IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATS OR OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Gibson, William James Taylor, John
Peter Bardsley, and Robert Jopling Fletcher, of Hazel Grove, in
the County of Chester, Hat Manufacturers, for the Invention of
“IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR AND IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATS OR OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Gibson, William
James Taylor, John Peter Bardsloy, and Robert Jopling Fletcher,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with thoir Petition,
on the 11th Maroli 1878.
We, EDWARD GIBSON, WILLIAM JAMES TAYLOR, JOHN PETER
BARDSLEY, and ROBERT JOPLING FLETCHER, of Hazel Grove, in the
County of Chester, Hat Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF CERTAIN
MATERIALS FOR AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT HATS OR OTHER COVERINGS
FOR THE Head,” to be as follows :—
In the preparation of fur for the manufacture of felt hats or coverings

page_text: for the head, whether they be made wholly of fur or of a mixture of
fur and wool, the rabbit or other skins from which the fur is obtained
are first prepared, and then the fur is cut therefrom either by hand or by
machine. The fur thus obtained is composed of "good fur" and certain
refuses known as "forcings or kemps" and "fur dust or machine waste," {
which are of very little value.
The object of our Invention is to utilize the "fur dust or machine
wasto " in the manufacture of felt hats or other coverings for the head.
For this purposo we place the "fur dust or machine waste" in suitable
proportions with wool, or wool and fur, on the carding engine, either 1
between two laps of wool or on the top of a lap of wool, or with a
mixture of wool and fur, or any other way which may be most con-
venient, and put through the carding engine in one of the following
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Edward
GIBSON, WILLIAM JAMES TAYLOR, JOHN PETER BARDSLEY, and ROBERT
JOPLING FLETCHER, of Hazel Grove, in the County of Chester, Hat 80
Manufacturers, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
5 and grant unto us, the said Edward Gibson, William James Taylor,
John Peter Bardsley, and Robert Jopling Fletcher, Her special licenso
that wo, the said Edward Gibson, William James Taylor, John Peter
Bardsley, and Robert Jopling Fletcher, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Gibson, William
James Taylor, John Peter Bardsley and Robert Jopling Fletcher, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
5 the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE PREPARATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FELT HATS OR OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Edward (tibson, William James Taylor, John
Peter Bardsley, and Robert Jopling Fletcher, our executors or admini-
)strators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edward Gibson, William James
Taylor, John Peter Bardsley, and Robert Jopling Fletcher, do hereby
_declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
In the preparation of fur for the manufacture of felt hats or coverings
for the head, whether they be made wholly of fur or of a mixture of
fur and wool, the rabbit or other skins from which the fur is obtained
are first prepared and then the fur is cut therefrom either by hand or by
machine. The fur thus obtained is composed of "good fur" and certain
refuses known as "forcing or kemps” and “fur dust or machine waste,”
which are of very little value.

page_text: The object of our Invention is to utilize the "fur dust or machine
waste" in the manufacture of felt hats or other coverings for the head.
For this purpose we place the "fur dust or machine waste" in suitable
proportions with wool or wool and fur on the carding engine either
between two laps of wool, or on the top of a lap of wool, or with a
mixture of wool and fur, or in any other way which may be most
convenient, and put through the carding engine in either of the fol-
lowing waVA.