AN IMPROVEMENT IN DYEING WOOL
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Burgess, of Rastrick, in the Parish of
Halifax, in the County of York, Dyer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN DYEING WOOL."
Scaled the 17th January 1853, and dated the 19th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Burgess at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th November 1852.
I, JOHN BURGESS, of Rastrick, in the Parish of Halifax, in the
County of York, Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN DYEING WOOL" to be as follows:--
Heretofore, in dying wool, the hanks of slubbings have been
placed on straight sticks across the dye vat, above the liquor; and,
as the sticks have been revolved, fresh quantities of the wool have
been caused to descend into and other quantities to rise out of the
liquor, so that there have been, during the process, quantities of
the wool in and quantities of the wool out of the dye liquor, by
which inequalities in the tone of the dye have resulted.
Now this Invention consists of using bent rods, or cords, or other
instruments, to lower the hanks of wool wholly into the dye
liquor.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said John Burgess in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN BURGESS, of Rastrick, in the Parish of Halifax, in the County
of York, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Burgess, Her special
licence that I, the said John Burgess, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Burgess, 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
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN DYEING WOOL," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Burgess, 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Burgess, 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):
Heretofore, in dyeing wool, the hanks of slubbings have been
placed on straight sticks across the dye vat, above the liquor, and,
us the sticks have been revolved, fresh quantities of the wool have
been caused to descend into and other quantities to rise out of the
liquor, so that there have been, during the process, quantities of the

page_text: wool in and quantities of the wool out of the dye liquor, by which
inequalities in the tone of the dye have resulted.
Now this Invention consists of using bent rods, or cords, or other
instruments, to lower the hanks of wool wholly into the dye liquor.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means
pursued by ine. I employ rods which are bent or cranked near
their ends, so that the middle portions or parts intermediate of the
cranks or bends may descend into the liquor, whilst the ends of the
rods rest on the upper part of the dye vessel. By this arrangement,
the whole of the wool will descend into the dye liquor, and be
covered thereby, which will be found very advantageous, par-
ticularly in dyeing blacks and browns, and other colors where they
do not settle to the bottom of the dye vessel. I would remark that
the forms of the cranks or bends may be varied, or straight rods
may be lowered in like manner by cords at the ends into the dye,
but I prefer to employ the simple bent or cranked rods which I have
above described. And I would have it understood, that what I
claim is, the mode herein described of lowering hanks of wool into
and raising them out of dye liquor.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Burgess, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
JOHN BURGESS. (L.S.)