IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN FABRICS TECHNICALLY KNOWN AS 'PADDINGS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Brooke and James Hirst, of the Firm of
Joseph Brooke and Company, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Merchants, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN
Sealed the 25th September 1869, and dated the 24th June 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Brooko and
James Hirst at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents with
their Petition, on the 24th June 1869.
We, JOSEPH BROOKE, and JAMES HIRST, of the Firm of Joseph Brooke
and Company, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Merchants, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CERTAIN FABRICS TECHNICALLY KNOWN AS 'PADDINGS,'" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the use or employment of cotton yarn for
the warp, and cow or calf hair yarn for the weft of such fabrics or cloths.
These fabrics are much better adapted for use, dye a better. color, and
are much handsomer in appearance than the fabrics or cloths hitherto
known as "paddings."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Brooke and James Hirst in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd December 1809.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPII
BROOKE and JAMES HIRST, of the Firm of Joseph Brooke and Company,
of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Joseph Brooke and James Hirst, Her special
licence that we, the said Joseph Brooke and James Hirst, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Brooke,
and James Hirst, our exccutors, 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 CERTAIN FABRICS TECHNICALLY KNOWN AS 'PADDINGS," "
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Brooke
and James Hirst, our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters l'atcut.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Brooke and James Hirst,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the use or employment of cotton yarn for
the warp, and cow or calf hair yarn for the weft of such fabrics or
cloths. These fabrics are much better adapted for use and dye a better
colour, and are much handsomer in appearance than the fabrics or
cloths hitherto known as "paddings."

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In performing or carrying this Invention into practical operation we
use any of the ordinary or well known means for the production of
from cow or calf hair, as also in the manufacture of fabrics with such
yarn in combination with cotton yarn, the novelty being the production
of fabrics from yarn made of cow or calf hair in combination with yarn
made of cotton; or we may exclude cotton yarn and make the whole
fabric of cow or calf hair yarn.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practice, we would have it understood that what we claim as of
our Invention is, the use or employment of cow or calf hair yarn in the
manufacture of fabrics known as "paddings."
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Brooke, for and on behalf of
myself and the said James Hirst, have hereunto set my hand and
scal, this Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
W*. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.
JOSEPH BROOKE. (L.S.)