AN IMPROVE- MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTH
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTH."-A communication from
Louis Victor Lemaignen, residing at Lisieux, France.
Sealed the 13th October 1859, and dated the 23rd April 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd April 1859.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN CLOTH," communi-
cated to me by Louis Victor Lemaignen, residing at Lisieux, France, to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in incorporating woollen waste, or the shearings
produced in the shearing mill, with cloth after being woven and during the
fulling thereof. This may be effected in various ways; for instance, the fulling
bath may be composed of a mixture of soap water and of woollen shearings,
and while being fulled the cloth becomes furnished with the woollen particles.
The bath is kept sufficiently fluid to allow of the cloth being thoroughly
saturated, and must be renewed as circumstances may require, with fresh
supplies of soap water and shearings or waste.

page_text: On leaving the fulling mill the weight of the cloth will be found greatly
increased; this increase may be to the extent of a third or even a half more
than its original weight. The cloth then undergoes the finishing processes to
which cloth is ordinarily subjected after being fulled.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters atent, med
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN
CLOTH," (communicated to me by Louis Victor Lemaignen, residing at Lisieux,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of 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 I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in incorporating woollen waste, or the shearings
produced in the shearing mill, with cloth after the same has been woven and

page_text: during the fulling thereof. This may be effected in various ways; for instance,
the fulling bath may be composed of a mixture of soap water and of woollen
shearings, and while being fulled the cloth becomes furnished with the woollen
particles. The bath is kept sufficiently fluid to allow of the cloth being
thoroughly saturated, and must be renewed as circumstances may require, with
fresh supplies of soap water and shearings or waste.
On leaving the fulling mill the weight of the cloth will be found greatly
encreased; this encrease may be to the extent of a third or even a half more
than its original weight. The cloth then undergoes the finishing processes to
which cloth is ordinarily subjected after being fulled.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the method of
incorporating woollen waste or the shearings produced in the shearing mill
with woollen cloth after the same has been woven and during the fulling
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.