CERTAIN NEW METHODS FOR WEAVING OR MANUFACTURING HAIR ALONG WITH SILE, THREAD, OR OTHER MATERIALS, AND OF MAKING THE SAME INTO PERUKES OR WIGS, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES, SO AS TO IMITATE NATURE, AND OF TAKING THE MEASURE OR SECTION OR PROFILE OF THE HEAD, BY AN INSTRUMENT APPLICABLE TO THAT AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, Louis
CARON, of the City of Paris, but now residing in the City of London, Manu-
facturer, sends greeting.
WHEREAS by His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-first day of October now last past, after reciting that the said
Louis Caron had, by his Petition, humbly represented unto His Majesty that
he had invented "CERTAIN NEW METHODS FOR WEAVING OR MANUFACTURING HAIR
ALONG WITH SILE, THREAD, OR OTHER MATERIALS, AND OF MAKING THE SAME INTO
PERUKES OR WIGS, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES, SO AS TO IMITATE NATURE, AND
OF TAKING THE MEASURE OR SECTION OR PROFILE OF THE HEAD, BY AN INSTRUMENT
APPLICABLE TO THAT AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" that he was the first and true
Inventor thereof, and that the same had not been practised by any other person
of persons, to his knowledge or belief, and therefore praying that His Majesty
would be graciously pleased to grant unto him, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use, benefit, and advantage
of his said Invention, within that part of His Dominion called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of four-
teen years according to the Statute in that case made and provided; His
Majesty was graciously pleased, for Himself, His heirs and successors, to give
and grant unto the said Louis Caron, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said

page_text: Louis Caron, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by himself and themselves, and by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as he, the said Louis Caron, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention
within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Louis Caron, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretion scom
mcet, and that he, the said Louis Caron, his exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time accruing and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for the term of years therein, to hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages unto the said Louis Caron,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from
the date of the said Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if
the said Louis Caron should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of his said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next ensuing the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the said Letters
Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the proviso herein-before mentioned
to be contained in the herein- before in part recited Letters Patent, I, the said
Louis Caron, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the par-
ticulars herein-after set forth :-
It consists of weaving hair with silk and other materials in manner
following-The machine by which it is woven is similar to that used
for weaving gauze or silk. The first process is to place the hairs so as
to be as nearly as possible of even length, and to interweave them,
by two or three hairs at most at once, with two threads of silk to any
length that may be required, so that the points of the hairs be made to
project perpendicularly from the silk, and which is then wound round a shuttle
for the purpose of being commodiously passed between the threads of the warp,
as herein after mentioned. The next process is to prepare the warp and the

page_text: woof, both of which may be composed of silk thread, and with which the hair
and silk so woven together as above mentioned should be interwoven as
follows (that is to say):-The alternate threads of the warp should be sepa-
rated in the usual manner of weaving by treading on the treadle, upon which
the interwoven silk and hair should be passed between them, so that the silk
should be close to where the threads of the warp join each other, and from
which the points of the hair should be made to present themselves upwards,
upon which, by pressing the treadle, the threads of the warp should be made
to close about one half, and then by means of a tortoise shell, or other flexible
comb, the hair should be raised through the warp, and made to project
upwards perpendicularly therefrom, which is facilitated by placing the hand
under the threads of the warp, while the comb is used for the aforesaid purpose;
the threads of the warp should then be made to close, and the shuttle with the
woof of silk thread, as the case may be, should be then passed between the
threads of the warp either once, twice, or oftener, according as the manufac-
turer may wish to have more, or less hair in the manufacture, and two or three
strokes of the batten to tighten the work should then be given to it. These
directions being repeated will form the web, which is the subject of the Letters
Patent above mentioned, and which may be made into perukes, wigs, and
other articles usually composed of hair and other materials, and may be cut
into whatever shape may be thought proper, and made to retain such shape by
means of a ribband of silk and hair, to be wove in the same manner as above,
and which will also serve to border the work. A ribband should also be made
with the same materials as the web above described, intermixed with small
elastic wires of iron, in order that that part of the wigs, perukes, and other
articles to be made from the said manufacture, which may press on the temples
near the ears, and on other muscular parts of the wearers thereof, may bend
to their motions without hurting them, and without being discomposed.
The instrument for taking the measure, profile, or section of the head consists
of a flat box containing a double brass frame, in which one hundred and ninety-
seven apertures are made, through which are made to pass a like number of
parallel steel wires, placed close to each other, and in such manner as that
upon holding the box with the apertures downwards the wires will to a certain
extent and to an even length be projected therefrom in that direction, preserving
their parallelism to each other. The box should then be raised so as to apply
the wires to the head of the person or other object, the shape and dimensions
of which is intended to be taken, by the pressure of which against the wires
they will be made severally to recede into the box, so as to describe along
their points the projections and outlines of the object, and by means of a screw

page_text: the wires are fixed in and made to retain their position, from which the dimen-
sions are delineated on paper by a pencil or crayon;. the dimensions of the
different parts of the head are thus taken in divisions, by the union of which
the size, shape, and measureinent of the whole is obtained.
In witness whereof, the said Louis Caron hath hereunto subscribed
and set his hand and seal, the Twentieth day of November, in the
forty-eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third,
by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seven.
LOUIS (L.S.)
(L.S.) CARON.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamped) in the presence of
JOHN CROSLAND,
Broad Street, London.
JN JEFFERSON,
Clerk to Mr Crosland.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twentieth day of Novem-
ber, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Louis Caron came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.