IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT CARPETS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Barcroft of Waterfoot in the County of Lancaster
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT CARPETS
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Barcroft at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1883.
JAMES BARCROFT of Waterfoot in the County of Lancaster
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT CARPETS
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IMPROVEMENTS
The object of this invention is to produce a felt carpet which shall not be liable
to stretch or get out of shape as ordinary felted carpets do and which shall also
have a similar appearance to a woven carpet upon the face.
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My improved felt carpet (which I propose to call the Brusseline" carpet) is
composed of four layers or folds of material which are laid one above the other on
the endless cloth of "batt-frame" and are then felted together by the process and
apparatus usually employed in the manufacture of felt carpets.
The first layer or fold is a thin layer of fine carded wool from the carding engine
to form the face.
The second fold is a piece of woven woollen fabric, the texture of the same being
open so as to allow of the felting together of the carded materials through the
interstices thereof. The third fold is a layer of carded flax from the carding
engine and the fourth fold is a thicker layer of carded wool from the carding
engine to form the back.
These layers of materials in the order above named being then all felted together
form the new felt carpet which is the subject of the present invention.
The thin coating of wool on the face being felted together with the woven
woollen fabric produces a face which will take the colors with great evenness and
as the threads of the woven fabric are not entirely covered it presents an
appearance upon the face similar to a woven fabric,

page_text: The woven woollen fabric prevents the felt from becoming stretched or pulled
out of shape as felted fabrics are liable to become.
The layer of carded flax gives body and firmness to the fabric: and the second
layer of carded wool gives a firm woollen back to the same. The whole when
felted together becomes a firm solid fabric having somewhat the appearance on
the face of a woven woollen material, and with a firm woollen felted back, and
possesses at the same time other properties of a woven fabric.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James, Barcroft in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th December
1883.
JAMES BARCROFT of Waterfoot in the County of Lancaster IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FELT CARPETS
The object of this invention is to produce a felt carpet which shall not be liable
to stretch or get out of shape as ordinary felted carpets do, and which shall also
have a similar appearance to a woven carpet upon the face.
My improved felt carpet (which I propose to call the "Brusseline Carpet") is
composed of four layers or folds of material which are laid one above the other on
the endless cloth of the "batt frame" and are then felted together by the process
and apparatus usually employed in the manufacture of felt carpets.
The first layer or fold is a thin layer of fine carded wool from the carding
engine to form the face. The second fold is a piece of woven woollen fabric, the
texture of the same being open so as to allow of the felting together of the carded
materials through the interstices thereof.
The third fold is a layer of carded flax from the carding engine and the fourth
fold is a thicker layer of carded wool from the carding engine to form the back.
These layers of materials in the order above named being then all felted together
form the new felt carpet which is the subject of the present invention.
The thin coating of wool on the face being felted together with the woven
woollen fabric produces a face which will take the colors with great evenness and
as the threads of the woven fabric are not entirely covered it presents an
appearance upon the face similar to a woven fabric.
The woven woollen fabric prevents the felt from becoming stretched or pulled
out of shape as felted fabrics are liable to become.
The layer of carded flax gives body and firmness to the fabric: and the second
layer of carded wool gives a firm woollen back to the same.
The whole when felted together becomes a firm solid fabric having somewhat
the appearance on the face of a woven woollen material, and with a firm woollen
felted back, and possesses at the same time other properties of a woven fabric.
In some cases I propose to modify my invention by making the back of the
fabric in the same way as the face, so as to present a woven appearance on both
sides.
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page_text: Having now described the nature and object of my said invention together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect I would remark in conclusion that I am aware that felted carpets
have been made by placing a woven fabric between two thick batts of wool and
felting the whole together the effect being entirely to conceal the threads of the
woven fabric, and therefore I make no claim to the manufacture of felted fabrics
in this way but I claim, as my invention the manufacture of felt carpets combined
with woven fabric substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before
more particularly set forth and described whereby a felted carpet is produced
which is not liable to stretch or get out of shape, and which has a similar
appearance on the face to that of a woven carpet.
In witness whereof I the said James Barcroft have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 5th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty three
JAMES BARCROFT (L.S.)