AN ENTIRE NEW MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DYING, STAINING, OR PRINTING OF SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, COTTONS, CALICO'S, MUSLINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES CAPABLE OF BEING DYED, PRINTED, OR STAINED
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BAILEY, of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the County of
Middlesex, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the thirty-third year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James Bayley, His especial licence
'that I, the said James Bailey, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN ENTIRE
NEW MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DYING, STAINING, OR PRINTING OF SILK
HANDKERCHIEFS, COTTONS, CALICO'S, MUSLINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES CAPABLE OF
BEING DYED, PRINTED, OR STAINED;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said James Bayley, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Bayley, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say) :—
The common method of preparing handkerchiefs, ct. which are to be dyed
with spots left of the original colour, is by binding thread tight round a small
part, the size of the spot required, in places previously printed with the
designed pattern, which prevents the dye from colouring those places so tyed.
I have invented a mode of preserving any parts of handkerchiefs, ct. from
the dye without any previous preparation, by means of frames, upon the faces
of which are small blocks, projecting in such a manner, as when the face of
one frame is put upon the face of another frame the blocks are all exactly
opposite, and corresponding with each other; so that an handkerchief or other
article to be dyed being put between, and the frames fastened together, the
dye will have access to every part of it excepting those places which come
between the blocks, which are preserved of the original colour of the article,
from the effects of the dye. These frames are flat surfaces, of wood, brass,
copper, or other metals or composition, of any size or shape, and may have
one face with blocks to be used with or against one face without blocks.
The blocks may either be parts of the same surface left projecting by being cut
out of the solid, or may be made separately, of wood, brass, copper, or other
metals or composition, and fastened upon the surfaces or frames, or may be
part put on and part left projecting of the frames. They are not confined to
any particular figure, but are of any shape, with the faces or tops of the blocks
plain, or having devices on them for admitting the dye to parts of the block
or may have a whole drilled in each from the side down to and through the
face or top, to admit the dye to form a spot or other device, cut in the face or
top. The frames are prevented from shifting on each other by means of holes,
or plates with holes, fastened on one, and corresponding pins in the other frame,
usually called steady pins and plates. Frames are thus put together to any
number, according to the length of the article to be dyed, and are fastened
together with planks on both sides, with screws and nuts at each end of the
planks; on the frames are fastened handles for raising them in and out of the
copper, ct., by means of pulleys.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Bayley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
JAMES BAYLEY. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-second day of
December, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid James Bayley came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.