A CERTAIN MACHINE FOR MANGLING, AND WHICH MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO VARIOUS OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SHORTER MORRIS, of Pancras Place, in the Parish of Saint Pancras, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Shorter Morris, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, by much study, application, and expence, contrived, invented, and
brought to perfection "A CERTAIN MACHINE FOR MANGLING, AND WHICH MAY
ALSO BE APPLIED TO VARIOUS OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" that in regard I was the
first and sole inventor thereof, and that the same had never been practised by
any other person or persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief (save
those whom I had employed to make the same for my use and experiment),
I humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain for
the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my said Invention, within that part of
His United Kingdom called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, for
the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and inventions which may be for the public good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to my request; and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fourth day of February, in the forty-eighth year of
His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did give
and grant unto me, the said John Shorter Morris, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said John Shorter Morris, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of

page_text: us, by myself or themselves, or by mine and our deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as I, the said John Shorter Morris, my exors,
adfors, 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 my said
Invention, within that said part of His Majesty's said United Kingdom called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the
said John Shorter Morris, my exors, adiñiors, or assigns, or any of us, should
in our discretion seen meet; and that I, the said John Shorter Morris, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, -hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, and privileges therein-before granted or mentioned to
be granted unto me, the said John Shorter Morris, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Presents
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Shorter
Morris, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and scal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month 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,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Shorter Morris, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby ascertain and describe the nature of my
said Invention, and declare that the Figures and Drawings annexed aro
explained in the manner following:-
The Letters refer to the same Figures in each Drawing.
Fig. 1, 2, represent side views; and Fig. 8, a perspective view of the
machine. a, a, Fig. 3, a wood frame put together with bed screws. b, b, Fig. 2,
two horizontal parallel cylindrical rollers, whose axes bear on brass or iron
let into the wood frame, one of which 6 is seen in Fig. 1, 3. c, Fig. 1, 2, 3,
a moveable roller, round which the linen or cloth to be mangled is rolled and
placed on the two rollers b, b. d, a roller, the axis of which works in picces

page_text: of brass or iron e, e, Fig. 1, 2, which slides between two pieces of brass or iron
let into the inner side of the wood frame; to the bottom of e, e, is fastened
the long flat pieces of iron f, f, Fig. 1, 2, 3, with hooks at their lower
extremity, to which is attached the chains 9, 9, 9, which supports the scale
or platform h, on which iron weights, pig iron, or any other heavy substance is
placed; to the top of e, e, is fastened the engine chainsi, i, which pass through
an aperture at each end of the top of the wood frame, and is fastened on
the pulleys at each end of the shaft h with a screw; the ends of the shaft k
work in cast iron, screwed on the top of the wood frame.
which may be fixt to either ends of the shaft k. m, Fig.
to the axis of the top roller d.
Fig. 3, 1, a lever,
1, 3, a handle, fixt
To use the machine, press down the lever 1, Fig. 1, 2, 3, and fasten
it with the hook n, Fig. 3, which raises the roller d, and the platform
with weights on it; then take out the roller c, and roll the linen and
mangling cloth round it; then place it on the rollers b, b, unhook the
leaver, and the weights on the platform will press the roller d on the
roller c, on which the linen is rolled; put the top roller in motion by turning
the handle m, and it will give motion to all the other rollers, and in a short
time make the linen beautifully smooth; then press down the leaver, fasten it
with the hook, and take the roller c out. The machine, as above described,
will mangle almost all descriptions of linen; but if any large irregular lumps
are formed by the linen rolled round the roller, I put a band round all the
rollers; hence, when the top roller is put in motion it will communicate
motion to the two bottom rollers, and oblige the roller c to act with them;
and shall sometimes fix a fly wheel to the axis of the top roller, or.fix a wheel
with teeth on the axis of each of the bottom rollers, and one between them
to connect them; then the fly wheel may be put on the axis of either of those
wheels, the fly wheel to be on the opposite side of the machine to the handle m.
As a substitute for the platform and iron weights, a box may be suspended, in
which stones, sand, gravel, or any substance may be placed to act as a weight.
The utility of this machine is not confined to mangling only, but may be
used with success as a copper-plate printing press, a letter-copying machine,
or a cylindrical press, either as represented in Fig. 1, 2, 3, or with two rollers
only, one with its axis bearing on brass or iron let into the wood frame, and
the other, as d, pressing on it.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Shorter Morris, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, the Twenty-third day of February, in the
forty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Third, and in
the year of our Lord One thousand eighth hundred and eight.
JOHN SHORTER MORRIS. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1808, the aforesaid John Shorter Morris 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 stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eight.