A MACHINE TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT BY PERFORATION OF THE ARTICLES COMMONLY CALLED AND KNOWN BY THE NAMES OF LEGHORN CHIP AND WILLOWS MANUFACTURED FOR HATS, BONNETS, BONNETT BANDS, AND OTHER ORNAMENTS; THE EFFECT SO PRO- DUCED IS TO ORNAMENT THE SAID LEGHORN CHIP AND WILLOWS, EITHER IN BORDERS OF VARIOUS PATTERNS, OR ALL OVER THE SAME
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
COLE, of Bull-and-Mouth Street, in the City of London, Fancy Hat
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS, His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of May, in the forty-second year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Cole, His special licence.
that I, the said Richard Cole, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might, make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention of "A
MACHINE TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT BY PERFORATION OF THE ARTICLES COMMONLY
CALLED AND KNOWN BY THE NAMES OF LEGHORN CHIP AND WILLOWS MANUFACTURED
FOR HATS, BONNETS, BONNETT BANDS, AND OTHER ORNAMENTS; THE EFFECT SO PRO-
DUCED IS TO ORNAMENT THE SAID LEGHORN CHIP AND WILLOWS, EITHER IN BORDERS
OF VARIOUS PATTERNS, OR ALL OVER THE SAME;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Cole, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular de-
scription of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one callender month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Cole, do hereby declare that my said discovery is described in
manner following (that is to say):
My object is to produce a perforated ornament on Leghorn chip and willow
hats, bonnetts, or bonnett bands. The mode which I pursue is, first to prepare a
hat plate of brass or other metal, to which I affix brass or other metal pins
or points. These pins or points are to be affixed in such forms or devices as
may suit the pattern which is wished to be produced on the said articles.
The pins which necessarily project from the plate must be made sharp, so as
to perforate this the article which is to receive the ornament, without taking
away any part of such article. I theu put the article upon the points of these
pins, then lay over a sufficient quantity of flannels or other soft body, so as to
suffer the pins to penetrate without injury to the pins. All these together I
pass between two rollers similar to a copper-plate press, for it may be done by
a screw or other press, by the force and action of which the points or pins are
pressed thro' the article, and by which it receives the ornament, either by once
passing thro' such press, or by being repeated if there should be occasion.
The plates should be warm, and which may be warmed by means of iron or
other metal plates being made hot and placed under them. If the Leghorn
chip or willows should stick to the points or pins so as to injure the work, the
same may be prevented by using thin silk between the plate and the article
to be ornamented; and previous to this operation the Leghorn chip and
willows should be damped or softened.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifth
Inrolled the same Fifth day of June, in the year above written.