THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN METAL OR MATERIAL TO THE MANUFACTURE OF SHUTTLES, BOBBINS, AND TUBES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Middleton, of Hyde, in the County of Chester,
Ironmonger, and William Rylance, of Whitefield, near Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, for the Invention of
"THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN METAL OR MATERIAL TO THE MANUFACTURE
OF SHUTTLES, BOBBINS, AND TUBES."
Sealed the 13th April 1858, and dated the 14th October 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Middleton and
William Rylance at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 14th October 1857.
We, JOHN MIDDLETON, of Hyde, in the County of Chester, Ironmonger,
and WILLIAM RYLANCE, of Whitefield, near Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN METAL OR MATERIAL TO THE
MANUFACTURE OF SHUTTLES, BOBBINS, AND TUBES," to be as follows:-
We propose to make or manufacture shuttles used for weaving, and bobbins
or tubes used for winding on the yarn, as well as the small tubes used for
building the cop, of malleable iron, instead of the various metals or materials
used for those purposes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Middleton and William Rylance in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th April 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
MIDDLETON, of Hyde, in the County of Chester, Ironmonger, and WILLIAM
RYLANCE, of Whitefield, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
facturing Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Middleton and William Rylance, Her special licence that we, the
said John Middleton and William Rylance, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said John Middleton and William Rylance,
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 "THE APPLICATION OF A CERTAIN METAL OR
MATERIAL TO THE MANUFACTURE OF SHUTTLES, BOBBINS, AND TUBES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Middleton and William
Rylance, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 William Rylance, for and on behalf
of myself and the said John Middleton, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that
is to say):
We make or manufacture all kinds of shuttles used for weaving, and all
kinds of bobbins and tubes used for winding on the yarn or thread, as well as
small tubes for building on the cops in the spinning and doubling processes, of
malleable cast iron, instead of the various metals or materials hitherto used for
those purposes; and we claim as our Invention, and which, to the best of our

page_text: knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within the realm, the
application of malleable cast iron for the manufacture of all kinds of shuttles,
bobbins, and tubes, for the purposes herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Rylance, for and on behalf of.
myself and the said John Middleton, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the within-
named William Rylance in the presence of
WM. RYLANCE. (L.S.)
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.