A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LACE COMMONLY CALLED BOBBING NET
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HEATHCOAT, of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, Lace Manufacturer, send
greeting.
⚫ WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of
March, in the fifth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Heathcoat, His especial license,
that I, the said John Heathcoat, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John. Heathcoat, my exors, adiñors, 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 expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CERTAIN
PARTS OF MACHINES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LACE COMMONLY CALLED
BOBBING NET;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Heathcoat, 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 to
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Heathcoat, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be perfomed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is, to give the proper form and finish to the
outline or edges of those parts of lace machines commonly called carriages,
instead of filing them as ordinarily practiced. For this purpose I employ a
press on stamping machine containing a pair of dies, between which the
pieces of metal, when roughly sized and shaped by the usual methods, are to
be placed and pressed. These dies must be so made that by their pressure
the edges of the piece of metal called the carriage shall receive the required
form.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Heathcoat, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
ENDELL, Extra.
JOHN HEATHCOAT. (L.S.)
JOHN (L.s.)
HEATHCOAT.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid John Heathcoat 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.
Inrolled the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.