THE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Frederick Clossmann, of 16 A, Park
Lane, Hyde Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for
the Invention of "THE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN
MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS,
Sealed the 25th March 1854, and dated the 26th September 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Frederick
Clossmann at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th September 1853.
I, FRANCIS FREDERICK CLOSSMANN, of 16A, Park Lane, Hyde.
Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "THE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF
CERTAIN MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE
FABRICS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The application to the manufacture of textile fabrics and of paper of
the fibres of all the species of malvaceous plants, and especially those
under the name of "althaen "officinalis," forms the basis of my In-
vention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Frederick Clossmann in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 25th March-1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
FRANCIS FREDERICK CLOSSMANN, of 16A, Park Lane, Hyde Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of-Her-reign; did,-for-Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said, Francis Frederick Clossman, Her
special licence that I, the said Francis Frederick Clossmann, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Francis Frederick Clossmann, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION
OP CERTAIN MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE
FABRICS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Francis Frederick Clossmann, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Frederick Clossmann, do
'hereby declare the nature of my 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):

page_text: My Invention consists in the application to the manufacture of tex-
tile fabrics, paper, and other materials, of the fibres of all the species of
malvaceous plants, and especially those under the name of "althaea
officinalis."
The fibres may be obtained by steeping the plant in water, subject-
ing it to the action of steam, or by any other suitable means.
I claim the production of the fibre and the applications thereof, as
above described, without limiting myself to any modes of production or
to the applications of the same.
In witness whercof I, the said Francis Frederick Clossman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four
CLOSSMANN. (L.S.)