A NEW PROCESS OR METHOD OF DRESSING AND POLISHING GOODS OF WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE
Year: 1821

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I. GEORGE
VIZARD, of the Parish of Dursley, in the County of Gloster, Clothier, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of February, in the second year of His reign, give and.
grant unto me, the said George Vizard, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
George Vizard, my exors, adñiors, 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 "A NEW PROCESS OR METHOD OF DRESSING AND POLISHING GOODS OF WOOLLEN
MANUFACTURE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said George Vizard, shall not particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties

page_text: 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
George Vizard, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner which the same may be performed, by a
description thereof annexed (that is to say):-
That my said Invention doth consist in a new machine for dressing, smooth-
ing, polishing, or otherwise working woollen cloths, in which said machine
pumice or light porous lavor is substituted for teasels, wires, and other
substances now in use.
The Drawing annexed represents a machine to be used by hand, having a
handle at each end A, A., B is a wooden box or tray, about sixteen inches
long, four inches wide, and two inches deep, into which are cemented pieces
of pumice or light porous lavor a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, projecting about half
of an inch (more or less) above the upper edges of the box or tray, and of any
shape, provided always that the upper surface be an even plane. This I
have found best effected by rasping the said pieces down (after having been
cemented into the box or tray) with a common rasp, which preserves the
coarse grain requisite for working the cloth. Common glue, and many other
cements, will answer the purpose of confining the pumice or light porous
lavor to the box or tray, but such cements as will resist water are the best
adapted for the purpose. These boxes or trays are equally applicable to
cylinders of gig mills and other machinery used for preparing woollen cloths
as aforesaid. The said pieces of pumice or light porous lavor may also be
confined into the said box or tray by means of shifting sides and adjusting
screws, and various other means, and the said box or tray and handles may be
made of wood or metal, cither or both, as may be deemed most expedient.
But such a machine as herein-before described for dressing, smoothing,
polishing, or otherwise working woollen cloths, in which pumice or light porous
lavor is substituted for teasels, wires, and other substances being, to the best of
my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used for such
purposes in this Kingdom, I am desirous to maintain this my exclusive right
and privileges to the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Vizard, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord
j One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.
GEORGE (L.s.) VIZARD.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirty-first day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1821, the aforesaid George Vizard 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 Third day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-one.