IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FINISHING OF CLOTHS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh, both of
Leeds, in the County of York, Cloth Finishers and Copartners, for the
Scaled the 30th December 1859, and dated the 20th July 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Curtis and
Jonathan Haigh at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 20th July 1859.
We, THOMAS CURTIS and JONATHAN HAIGH, of Leeds, in the County of
York, Cloth Finishers and Copartners, do hereby declare the nature of our
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FINISHING OF CLOTHS," to be as follows,
that is to say:-
Our said Invention consists of a mode of producing raised patterns of a
peculiar description upon the surfaces of piled cloths or cloths having a nap
or pile of any description upon their surfaces. These patterns we produce by
means of sheets of wire gauze or pieces of thin material (such as thin
metallic plate) in which we make perforations corresponding with the forms
of the pattern or patterns which we may desire to produce. A sheet of wire

page_text: gauze or of metal having been thus perforated, we lay it upon the piled
surface of a cloth, and then apply a brush so as to operate upon the uncovered
parts of the cloth, and cause the pile or nap upon those parts to be raised, and
thus form the intended pattern or patterns.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 19th January 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wе, TпомAS
CURTIS and JONATHAN HAIGH, of Leeds, in the County of York, Cloth
Finishers and Copartners, send greeting.-
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July. in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh, Her special licence that we, the
said Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FINISHING
OP CLOTHS," upon the condition (amongst others) that they, the said Thomas
Curtis and Jonathan Haigh, their executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under their, or one of their, hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh,
do hereby declare the nature of our 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):-
Our said Invention consists of a mode of producing raised patterns of a
peculiar description upon the surfaces of piled cloths, or cloths having a nap

page_text: or pile upon their surfaces of any description capable of being raised or
operated upon in manner berein-after described. These patterns we produce
by means of sheets of wire gauze or pieces of thin material (such as thin metallic
plates) in which we make perforations corresponding with the forms of the
pattern or patterns which we may desire to produce. A sheet or piece of
wire gauze or other convenient thin material having been thus perforated,
we lay it upon the piled surface of the cloth or fabric, or cause the piled
surface of the cloth or fabric and the perforated material to be otherwise
brought into contact, and then apply a brush or similar instrument so as to
operate through the perforations upon the uncovered parts of the cloth or
fabric, and cause the pile or nap upon those parts to be raised, and thus form
the intended pattern or patterns. The brushes, or similar instruments, may
be made with bristles, whalebone, fine wire, or other convenient material for
raising and operating upon the nap or pile as herein described, and motion
and pressure is to be given to the brushes or similar instruments by the hand,
or by any convenient means, so as to cause the ends of the bristles or other
convenient materials operating through the orifices of the perforated material
to raise up or give a different direction to the pile or nap on those parts of the
cloth which are to be operated upon. The cloth or fabric which is to be
operated upon should previously have the whole of its nap or pile dressed and
finished in the way which is necessary to cause the nap or pile on the
unfigured parts of the surface to lie in the position or assume the appearance
which they may be desired to retain or possess after the production of the
figures on the other portions of the surface. The cloth or fabric should also
be damped or wetted before being operated upon. By giving motion to the
brush or similar instrument applied above the perforated or pattern plate, or
operating through its perforations in a direction opposite to the direction in
which the nap or pile has been previously laid on the surface of the cloth
or fabric, the nap or pile on the uncovered portions of the surface of the cloth
may be raised up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which it is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim as our said Invention is, the raising or producing patterns upon
the surface of a cloth or fabric, raising nap or pile on such surface by means
of a brush or similar instrument whilst there is interposed between the cloth
or fabric and the brush or other instrument a piece of thin material having
perforations made in it according to the patterns to be produced, so as to
permit the action of the brush or instrument upon the parts where the patterns

page_text: are to be produced, and at the same time protect the residue of the cloth or
fabric from its action.
In witness we, the said Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh,
in the presence of
JONATHAN HAIGH. (L.S.)
JONATHAN HAIGH. (LS.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Thomas Curtis and Jonathan Haigh,
in the presence of
JNO. M. DARWICK,
Solicitor, Leeds.