AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOWELS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Cash and Joseph Cash, junior, both of the
City of Coventry, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOWELS."
Sealed the 23rd August 1867, 'and dated the 25th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cash and Joseph
Cash at the Office of the Commissiouers of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 25th February 1867.
We, JOHN CASH and JOSEPH CASH, junior, both of the City of Coventry,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOWELS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in the manufacture of bath or friction towels from
tape, of cotton, or of other suitable material. The tape is knitted or formed
into loops by hand or machinery so as to constitute a complete towel or fabric,
a selvage being formed all round.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Cash and Joseph Cash in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th August 1867.
JOHN
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
CASH and JOSEPH CASH, junior, both of the City of Coventry, Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our

page_text: Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said John Cash and Joseph Cash, Her special licence that we, the
said John Cash and Joseph Cash, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said John Cash and Joseph Cash, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TOWELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Cash and
Joseph Cash, or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Cash and Joseph Cash, do
liereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in the manufacture of bath or friction towels from
tape. The tape is knitted or formed into loops by hand or machinery so as
to constitute a complete towel or fabric, a selvage being formed all round.
We do not limit ourselves to the making of any particular form of loop or
stitch, but we prefer the ordinary knitting stitch as it produces a towel ribbed
on both sides. We prefer to use ordinary flat tape, but sometimes we employ
a round material which we knit or form into loops, as before mentioned, and
obtain a somewhat analogous effect.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cash, for myself and on behalf of
the said Joseph Cash, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-third day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven.