THE MANUFACTURE OF NEW AND IMPROVED FABRICS OF COTTON AND OF LINEN, AND OF COTTON AND LINEN COMBINED
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hackett, of Derby, in the County of Derby,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "THE MANUFACTURE OF NEW AND
IMPROVED FABRICS OF COTTON AND OF LINEN, AND OF COTTON AND LINEN
COMBINED."
Sealed the 13th February 1855, and dated the 17th August 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hackett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
August 1854.
I, JOHN HACKETT, of Derby; in the County of Derby, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for THE MANUFACTURE OP
NEW AND IMPROVED FABRICS OF COTTON AND OF LINEN, AND OF COTTON AND LINEN
COMBINED," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of linen or cotton, or linen and
cotton combined, in the manufacture of cloth of not less than ten inches wide,
in producing which I propose to use not less than two-thirds of the weft nor
less than two-thirds of the warp of double or twisted linen or cotton of two or
more threads, such cloth to be woven either plain; twilled, or figured, whereby
greater strength and durability will be obtained over cloth now in use, and
which will form an article of great superiority."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Hackett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HACKETT, of Derby, in the County of Derby, Manufacturer, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Hackett, Her special licence that I, the said John Hackett,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Hackett, 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 MANUFACTURE OF
NEW AND IMPROVED FABRICS OF COTTON AND OF LINEN, AND OF COTTON AND LINEN
COMBINED," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Hackett, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 John Hackett, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the employment of doubled or twisted linen or
cotton, or linen and cotton combined, of two or more threads to the cord, in
the manufacture of cloth of not less than ten inches wide. I propose to use
not less than two-thirds of the weft nor less than two-thirds of the warp of
the doubled or twisted linen or cotton before mentioned, the cloth to be
woven either plain, twilled, or figured, whereby greater strength and durability
will be obtained over cloth now in use, and an article of great superiority will
be produced. When my improved fabrics are composed wholly of cotton
cord, I do not claim the use of that' material coarser or thicker than what is
known in the trade as number ten two-cord.

page_text: And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the manu-
facture of fabrics of cotton and of linen, and of cotton and linen combined, in
the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hackett, have hereunto set my
. hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
JOHN HACKETT. (L.S.)