IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Carter, of Meltham, in the Parish of
Almondbury, in the County of York, Spinner, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 25th January 1853, and dated the 13th October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Carter at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th October 1852.
I, JOHN CARTER, of Meltham, in the Parish of Almondbury, in the
County of York, Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS"
to be as follows:-
I use a warp thread formed of two or more threads or strands and.
twisted in the usual manner of twisting woollen yarns.
I know this plan has been adopted for several kinds of goods, but
not as applied to manufacturing endless machine felts, the kind of goods
to which I intend to apply it.
I also know that two strands have been used in an untwisted state.
The advantage of this Invention is, that it makes the goods much
stronger.

page_text: I desire it to be distinctly understood that this is merely an outline
of my Invention, which I will more fully explain in my Complete
Specification.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Carter in the Great Seal Patent Office, on
the 2nd April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J,
JOHN CARTER, of Meltham, in the Parish of Almondbury, in the
County of York, Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in
the year of our Loid One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and in
the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said John Carter, Flor special licence
that I, the said John Carter, my executors, administrators, and assigns,,
or such others as 1, the said John Carter, 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, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN
FABRICS." upon the condition (amongst other things) that I, the said
John Carter, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the saine
to 'be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately.after the date of the said Letters Patent, as
reference being thereunto had will more fully and 'at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Carter, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say:
My Invention relates particularly to improvements in the method of

page_text: manufacturing woven fabrics, technically called felts, such as are usually
used by paper makers in the process of manufacturing paper, or for
other similar purposes. My improvements consist in using a warp
thread formed of two or more woollen threads or strands twisted
together in any convenient manner so as to form one warp thread, or
the said threads or strands may be a mixture of woollen and cotton or
other materials, by which process I make the goods much stronger and
more durable than by the ordinary method of manufacturing such fabrics.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I desire it
to be distinctly understood that I do not claim the use of any particular
number of strands or threads in a warp, nor the exclusive use of twisting
every kind of warp, as I know that two woollen strands or threads have
been used in an untwisted state, and linen, worsted, and hemp threads,
formed of two or more threads or strands twisted together in the usual
manner of twisting linen, worsted, and hemp.threads, have been used.
But I claim as new and of my Invention the combination and twisting
of two or more woollen threads or strands, and the conibination and
twisting of two or more threads or strands of a mixture of woollen,
cotton, or other materials, for the purpose of manufacturing felts or
similar goods, as herein <lescribed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Carter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of March, One thousand
cight hundred and fifty-three.
5 Signed, sealed, and delivered
in the presence of
30
JOHN BROADBENT,
Bradford.
Jos SHAW,
Woollen Manufacturer,
Low Wistwood..
JOHN CARTER. (L.S.)