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."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cash and Joseph
Cash at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 24th August 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:-
The object of our Invention is to manufacture a good and durable friction
towel. For this purpose we take round cord and knit it or form it into loops
by hand or machinery, so as to constitute a complete towel, a selvage
being formed all round. The cord must be sufficiently thick' to give to the
towels made therefrom the necessary roughness to enable them to be used as
friction towels. The loop or stitch we prefer is the ordinary knitting stitch, as
it produces 'towels ribbed on both sides.

page_text: 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 21st February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
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-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first 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 licenee 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 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.
.3
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Cash and Joseph Cash, do
hereby 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:-
The object of our Invention is to manufacture a good and durable friction
towel. For this purpose we take round cord and knit it or form it into loops
by hand or machinery, so as to constitute a complete towel, a selvage being
formed all round. The cord must be sufficiently thick to give to the towels
made therefrom the necessary roughness to enable them to be used as friction
towels. The loop or stitch we prefer is the ordinary knitting stitch, as it
produces towels ribbed on both sides.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in, what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim, the manu-
facture of towels from round cord in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Cash and Joseph Cash, junior, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN CASH.
(L.S.)
JOSEPH CASH, JUN³. (L.S.)