List of Shearing and Fustian Cutting Patents, 1775-1851
A list some of the patents registered between 1775 and 1851 covering the textile and related industries.
The list includes Lewis's Patent No. 3945, which is believed to have influenced Edwin Budding in conceiving the lawnmower cutting cylinder. Other patents listed prior to 1830, and particularly those local to the Stroud valleys, may also have contributed in Budding's "eureka moment".
PAGE 172 SUBJECT-MATTER INDEX OF PATENTS OF INVENTION. III~~~Shearing-Fustian-cutting,
Subject-matter of Patent. Numb. of Patent Date. Name of Patentee. Shearing double coarse framework goods 1096 22nd April 1775 Thomas Trentam.
Francis Jones.
Cutting the warp, shute, or brocade floating silk on the face of velvet-shag, satin-cord, tabby-chain, lustring, or mixtures with gold and silver and with silk mixed, to form designs. 1175 31st Dec. 1777 Stephen Dolignon. Machine for shearing fustians 1595 20th March 1787 John Harmar Machinery for manufacturing wool, hemp, flax, silk, hair and cotton, until perfected in the loom and cut for raising a pile. 1878 15th May 1792 Edmund Cartwright. Machine for cutting fustian and other goods of cotton, silk, woollen, or any mixture of them. 1916 2nd Nov. 1792 James Brown. Machine for shearing cloth and other articles 1945 9th April 1793 Samuel Grissold Dorr. Machine for cutting fustian and other goods of cotton, silk, woollen, or any mixture of them. 1967 3rd Dec. 1793 James Brown. Machine for shearing fustians 1982 29th March 1794. John Harmar. Machine for opening velverets and other goods after being cut.
1999 15th July 1794 James Brown Machinery for shearing woollen cloth 2225 30th March 1798 James Douglass. Machinery for cutting fustians 2338 14th Aug. 1799 Edward Woods Machine for raising the pile on woollen, cotton, and other piece-goods, preparatory to shearing 2539 15th Sept. 1801 John Jotham. Machine for cropping or shearing woollen, cotton, linen, silk, and other cloths made with a nap requiring cropping or shearing. 2558 14th Nov. 1801 Isaac Sanford. Machine for cutting, dressing, and finishing woollen cloth. 2627 31st May 1802 Joseph Fryer. Machine for cutting fustians, velvet, velveret, and every species of fustian, velveret, and velveteens; also velvet, plush, and other cloth or goods made of cotton, silk, woollen, or any mixture of the same, usually cut in the manufactured state 3143 14th June 1808 George Tennant.
Alexand. Galloway.
Machine for shearing woollen and other cloths 3258 21st Aug. 1809 Isaac Kellogg. Machine for shearing woollen and other cloths Machines called gigs or shearing-frames, used for dressing cloths and in the clothing manufacture. 3348 19th June 1810 Joseph Clissold Daniel. Making machines for shearing cloth 3412 12th March 1811 James Mallory. PAGE 173 SUBJECT-MATTER INDEX OF PATENTS OF INVENTION. Making a machine for cutting or shearing the nap or wool from broad and narrow cloths. 3478 7th Ag. 1811 James Mallory. Machine for cutting, cropping, or shearing woollen and other cloths. 3550 24th March 1812 William Henry Hart. Frame-machine for shearing woollen cloths 3885 21st Feb. 1815 Jonah Dyer. Shearing-Machine 3945 27th July 1815 John Lewis. Machine for shearing or cropping woollen or other cloths. 3951 12th Aug. 1815 Stephen Price. Machine for shearing woollen cloths 4020 1st May 1816 John Collier. Frames or machines used for shearing or cropping woollen and other cloths, and fixing the shears in such frames. 4158 12th Aug. 1817 George Adey. Machinery for cropping or shearing woollen cloths 4195 15th Jan. 1818 John Collier. Shearing-machines for shearing woollen and other cloths 4196 15th Jan. 1818 John Lewis
William Lewis.
William Davis.
Machinery for shearing woollen and other cloths 4487 11th July 1820 William Davis. Machinery employed for shearing or cropping woollen cloth. 4552 18th April 1821 James Smith. Machine for shearing and cropping woollen cloth 4661 21st March 1822 Samuel Robinson. Series of machinery for shearing and cutting woollen cloths, kerseymeres, and all other de- scription of cloths and piece-goods requiring the shears 4691 27th July 1822 Jonas Hobson
John Hobson
Machines for shearing cloth. 4702 27th Sept. 1822 John Collier. Machines for shearing or cropping woollen cloth 4799 3rd June 1823 Thomas Miles. Machinery for shearing woollen and other cloth 4820 24th July 1823 William Davis. Machinery for shearing woollen, silk, cotton, or other cloth and velvets. 4825 31st July 1823 John Bainbridge. Machinery to facilitate the operation of cutting or grinding wool or cotton from the surfaces of cloths, kerseymeres, cotton cloths, or mixtures of the same. 4872 22nd Nov. 1823 John Slater. Shearing-machines 4979 22nd June 1824 Humphrey Austin. Machines for shearing or cropping woollen cloths 5059 18th Dec. 1824 Joseph Gardner
John Herbert
Machinery for shearing or cropping woollen or other cloths. 5313 16th July 1825 Thomas Sitlinton. Machine for shearing and cropping woollen and other cloths, 5602 15th Jan. 1828 Charles Hooper. Machinery for cutting or shearing cloth, and other articles manufactured from wool or other raw materials. 5640 26th April 1828 William Marshall. Preparing cloth [apparatus for raising the pile, prior to shearing]. 5687 19th Aug, 1828 Edward Barnard. Machinery for shearing, cropping, or cutting 5888 woollen and other cloths and cassimeres 5688 19th Aug. 1828 Philip Foxwell.
William Clark.
Benjamin Clark.
Shears used for cutting or cropping woollen cloth and other fabrics. 5874 21st Nov. 1929 William Clutterbuck. Machinery for shearing woollen cloths and other fabrics. 5960 22nd July 1830 George Oldland. Machinery for shearing woollen cloths and other fabrics. 6286 3rd March 1832 George Oldland. PAGE 174 SUBJECT-MATTER INDEX OF PATENTS OF INVENTION. Machinery for cutting and cropping woollen and cotton cloths. 6521 11th Dec. 1833 Riley Carr. Machinery for facilitating the operation of cropping the pile of woollen and some other fabrics. 6541 14th Jan. 1834 James Walton. Apparatus for cutting the pile of fustians and other fabrics manufactured of cotton-wool and other fibrous materials 6718 20th Nov. 1834 William Wells.
George Schoefield.
Machinery for manufacturing woollen and some other cloths [shearing woollen and other cloths]. 7327 21st March 1837 James Walton. Machinery for shearing or cropping woollen and other cloths 7572 22nd Feb. 1838 John Clay.
Samuel Walker.
Frederick Rosenborg.
Shears and other apparatus for cutting, cropping, and shearing certain substances [cloth]. 9110 7th Oct. 1841 Thomas Wells Ingram. Apparatus for shearing velvet or other piled goods, by power. 9502 27th Oct. 1842 Rowland Williams. Machinery for cutting the pile or nap of cloth 11,054 20th Jan. 1846 John Walker. Machinery for cutting the pile or nap of velvets and other piled goods. 11,399 8th Oct. 1846 Robert Wilson. Machinery for cutting fustians and certain other fabrics, to produce a piled surface 12,846 26th Jan. 1850 Thomas Schofield.
Henry Horabin.
Machinery for cutting velvets and other fabrics 12,948 29th Jan. 1850 Richard Roberts. Manufacture of cotton and other fibrous materials, and fabrics composed of such materials [cutting terry woven fabrics] 13,313 2nd Nov. 1850 John Tatham.
David Cheetham.
Manufacture of textile fabrics [pile-cutting machine] 18,381 2nd Dec. 1850 Richard Shiers.
James Heginbotham.
Machinery and apparatus for cutting fabrics 18,638 14th May 1851 Luke Smith.
Mark Smith.
Matthew Smith.
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