A NEW METHOD OF MAKING PASTE TO BE USED IN WEAVING AND SIZING CALICO, AND FOR PASTING PAPER, AND SUNDRY OTHER THINGS ABOUT WHICH PASTE IS REQUIRED TO BE USED
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOSEPH
WILKES, of Measham, in the County of Derby, Esquire, sendeth greeting.
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 Sixteenth day of
January, in the forty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto the said
Joseph Wilkes, and THOMAS JEWSBURY, of Measham aforesaid, Cotton
Manufacturer, His special licence that the said Joseph Wilkes and Thomas
Jewsbury, during the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, and exercise, and vend, within that part of the
said United Kingdom called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, their Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
MAKING PASTE TO BE USED IN WEAVING AND SIZING CALICO, AND FOR PASTING
PAPER, AND SUNDRY OTHER THINGS ABOUT WHICH PASTE IS REQUIRED TO BE
USED;" in which said 'Letters Patent is a proviso obliging the said Joseph
Wilkes and Thomas Jewsbury, by an instrument in writing under their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of thein, to "cause a

page_text: particular description of the nature of their 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 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Joseph Wilkes, in and by this his Instru-
ment in writing under his hand and seal, pursuant to and in compliance with
the terms of the said in part recited proviso, doth hereby declare that the said
Invention is described in manner following (that is to say) :-
For making paste to be used in weaving and sizing calico, and for pasting
paper, and sundry other things in the use of which paste is required, take a
quantity of a meally sort of potatoes, according to the quantity of paste required,
wash them clean, and, without peeling, boil them in the best manner to make
them meally; when boiled, mash them in a tub or other vessel; then wash clean
as many raw potatoes of a meally sort as are equal in quantity to the whole of
the quantity of the potatoes boiled to mash, and to one third more of that
quantity, (that is to say) if one bushel and a half of meally potatoes are boiled
to mash, then take two bushels of raw potatoes of a meally sort, and obtain the
starch or flour of the raw potatoes by grating them into a tub or other vessel
of water, and by running the water so impregnated with the grated potatoes
through a sieve or strainer, which retains the coarser and fibrous parts of the
potatoes, and admits the finer particles constituting the starch or flour to pass
with the water into a tub or other vessel beneath the sieve or strainer, which
water containing the starch or flour should remain in the vessel several hours
undisturbed to permit the starch or flour to subside to the bottom of the
vessel; and when the starch or flour is properly settled pour the water there-
from, and put the starch or flour so obtained into fresh water, and pass it
through a finer sieve into another tub or other vessel, and the starch or flour
is left to subside to the bottom of the vessel as before, and the water is again
poured off; pour into the mashed potatoes sufficient water to dilute them,
for the purpose of beating them and passing them through a sieve, and then
beat them well and work or pass them through a sieve or strainer into a
copper boiler or other vessel that will bear heat; and when the contents of
the vessel have almost boiled add thereto the starch or flour produced from the
grated potatoes, and boil the whole together about the space of twenty minutes,
carefully stiring the same during all the time that it is so boiling, at the end
of which time the mixture in the copper boiler or other vessel bearing heat
will be formed into the Patent paste. The paste so made should be put into a

page_text: vessel of large surface for the purpose of spreading it to cool advantageously,
and such vessel may be filled with the said paste to the depth of from four to
six inches.
In witness whereof, the said Joseph Wilkes hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and one:
Sealed and delivered, by the within-
named Joseph Wilkes (being first
duly stamped) in the presence of
JOS. WILKES. (L.S.) :
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1801, the aforesaid Joseph Wilkes 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 Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and one.