A NEW METHOD OF RETAINING COTTON AND OTHER ELASTIC SUBSTANCES (WHEN PRESSED) BY MEANS OF WRAPPERS
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ARCHIBALD
BLAIR, of Bayford, in the County of Herts, Esquire, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of March now last
past, hath given and granted unto the said Archibald Blair, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend a certain Inven-
tion of him, the said Archibald Blair, of "A NEW METHOD OF RETAINING COTTON
AND OTHER ELASTIC SUBSTANCES (WHEN PRESSED) BY MEANS OF WRAPPERS," within
that part of His Majesty's said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, and to have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising, by reason of his said Invention, during
the term aforesaid; subject nevertheless to a proviso or condition in the
said Letters Patent contained, that if the said Archibald Blair should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in
what manner the same is 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 and immediately after
the dato of the said Letters Patent, then the same Letters Patent, and all

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liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and be void.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Archibald Blair, in compliance with and
performance of the said condition of the said Letters Patent, doth by this
Instrument in writing under his hand and seal, particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, as well by the several Figures, Drawings, or Delineations contained
in the margin of these Presents, as by the description or explanation thereof
herein-after also set forth (that is to say):-
The said Invention consists in the application of wrappers constructed of
hemp, and similar substances or materials, to retain all elastic goods, when
pressed to a great degree of density. The strength of the wrappers is to be
The best hemp or other
proportioned to the force they are intended to resist.
material, &c. is first to be spun into yarn of various sizes, as the strength of
the proposed wrappers may require. This yarn is to be manufactured into
webs, which may be of various dimensions.
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The Delineations or Drawings in the margin of. the Figures 1 and 2, with
the explanation of those Drawings and. Figures hercin-after set forth, arc
intended to represent, by way of example, a web to form wrappers for bales. of
cotton of two hundred pounds weight, and to be eighteen-inches by eighteen,
and thirty-six inches long; on which same principle, by varying the dimen
sions of the webs and the strength of the yarn, wrappers may be constructed
for bales of all dimensions, and of strength to resist all degrees of elastic
force.
A, A, the woof of good hempen
B, B, the warp, which may be
Figure 1, part of a web of wrappers.
yarn, &c., about the size of a cable yarn.
constructed of inferior hemp, &c., about the size of a pack thread. It will be
observed, that the woof is extended beyond the warp about two inches on each
side to form bights, by which the wrappers are laced together round the goods
when pressed to form bales. C, C, parts of the web, in which the woof is of
the same texture as the warp, and about three or four inches in length between
the several wrappers, which, being cut in the middle, leaves one inch and an
half or more for selvage on each side of the several wrappers.
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Figure 2, one side of a bale, which shews the lacing of the two wrappers,
which may be supposed to have been cut from the web Figure 1. A, A, the
woof. B, B, the warp. D, D, the lacings, which will be formed of yarns of
sufficient strength to correspond with that of the woof.
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These wrappers may be variously constructed, and of such other- mate-
rials as may be found by experience adapted to answer the same intention;

page_text: but the peculiarity and advantage of this Invention is, in retaining by means
of wrappers the goods or articles compressed much better than by any other
mode hitherto in use. It will be eligible to stretch the wrappers before they
are used, one wrapper being placed below the goods in the press, and another
over the goods; when sufficiently pressed the two wrappers are to be laced
together, which operation may be performed in two minutes, and by practice
in a shorter space of time.
In witness whereof, the said Archibald Blair hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Fifth day of April, in the forty-fifth year of the reign of
His said Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and five.
Inrolled the same Fifth day of April, in the year above written.