IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED OR ORNAMENTED PILED OR PLUSHED FABRICS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Bottomley, of Bradford, in the County
of York, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED OR ORNAMENTED PILED OR PLUSHED
FABRICS."
Sealed the 27th May 1853, and dated the 17th March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Bottomley,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th March 1853.
I, JOHN BOTTOMLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED OR ORNAMENTED PILED OR
PLUSHED FABRICS" to be as follows, that is to say:
The improvements consist in manufacturing figured or ornamented
piled or plushed fabrics, by using for the piled or plushed figures
thereof materials not hitherto used for that purpose; that is, the figures
are composed of materials known as mohair, or any admixture thereof
with silk, cotton, or wool; or they may be of silk, or cotton, or admix-

page_text: tures thereof, the body or ground of the fabric being composed of other
materials, as alpaca, &c., as is well known.
These are manufactured by any of the usual methods of weaving
employed and well known, and which do not constitute any part of my
improvements; these being for the use of materials for the piled or
plushed figures not hitherto used as such.
SPECIFICATION in pursuanco of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Bottomley, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 17th September 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN BOTTOMLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Bottomley, Her
special licence that I, the said John Bottomley, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Bot-
tomley, my 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 MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED OR ORNAMENTED PILED
OR PLUSHED FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Bottomley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Bottomley, 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, that is to say:
My improvements relate to the manufacture of those descriptions of
fabrics, the body or ground of which is formed of alpaca, or of any ad-
mixture or combination thereof, with any other fibrous material or
materials, and which fabrics are figured or ornamented, or having a
portion of the surface or face thereof of a piled or plushed nature, the
body or ground being of an unpiled or unplushed nature.
And my
improvements consist in the adaptation and employment of materials
for the manufacture and production of the piled or plushed surfaces of
such fabrics, of such fibrous materials known as mohair, either alone
or in combination or admixture with any other fibrous material or
materials; or such piled or plushed surfaces may be composed of silk,
or of cotton, or of any admixture or combination of either of those
materials with any other material or materials, the body or ground of
these fabrics being composed of alpaca, or of any admixture or com-
bination thereof with any other material or materials.
My improvements also consists in manufacturing such descriptions of
fabrics, by forming the piled or plushed figures, or ornaments thereof,
of mohair, alone or in a state of admixture or combination with any
other material or materials, the body or ground of the fabric being
composed of any material or materials whatever.
Any convenient method of manufacturing these descriptions of
fabrics
may be employed, as neither the method of such manufacture,
or the machinery employed therein, constitute any part of my improve-
ments.
I claim, as my said Invention of improvements,―
The manufacture of figured or ornamented piled or plushed textile
fabrics, by the use and employment therein, to form the figured or
ornamented piled or plushed surfaces thereof, of mohair, or of silk,
or of cotton, either alone or in combination or admixture with
any other fibrous material or materials, the body or ground of such
fabrics being composed of alpaca, or of any admixture or combination
thereof with any other material or materials.

page_text: I also claim the manufacture of figured or ornamented piled or
plushed textile fabrics, by the employment therein, to form the figured
or ornamented piled or plushed surface thereof, of mohair, either
alone or in combination or admixture with any other fibrous material
or materials, and of whatever material or materials the body or ground
of the fabric may be composed.
In witness whereof, the said John Bottomley hath hereunto set
his hand and seal, this 15th day of September, in the year
of our Lord 1853.
JOHN BOTTOMLEY. (L.s.)
Witness, JAMES MASI.