AN IMPROVEMENT IN FINISHING CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF FUSTIANS CALLED 'CORDS," AND "THICKSETS.
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Mayo Worrall, of Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Dyer and Finisher, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN FINISHING CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF FUSTIANS CALLED 'CORDS," AND
"THICKSETS.'
Sealed the 26th June 1857, and dated the 31st January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Mayo Worrall at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
January 1857.
I, JOHN MAYO WORRALL, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer'
and Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN FINISHING CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF FUSTIANS CALLED 'CORDS'
AND THICKSETS," to be as follows:
The improvement consists in finishing "cords" and "thicksets "in a similar
manner to finishing "beaverteens," and is effected by "raising" the surface by
▸ the operation of ordinary machinery employed for that purpose, and afterwards
shearing it, in place of cutting up the cords to form the pile or. finish, as
commonly done.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Mayo Worrall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MAYO WORRALL, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer and Finisher,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her. heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Mayo Worrall, Her especial license that I, the said John Mayo Worrall,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Mayo Worrall, 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 the Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN FINISHING CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF FUSTIANS CALLED 'CORDS' AND 'THICKSETS,""
upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said John Mayo Worrall, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my 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 immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Mayo Worrall, do hereby, declare
the nature of my 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:-
My Invention relates to the finishing of that particular description of
fustians which are well known by the names of "cords" and "thicksets," and
consists in finishing "cords" and "thicksets" in a similar manner to the
present method of finishing other fustians called "beaverteens." I "raise" the
surface of the cloth (as it comes from the loom) by the operation of the ordi-
nary and well-known "raising machines," as usually employed in "raising"
other fustian goods, and subsequently shearing such "raised" surface, by the
operation of the ordinary and well-known "shearing machines," as usually
employed in shearing other fustian goods.
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I substitute or use the above-described method of or improvement in finish-

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ing "cords" and "thicksets" in place or in lieu of the ordinary method of
finishing such goods or fabrics, by cutting up the loops or cords upon their
surface to form the pile or "finish," as hitherto done, the result of such
improvement being the production of a finish of a very different and distinctive
character, and not hitherto attained in "cords" and "thicksets."
Having now described the nature of my said improvement, and the manner
of performing the same, I desire it to be understood that I claim as of my
Invention the finishing of that description or make of fustians called "cords'
and "thicksets" by means of "raising" the surface of such goods and subse-
quently "shearing "the same, such finish being effected or attained by the
operation of the ordinary machinery as employed in finishing "beaverteens."
In witness whereof, I, the said John Mayo Worrall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
JNO M. WORRALL. (L.S.)