IMPROVÉ- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOILET QUILTS, TOILET OR TABLE COVERS, QUILTINGS, AND THE LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1870

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LETTERS PATENT to George Hodgkinson, of Manchester, in the"
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of “IMPROVÉ-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOILET QUILTS, TOILET OR TABLE COVERS,
QUILTINGS, AND THE LIKE ARTICLES."
Sealed the 15th November 1870, and dated the 18th May 1870.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hodgkinson
at the Office of the Commissioners' of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th May 1870.
I, GEORGE HODGKINSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOILET QUILTS, TOILET OR TABLE,
COVERS, QUILTINGS, AND THE LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
"
My Invention relates to the manufacture of toilet quilts or counter-
panes, toilet or table covers, quiltings, and similar goods or articles..
The said articles are ornamented with geometrical or figured designs,
and my said Invention consists in a novel method of weaving the said
articles:
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page_text: When weaving the said articles in manner according with my Inven-
tion I employ a jacquard apparatus or other equivalent apparatus for
producing the pattern working in connection with the ordinary healds,
or I employ the jacquard apparatus alone. The warp may be contained
on one beam or on more than one beam, as preferred.
When weaving with a jacquard and with healds the method of drawing
in the ends of warp may be described as follows:-An end of warp, which
I will call the first end, is drawn through a mail of the jacquard, and
through a dent in the reed, which I will call the first dent. The second
end is drawn through a heald in a set, which I will call the first shaft,
and through the said first dent. The third end is drawn through the
second shaft and through the second dent, the fourth end being drawn
through a mail and through the said second dent. The fifth end is
drawn through a mail and through the third dent. The sixth end is
drawn through a mail and through the fourth dent, the seventh end
being drawn through the second shaft and through the said fourth dent.
The eighth end is drawn through the first shaft and through the fifth
dent, the ninth end being drawn through a mail and through the said
fifth dent. The tenth end is drawn through a mail and through the
sixth dent.
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The above described draft is repeated as often as required. It will be
seen that every third dent will have only one end, the remaining dents
having two ends each. When weaving the ground each alternate end
is lifted alternately with each intermediate end, as in the making of
plain cloth, and when making the figure the ends passing through the
mails are not woven in but float under the figure.
In another method of weaving the said goods or articles the healds
are not employed, each end being drawn through a mail and two
ends are or may be drawn through each dent of the reed. When
making ground the ends are lifted as for making plain cloth, but when
making figure the weft floats over a number of contiguous ends drawn
down side by side, then under a similar number of contiguous ends, and
so on for one pick, and for the next pick the weft floats under those
ends which were drawn down and over those which were lifted for
the first pick. The cloth thus woven is alike, or nearly alike, on both
sides.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said George Hodgkinson in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 18th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE.
HODGKINSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-.
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give.
and grant unto me, the said George Hodgkinson, Her special license-
that I, the said George Hodgkinson, my executors, administrators, and:
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Hodgkinson, my executors,
administrators, or 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF TOILET QUILTS, TOILET OR TABLE COVERS, QUILTINGS AND
THE LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
George Hodgkinson, 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 is 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hodgkinson, 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 and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:
My Invention relates to the manufacture of toilet quilts or counter-
panes, toilet or table covers, quiltings, and similar goods or articles."-
The said articles are ornamented with geometrical or figured designs,
and my said Invention consists in certain novel methods of weaving the
said articles.
When weaving the said articles in manner according with my In-
vention I employ a jacquard apparatus or other equivalent apparatus.

page_text: for producing the pattern, working in connection with the ordinary
healds, or I employ the jacquard apparatus alone. The warp may be
contained on one beam, or on more than one beam, as preferred.
In order that my Invention may be better understood I have supplied,
to accompany this Specification, a Sheet of Drawings representing a 5
weaver's draft, in which draft the ends and dents are numbered to
correspond with the following description :-
When weaving with a jacquard and with healds the method of
drawing in the ends of the warp may be described as follows, reference
being bad to the said draft. An end of warp, which I will call the first 1
end, is drawn through a mail of the jacquard and through a dent in the
reed, which I will call the first dent. The second end is drawn though
a heald in a set, which I will call the first shaft, and through the said
first dent. The third end is drawn through the second shaft and
through the second dent. The fourth end being drawn through a mail 1
and through the said second dent. The fifth end is drawn through a
mail and through the third dent. The sixth end is drawn through a
mail and through the fourth dent. The seventh end being drawn through
the second shaft and through the said fourth dent. The eighth end
is drawn through the first shaft and through the fifth dent. The ninth 2
end being drawn through a mail and through the said fifth dent. The
tenth end is drawn through a mail and through the sixth dent.
The above described draft is to be repeated as often as may be required.
It will be seen that every third dent will have only one end, the
remaining dents having two ends each. When weaving the ground 2
each alternate end is lifted alternately with each intermediate end, as in
the making of plain cloth, as illustrated by the four picks in the upper
part of the draft, the ends, lifted for each pick being marked as is usual.
When making the figure. the ends passing through the healds, are alone,.
lifted alternately, as, illustrated, by the four picks, in the, lower portion 3
of the draft, the ends passing through the, mails, remaining, down,
and consequently the said ends are not woven in, but float, under the
figure.
As herein-before, mentioned the same effect may be, produced without.
having to, employ, healds. In such a case, the whole of; the ends would
pass through the mails of the jacquard or other corresponding apparatus.
Nevertheless the method of weaving, herein before described is to be
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page_text: In my Provisional Specification, and in the latter part thereof, a
method of weaving other than the one herein described is mentioned,
but since the filing of the said Provisional Specification I have found
the said method not to be so novel as I supposed at the time of filing
the said Specification, and I therefore lay no manner of claim to the
said method.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, together
with the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I would
remark that I desire to claim the method or methods of weaving or
producing the articles herein-before mentioned, substantially as herein-
before described and set forth, and as illustrated by the accompanying
draft.
drait.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hodgkinson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Signed and sealed by the said George
Hodgkinson, in the presence of
EDWARD K. Dutton,
Agent to the Patentee,
3, Smithy Door,
Manchester.
GEO. HODGKINSON. (L.S.)