IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLANNEL FOR. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Fearns Lawton and John Lawton, of Vale
Mill, Micklehurst, near Stalybridge, in the County of Cheshire, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLANNEL FOR.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Fearns Lawton
and John Lawton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with.
their Petition, on the 13th February 1862.
We, JOSEPH FEARNS LAWTON and JOHN LAWTON, of Vale Mill, Micklehurst,.
near Stalybridge, in the County of Cheshire, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLANNEL FOR
SHIRTINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF APPAREL," to be as follows:-
The objects of this Invention are to give increased strength and durability
to such flannel,. and to obviate or prevent the liability of its shrinking in
washing, at the same time that the appearance of the material and the
brilliancy of the colors are considerably improved..
The Invention consists in the combination in flannel for such purposes of
silk and wool (instead of using all wool, as heretofore), the combination which
we prefer being to employ a woollen warp and a silk weft, but other combina-
tions of silk and wool may be substituted with a similar effect..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Fearns Lawton and John Lawton, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
FEARNS LAWTON and JOHN LAWTON, of Vale Mill, Micklehurst, near Staly-
bridge, in the County of Cheshire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Joseph Fearns Lawton and John Lawton, Her special licence,
that we, the said Joseph Fearns Lawton and John Lawton, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Fearns
Lawton and John Lawton, our 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLANNEL FOR SHIRTINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
APPAREL," upon the condition, amongst others, that we, the said Joseph. Fearns
Lawton and John Lawton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their bands 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 samo 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 Joseph Fearns Lawton and John
Lawton, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement in writing, that is to say:-
The objects of this Invention are to give increased strength and durability
to such flannel, and to obviate or prevent the liability of its shrinking in
washing, at the same time that the appearance of the material and the brilliancy
of the colors are considerably improved.
The Invention consists in the combination in flannel for such purposes of
silk and wool (instead of using all wool, as heretofore), the combination.
which we prefer being to employ a woollen warp and a silk weft, but other.
combinations of silk and wool may be substituted with a similar effect.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of our said Invention for "Improvements
in the Manufacture of Flannel for Shirtings and other Articles of Apparel,"
it will be evident that the manner in which the same is to be or may be
performed or carried into practical effect will be obvious to any practical
weaver, and that a great variety of designs and also very novel and pleasing
effects may be obtained by alterations in the disposition or arrangement of the
threads of silk and wool and by variations in the method of weaving the same
(as will be readily understood by any one practically conversant with weaving)
without departing from the peculiar and essential feature of our Invention,
namely, the combination in flannel for such purposes of silk and wool instead
of using all wool, as heretofore.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention for
Improvements in the Manufacture of Flannel for Shirtings and other
Articles of Apparel," together with the manner in which the same is to be or
may be performed or carried into practical effect, we would remark in con-
clusion, that we claim as our Invention, the combination in the manufacture
of flannel for such purposes, of silk and wool, whether such combination is
effected by employing a woollen warp and a silk weft or in any other suitablo
manner, in contra-distinction to weaving such flannels entirely of wool, as
hitherto practised.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Fearns Lawton and John Lawton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
JOSEPH FEARNS LAWTON. (L.B.)
JOHN LAWTON.
(L.S.)
JOSEPH FEARNS LAWTON. (L.B.)
JOHN LAWTON.
(L.S.)