A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR WOVEN FABRICS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT IS EFFECTED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF A CERTAIN ARTICLE OF COMMERCE NOT HITHERTO SO EMPLOYED OR USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURES
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BADNALL, of Cotton Hall, in the County of Stafford, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the second year of Her reign,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard
Badnall, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Richard Badnall, my executors, admors, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said Richard Badnall, my exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR WOVEN FABRICS,
WHICH IMPROVEMENT IS EFFECTED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF A CERTAIN ARTICLE
OF COMMERCE NOT HITHERTO SO EMPLOYED OR USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURES;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Richard Badnall, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, and to cause

page_text: the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Badnall, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention of a certain improvement in the manufacture of carpets
consists in the employment of silk in place of wool or other fibrous materials
for producing the coloured patterns or figures on the surface of carpets or
coverings for floors of rooms. I propose no alteration or improvement in the
ordinary manual operation of weaving carpets, but only in the adoption or use
of silk as a vastly superior material for producing the patterns or devices, that
is, covering or partially covering the face of the carpet, which silk may be
employed for this purpose in connection with any other material applicable to
the making of carpets, and be prepared and worked by any suitable machinery.
When the patterns are produced by wool it is difficult to preserve brilliancy in
white or light colours, but by substituting silk much brilliancy and beauty is
obtained, and a very superior article produced. I wind my silk as usual
from the hank, and double it to the required size, and then having twisted it
into suitable cords, in the manner of preparing sewing silks, I dye the silk so
prepared according to the colours wanted to form the patterns or devices on
the face of the carpet. When the silk is thus rendered fit for use, I apply it
in the way worsted or other threads are usually applied in the loom when
weaving carpets, and produce by the operation of weaving, either by the
Jacquart or drawboy, or other means, patterns or devices in silk of very brilliant
colours upon the face of the carpet.
I desire it, therefore, to be understood that the particular feature of improve-
ment which I claim in the mannfacture of carpets, is the employment of silk
in any proportion to the other materials of which the carpet is made, either in
conjunction with wool or cotton, or other material, or alone, for producing
figures or colored devices upon the face of a carpet of greater brilliancy than
have hitherto been attained by worsted or any other material.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Badnall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
RICHARD (L.S.) BADNALL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of November,
in the second year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said
Richard Badnall came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery,
and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.