A METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF BRUSHES FROM WHALEBONE, WHICH HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN USUALLY MADE AND MANUFACTURED PROM BRISTLES
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CRACKLES, of the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull,
Brush Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of November, in the forty-ninth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Crackles, His special licence that I, the said Samuel Crackles, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Crackles, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that
part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF BRUSHES FROM WHALEBONE, WHICH
HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN USUALLY MADE AND MANUFACTURED PROM BRISTLES;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said

page_text: Samuel Crackles, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to 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 recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Crackles, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
in the following explanation thereof (that is to say):-
Take the bone which comes from the mouth of the whale, and boil or steep
it in water for such a length of time as the nature of the bone may require to
make it soft and flexible, in which state it may be cut with a plane, knife, or
other sharp instrument, engine, or machine, into thin shavings, slices, or sub-
stances, which may be split, cut, or torn by having lances fixed in the front
of the plane, knife, or other sharp instrument, engine, or machine into small
pieces or substances as near resembling bristles as may be, and may be made
thicker or smaller in the splitting, cutting, or tearing thereof, so as to render
the brushes to be manufactured therefrom more hard or soft according to the
different purposes for which the same may be respectively intended. And, for
the more convenient boiling or steeping and working the bone in manner
aforesaid, it may in the first instance be cut into lengths of about nine,
twelve, or eighteen inches, when it will be found to work with greater case
and convenience than otherwise. When the bone is brought by the above
process to substances resembling bristles it must be laid in a convenient place
that it may become perfectly dry, which it will in general be in half a day or
thereabouts, and then it may be used and substituted in the place and stead of
bristles, and brushes may be made and manufactured therefrom and used in
every other respect as those brushes which have heretofore been usually made
and manufactured from bristles, only these that are to be set with pitch may
be seared or singed at one end with a hot iron, to make them resemble the
roots, and beat at the other end to make them resemble the flag of the
bristle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Crackles, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eight.
SAMUEL CRACKLES. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-first day of
November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Crackles 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year above written..