A CRYSTALINE SIZE OR MIXTURE FOR THE PURPOSE OF SIZEING AND DRESSING OF COTTON, WORSTED, AND LINEN YARN
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FODEN, of the City and County of Coventry, Cotton Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fourth day of November, in the fortieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Foden, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by my and their deputies and deputy, servants or agents, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Foden, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, and vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A CRYSTALINE SIZE OR MIXTURE FOR THE PURPOSE OF SIZEING AND
DRESSING OF COTTON, WORSTED, AND LINEN YARN," in such manner as to me,
the said Thomas Foden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas
Foden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time

page_text: to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention,
during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Foden, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Foden, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description 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 calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Foden, do declare that my said Invention is as follows (that is to
say):
I take a quantity of calcined gypsum, or any other calcarious or argillaceous
earths, and reduce it to a fine powder. I then mix the same with allum,
sugar, and the gluton or farina of potatoes or any other vegetable gluton. I
then take any given portion of this powder and mix it well with cold water
into a soft paste. Then I take water in a state of ebullition, and pour on the
mixture, stirring it round untill it is sufficiently united and gelatinous. 1 then,
by the addition of the vegetable or mineral alkali, treacle, or glue, temper it to
all weathers. This size will be found superior to any made from flour, glue,
&c., in the sizing and dressing all kinds of yarn, as the mucos from flour
requires to be corroded off by a strong alkaline.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Foden, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the fortieth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirtieth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Foden came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Third day of December, in the year above written.