IMPROVEMENTS IN CHENILLE HARRISS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Richardson. and Walter Greenshields, both
of Douglas, in the Isle of Man, Manufacturers, for the Invention of
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CHENILLE HARRISS
"
&
Sealed the 22nd January 1856, and dated the 3rd August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Richardson and.
Walter Greenshields at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 3rd August 1855.
We, ROBERT RICHARDSON and WALTER GREENSIIIELDS, both of Douglas, in
the Isle of Man, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHENILLE FABRICS," to be as follows:―
This Invention relates to the application and use of parti-coloured or figured
chenille, composed of wool, wool and silk, or of silk alone or entirely with
the gut, in the usual manner, so as when worked up into finished fabrics
such fabrics shall present symmetrical colored patterns or regular ornamental
designs or devices upon their faces. This chenille material is or may be woven
or manufactured in the usual manner, yarns or threads of various colors,
however, being woven or worked into it according to the system generally
adopted in the manufacture of parti-colored goods. Such parti-colored chenille
material is applicable under various forms. It may be drawn through net,

page_text: canvass, or other open ground fabrics, or it may be sewn or otherwise
attached to the surface of such fabrics, or upon cloth and other close fabrics.
This parti-colored chenille may also be applied in the production of sprigs
or other obiects or figures in various fabrics wrought in the loom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert, Richardson and Walter Greenshields in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 1st February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
RICHARDSON and WALTER GREENSHIELDS, both of Douglas, in the Isle of Man,
Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Robert Richardson and Walter Greenshields, Her special license that we,
the said Robert Richardson and Walter Greenshields, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert Richardson and
Walter Greenshields, our executors, administrators, or 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
CHENILLE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Robert Richardson and Walter Greenshields, 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 imme
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Richardson and Walter Green-
shields, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and 'ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference.being had to the accom-1
panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say:
:
This Invention relates to the application and use of parti-colored or figured
chenille, composed of wool, wool and silk, or of silk alone or entirely with the

page_text: gut, in the usual manner, so as when worked up into finished fabrics, such
fabrics shall present symmetrical colored patterns or regular ornamental designs
or devices upon their faces.
This chenille material is or may be woven or manufactured in the usual
manner, yarns or threads of various colors, however, being woven or worked
into it, according to the system generally adopted in the manufacture of parti-
colored goods. Such parti-colored chenille material is applicable under various
forms. It may be drawn through net, canvass, or other open ground fabrics,
or it may be sewn or otherwise attached to the surface of such fabrics, or upon
cloth and other close fabrics.
And in order that our said Invention may be fully understood, we shall now
proceed particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose we shall refer
to the Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, the same letters of
reference indicating corresponding parts throughout all the Figures.
Figure 1 represents, on a large scale, a portion of our chenille fabric, which
we term "orné chenille embroidery;" Figure 2 is a section of the same with
the parti-colored chenille cord sewed on to the foundation fabric; and Figure 3
is a similar view with the chenille worked into or through an open fabric or
canvass, as in Figure 1.
The chenille cord is to be manufactured in the usual way, but with differently
colored yarns or threads, and made after prepared drawings, and colored accord-
ingly in such lengths as are required for the peculiar pattern or design
intended to be formed, so that when put together by being drawn through
open fabrics or sewn thereon, or upon close fabrics, or by being secured together
side by side, the required design will be produced.
A is the parti-colored chenille, which is either sewn on to an open or close
foundation fabric B, as in Figure 2, or worked into an open fabric or canvass
B, as in Figures 1 and 3.
may
We here observe that we are aware that flowers and other devices have
heretofore been formed by using a variety of chenille cords of different self-colors,
and mingling them so as to imitate the coloring of a flower or other device,
whereby an imitation more or less perfect has been effected; we therefore lay
no claim to the employment of self-colored chenille cord in the manner herein-
before described, but confine ourselves to the employment of parti-colored
chenille cord for the purposes herein-before described.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, we would observe, in conclusion, that we do not confine or restrict our-
selves to the precise details or arrangements which we have had occasion to

page_text: describe or refer to, as many variations may be made therefrom without
deviating from the principles or main features of our said Invention; but what
we consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,―
First, the system or mode of manufacturing or producing chenille fabrics by
working parti-colored chenille material upon or into ground fabrics.
Second, the application and use of parti-colored chenille material for the
manufacture or production of ornamental colored designs upon ground fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Richardson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
R. RICHARDSON. (L.S.)