IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATIIS FOR GETTING UP STOCKINGS AND OTHER HOSIERY GOODS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bates, of Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Fuller and Dresser, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATIIS FOR GETTING UP STOCKINGS AND OTHER HOSIERY GOODS."
Sealed the 17th January 1858, and dated the 29th October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Bates at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 29th October 1852.
I, WILLIAM BATES, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Fuller
and Dresser, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS 101 GETTING UP STOCKINGS AND OTHER
HOSIERY GOODS " to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of making the shapes hollow with numerous
perforations, so that air, heated or otherwise, may be forced through the
stockings or other articles of hosiery placed on the shapes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Bates in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BATES, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Fuller and
Dresser, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Bates, Her special licence
that I, the said William Bates, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Bates, my 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 APPARATUS FOR GETTING UP STOCKINGS AND OTHER HOSIERY GOODS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Bates, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters l'atent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Bates, 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):
My Invention consists of making the shapes hollow with numerous
perforations so that air, heated or otherwise, may be forced through the
stockings or other articles of hosiery placed on the shapes. And in
order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.

page_text: I employ hollow metal shapes of the forms of the parts of the body
which the articles of hosiery goods are to cover, and such shapes are to
be made with numerous perforations or passages, so that a shape shall
be suitable for keeping a stocking or other article of hosiery in shape,
and at the same time leave as free passage as may be for air to pass
through the shape and through the articles of hosiery fabric thereon.
The articles of hosiery in a damp state are placed on shapes, such as
above described, and they are then to be subjected to streams of air,
heated or otherwise, forced into the interior of the shapes. I generally
use heated air for the purpose, and I find it convenient to obtain
heated air for the purpose by forcing air by a fan or suitable blowing
apparatus through pipes passing through and fixed in a steam boiler,
the heated air passing into a suitable box or chamber, having on the
upper surface openings to receive pipes fixed at the lower ends of the
shapes used, or such shapes may be otherwise connected with the box
or chamber, and other means of obtaining heated air may be employed.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what
I claim is, the applying shapes and apparatus suitable for receiving
thereon articles of hosiery goods, and causing the same to be subjected
to streams of air, heated or not, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bates, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
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Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
WILLIAM BATES. (L.B.)