IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS APPLICABLE TO COVERING TELEGRAPH WIRES
Year: 1863

page_text: Sealed the 24th March 1864, and dated the 29th September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sam Mendel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th
September 1863.
I, SAM MENDEL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS APPLICABLE TO COVERING
TELEGRAPH WIRES," to be as follows:---
In what is technically called tackling the loom that is arranging the warp
threads through the reed and healds preparatory to weaving or introducing
the weft, I cause one, two, or more of the warp threads to be omitted at
certain spaces or distances, thus leaving the fabric at those spaces to depend
on the weft alone, by which it is easily separated into strips without selvedges.
The object and purpose of this Invention is to use the said strips for covering
telegraph wires, strips with selvedges being found very objectionable for tha
purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Sam Mendel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAM
MENDEL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Sam Mendel, Her special license that I, the said Sam
Mendel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Sam Mendel, my 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 WOVEN FABRICS APPLICABLE TO COVERING
TELEGRAPH WIRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Sam Mendel, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sam Mendel, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists of producing, in the process of weaving woven
fabrics, strips of cloth without selvedges for the purpose of covering tele-
graph wires or insulating purposes, which I accomplish by tackling the
loom so as to omit two or more warp threads at certain spaces or distances
in the reed and healds, thus leaving the fabric at those spaces to consist of the
weft alone, by which it is easily separated into strips without selvedges, the
selvedges having been found objectionable for insulating purposes on account
of the uneven surface they produce.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in

page_text: which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I claim
weaving strips of cloth or woven fabric without selvedges for insulating
purposes, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sam Mendel, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this. Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Sam Mendel, in
the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
SAM MENDEL. (L.S.)