CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON OR ADDITIONS TO GIG MILLS FOR THE RAISING AND FINISHING OF WOLLEN CLOTHS, AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
CHARLESWORTH and JOSHUA CHARLESWORTH, of Holmfirth, Woollen Manu-
facturers and Merchants, and SAMUEL ANDREW MELLOR, of the same place,
Cloth Dresser, all in the County of York, 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 Eighteenth day of December, in the
ninth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Joseph Charlesworth, Joshua Charlesworth, and
Samuel Andrew Mellor, His especial licence that we, the said Joseph
Charlesworth, Joshua Charlesworth, and Samuel Andrew Mellor, our exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Charlesworth,
Joshua Charlesworth, and Samuel Andrew Mellor, our exors, adñiors, 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, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
ON OR ADDITIONS TO GIG MILLS FOR THE RAISING AND FINISHING OF WOLLEN
CLOTHS, AND OTHER FABRICS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, obliging us, the said Joseph Charlesworth, Joshua Charlesworth,
and Samuel Andrew Mellor, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under
our or one of our hands and seals, particularly to describe and ascertain

page_text: the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled 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, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Joseph Charlesworth, Joshua Charlesworth, and Samuel Andrew Mellor, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention to consist in the application
of a flexible clastic surface to press on the back of the cloth in order to
keep the face of the cloth more evenly or equally pressed against the teazles
or cards on the main gig cylinder. And in further compliance with the
said proviso wc, the said Joseph Charlesworth, Joshua Charlesworth, and
Samuel Andrew Mellor, do hereby describe the manner in which our said
Invention is to be performed, by the following description thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing annexed, and to the letters marked thereon (that

page_text: whereas it is evident that the said cylinder F may be covered with whale-
bone, hair, metallic wire, or any other suitable elastic or flexible material, or
an adjusting batten or bar covered with an elastic or flexible material which
locs not revolve, but which presses against the back of the cloth in the
same manner as the cylinder herein-before described, may be substituted
in its place; but we claim as our Invention the application to a gig mill of a
flexible elastic surface to press on the back of the cloth in manner aforesaid,
in order to keep the face of the cloth more evenly or equally pressed against
the teazles or cards on the main gig cylinder. And such our Invention being,
to the best of our 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, we do hereby declare this to be our Specification of the same,
and that we do verily believe this our said 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 we hereby
claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to our said Invention.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the
Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand right
hundred and twenty-nine.
JOSEPH
CHARLESWORTH.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
JOSHUA CHARLESWORTH.
SAMUEL ANDREW MELLOR. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1829, the aforesaid Joseph Charlesworth, Joshua
Charlesworth, and Samuel Andrew Mellor 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 stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.