IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF CAPS RESEMBLING IN FORM THE TURKISH FEZ
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Biggs, of the Borough of Leicester, Manu-
facturer of Hosiery, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CAPS RESEMBLING IN FORM THE TURKISH FEZ."
Sealed the 19th October 1858, and dated the 24th August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Biggs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
August 1858.
I, JOHN BIGGS, of the Borough of Leicester, Manufacturer of Hosiery,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CAPS RESEMBLING IN FORM THE TURKISH FEZ," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of caps
resembling in form the Turkish fez. For this purpose a cap is knitted by
machinery or by hand, or partly by machinery and partly by hand, to the
requisite shape; the cap is then milled in the ordinary manner, so as to give
it a felted texture and appearance. By this means a seamless cap is formed
resembling the Turkish fez.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Biggs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BIGGS, of the Borough of Leicester, Manufacturer of Hosiery, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Biggs, Her special licence that I, the said John Biggs, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Biggs, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CAPS RESEMBLING IN FORM THE TURKISH FEZ," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Biggs, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Biggs, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of caps
resembling in form the Turkish fez. For this purpose a cap is knitted by
machinery or by hand, or partly by machinery and partly by hand, to the
requisite shape; the cap is then milled in the ordinary manner, so as to give
it a felted texture and appearance. By this means a seamless cap is formed
resembling the Turkish fez.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
The yarn to be used is to be of wool, or of other felting fibre, or to contain
sufficient felting fibre to cause it to felt or mat when milled after being knitted

page_text: into the form of a Turkish fez. The yarn having been knitted by machinery
or otherwise, and made up into the form desired, the article so knitted is then
to be milled, as is well understood, by which the fabric of the fez will become
uniform, and present a seamless felted fabric in the form of a cap.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Biggs, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
ALFRED PAGET,
of Leicester, Solicitor.
T. H. WHITE, his Clerk.
JOHN BIGGS. (LA)