A PROCESS FOR REDUCING RAGS OR ARTICLES COMPOSED OF SILK, LINEN, OR COTTON, AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN USED, AND BRINGING THEM INTO THEIR ORIGINAL STATE, AND RENDERING THE MATERIAL OF WHICH THEY WERE COMPOSED FIT TO BE RE-MANUFACTURED, AND AGAIN APPLIED TO BENEFICIAL AND USEFUL PUK- POSES
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BUDGEN, of Dartford, in the County of Kent, Paper Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of February now last past, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Budgen, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said John Budgen, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and
their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
Budgen, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, 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, my
Invention of "A PROCESS FOR REDUCING RAGS OR ARTICLES COMPOSED OF SILK,
LINEN, OR COTTON, AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN USED, AND BRINGING THEM INTO THEIR
ORIGINAL STATE, AND RENDERING THE MATERIAL OF WHICH THEY WERE COMPOSED
FIT TO BE RE-MANUFACTURED, AND AGAIN APPLIED TO BENEFICIAL AND USEFUL PUK-
POSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said John Budgen, 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 cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Budgen, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, are described and ascertained as
follows, that is to say:-
I take what the paper makers call rags, or what is generally so called, being
the refuse, remnants, or shreds of silk, linen, or cotton, or any article composed
of a mixture of all or any of those substances, after they have been used or worn
and considered no longer useful or applicable to or for the purposes for which
they were originally manufactured, and pass them thro' a machine which I
call a brake (and which is well known in the woollen trade by the name of a
devil), as often as in the opinion of the manufacturer may be deemed necessary,
and until the fibres are sufficiently separately so as to be in a proper state for
carding. The article is then to be carded by the machine used in cotton
manufactories, and generally called a carding machine; and after it has been
sufficiently carded in the usual manner, it is then fit to be re-manufactored
and again applied to useful and beneficial purposes.
And I further declare that I do not claim the machine called a brake, or the
carding machine as any part of my Invention, which consists merely in the
new process I have above described, but effected by means of those machines
which are open to common use.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Budgen, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Inrolled the same First day of April, in the year above written.