COMBINATION OF MATERIALS TO PRODUCE AN ARTICLE RESEMBLING BOMBAZINE
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ATKINSON, of Leeds, in the County of York, Canvass Manufacturer, send
grecting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day of June,
in the fifty-eighth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
George Atkinson, my exors, admňors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George Atkinson, my exors,
admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years
therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "COMBINATION OF MATERIALS
TO PRODUCE AN ARTICLE RESEMBLING BOMBAZINE;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso that if I, the said George Atkinson, shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under

page_text: my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Atkinson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is
to say):-
:-
The semi-bombazines are made of single or double cotton warps and worsted
weft, single twilled worsted face, that is, one third of the warp up cach tread,
changing each tread in succession; also figured according to fancy (any
weaver may understand this belonging to the trade, and when wove they
are singed and rolled tight on a wooden roller, then scalded or boiled in a
vessel for that purpose. This fixes the piece streight, so as not to fray nor
slide in weaving, and is twice as durable as those made with silk and worsted;
they may be made of any quality or width, and dyed any colour. But in
colours wherein the cotton does not agree in the dye with the worsted, the
cotton is first dyed, before it is wore, a fast colour, then the piece is dyed the
same colour as if there was no cotton in it; (for example) dye the cotton
Turkey red and weave the piece with white worsted weft, then singe, roll, and
boil the piece as before described; then take the piece and dye it crimson, as
if there was no cotton in it, and you have a good match in the colours of
warp and weft; whereas, if the cotton be wove white with the worsted, and
dyed along with the worsted, the cotton would still be white and the worsted
would be a crimson. In French grey they will take both one colour by dying
the picce from the white in a common wood vat, provided the vat be blood
warm and not hotter, if hotter the worsted will dye a great deal faster than
the cotton and will appear two colours. In some other colours I dye the
piece from the white, as if all worsted, then dye the cotton just warm, as if all
cotton, which does not alter the colour of the worsted.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Atkinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GEORGE (L.s.) ATKINSON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1818, the aforesaid George Atkinson came before our said
Lord the King in His 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 stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that numoco
Inrolled the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.