A PROCESS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AND FINISHING MANUFACTURED PIECE GOODS
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
HILTON, of Darwin, near Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Bleacher,
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
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of October, in the fifty-ninth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Christopher Hilton, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, during the term of years therein expressed, that
I should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PROCESS
FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AND FINISHING MANUFACTURED PIECE GOODS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said Christopher Hilton, 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 two calendar months next and imme-

page_text: diately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Christopher Hilton, do hereby declare that my Invention of a
Process for the Purpose of Improving and Finishing Manufactured Piece
Goods is fully described and ascertained in the manner following, that is
to say:-
My Invention consists in applying a pulp, such as is obtained by grinding
cotton or linen, to improve the appearance of cotton or linen-manufactured
piece goods, or a mixture of the same, which I accomplish as follows:-
The goods being already prepared, as heretofore practised by the trade, they
are introduced on an even surface of about three yards in length, formed by
small rollers, and the pulp applied and permitted to filtre itself into and on the
manufactured piece goods, which are made to pass over the said surface at the
rate of about twelve yards in a minute, for the purpose of allowing the water
to escape and the pulp to form itself, after which it is pressed between two
rollers of metal or other suitable materials situated at the end of the aforesaid
series of rollers, and driven by gear, the top roller being covered with a felt or
flannel, and supplied with a stream of clean water to prevent the pulp from
adhering to the roller, which it would otherwise do. It is to be observed,
that the pulp, previous to its being applied, should be kept in a state of
agitation, and considerably diluted with water, more or less, according to the
fineness or coarseness of the goods, the proper degree of which dilution must
be left to the discretion and judgment of the workman; and, that the diluted
pulp is made to flow evenly on the surface of the cloth by passing through a
box with several divisions in it.
The pulp may perhaps be applied by different machinery, to that which I
have used, and in a different way to that which I have described, which I deem
immaterial; my Invention consisting in applying such pulp as is obtained by
grinding cotton or linen to cotton or linen-manufactured piece goods, or a
mixture of the same, instead of or in addition to the stiffening of them with
starch.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Hilton, have hereunto, set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, in the
year of
CHRISTOPHER (L.S.) HILTON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of November,
in the sixtieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said Christopher Hilton came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made
in the fifty-fifth year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Third day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
nineteen.