IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VELVETS, CORDED VELOURS, AND OTHER PILE FABRICS."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Christopher Cross, of the City of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF VELVETS, CORDED VELOURS, AND OTHER PILE FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Christopher Cross at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th August 1873.
I, CHRISTOPHER CROSS, of the City of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VELVETS, CORDED VELOURS, AND OTHER
PILE FABRICS," to be as follows :-
:-
The first part of this Invention consists in making velvets of single
fabrics cut longitudinally with 4, 8, 12, 16, or 20 warp ends, or any
other multiple of 4, and giving 3. floatings of weft between every rising

page_text: Figs. 44 to 50 have 1 face end, then various lengths of floatings.
Fig. 11 A shows how Fig. 11 face may be combined with a calico
back with 8 picks to the round, and 3 face picks between each back
pick.
Fig. 18 A shows how Fig. 18 face may be combined with a calico
back.
Fig. 23 A shows how Fig. 23 face may be combined with a calico
back.
Fig. 31 A shows how Fig. 31 face may be combined with a calico
back.
Fig. 31 B shows how Fig. 31 face may be combined with a twill back
having 3 float pickings between each back pick.
Fig. 31 C shows how Fig. 31 face may be combined with a twill
back having 1 and 3 float pickings alternately between each back
picking.
It is clear from the last illustrations that each of the diagram's faces
from Fig. 9 to 50 can be so combined with different backs and have more
or less face picks between each back pick, that an almost endless variety
of enrichment or imporerishment of the pile can be obtained by altering
the number to the round of the pattern.
Any degree of richness of face may be produced by making the
multiple of the face draft coincide with the multiple of the back draft
and the size of the furrows, and their distances apart with their perfect
drainage may be obtained as shown by the diagrams annexed.
The third part of my Invention relates to face-to-face or double pile
cloths, which after weaving are cut transversely into two parts, leaving
each of the two fabrics with a piled face.
The pile of these double cloths I make of uniform length by placing
waste or other warp slivers or cords of any required thickness between
the two cloths longitudinally, and also in picking waste or other weft
picks between the two cloths, all of which waste slivers will cut out
and be loose amongst the piles of the two fabrics when the two cloths.
are cut in two.

page_text: SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent and by an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said
Ohristopher Cross in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
March 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
Cross, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Christopher Cross, Her special license that
I, the said Christopher Cross, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Christopher Cross, my executors, admin-
istrators, 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 VELVETS, CORDED VELOURS, AND OTHER PILE FABRICS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Christopher Cross, 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 on or before the Thirteenth day of March 1874, of the said
Letter Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Cross, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particulary described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say:-
The first part of this Invention consists in making velvets of single
fabrics cut longitudinally with 4, 8, 12, 16, or 20 warp ends or any other
multiple of 4, and giving three floatings of weft between every rising warp
thread, as shewn in the weaver's diagram, Fig. 1, on the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and also in the diagrams marked Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, and 8*, representing how the above three floatings may be combined in

page_text: Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to
be understood that I claim, the improvements in the manufacture of
velvets, corded velours, and other pile fabrics, as herein described and
illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Cross, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.