CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS TERMED MOLESKINS' OR IMPERIALS AND Погостроко •
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Wolstenholme, of Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager, and Richard Green Rodgers, of Manchester, in the
same County, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS TERMED MOLESKINS' OR IMPERIALS AND
Погостроко
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Wolstenholme and
Richard Green Rodgers at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 12th February 1866.
We, ROBERT WOLSTENHOLME, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Manager, and RICHARD GREEN RODGERS, of Manchester, in the same County,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS TERMED 'MOLESKINS' OR IMPERIALS
AND VELVETEENS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to the manufacture of such fabrics as are known
in the trade as "inoleskins" or "imperials" and velveteens, and the Invention
consists in a novel arrangement of the healds constituting what is called the
"tie up," which improvements will be intelligible to the practical operative
by the following designs which embrace only five healds instead of eight as
hitherto employed in weaving such fabrics.

page_text: By arranging the healds in either of these forms we are enabled to employ
the sectional tappets now used with slight alteration, and the fabric produced
is superior in texture, the surface is better "covered," and the general quality
of the fabric is improved.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Wolstenholme and Richard Green Rodgers in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th August 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
WOLSTENHOLME, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, and
RICHARD GREEN RODGERS, of Manchester, in the same County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Robert Wolstenholme and Richard Green Rodgers, Her special
license that we, the said Robert Wolstenholme and Richard Green Rodgers,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Robert Wolstenholme and Richard Green Rodgers, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 " CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS
TERMED MOLESKINS' OR IMPERIALS AND VELVETEENS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Robert Wolstenholme and Richard
Green Rodgers, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Wolstenholme and Richard
Green Rodgers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
wbat manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
Our Invention relates to the manufacture of such fabrics as are known in

page_text: the trade as moleskins or imperials and velveteens, and the Invention consists
in a novel arrangement of the healds constituting what is called the "tie up,"
which improved arrangement will be intelligible to the practical operative by
the following designs which embrace only five healds instead of eight, as
hitherto employed in weaving such fabrics. By arranging in either of these
forms we are enabled to employ the sectional tappets now used, with slight
alterations, and the fabric produced is superior in texture, the surface is better
"covered," and the general quality of the fabric is improved.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are the designs shewing the peculiar arrangement
constituting the various "tie-ups," Fig. 6 producing a better twill on the
"face" of the fabric than the others.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we claim arranging and working the healds in weaving
moleskins, imperials, and velveteens, so as to employ only five healds instead
of eight, with five picks to the revolution (or ten as a repeat) instead of
eight picks or sixteen to the repeat, and in the manufacture of imperials or
moleskins, or five heald velveteens; we claim using two healds up and
three down to every pick, which principle is embraced in the accompanying
designs.
In witness whereof we, the said Robert Wolstenholme and Richard
Green Rodgers, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventh day
of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.
(L.S.)
ROBERT WOLSTENHOLME.
RICHARD GREEN RODGERS. (L.S.)
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES,
Office for Patents,
4, St. Ann's Sq..
Manchester.