THE MODE OF PRODUCING AND EMPLOYING DEVICES AND MI DADDING BAD CERTAIN ARTICLES OF DRESS." PROAL
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Lyons, of the Firm of J. Lyons & Sons,
of Wilson Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "THE MODE OF PRODUCING AND EMPLOYING DEVICES AND
MI DADDING BAD CERTAIN ARTICLES OF DRESS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Lyons at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st January 1809.
I, SAMUEL LYONS, of the Firm of J. Lyons & Sons, of Wilson Street,
Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "THE MODE OF PRODUCING AND EMPLOYING DEVICES
AND DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE FABRICS FOR CERTAIN ARTICLES OF DRxss," to be as
follows (that is to say):
My Invention has reference to the manufacturing of ornamental
borders to plain textile fabrics suitable for making into cricketing or
boating trowsers or suits, as also into cricketing, boating, or yachting

page_text: caps or hats, or trimmings for football costume or other athletic sports
or games, and consists in forming borders with emblematical devices or
designs in imitation of the various games or sports aforesaid either by
weaving, painting, or printing the same upon coloured or tinted grounds,
and employing the said woven or printed materials aforesaid in manu- E
facturing into trowsers in such manner as to admit of the said
emblematical border being made up with the trowsers suitable to the
game for which they are intended.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Lyons in the Groat Scal Patent Office on
the 29th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
LYONS, of the Firm of J. Lyons & Sons, of Wilson Street, Finsbury, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Lyons, Her special licence
that I, the said Samuel Lyons, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Lyons, my exocutors,
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 "THE MODE OF PRODUCING
AND EMPLOYING DEVICES AND DESIGNS UPON TEXTILE FABRICS FOR
ARTICLES OF DRESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Samuel Lyons, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
-Patent.-

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Lyons, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
bo performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
'
My Invention has reference to the manufacture and employment of
ornamental coloured borders to plain textile fabrics, such as flannel or
similar material suitable for making into cricketing or boating trowsers,
suits, or otherwise, as also into cricketing, boating, yachting, or sporting
caps or hats, or for trimmings for football costume and other athletic
sports or games.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood
and readily carried into effect I now proceed to describe in detail the
mode of performing the same (that is to say) :—
In manufacturing the said fabrics for the above purposes I form the
selvages thereof into ornamental borders by weaving or printing the
same with emblematical or other devices or designs (in imitation of
the various games or sports) upon tinted or coloured grounds in such
manner that the said fabrics when made up into trowsers shall represent
upon the dark coloured stripes or borders a device corresponding to the
game or sport for which the trowsers aforesaid are to be worn; for
example, as a device for cricketing I prefer to employ small vignettes
disposed throughout the entire length of the border (portraying a cricketer
at the stumps with bat and ball) in relievo upon a dark ground obtaining
in like manner corresponding results with varied designs and shades of
colour emblematical of boating, yachting, racing, hunting, sporting,
fishing, velocipeding, football, or similar sports or games.
The process I employ in the manufacture of the above consists in
introducing into the loom coloured warps and wefts suitable for being
taken up to form the pattern in either silk, woollen, cotton, thread or
other vegetable or animal fibre producing the said ornamentation, in liko
manner upon the plain flannel or fabric by block printing or painting,
and fixing the said colours by any suitable mordants as in practice may
bo found necessary.
In conclusion to the foregoing description I would here briefly noto
that upon the above principle trimmings for hats, caps, or football suits
may be in like manner produced and attached by sewing or otherwise to
the said articles.

page_text: Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed
and carried into effect, I would have it clearly understood that I do not
intend to confine myself to the precise details herein-before sot forth and
described as the same may be otherwise varied without departing from the
general principle of this my said Invention, nor do I claim as new and of
my said Invention the exclusive use of the several combinations and
processes except when the same are employed in and for the purposes of
my said Invention which I hereby declare to consist in the exclusive
right of introducing and employing devices and designs in the borders 1
of plain textile fabrics suitable for trowsers, caps, hats, trimmings, or
otherwise, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Lyons, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the 1
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
THOMAS MORRIS CORNOCK,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.
SAM, LYONS. (L.S.)