CERTAIN MACHINERY FOR FINISHING PIECE GOODS, OR OTHER FLEXIBLE ARTICLES OR MATERIALS OF THE LIKE DESCRIPTION, BY GLAZING, BURNISHING, GRAINING, OR MAKING IMPRESSIONS UPON THE SURFACES THEREOF RESPECTIVELY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
TAITE, of Bermondsey New Road, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman,
BRYAN DONKIN, of Fort Place, Bermondsey, in the County of Surrey afore-
said, Engineer, and WILLIAM DIXON, of Bermondsey New Road, in the
County of Surrey aforesaid, Millwright, send 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 Eleventh day of
June, in the fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said
Joseph Taite, Bryan Donkin, and William Dickson, our exors, adŵiors, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we,
the said Joseph Taite, Bryan Donkin, and William Dickson, our exors, adñiors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein ex-
pressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN MACHINERY FOR FINISHING
PIECE GOODS, OR OTHER FLEXIBLE ARTICLES OR MATERIALS OF THE LIKE DESCRIPTION,
BY GLAZING, BURNISHING, GRAINING, OR MAKING IMPRESSIONS UPON THE SURFACES
THEREOF RESPECTIVELY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso that if we, the said Joseph Taite, Bryan Doukin,
and William Dixon, or one of us, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be enrolled in Our High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Joseph Taite, Bryan Donkin, and William Dixon, do hereby declare that
the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which tho same is to
be performed, are particularly described and ascertained as follows; that is
to say-
The Drawings hereunto 'annexed do denote the said certain machinery
viewed in different directions, Fig. 1 being of the nature of a section thro' the
machinery lengthwise, and Fig. 2 represents part of the said machinery by a
cross section, and Figure 3 represents such parts of the said machinery as
could be conveniently shewn by a section or view of the nature of a ground
plan; and the same letters of the alphabet in each of the said Figures or
designs do denote the same things. A, A, A, &c. denote a strong frame for the
general support of the apparatus, which may be conveniently made of iron;
B, B, denotes a wheel for carrying a strap or chain or other band or rope of
the like nature C, which is made to pass round the said wheel, and also
round another wheel B, like an endless web; E, G, T, and E, G, T, denote
two or more several frames, each carrying a roller or burnishing or polishing
piece G, which may be made to turn on axis or not, according to the nature
of the work intended to be done. The part E serves as the cell or receptacle
for the said roller or burnishing polishing piece, and the tail T is a strong
spring connected with a flat piece or plate which is applied and fixed to tho
strap C, and is sufficiently long, and rigid to admit of pressure being exerted
against the external part of G without causing the part F to have any
tendency to tilt up or withdraw itself from the strap; and at the place where
the part E and the tail or spring F are joined or connected together there are
four bearing screws and.one binding or connecting screw, by the due, adjust-
ment or setting whereof each individual roller. or burnishing or polishing
piece may be made to run fairly on its bearing face, as herein-after shewn,
and all the said rollers or pieces may be made to work with equal pressure.
R denotes a first mover, which, by means of a strap S and and wheel S,
represented in Fig. 2, causes the apparatus B, B, C, &c. to move round in
the direction of the small arrow; but the said first motion may be given by
or

page_text: any other well-known means and by the other engines or gear in common use.
D represents a strong piece framed to or connected with A, and capable of
being adjusted so as to allow the strap C to pass along the lower face of D,
and thereby to afford a reaction against any pressure which may be exercised
upwards against G, and which the strap itself alone could not properly
sustain. H, H, are bolts for fixing and adjusting the said piece; I, I, is a
table upon which the piece goods or other flexible articles or materials afore-
said are to be singly laid or disposed in order to receive the action of the
roller or burnishing or polishing piece G as the same passes along, and
describes a right-lined or straight course; K, K, is a strong frame, made by
preference of iron, for supporting the table 1, I, and the said frame is placed
and secured by groves and sliding pieces in the uprights N, N, or by other fit
means, so that the same is capable of being made to rise and carry the table
I, I, nearer to the piece D, until stopt and accurately retained by the
adjusting screws a, a, without disturbing the position of parallelism which must
be maintained between the face of I, I, and that of D, which regulates the
course of G. The said groves and sliders are more clearly seen in Fig. 2,
where P, L, represents a lever by means of which the said frame and table
can be raised by pressure from the foot. W is a brush for cleaning the
rollers or burnishing or polishing pieces G, G, in their approach towards I.
And we do further declare that the action, effect, or operation of the said
machinery is described as follows:-After the straps, chains, or bands, S and C,
have been put in their places, and a due tension given to C by means of the
horizontal screws which act against the brasses of the wheel B, and the piece
D has been duly adjusted along with the table I, I, the workman proceeds to
dispose his piece of cloth or leather or other flexible material upon the table
I, I, so that the face of G may describe a right-lined course upon part of the
surface intended to be glazed, burnished, grained, or impressed; and previous
to the arrival of one of the rollers or picces G he raises the table I by
pressing the lever P with his foot. The consequence of this is, that G passes
along and operates upon that part of the surface, and so soon as the workman
finds that the said part of the surface is finished according to the nature and
intention of the manufacture, he then, during the absence of the roller or piece
G, shifts the said piece of cloth or leather or other flexible material into such
a new position upon the table I as shall admit of another right-lined course
being described by the roller or piece G upon another part of the surface,
either contiguous or at a distance from the part which was before operated
upon, as may be required, and immediately afterwards the roller or picce G
acts as before, and in this manner he proceeds until the whole or any required

page_text: part of the surface of his piece of cloth or leather or other flexible material
shall have been glazed, burnished, grained, or impressed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bryan Donkin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eleven.