TO PREVENT PIRACY AND FRAUD. 345 



There are no other patents yet in existence but those of the 

 patentee, J. H. Dickson, for preparing vegetable fibres so 

 that they will mix, spin, and dye with animal fibre, and as he 

 has already discovered a party in London who has been 

 preparing India fibre by the use of one of his old patents, and 

 sending it to Leeds, Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, and Bradford, 

 THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE to spinners and manufacturers, that if 

 they purchase and mix these India fibres in a sliver or thread, 

 with animal fi bre, they are liable to an action for infringing 

 the rights of the patentee. 



Proceedings have been taken by Dickson's solicitor, Mr. 

 ,A. C. Hope, against the party in London (E. Blake),* who 

 has been preparing India fibre by Dickson's patent process, 

 and he has been in consequence in prison and through the 

 Insolvent Court. 



A third person named Gardner started machinery in Ber- 

 mondsey Street, London, to use J. Hill Dickson's patents, but 

 at the patentee's instance, Gardner was sold up in September, 

 1860, and the patentee, Dickson, bought up machines, vats, 

 and shaftings, a great bargain, and those machines were 

 worked at Tooting, preparing material herein described ; the 

 patentee got fourteen tons of machinery and vats for £70, 

 not the price of old iron. Few would bid at the sale, when 

 they found all were made from my patterns. 



A fourth and a more audacious (because unexpected and 

 not thought possible) attempt at fraud, on the part of what 



* This man Blake was living by infringing my patent for three years, and 

 another foreigner named Dahman erected vats and machinery at Nye's Wharf, 

 Old Kent Road, to follow Blake's example, having been a partner of Blake. 

 Dahman got hold of three cotton-spinning firms in Lancashire by, what he told 

 them, was a secret process, to work which they agreed to advance some £1,200 

 or £2,000, and, after considerable outlay in the erection, the Manchester 

 gentlemen dropped in for a dead loss, all knowledge of the " grand secret" being 

 denied them. 



