A NEW METHOD PRO
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dobson, of the Firm of Messieurs William
and Frederick Dobson, of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Lace Dressers, for the Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dobson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
September 1862.
I, WILLIAM DOBSON, of the Firm of Messieurs William and Frederick
Dobson, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Dressers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A New
METHOD OF PRODUCING VARIOUS COLOURS ON LACE OR OTHER FABRICS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention has for its object the production of various colours on lace or
other fabrics, whether made of silk, cotton, or other material. Hitherto it has
been usual when dressing lace pieces to "dress" each of them one colour only,
whereas my Invention first consists in the employment of various coloured
dyes for one and the same lace piece, by which means the lace acquires any.
required colour or colours. The mode in which I prefer to proceed for
carrying out my Invention is as follows:-The piece of lace to be "dressed"
by my Invention is first bleached white, it is then stretched on the dressing
frame, and the "dressing" materials are dyed the colours required to be imparted

page_text: to the fabric; the various coloured dressing materials are next laid on the piece
of lace where required, and the lace is then rolled and rubbed until it is
dry or nearly so, when the process is completed and the requisite colour or
colours imparted to the fabric.
Although I have described my Invention with respect to lace only, my
Invention is also applicable to other fabrics.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said William Dobson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DOBSON, of the Firm of Messieurs William and Frederick Dobson, of the
Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Dressers, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Dobson, Her, special licence that I, the said
William Dobson, my. executors,. administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Dobson, 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 "A NEW METHOD OF PRODUCING VARIOUS COLOURS ON LACE
OR OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Dobson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Dobson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: My Invention has for its object the production of various colors on lace
or other fabrics, whether made of silk, cotton, or other material. Hitherto
it has been usual when dressing lace pieces (or other fabric) to "dress" each of
them of one color only; whereas my Invention consists in the employment
of various colored dyes for one and the same piece of lace or other fabric, by
which means the lace or other fabric acquires any required colors.
In my mode of proceeding to carry out my Invention the piece of lace
(or lace piece, as it is called) intended to be "dressed" according to my
Invention is in the first place bleached white, it is then stretched on the
dressing frame, and the "dressing" materials having been dyed of the colors
required to be imparted to the lace, the required [colored "dressing" materials
are next laid on the piece of lace (or lace piece) at the part or parts required,
and the lace is then rolled and rubbed until it is dry or nearly dry, this
completes the process of imparting colours to the lace; the lace may be dried
by other ordinary means instead of rubbing it.
Although I have described the mode of carrying out my Invention with
respect to lace only, I wish it to be understood that my Invention is also
applicable in like manner to other fabrics.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim producing
various colours on lace or other fabrics as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dobson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
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Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM DOBSON. (L.S.) ·