CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rudolph Schneider, of the Firm of Pauw,
Schneider, and Company, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS."
Sealed the 14th July 1868, and dated the 16th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Rudolph Schneider
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 16th January 1868.
I, RUDOLPH SCHNEIDER, of the Firm of Pauw, Schneider, and
Company, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that class of piled goods which are termed
"union pile fabrics," and which consists of an inferior back or cloth,
such as cotton, and a finer surface or pile, such as silk, which com-
binations have been now used generally; and hitherto such pile has
not been fast or permanently secured in the fabric, as the silk and cotton
do not adhere to cach other.

page_text: My Invention consists in the novel application and use of the
material called "China grass" in the manufacture of piled fabrics
instead of or in combination with silk to constitute the pile, cotton,
or other material being used for the back of the fabric.
I would also remark that China grass may be combined with some
fine description of cotton, mohair, alpaca, or worsted for the same
purpose, and by this means a pile fabric either in the "terry" or "cut
pile" state to closely resemble silk, and with a fast or secure pile may
be produced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Rudolph Schneider in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RUDOLPH
SCHNEIDER, of the Firm of Pauw, Schneider, and Company, of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the 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 me, the said Rudolph Schneider, Her special license
that I, the said Rudolph Scheider, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Rudolph Schneider, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILED FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Rudolph Schneider, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Rudolph Schneider, 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 following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to that class of piled goods termed "union
piled fabrics," and which consists of an inferior back or cloth,
such as cotton, and a finer surface or pile, such as silk, which com-
binations have been now used generally; and hitherto such pile has
not been fast or permanently secured in the fabric, as the silk and cotton
do not adhere to each other.
My Invention consists in the novel application and use of the
material called "China grass "in the manufacture of piled fabrics
instead of or in combination with silk to constitute the pile, cotton
or other material being used for the back of the fabric.
I would also remark that China grass may be combined with some
fine descriptions of cotton, Manilla fabric, mohair, alpaca, or worsted
for the same purpose, and by this means a pile fabric, either in the
"terry" or "cut pile" state so as to closely resemble silk and with
a fast or secure pile.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention I wish it
to be understood that I claim the application and use of China grass
either alone or in combination with other fibrous materials for the
pile of fabrics called "union pile fabrics," as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Rudolph Schneider, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
R. SCHNEIDER. (L.S.)