A NEW METHOD OP MANUFACTURING, CUTTING, DRESSING, DYING, AND FINISHING OF CLOTH, THE WARP WHEREOF IS COMPOSED OF SILK, COTTON, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, OR LINEN YARN, AND THE WEPT OF SHEEP's. WOOL. OR, LAMB'S, WOOL
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,, ROBERT
FRYER, of Rastrick, in the Parish of Halifax, in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturer, and JAMES BENNET, of. Oldham Street, Manchester, in the
County Palatine of Lancaster, Woolstapler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, in the Twenty-first day of June, in the fortieth year of His..
reign, give and grant unto us, Robert Fryer and James Bennet, our exors,
adñiors and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that we, the said Robert Fryer and James Bennet, our exors;
adiiors, and assigns, and every of us, by ourselves, or by our deputy or
deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as we, the said Robert Fryer and
James Bennet, our exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter; during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,, exercise, and
vend, our Invention of "A NEW METHOD OP MANUFACTURING, CUTTING, DRESSING,
DYING, AND FINISHING OF CLOTH, THE WARP WHEREOF IS COMPOSED OF SILK, COTTON,
WOOLLEN, WORSTED, OR LINEN YARN, AND THE WEPT OF SHEEP's. WOOL. OR, LAMB'S,
WOOL;" within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our,
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to us the said Robert Fryer and James Bennet, our exors, adññors, and assigns,,
or any of them, should, in our and their discretion seem incet; in which said
Letters Patent, there is contained a proviso, that if we, the said Robert Fryer.
and James Bennet, or one of us, shall not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be.
performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under

page_text: the hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be-inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months then next imme-
diately after the date of the 'said recited Letters Patent, that the same should
be void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Robert Fryer and James Bennet, do hereby declare that our said Invention of
a new Method of Manufacturing, Cutting, Dressing, Dying and Finishing of
Cloth, the Warp whereof is composed of Silk, Cotton, Woollen, Worsted, or
Linen Yarn, and the Weft of Sheep's Wool or Lamb's Wool, is described in
manner following, that is to say
Our new method of manufacturing, cutting, dressing, dying, and finishing
of cloth, the warp whereof is composed of silk, cotton, woollen, worsted,' or
linen yarn, and the weft of sheep's wool or lamb's wool. consists; ja
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First, by carding, roving, and spinning, in the common method now used
in the manufactory of wool into: yarn, fit for weaving into cloth, which com
poses the weft.
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Secondly, after the weft is manufactured it is wove into a warp or warps,
of woollen, worsted, cottoni, silk, or linen yarn, which is woven by causing the weft
or woof to float or pass over, two, three, or more threads of the warp, for
going under or being attached to the cloth only by one, or more threads of
the warp, , which causes it to form a roll or figure upon: the face of the cloth.
Thirdly, the cloth so manufactured is then to be cut with a. knife or any.
other instrument, by introducing such knife or instrument under the roll or
figure and running the knife or instrument along with the hand or- by a
machine, which cuts that part of the weft or woof which is left above such
roll or figure or float in the figure, and thereby produces, a fine rich cover
upon the face of the cloth; which method of cutting in the finishing of
woollen or partly woollen cloth, manufactured with the before-mentioned
materials, on the same or any other principle has never before, been made
use' of.
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Fourthly, the cloth so manufactured is to be taken to the singeing plate,
which is an iron cylinder, in which is put a quantity of fire, to make
the cylinder red hot, when the cylinder is sufficiently hot the cloth so cut
must,
Fifthly, be drawn as quickly over the singeing plate as possible, that it may
not injure the body of the cloth, but may singe the surface of the' cloth..
and shorten that part of the weft or woof which has been cut to give it a

page_text: fuller and richer appearance; and this operation of drawing the cloth as
quickly over the singcing plate as possible must be repeated several times,
according to the heat of the singeing plate, and the judgment of the workman
or workmen; and all kinds of woollen cloth manufactured by carding, roving
and spinning, weaving and milling, and raising, either by the hand or by
machines may be finished after the same process, that is to say, by singeing
instead of cropping or shearing: which method of finishing woollen cloth so
manufactured is a new Invention, and has not heretofore been practised.
Sixthly, after the cloth is so finished, it must be scoured clean in a sud
of soap or lye and water pretty warm, or a lye made from any other alkali
fit for the purpose.
It must then be well boiled a few hours in clean water;
then is to be taken out and dried, and if found necessary drawn over the
singeing plate a second time, and well scoured as before.
Seventhly, the cloth is then dyed with any colour at the discretion of the
manufacturer.
Eighthly, after the cloth is dyed and dry, it must be well brushed, smoothed,
pressed, or cylindered as wanted, which finishes the process of manufacturing,
cutting, dressing, dying, and finishing of cloth, the warp whereof is composed
of silk, cotton, woollen, worsted, or linen yarn, and the weft of sheep's wool
or lamb's wool, and which method of finishing cloth is also adapted to woollen
cloth manufactured in the usual way.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Fryer, for and in behalf of myself,
and the said James Bennet, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-fourth day of June, One thousand eight hundred.
ROBERT (L.S.) FRYER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of June,
in the year of our Lord 1800, the aforesaid Robert Fryer, on behalf of himself,
and the said James Bennet, came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the Statute made for that