IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRIC SUITABLE TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOWELS, ANTIMACASSARS, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wright and Isaac Fox, both of the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRIC
SUITABLE TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOWELS, ANTIMACASSARS,
AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES."
Scaled the 12th January 1875, and dated the 12th November 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wright and
Isaac Fox at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 12th November 1874.
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F.
We, THOMAS WRIGHT and ISAAC Fox, both of the Town and County
of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FABRIC SUITABLE TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOWELS, ANTIMACASSARS,
AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its chiect improvements in the manufacture of

page_text: macassars, bed quilts, and for various other purposes. For this purpose
we by preference employ that class of lace machine known as Lever's
lace machine, and we arrange the warp so as to form by the aid of the
bobbins a series of tapes or bands, which are woven edgewise, and are
connected together either flat or edgewise at intervals, as required, to
form them into a fabric by the combined action of the crossing of the
warps and the passing of the bobbins between them.
By causing the warps to remain stationary at times various ornamental
and other effects can be produced, whilst by the same means long
lengths of plain or straight warp may be left at intervals in the fabric,
so that when cut fringes may be formed thereby.
· By crossing the warps and causing the bobbins to pass through them
in various orders different shaped meshes and other effects may be
produced. By these means, amongst other articles, towels in imitation
of or substitution for that description commonly known as. " Cash's
towels" may be produced at a very rapid and cheap rate.
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embroidery
In some cases additional threads, commonly known as
threads" in the lace trade, may be employed to ornament fabrics pro-
duced as above described, whilst by the aid of such additional threads the
tapes or bands, which may be woven straight, may be connected together
either continuously or at intervals by fabric formed at one edge thereof
or intermediate of the edges.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Wright and Isaac Fox in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WRIGHT and ISAAC Fox, both of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year 8
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Wright and Isaac Fox,

page_text: Her special license, that we, the said Thomas Wright and Isaac
Fox, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Thomas Wright and Isaac Fox, our 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, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF FABRIC SUITABLE TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TOWELS, ANTIMACASSARS, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Wright and Isaac
Fox, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us or them, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Wright and Isaac Fox,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
fabric suitable to be employed in the manufacture of towels, anti-
macassars, bed quilts, and for various other purposes. For this purpose
we employ that class of lace machine known as Lever's lace machine, or
we employ other descriptions of lace machine provided with a number of
steel bars or with other suitable means for operating the warp threads,
and we arrange the warp threads so as to form by the aid of the bobbin
threads a series of tapes or bands, each made of four or more warp
threads, which are woven edgewise, and are connected together at
intervals so as to retain the tapes or bands edgewise in the completed
fabric by the combined action of the crossing of the warp threads and
the passing of the bobbin threads between them.
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By causing the warp threads to remain stationary at times various
ornamental and other effects can be produced, whilst by the same means
long lengths of plain or straight warp may be left at intervals in the
fabric, so that when cut fringes may be formed thereby.

page_text: By crossing the warp threads and causing the bobbin threads to pass
through them in various orders different shaped meshes and twilled and
other effects may be produced. By these means, amongst other articles,
towels in imitation of or substitution for that description now commonly
known as "Cash's towels" may be produced at a very rapid and cheap
rate.
"
In some cases additional threads, commonly known as embroidery
threads" in the lace trade, may be employed to ornament fabrics pro-
duced as above described, whilst by the aid of such additional or
embroidery threads the tapes or bands, which may be woven in straight
lines, may be connected together either continuously or at intervals by
fabric formed at one or both edges thereof or intermediate of the edges.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that what
we claim is, the manufacture of fabric for various purposes by weaving
a series of tapes or bands edgewise in lace machinery, and connecting
such tapes or bands together by the crossing of the warp threads or by
the aid of additional or embroidery threads, so as to retain the said tapes
or bands edgewise in the completed fabric in manner substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Wright and Isaac Fox,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventh day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five
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