NEW INVENTED PROCESS AND METHOD, IN ADDITION TO THE MACHINES AND METHODS THEN IN USE, FOR THE BATTING OR BEATING AND. CLEANING OF WOOL, COTTON, AND FLAX, PREPARATORY TO THE CARDING AND SPINNING THEREOF
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jonn
THOMAS, of Withington, in the Parish of Manchester,, and County of
Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the forty-second year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Thomas, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial license, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said John Thomas, my, executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make,- use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED PROCESS
AND METHOD, IN ADDITION TO THE MACHINES AND METHODS THEN IN USE, FOR THE
BATTING OR BEATING AND. CLEANING OF WOOL, COTTON, AND FLAX, PREPARATORY TO
THE CARDING AND SPINNING THEREOF;" in which Letters Patent is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said John Thomas, under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my 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 next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Thomas, do hereby declare, that my New Invented Process and Method,
in Addition to the Machines and Methods heretofore in Use, for the Batting or
Beating and Cleaning of Wool, Cotton, and Flax, consist of the following
particulars, that is to say:-
The machines or engines heretofore in use were calculated only to bat or
beat one side of the wool, cotton, or flax, when laid upon a fleake, cloth, or
other part of the machines, whereby the batting or beating, and cleaning of
the wool, cotton, or flax was vory defectively performed, and required a
removal of the wool, cotton, or flax by manual labour to another machine,
to receive another beating on the other side thereof, the process of which was
tedious and expensive, and caused injury to be done to the article.
The improvement of which I claim the Invention is, a mode of conducting
the wool, cotton, or flax from one fleake to another by means of rotative
fleakes and conductors turned by rollars, as delineated in the Drawing No. 1,
in the margin of these Presents, and after the first batting or beating the
wool, cotton, or flax on the one side on the first fleake, to lay it the other side
uppermost on the second fleake, and there batting or beating the same on the
other side, which has not been heretofore practised or attempted. There are
different modes of batting or beating the wool, cotton, or flax, which, being well
known among the manufacturers, are none of them here described, as I do not
claim the Invention of any of them. This Invention is not only applicable to
the machines now in use, but may be applied to any other engine for the
'batting of wool, cotton, or flax.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS IN THE MARGIN HEREOF.
In No. 1, at G, the raw wool, cotton, or flax, is laid on by hand, and
receives the first batting or beating on the fleake E, and continues revolving
along the fleake E to the rollar A, and falls at C on the rotative cloth F, and
continues revolving between two rollers to the roller D, where the wool, cotton,
or flax, after having been once batted, as before described, is delivered on the
fleake H to be rebatted on the other side. In No. 2, A shews the roller
described above, which drives or conducts the fleake from roller B to A, in
No. 1. B, shews the roller C in No. 1, which conducts the rotative cloth.
from the roller C to roller D in No. 1. C, a wheel or pulley worked by a
strap, or any substitute therefor, by any power given by steam, water, or any
other power whatever. D, D, are two pullies, on which are a cross strap that

page_text: ives motion from roller A to work the roller B. No. 3 is a perspective view
f the machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thomas, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and two.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-second day of
May, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Thomas came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.