IMPROVEMENTS IN WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dendy and John Russell Beard, of the City
of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WOVEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 28th October 1868, and dated the 80th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dendy and John
Russell Beard at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 30th April 1868.
We, JOHN DENDY and JOHN RUSSELL BEARD, of the City of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOVEN FABRICS," to be as
follows:-
We take the silk noils which are ordinarily wasted and reduce them
to a state of yarn by teasing or otherwise preparing, and then dye the
said yarn any desired color or colors, so that it may be woven any

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Dendy and John Russell Beard in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 29th October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
DENDY and JOHN RUSSELL BEARD, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Dendy and John Russell Beard,
Her special license that we, the said John Dendy and John Russell
Beard, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said John Dendy and John Russell Beard, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOVEN
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John
Dendy and John Russell Beard, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Dendy and John Russell
Beard, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and

page_text: We take the silk noils which are ordinarily wasted and reduce them
to a state of yarn by teasing or otherwise preparing, and then dye the
said yarn any desired color or colors, so that it may be woven any
pattern or design, and thus produce a silk fabric from a material almost
worthless.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dendy, for and on behalf
of myself and the said John Russell Beard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN DENDY.. (L.S.)