IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS."
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Pickstone, of Radcliffe, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PILED FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Pickstone at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th March 1862.
I, WILLIAM PICKSTONE, of Radcliffe, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of piled
fabrics. For these purposes a fabric is woven, consisting of cotton warp
wefted with cotton yarn to form the ground or body of the fabric, and it is
also wefted with a mixed weft, consisting of cotton and woollen or worsted
yarn, such mixed wefting being suitably carried or floated on the face as to
admit of the mixed weft being cut into a pile, as when weaving plush,
velveteens, and such like fabrics as have their surface or floating wefts cut
into a pile. By thus using combined weft for producing the pile of a fabric,.
a peculiar effect will be produced when such fabric is dyed by reason of the
difference of tint or character of color imparted by the dye to the animal and
to the vegetable fibre of the pile..
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Pickstone in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PICKSTONE, of Radcliffe, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Pickstone, Her special licence that I, the said William Pickstone,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Pickstone, my executors, àdministrators, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Pickstone, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Pickstone, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of piled
fabrics. For these purposes a fabric is woven consisting of cotton warp
wefted with cotton yarn to form the ground or- body of the fabric, and it is
also wefted with a mixed weft consisting of cotton and woollen or worsted:
yarn, such mixed wefting being suitably -carried or floated on the face as to
admit of the mixed weft being cut into a pile as when weaving plush,
velveteens, and such like fabrics as have their surface or floating.wefts cut.
into a pile. By thus, using combined weft for producing the pile of a fabric,
a peculiar effect will be produced when such fabric is dyed by reason of the
difference of tint or character of color imparted by the dye to the animal and
to the vegetable fibre of the pile.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
In the manufacture of plush, velveteens, and other like fabrics where the
pile is produced from the face wefts employed therein, it has been the
practice to employ in each case a face weft of only one description of fibre by
which the parts of the pile of a fabric when dyed have been of a uniform
color. Now, the object of my Invention, as above explained, is to manu-
facture like piled fabrics in such manner as to cause the pile of a fabric to
be of a mixed character or color consequent on dyeing animal and vegetable
fibre when together by the same dye. For these purposes I employ weft
composed of animal and vegetable fibres for the face or pile weft of each
fabric, and I manufacture these pile fabrics in other respects in like manner
to what has heretofore been practised when weaving plush, velveteens, or
other like fabrics where the pile is produced from the face wefts employed
therein. I usually combine cotton and wool in any desired proportions in
preparing the face or pile weft to be used in these fabrics; I would, however,
state that I do not make any claim. to the manufacture of yarn composed of
mixed animal and vegetable fibres, as yarn of mixed fibres has before been
produced and used for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pickstone, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM PICKSTONE. (L.S.)