CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A SUBSTANCE OR COMPOUND FABRIC, WHICH WILL BE APPLICABLE TO THE MAKING OF QUILTS, COVERLETS, AND WADDING, FOR PURPOSES OF CLOTHING OR FURNITURE
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PETER BOOTH, late of Hatton Garden, in the City of London, but now of
the City of Cork, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Feather Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eleventh day of November, in the fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Peter Booth, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said John Peter Booth, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, and such others as I, the said John Peter Booth, my
executors, administrators, 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
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all Iler
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, and in the Islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Man, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A SUBSTANCE OR COMPOUND FABRIC, WHICH WILL BE
APPLICABLE TO THE MAKING OF QUILTS, COVERLETS, AND WADDING, FOR PURPOSES
OF CLOTHING OR FURNITURE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said John Peter Booth, by an instrument 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
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page_text: 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
John Peter Booth, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention of improvements in the manufacture of quilts, coverlets, and
wadding, for purposes of clothing and furniture, consists in the application of
down thereto, in the manner hereafter described. The down may be obtained
from any
bird or animal; but I use in preference the down obtained from goose
feathers. After the down has been properly dressed and prepared in any of the
methods usually adopted for such purposes, I arrange it in a layer of a con-
venient thickness, and place it within a case or covering consisting of two
sheets of any suitable material. When the down is properly placed and
arranged in this case or covering it is retained therein, and in its proper
situation, by stitching or quilting the case or covering, in the manner shewn
in the Drawing hereunto annexed, which represents a plan and side view of
one of my improved quilts or coverlets without the outer case or covering.
After the down is properly secured in the manner above described, or in any
other convenient manner, within its inner case or covering, the quilt, coverlet,
or wadding thus produced may be covered with any ornamental fabric, such
as satin, silk, velvet, chintz, or other material, according to the purpose to
which my improved wadding is intended to be applied. It will be evident,
from the foregoing description, that my Invention may be employed for every
purpose in which warnith is required, and also, as before mentioned, it may
be enclosed within an ornamental covering of any description, from which it
may be removed with the greatest facility without at all injuring either the
quilt or wadding, or the ornamental case or covering. Another advantage is,
that by securing the down or wadding in an inner case, the down is prevented
from working through the ornamental covering.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner in which the same
is carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent,-
First, the application of goose down under two covers, the inner cover to
be quilted or otherwise secured, and the outer or ornamental cover stitched or

page_text: And, secondly, I claim the application of down of any description to be
applied in the manner above explained, to every purpose of clothing whero
warmith is required, as an improved material for or mode of wadding
garments.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Peter Booth, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
J. P. (L.s.) BOOTH.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of April,
in the fifth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said
John Peter Booth came before our said Lady the Queen in Her 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.
Inrolled the Seventh day of May, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-two.