IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Tempest-Radford of the firm of Morton and Sons
of Kidderminster in the County of Worcester Carpet Manufacturer for an
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Tempest-Radford
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1883.
THOMAS TEMPEST-RADFORD of the firm of Morton and Sons of Kidderminster in
the County of Worcester Carpet Manufacturer IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CARPETS
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of carpets and
relates to the employment of a novel description of yarn or thread for the purpose
of producing highly decorative and brilliant effects which have not hitherto been
obtained by the use of yarn or throad of the ordinary character.
For this purpose I take metallic thread, wire or strips and twist or otherwise
combine it with wool or other yarn or material employed in the production of the
pile or other surface of carpets.
In some cases the metallic thread wire or strip is used as a separate and distinct
thread and groups of such threads may be arranged together so as to enable them
to be employed in the production of spots or figures in combination or not with
other threads or yarns or the metallic thread, wire or strips may be so arranged as
to appear at either regular or irregular intervals as may be desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Thomas Tempest-Radford in the Patent Office on the 2nd May
1884.
THOMAS TEMPEST-RADFORD of the firm of Morton and Sons of Kidderminster
in the County of Worcester Carpet Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS
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The invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of carpets and
relates to the employment of a novel description of yarn or thread for the purpose
of producing highly decorative and brilliant effects which have not hitherto been
obtained by the use of yarn or thread of the ordinary character.
For this purpose I take metallic thread wire or strips and twist or otherwise
combine it or them with wool or other yarn or material employed in the production
of the pile or other surface of carpets.
In some cases the metallic thread wire or strip is used as a separate and distinct
thrend and groups of such threads may be arranged together so as to enable them
to be employed in the production of spots or figures in combination or not with
other threads or yarns or the metallic thread wire or strips may be so arranged as
to appear at either regular or irregular intervals as may be desired.
These threads constitute a portion of the warp to produce the pile or other
surface of the carpet and may be arranged in any desired order and in combination
with either self or parti-colored warp or with a combination of both and such
inetallic threads may be operated by Jacquard or otherwise as desired so as to
bring such threads to the surface at every change of shed or in any desired order.
Having thus described the nature of my said invention and the mode in
which the same is carried into offect I would have it understood that what I
claim in the manufacture of carpets is the employment of warp threads consisting
of or partly consisting of metallic thread wire or strips substantially as heroin
described.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Tempest-Radford have hereunto set my
hand and seal this thirtieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.