A NEW AND IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED TERRY OR CUT PILE CARPETS AND OTHER FIGURED FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Graham Thompson, of New York, United
States of America, but at present of 34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"A NEW AND IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED TERRY OR CUT PILE
CARPETS AND OTHER FIGURED FABRICS,"
Sealed the 19th February 1869, and dated the 23rd December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Graham
Thompson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd December 1868.
I, HENRY GRAHAM THOMPSON, of New York, United States of
America, but at present of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED TERRY OR
CUT PILE CARPETS AND OTHER FIGURED FABRICS" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to a new and improved manufacture of figured
terry, cut pile, or other carpets and other. figured fabrics, whereby a
new description of figured woven fabric is produced.

page_text: In the manufacture of Brussels carpeting and other terry or cut
pile figured fabrics where warp threads or yarns of different colors
or descriptions are employed in the formation of a design or ornamental
surface upon a web of less expensive materials, there must be as many
complete sets of figuring warp threads as there are variations in the
design to be produced. Heretofore in weaving the before-named fabrics
the figuring or ornamenting threads extend the entire length of the
fabric, and when not required to form part of the ornamental surface or
design upon the fabric such threads have been woven into the body
of the fabric, and the greater the number of colors or variations in
the design, the smaller has been the proportion of each figuring or
ornamental warp thread brought to the surface of the fabric and the
larger the proportion of such warp threads or yarns worked up without
entering into the production of the ornamental surface or design thus
rendering such fabrics costly.
Now according to my Invention when weaving the above-named
fabrics after such warp threads have been raised to the surface in
such order as they are successively required to form part of the orna-
mental surface or design they are woven for a short distance (one,
two, three, or more picks) into the body of the fabric, and then with-
drawn and cut off from the back of the fabric, the ends of such threads
when again required being first woven into the body of the fabric
next raised on to the surface to form the pile or figure, then again
woven for one, two, three or more picks into the fabric and then
withdrawn and again cut off from the back of the fabric. A Brussels
carpet or other terry or cut pile figured fabric manufactured according
to my Invention will have as large a quantity of the more costly figure
or ornamenting threads thrown on the surface throughout the entire
length of the fabric as those heretofore manufactured, but in place of
such more expensive yarns extending and being hidden from view
within the body of the fabric between the points at which they appear
upon the surface of the fabric such yarns in a fabric manufactured
according to my Invention are only introduced into the fabric when and
so long only as they are required to form part of the terry or cut
pile or other ornamental figured surface.
According to my Invention I introduce a "stuffing chain" or
additional warp threads to fill up and give substance to the fabric

page_text: and to take the place of the more expensive figuring or ornamenting
threads which have been withdrawn.
Various means may be employed for manufacturing fabrics according
to my Invention, and in the Provisional Specification filed by me
on 21st day of December 1868, and numbered 3881, on my petition
for the grant of Letters Patent I have described several means which
may be employed for the purpose of manufacturing a fabric according
to my Invention as above described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Heury Graham Thompson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GRAHAM THOMPSON, of New York, United States of America, but at
present of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Graham Thompson, Her
special licence that I, the said Henry Graham Thompson, my executors,
adininistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Graham
Thompson, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED TERRY OR
CUT PILE CARPETS AND OTHER FIGURED FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Graham Thompson, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, 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 Scal Patent

page_text: Once within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Graham Thompson, 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:-
My Invention relates to a new and improved manufacture of figured
terry, cut pile, or other carpets and other figured fabrics whereby a
new description of figured woven fabric is produced.
In the manufacture of Brussels carpeting and other terry or cut
pile figured fabrics where warp threads or yarns of different colors or
descriptions are employed in the formation of a design or ornamental
surface upon a web of less expensive materials there must be as many
complete sets of figuring warp threads as there are variations in the
design to be produced. Heretofore in weaving the before-named
fabrics the figuring or ornamenting threads extend the entire length
of the fabric, and when not required to form part of the ornamental
surface or design upon the fabric such threads have been woven into,
the body of the fabric, and the greater the number of colors or variations
in the design the smaller has been the proportion of each figuring
or ornamental warp thread brought to the surface of the fabric, and
the larger the proportion of such warp threads or yarns worked up
without entering into the production of the ornamental surface or design,
thus rendering such fabrics costly.
Now according to my Invention when weaving the above-named
fabrics after such warp threads have been raised to the surface in
such order as they are successively required to form part of the orna-
mental surface or design they are woven for a short distance (one, two,
three, or more picks) into the body of the fabric and then withdrawn
and cut off from the back of the fabric, the ends of such threads when
again required being first woven into the body of the fabric, next raised
on to the surface to form the pile or figure, then again woven for one,
two, or three, or more picks into the fabric, and then withdrawn and
again cut off from the back of the fabric. A Brussels carpet or other
terry or cut pile figured fabric manufactured according to my Invention
will have as large a quantity of the more costly figure or ornamenting
threads thrown on the surface throughout the entire length of the
fabric as those heretofore manufactured, but in place of such morc

page_text: expensive yarns extending and being hidden from view within the
body of the fabric between the points at which they appear upon the
surface of the fabric, such yarns in a fabric manufactured according
to my Invention are only introduced into the fabrio when and so
long only as they are required to form part of the terry or cut pile
or other ornamental figured surface.
According to my Invention I introduce a "stuffing chain" or
additional warp threads to fill up and give substance to the fabric
and take the place of the more expensive figuring or ornamenting
threads which have heen withdrawn.
Various means may be employed for manufacturing fabrics according
to my Invention, and in the Specification of a Patent granted to mc,
dated the 21st day of December 1868, and numbered 3881, I have
described several means which may be employed for the purpose of
manufacturing a fabric according to my Invention as above described.
Having thus described the pature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing or carrying the same into practice, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to any particular means of
weaving figured terry or cut pile carpets and other figured fabrics, my
Invention consisting in the new and improved manufacture of such
fabrics where the pile warp or figuring warp threads or yarns are
employed in the formation of a design or ornamental surface upon a
web of less expensive materials, as herein-before described, and in the
introduction of a "stuffing chain" or additional warp threads into such
new and improved manufacture of fabrics, as and for the purposes
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Graham Thompson, have
hercunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of April,
in the year of our Lord Qne thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.