
desirous to alter and do hereby alter the said Specification by introducing some
explanatory words and sentences and by striking out others, in order to
disclaim such machinery and parts of the machinery, and the processes
described in the Specification, which constitute no part of the Invention
claimed in the said Specification. And with a view to make the description
of the means of carrying out the Invention more full and correct, I have
added other words in the Specification. And in order that the nature and
extent of this Disclaimer and Alteration may be fully understood, I have here-
unto annexed a copy of the said Specification, and which is to be taken as
part hereof, in which I have ruled through those parts with red ink which
I disclaim, and the alterations which I have made in the said Title and the
said Specification I have written in red ink.
MANTITY
FORBES MCN
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ROBINSON WILLIAMS, Esquire, late of Norfolk Street, Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, but now of 14, Lamb's Buildings, Bunhill Row, in the said
County, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in the third year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Robinson Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that 1, the said
Thomas Robinson Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of A new Improvements in
producing a Combination of Fibrous Materials by suspending Fibrous Materials
in Air, and Drawing, Depositing, or Laying the same an to Woven or Per-

page_text: Side of such Surfaces, forming by means of Machinery a Batt, Sheet, or Fleece
of Fibres, Artificial Skins, which may be applied to the Purposes for which-Skins,
Leathers, Vellum, and-Parchment are now used; in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, that I, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, shall
cause a particular description of 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, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Robinson Williams, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist of improvements in producing a in a new combination of fibrous
materials forming artificial skins a combined batt, fleece, or sheet of fibres by
means of machinery; I suspend fibrous materials in air instead of water, and I
draw, deposit, and lay the same on woven or perforated sheets or forms of
metal, wood, or cloth, by means of a partial exhaustion of the air under or on
the opposite side of the same. I dip or saturate the so laid fibrous materials
in adhesive compositions, whereby I complete my new combination.
I make
use of some machinery well known, and I likewise use combinations of ma-
chinery consisting of parts and modifications of machines, now first combined
and connected together which have not been, as I verily believe, so combined
or connected heretofore. I do not, however, make any claim to such new or old
combinations of machinery, nor do I claim the means of applying adhesive
matters as described to a sheet of fibres, as I am aware that similar means have
been before resorted to when operating on sheets of fibres obtained by other means.
It may render the subject of my Invention more clearly understood by observing
that my new combinations of fibrous materials is in contradistinction to the
present mode of reducing fibrous materials into a state of pulp suspended in
water, as in the manufacture of paper. Also to the process of spinning and
weaving, as in woven fabrics, and also to that of felting, as furs, wools, hairs,
and other substances are felted together. And in further compliance with
the said proviso, I the said Thomas Robinson Williams, do hereby describe
the manner in which I perform my said Invention, by the following descrip-
tion thereof, reference being had to the Drawings annexed, and to the letters
and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
:-
Process (A), Figure 1. A, B, represents a carding engine, on the feeding
end of which I place the fibrous materials, whether silk, cotton, flax, hemp,

page_text: wool, fur, or hair, alone, or mixtures of any of them, (previously cleansed and
opened by machinery in common use, as picker, devil, or willie. I sometimes
use each material separately, as silk or cotton, at other times half of each,
again one third silk and two thirds cotton, guiding my operations in using or
mixing those, or any of the other materials, according to the work proposed;
when passed through the cards it is deposited upon the doffer or last card C.
The usual mode of taking off materials from the doffer of a carding engine is
by means of a comb and apparatus called a comb crank, which delivers them
in a thin sliver or tissue, but the fibre in that case is too much in a longitudinal
direction with the sliver to suit my purpose, therefore I make use of a pan (D)
covered on the top (1), and moved with a considerable velocity, which blows
the material (2), finely opened from the doffer into the air, from which sus-
pended state it is drawn, laid, and deposited upon an endless revolving apron
or band of woven metallic wire or cloth, or other perforated substance, or of
wooden or metallic slats or rods (3, 4,) extended round the two rollers (5, 6,)
which should be enclosed above and at the sides, though not so shown in the
Drawing; and in order thus to lay the material equally upon the revolving
apron, and to make a continuous batt, fleece, or sheet, I produce a partial
exhaustion of the air in the box (E), which is open on the top and fitted
between the apron 3, 4. This partial exhaustion of the air may be produced
at some distance from the machine, if required, provided it be connected with
the box E covered troughs or pipes, by any of the usual methods of
exhausting, but it is here represented as I generally produce it by means of a
fan (F), fixed under the floor upon which the carding engine stands, and moved
with any required velocity, (the sides next the axle being placed near two open-
ings in the side boxes 7, 8, which are connected with (E), its revolution
causing a sufficient exhaustion from its centre consequently in the box E
through the boxes 7, 8. The batt thus formed upon the endless apron
moves onwards until it reaches and is received into an adhesive composition
contained in a dipping box or cistern G between the large roller H and the
smaller ones a, b, e, d, thence it passes up between the two large rollers H, I,
which may be adjusted to any required thickness of the batt by the levers and
weights (h, i), and plummer blocks of the roller I. The best adhesive composi-
tion which I know consists of four or five parts of strong glue carefully
soaked in cold water, to one or two parts of flour or starch made into a
thin paste, in cold water, mixed together, put into the cistern G, and
gradually heated up to the boiling point by means of steam which is intro-
duced either through a pipe coiled round the inside of the cistern or a
double bottom thereto; the heat may be obtained by direct fire, but steam

page_text: is preferable in all respects. The adhesive composition may be varied, but
after many experiments with glue, flour, starch, and also with gums that
soften by heat and water, I have found the above-mentioned composition
best for general use where the matter produced has been for more expensive
articles of manufacture, but I use pitch and tar for cheaper articles. The batt
of fibrous material now passed through and saturated in the cistern is con-
tinued by the web K over the drying machine in common use of which which
is not claimed under the present Letters Patent. L, M, N, are three hollow
metallic cylinders heated through steam pipes (9, 10, 11, 12), and stuffing
boxes (13, 14, 15).
Process B, Figure 2. A, B, also represents a carding engine. C, the doffer
and the material (2) flowing from it by the fan F. D, the exhausting fan.
E the exhausting box, which is here made to revolve upon its centre at the
bottom by means of a large circular rim G, within which the air is drawn.
On the top of this box are other lesser openings, upon which are placed any
required forms (example b, c, &c.) set upon wheels, the centres of which are
open for the air to pass through, but which are kept in their places by rims on
their under sides, similar to that of the exhausting box E; they receive a slow
revolving motion from an upright spindle (d) and pinion (e) placed exactly
over the centre of the box E. A sufficient quantity of the fibrous material
having been deposited on one form, another made in two halves (3, 4), is
placed over the material and inner form, and the whole removed together and
dipped into the adhesive composition before described, which saturates it; the
material thus combined is taken from the forms and dried. The forms may be
made of any perforated substance of sufficient strength, but I prefer them of
copper or zinc.
Process C, Figure 3.- A, B, C, is the frame cylinder, and usual arrangement of
the common pieker, having, however, a great number of spiked teeth on the
eireumference of the cylinder, but without what are called opposition-teeth.-The
fibrous material is placed upon the feed apron D, and when opened by the rapid
revolution of the teeth on the cylinder, it is deposited-upon the endless revolving
apron E, and thence passes on to the compressing rolls 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, the upper
of which are weighted upon the lower;-from-these-it passes into and through the
eistern F, precisely as represented in Process A. The adhesive-composition used in
this process is generally similar with that mentioned in Process A, except that I
sometimes add a little pitch or rosin, which may be easily melted with the-compo-
sition, if it do not contain too-much-water.
Process D. For some purposes, whether the artificial skin be required to
be formed of a fine texture or of considerable thickness and strength, and
to be submitted to pressure, or to be stamped into various forms and irregular

page_text: figures, my manner of proceeding is as follows, videlicet:-Having formed the
required batt, fleece, or sheet out of the fibrous material by means of the
machinery described under Processes A or C I place the same between frames
of woven wire or perforated sheets of metal, wood, wickerwork, or cloth for
support, and to prevent its derangement, then I dip or saturate the same in
the adhesive composition, and when sufficiently dried or cooled, submit it to the
necessary pressure or to the stamping by dies into the forms required.
Process E.--For other purposes I find it convenient to spread evenly over
one side of two sheets of the thinner article formed by the means detailed in
Process A the adhesive composition, which soon dries sufficiently to prevent
its running. Between these two sheets, I place a batt formed out of the fibrous
material of any required thickness by means of the machinery described
under-Processes A-or-C, as may be most suitable and convenient, (the prepared
or glutinous sides of the sheets of the thinner material being next the upper
and under sides of the said batt); the whole thus laid is placed between heated
dies or forms, and submitted to powerful pressure, thus at the same time
softening the adhesive composition and forcing it through the batt which
receives, and when cold retains, the forms and shapes of the dies.
Process F. In applying the artificial skins sheets of fabric, combined accord-
ing to Processes A-and-G, for the purposes of smoothing and polishing, as fish
skins are now used, I scatter upon the sheets, whether thick or thin, (imme-
diately after they are dipped into the adhesive composition, either emery, sand,
or powdered glass), and which, when dry, become completely incorporated and
united with the skin fabric.
I should here observe, in addition to the foregoing descriptions, that I con-
sider the processes detailed-under A and C, as those most that which is explana-
tory of my new manner of combining fibrous materials forming by means
of the machinery therein described the artificial-skins; for example, A the finer,
-and-C such as are required to be of a thicker and stronger texture. And that
the Processes B, D, and E, are generally more descriptive of the manner in
which, whether formed of a fine texture or of considerable thickness and
strength, they may be submitted to pressure or stamped by means of dies, so
that they shall receive and retain the figures, shapes, or forms thereby im-
pressed into or upon them.
I do hereby declare this to be the Specification of my new Invention,
and I claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Robinson Williams, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
(Signed)
THOS R. (L.S.) WILLIAMS.

page_text: This to certify that the above-named Forbes McNeill, of Bunhill Row, in
the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, Assignee of a Patent granted to
Thomas Robinson Williams, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at
Westminster the 14th day of February, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-
three, and to which a Specification was duly enrolled, has applied to me for
leave to enter with you the above-written Disclaimer and Memorandum of
Alteration of the said Patent; and in considering the said application I directed
him to advertise his said Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alteration in the
London Gazette, and in the Times & Morning Chronicle Newspapers, and
such advertisements have been duly made, and no objection having been made
to to the said application, I have accordingly granted leave to the said Forbes
McNeills to file his said Disclaimer & Memorandum of Alteration pursuant
to the Statute passed in the fifth and sixth years of His late Majesty King
William the Fourth, entituled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters
Patent for Inventions."
FORBES (L.S.) M°NEILL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of April, in
the sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said Forbes
McNeill came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and ac-
knowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid
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.