CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING A SUPERIOR FINISH UPON WOVEN FABRICS, WHICH IS MORE PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO THOSE TERMED BEAVER'-CEENS' OR 'IMPERIALS.
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Mayo Worrall, of Ordsall, Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Dyer and Finisher, for the Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING A SUPERIOR
FINISH UPON WOVEN FABRICS, WHICH IS MORE PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO
THOSE TERMED BEAVER'-CEENS' OR 'IMPERIALS.'
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Sealed the 7th June 1864, and dated the 16th December 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Mayo Worrall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1863.
I, JOHN MAYO WORRALL, of Ordsall, Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Dyer and Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING A SUPERIOR
FINISH UPON WOVEN FABRICS, WHICH IS MORE PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO THOSE
TERMED BEAVER "-" TEENS OR IMPERIALS," " to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the production of a superior finish upon woven
fabrics, and more particularly that class or description of woven fabrics called
and known as "beaver-teens" and "imperials," and consists in the use of corru-
gated or fluted rollers, between which the said fabrics are to be passed either
during the ordinary process of finishing or after they have been finished in the
usual manner; by the use of such rollers a novel result or finish is obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Mayo Worrall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th June 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MAYO WORRALL, of Ordsall, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer and
Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Mayo Worrall, Her special license that I, the said
John Mayo Worrall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Mayo Worrall, my 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MECHANISM FOR
PRODUCING A SUPERIOR FINISH UPON WOVEN FABRICS, WHICH IS MORE PARTICULARLY
OR IMPERIALS,"
TO THOSE TERMED BEAVER-TEENS'
upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Mayo Worrall, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
APPLICABLE
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Mayo Worrall, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to the production of a superior finish upon that class
or description of woven fabrics called and known as "beaver-teens" and
"imperials," and the improvements consist in the use of corrugated, fluted, or
grooved rollers, between which the said fabrics are to be passed either during
the ordinary process of finishing or after they have been finished in the usual
manner; by the use of such rollers a novel result or finish is obtained.
The grooves or corrugations may either be formed parallel with or at right

page_text: angles to the axis of the rollers, and one of the rollers may be used with a
smooth or uncorrugated surface, which I prefer.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the employment and use of corrugated or grooved
rollers (or one plain and the other grooved) for imparting a certain finish
to fabrics called "beaver-teens" and "imperials," as herein-before described
and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Mayo Worrall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JNU. M. WORRALL.
(L.S.)