IMPROVEMENTS IN FULLING WOOLLEN CLOTHS
Year: 1837

page_text: BENTLEY'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS:
BENTLEY, of Cleckheaton, near Leeds; in the County of York, Dyer, send:
greeting)
WHEREAS His late most' Excellent" Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters' Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the seventh year of His
reign; did for Himself, His heirs and successors, givé and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Bentley, His especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Bentley, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Thomas Bentley, my exors, ádmors; or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales; and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FULLING WOOLLEN
CLOTHS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Thomas Bentley, shall 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

page_text: His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Bentley, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the application of soda ash in the process of
fulling woollen cloth, in substitution of or in combination with urine and
soap as heretofore practised; and in order that my Invention may be most
fully described and readily understood, I will explain the process pursued
by me, and which I have found fully to answer; at the same time I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise quantities
herein described, nor to the employment of any particular description of
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Bentley, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the application of soda ash in the process of
fulling woollen cloth, in substitution of or in combination with urine and
soap as heretofore practised; and in order that my Invention may be most
fully described and readily understood, I will explain the process pursued
by me, and which I have found fully to answer; at the same time I would
have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise quantities
herein described, nor to the employment of any particular description of
fulling stocks,
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS.
Take three pounds of soda ash for about eighty-four feet of cloth, dissolve
the soda ash well in about nine gallons of water, and sprinkle on the cloth
about six gallons of the mixture before it is put in the stock to mill; then
apply the remainder to the cloth, as the process of fulling proceeds, by a little
at a time. The above process will full the cloth in a shorter time than the old
process of fulling with urine and soap, and does less injury to the texture of the
cloth. The stocks are just the same as now in use.
Note. Urine and soap may be used with the soda ash sometimes to
advantage, but it will answer without either.
.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best manner
I am acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, I would have it
understood that I claim the application of soda ash in the process of fulling
woollen cloths, as above described.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bentley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
THOMAS (L.S.) BENTLEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1837, the aforesaid Thomas Bentley came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.