Here are a few of William's patents in the US. To the right are links (courtesy Google patents) of the patents complete with drawings.

Aug 16, 1870

William Webster of the city of Washington, County of Washington and District of Columbia

a new and improved sad iron constructing the iron asnd its handle in two separate parts

is this the same William?

April 28, 1874
"of San Francisco in the county of San Francisco and State of California"

Over Edge Sewing Machine
Patent 346,248

England October 2, 1885
Germany Oct 13, 1885
India Feb 26, 1886

Sept 12, 1993 patented

letter sept 12, 1892

William webster

April 30, 1889
" Subject of the Queen of Great Britan and Ireland residing at Leeds in the county of York, England"

1886 Expors from india chief exports logwood, mahogony fruit sugar India-rubber tortise shell, and sarsaparila

Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
The shift in comparative advantage in the Indian market was delayed further by transport costs, which continued to give Indian producers of cotton textiles an advantage in their home market until the 1860s By the early nineteenth century, however, Britain had become the world’s most important cotton textile producer, dominating world export markets, and even exporting to India Cotton textiles and the great divergence: Lancashire, India and shifting comparative advantage, 1600-1850

Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
S.N.Broadberry@warwick.ac.uk
B.Gupta@warwick.ac.uk
1890 coffee, sugar, tin, indigo, tea, tobacco, rice, gambier, pepper, rattan, gum, gutta-percha, cloves, nutmegs, skinsAppletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...:

1900 small amot export of cashews due to infestation problems

since most of the cotton mills wer around bombay, it might be fair to speculate that use started around bombay

a link to 1919 map of jute in Bengal

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/bigmap.htm

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/jmi.htm

Machine for Drawing Metal Blanks

a resident of the city of bridgeport, county of Fairfield in the state of Conecticut

1,132,531

July 16, 1912

W. Webster
November 5, 1912

"A citizen of the United States residing at Berkeley in the county of Alameda and State of California"

Sheet Metal Nut and Method of Making the same
Feb 24, 1917

a resident of the city of bridgeport, county of Fairfield in the state of Conecticut

1,088,641

Rolling Mill or Similar Installation
a resident of the city of bridgeport, county of Fairfield in the state of Conecticut

#1,109,885

Sept 8, 1914

Apparatus for Coiling Material
June 12, 1917

# 1,229,357
a resident of the city of bridgeport, county of Fairfield in the state of Conecticut

W. Webster
March 9, 1920
"A citizen of the United States residing at Berkeley in the county of Alameda and State of California"