CERTAIN. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS TERMED " QUILTINGS AND "TOILETINGS" AND FOR SIMILAR DESCRIPTIONS OF FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Nuttall and Thomas Nuttall, of
Walmsley, in the County of Lancaster, and Benjamin Barber, of
Manchester, in the same County, for the Invention of "CERTAIN.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS TERMED
" QUILTINGS AND "TOILETINGS" AND FOR SIMILAR DESCRIPTIONS OF
FABRICS."
"
Sealed the 17th October 1868, and dated the 24th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Nuttall,
Thomas Nuttall, and Benjamin Barber at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th April
1868.
We, RICHARD NUTTALL and THOMAS NUTTALL, of Walmsley, in the
County of Lancaster, and BENJAMIN BARBER, of Manchester, in the
same County, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS TERMED
QUILTINGS AND "TOILETINGS" AND FOR SIMILAR DESCRIPTIONS OF FABRICS,"
to be as follows:-

page_text: Our Invention relates to the manufacture of such fabrics as are
known in the trade as "quiltings" and "toiletings," being such
articles as counterpanes, table covers, and the like, and is designed to
produce a fabric for such purposes wherein the design is formed by
two descriptions of weaving, fine and coarse, the whole being presented
on the top or front surface, the back being plain and inferior..
The improvements consist in a novel arrangement of the warp
threads and healds, constituting what is called the "tie up," of which
two designs are shown as examples, and which will be intelligible to the
practical operative. The design or tie up, Figure 1, is arranged to 1
produce stripes of alternate close work, open or work similar to "honey
comb "
appearance, the stripes extending from end to end, but the
pattern of such alternate weaving may be varied by the adaptation of
ordinary jacquard apparatus.
In Figure 2 the design is arranged for the introduction of cords or 1
thick threads, the design being elevated or "thrown up " by the
formation of long "float" loops tied in at intervals to the back
between the cords. In this diagram all the numbers marked © are to
be coarse threads, double threads, or cords, and those marked a are to
be fine threads, and two shuttles are used, one for fine and one for 2
coarse weft, the" picks "being alternate, one coarse and one fine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Nuttall, Thomas Nuttall, and Benjamin
Barber in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD 2
NUTTALL and THOMAS NUTTALL, of Walmsley, in the County of
Lancaster, and BENJAMIN BARBER, of Manchester; in the same County,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April, in the 3
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Richard Nuttall, Thomas Nuttall,
and Benjamin Barber, Her special license that we, the said Richard

page_text: Nuttall, Thomas Nuttall, and Benjamin Barber, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Nuttall;
Thomas Nuttall, and Benjamin Barber, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS TERMED QUILTINGS AND TOILETINGS AND FOR
SIMILAR DESCRIPTIONS OF FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others).
that we, the said Richard Nuttall, Thomas Nuttall, and Benjamin
Barber, 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.
KNOW NOW YE, that we, the said Richard Nuttall and Thomas
Nuttall, 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 folowing statement and accompanying
diagram (that is to say) :-
Our Invention relates to the manufacture of such fabrics as are
known in the trade as "quiltings" and "toiletings," being such articles
as counterpanes, table covers, and so forth, and is designed to produce
a fabric for such purposes wherein the design is formed by two descrip-
tions of weaving, fine and coarse, the whole being presented on the top
or front surface, the back being plain and inferior.
The improvements consist in a novel arrangement of the warp threads
and healds, constituting what is called the "tie up," of which the
annexed designs are shown as an example, and will be intelligible to the .
practical operative.
In order to illustrate more clearly the novelty of arranging such
"tic up" or "drawing in" of the warp threads through the "mails"
or "eyes" of the harness, we have hereunto attached two Figures or
plans shewn as examples of the "tie-up," and which are applicable to
two classes of manufacture.

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a "tie up" designed for ordinary weaving in looms
where heald treddles are employed, and is designed to produce stripes
of alternate close work and open work similar to honey comb in
appearance.
Fig. 2 represents that class of tie up which is more particularly
applicable to jacquard looms. In this Figure the pattern is pro-
duced by a peculiar disposition of coarse and fine weft picked in or
mingled with the coarse and fine warps actuated for "shedding" through
the medium of such "tie up," two shuttles being used for picking, one
fine and the other coarse, and in order to produce patterns for which this
tie up (Fig. 2) is designed the harness is tied up to ". cighty-four"
hooks used in jacquard weaving, twenty-eight of which are attached
to the warp so as to produce a shed when coarse weft is being "picked
in," and the remaining fifty-six are attached to the warp so as to
produce a "shed" when the fine weft is being picked in. The first
two "picks" put in the pattern worked by the present design are fine
weft, the third coarse, the fourth fine, and the fifth coarse, and so on.
alternately, the effect of which will be to produce a kind of irregular
circular pattern, as will be well understood by the practical weaver.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, we wish it'?
to be understood that we claim, the manufacture of woven fabrics of
the descriptions named by means of the peculiar system of tying up
herein-before described and illustrated by the annexed diagrams.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Nuttall and Thomas
Nuttall, on behalf of ourselves and the said Benjamin Barber, 2
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth day of
October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and