IMPROVEMENTS raina AR HOSIERY PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Owen, of London Road, Leicester, in the
County of Leicester, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
raina AR HOSIERY
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Owen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
March 1865.
I, HENRY OWEN, .of London Road, Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF HOSIERY,"
to be as follows:-
The said Invention relates to certain improvements upon an Invention
for which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date the Twenty-
fourth day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and
numbered 222, and the object of which was to supersede the process of
darning hose, and the substitution of an improved mode of repairing such
articles by replacing the worn parts with new pieces without the necessity
for any overlapping of the edges. These objects were effected by the
introduction and construction of selvedge courses or seams across articles
of hosiery, so that the worn portions of such articles might be cut away
and removed wholly or in part, thus avoiding the ravelling of the remaining
parts, and so that corresponding selvedges of new pieces manufactured for

page_text: such purposes might be securely seamed to the article to be repaired without
any overlapping.
The object of the present Invention consists in the insertion at each selvedge
course or seam, in or at the time of the manufacture of articles of hosiery so
constructed as aforesaid, of two or more draw threads of any strong material,
and which can be withdrawn therefrom without disturbing the remainder of
the article, the worn parts being thereby separated. In order to diminish the
risque of breaking the draw threads in the removal of the worn parts of the
articles to which they are applied, and that the draw threads, which should be
of a stronger material than the main portion of the fabric, may not interfere
with the elasticity thereof, they are made in two or more lengths, which,
being separate or detached from each other at the middle or any other con-
venient part or parts of the selvedge, may be readily drawn therefrom without
the risque of breaking.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Owen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th
September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
OWEN, of London Road, Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Manufacturer,
:send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Henry Owen, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Owen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Owen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
Auring 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 MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF HOSIERY," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Owen, 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 perforined, and

page_text: 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 I, the said Henry Owen, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My said Invention relates to certain improvements upon an Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date the Twenty-fourth day
of January, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and numbered 222,
and the object of which was to supersede the process of darning hose, and
the substitution of an improved mode of repairing such articles by replacing
the worn parts with new pieces without the necessity for any overlapping of
the edges. These objects were effected by the introduction and construction
of selvedge courses or seams across articles of hosiery, so that the worn
portions of such articles might be cut away and removed wholly or in part,
thus avoiding the ravelling of the remaining parts, and so that corresponding.
selvedges of new pieces manufactured for such purposes might be securely
seamed to the article to be repaired without any overlapping.
The object of my present Invention consists in the insertion at each selvedge
course or seam, in or at the time of the manufacture of articles of hosiery so
constructed as aforesaid, of two or more draw threads of any strong material,
and which can be withdrawn therefrom without disturbing the remainder of
the article, the worn parts being thereby separated. In order to diminish the
risk of breaking the draw threads in the removal of the worn parts of the
articles to which they are applied, and that the draw threads, which should be
of a stronger material than the main portion of the fabric, may not interfere
with the elasticity thereof, they are made in two or more lengths, which,
being separate or detached from each other at the middle or any other con-
venient part or parts of the selvedge, may be readily drawn therefrom without
the risk of breaking.
Several important advantages result from these improvements. By the
simple removal of the draw threads the immediate separation of the worn
parts of the articles to which they have been applied is effected, such worn
parts being afterwards replaced by separate parts specially prepared for such
purposes, as described in the Specification of my said former Invention, while
by the draw threads being made in two or more parts or lengths, which can
be withdrawn either from the ends or the middle or other parts of the
selvedges, the risk of breaking, to which they would otherwise be liable if
drawn through the whole length of the selvedge courses, is obviated.

page_text: Another advantage arising from the insertion of the draw threads in parts,
as above described, is, that they will not have any binding effect, but will
yield to any extent to which the fabric may be stretched.
Having thus fully declared and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and also the manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe in con-
clusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim as
constituting my said Invention, is, the insertion at each selvedge course or
seam of such articles of hosiery as herein-before mentioned of one, two, or
more separate pieces or lengths, as herein-before substantially set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Owen, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
HENRY OWEN. (L.S.)