CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE. MANUFACTURE OR APPLICATION OF SILK, MIXED OR COMBINED WITH OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
NAISH, of Stoneaston, near Wells, in the County of Somerset, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of November, in the tenth year of His reign,
did, for. Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Francis Naish, His especial licence that I, the said Francis Naish, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Naish,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His
said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE. MANUFACTURE OR APPLICATION OF SILK, MIXED OR COMBINED
WITH OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Francis Naish, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francis Naish, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist in
preparing a yarn, thread, or filament from waste or other silk, mixed with
wool, cotton, or other the like substances, to be used in the manufacture of
various articles of trade. And, in further compliance with the said proviso,
I, the said Francis Naish, do hereby describe the manner in which my said
Invention is to be performed, by the following description thereof, that is
to say:-
I take a quantity of that silk commonly known in the trade by the name of
"soft waste silk," and having cut it into short lengths with a large sharp
knife, and picked it clean and assorted the colours by hand, I submit it to
the operation of a machine which I call a chopper, which reduces the fibres of
the silk to a very short staple, and then to the operation of a machine which I
call a breaker, which machines will be more particularly described hereafter.
When it leaves the chopper and breaker, I run it through an ordinary tucker
or devil. I then prepare in the same way a similar quantity of what is com-
mmonly called hard waste, floss silk of different sorts, or wool or cotton, or other
the like substances; and, having mixed the two quantities together, they are
tucked or run through the devil again, when the material will be ready to be
made into yarn. And this operation may be performed either by the machines
called scribbles or carders, billies or jennies; and reels, or by the machines
called drawing machines and mules, in the ordinary.way. Having thus pro-
cured a yarn or thread, it is only necessary to state that it may be worked, up
into any kind of wove, knit, or net goods, either by itself or with other yarns
or threads as may be deemed most expedient by the manufacturer. It now
only remains for me to describe more particularly the machines which I have
called a chopper and breaker, and which are the only machines used in my
manufacture that are not now in use for other purposes.
Description of the chopper.-The letter A is the moving part of the carriage
wheels for shifting the work to and from under the chopper. The letter B:is
the chopper. The letter C is the rack for the removing of the chopping
plank. The letter D is the framework for the same. The letter E, the
lifting part of the chopper. The letter F is a wooden wheel for driving the
lifter inside the frame: The letter G is the main driving wheel.."
Description of the breaker.-The letter A is a cylinder, set round with iron
combs, for breaking the silk. The letter B-is a regulator.with .iron weights
as a guide to feeder. The letter C is a receiving bar at the end of the
machine, to hold the silk while the machine works. The letter.D, back part

page_text: of the machine, with driving straps and wheels. In the inside of the machine
is a brush or cylinder, to work in contact with the top cylinder, to clear it.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention the mode herein-before described of
making waste or other silk into a yarn for manufacturing purposes, and such
my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and
never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plan-
tations abroad, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same,
and that I do verily believe this my Specification doth comply in all respects,
fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent contained. Wherefore I hereby claim to
maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
second day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-nine.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
above-named Francis Naish, in the
presence of
EDMUND LOVELL,
Sol
FRANCIS NAISH. (L.S.)
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year above written.