1821-01-28 Repertory of Patent - Certain Improvements in Shearing Machines

The Monthly Repertory of English Patents              28th January 1821         Page 71        NEW PATENTS.

J. LEWIS, clothier, W. LEWIS, dyer, and W. DAVIS, engineer, all of Brinscomb, in the county of Glou- cester; for certain Improvements on Shearing Machines, for shear- ing or cropping Woollen and other Cloths, that may require such process; the same being further Improvements on a Patent dated 27 July, 1815, obtained by J. LEWIS for an improved Shearing Machine. Jan. 15, 1818.

The present machine is the first and only instance of the application of a rotatory cutter to shear cloth cross- wise from list to list. Its advantages are now so well known in the trade, as to render any further remarks un- necessary.