IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING MOIRÉ ANTIQUE WATER ON ALL KINDS OF WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Williams Makin, of Longsight, near Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Silk Finisher, and John Barnsley,
of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Engraver, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING MOIRÉ ANTIQUE
WATER ON ALL KINDS OF WOVEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 26th September 1856, and dated the 11th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Williams Makin
and John Barnsley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 11th April 1856.
We, THOMAS WILLIAMS MAKIN, of Longsight, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Silk Finisher, and JOHN BARNSLEY, of Stockport, in.
the County of Chester, Engraver, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING
MOIRÉE ANTIQUE WATER ON ALL KINDS OF WOVEN FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Instead of the usual method of watering woven fabrics by means of damping
the goods and then subjecting them to pressure, which plan is very uncertain
in its results, and by which it is impossible to produce the same style on
different pieces, that is to say, a different style of pattern will be produced at
each and every operation, we propose to use rollers with the style of pattern.

page_text: engraved on them that we wish to produce. By this plan we can obtain any
pattern in watering we require, and give the same design to any number of
pieces, which on the old plan never could be done, the design being always
produced by chance or hazard.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Williams Makin and John Barnsley in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wе, THоMAS
WILLIAMS MAKIN, of Longsight, near Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Silk Finisher, and JOHN BARNSLEY, of Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Engraver, send greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Thomas Williams Makin and John Barnsley, Her special licence
that we, the said Thomas Williams Makin and John Barnsley, our execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas
Williams Makin and John Barnsley, 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 law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING MOIRÉ
ANTIQUE WATER ON ALL KINDS OF WOVEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Williams Makin and John Barnsley, by
an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, 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 Royal Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Williams Makin and John
Barnsley, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in by the following statement (that is to say) :-

page_text: Our Invention relates to an improved method of giving a watery or wave-
like appearance to woven fabrics, a style of pattern or design familiarly known
as "moiré antique," which has hitherto been accomplished by damping the
goods and then subjecting them to pressure, a plan which is evidently very
uncertain in its results, it being quite impossible to produce two pieces with
the same design, the pattern varying at every operation. Instead of the said
uncertain process, we use rollers with the desired design or style of pattern
engraved, embossed, or stamped thereon, which we produce by stamping or
pressing such parts of the roller as will leave the design projecting on the
surface. We place one of the said rollers in any convenient machine, so that
it will revolve in bearings and in contact with another roller of a plain surface
(a plan well known by all persons conversant with finishing woven fabrics);
we cause the material to pass through or between the said rollers as they
revolve, by which the desired pattern or watering design is given to it. By
this plan it is evident we can impart the same design to any reasonable number
of pieces, and by changing the rollers we can produce any number and variety
of designs.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of our said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, we desire it to be
distinctly understood that we claim as our Invention, and which, to the best of
our knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within this realm, the use
of engraved, embossed, or stamped rollers for giving to woven fabrics a waved
or watery design or appearance, as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Williams Makin and John
Barnsley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Ninth day of
October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
THOMAS WILLIAMS MAKIN. (L.S.)
JOHN BARNSLEY.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Thomas Williams Makin and
John Barnsley, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
(L.B.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.