AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE POR CARPETING
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
HADDEN, of Aberdeen, in that part of the United Kingdom called Scotland,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day
of June, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Alexander Hadden, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Alexander Hadden,
exors, admors, and assigns, 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, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE POR CARPETING;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Alexander Hadden, shall 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 four calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Alexander Hadden, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be. performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in the following description thereof (that is to
say) :-
That my Invention doth consist in the application of long flax and flaxen
tow, either or both, for the manufacture of carpeting and carpeting made of 5
the before-mentioned materials, being entirely new, and an Invention of my
own, I am desirous to maintain this my exclusive right and privilege to the
same.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE PATENT CARPETING.
The mechanical process in the manufacture of carpeting from long flax and
flaxen tow, either or both, is the same as in its manufacture from wool, nor is
any particular rule absolutely necessary in the substitution of the former
materials for the latter, with regard to which shall form either the warp or
the weft, or both; but I prefer the arrangement of long flax for the warp, and
flaxen tow for the weft, as best adopted for the purposes required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander. Hadden, hath. hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
ALLA (1.5.)
AND. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid Alexander Hadden came
before our said. Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.