IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OP CLOTH AND PILE FABRICS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OP CLOTH AND PILE
FABRICS." A communication from abroad by Pierre Bouvier, Benoît
Bouvier, Jean Baptiste, otherwise Jules, Bouvier, and Geoffroy Bouvier,
all of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris.
Sealed the 5th March 1867, and dated the 13th September 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th September 1866.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OF CLOTH AND
PILE FABRICS," to be as follows:―
This Invention relates to the introduction of pearls or beads of all kinds and
like substances of various sizes and of any material during the weaving of
cloth or other fulled or pile fabrics. The several operations of fulling, dressing,
or raising the nap and shearing in order to equalize the pile surface, which
are effected while the fabric is in a wet or dry state after the weaving opera-
tion, constituto a sufficient test of the firmness with which the beads are

page_text: embodied in the fabric and of the lasting nature of this method of ornamenta-
tion. I fix the beads beforehand to the warp or weft threads, or it may be to
both warp and weft, or thread them on threads of sufficient size to fill up the
holes through the beads (this may be effected either by thickening the
threads or by choosing beads with small holes), after which the weaving
operation securely fixes the beads in the fabric either in given positions, or
here and there only, so as to form regular or irregular lines or patterns as may
be desired. After the weaving is terminated the fabric is treated either wet
or dry, fulled, the pile cut and dressed without danger of detaching the beads
fixed or threaded on the threads as before mentioned and woven in the fabric.
A material thus formed presents the same softness and aspect as an ordinary
napped or pile fabric besides being studded with glittering dots or points of
surpassing effect.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th March 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chaneery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William
Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Clark, 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 "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OF CLOTH AND PILE
FABRICS," a communication to me from abroad by Pierre Bouvier, Benoit
Bouvier, Jean Baptiste, otherwise Jules, Bouvier, and Geoffroy Bouvier,
all of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Clark, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in wriung under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Clark, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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):-
This Invention relates to the introduction of pearls or beads of all kinds and
like substances of various sizes, and of any material during the weaving of
cloth or other fulled or piled fabrics.
The several operations of fulling, dressing, or raising the nap and shearing
in order to equalize the pile surface which are effected while the fabric is
in a wet or dry state after the weaving operation constitute a sufficient test
of the firmness with which the beads are embodied in the fabric and of the
lasting nature of this method of ornamentation. I fix the beads beforehand
to the warp or weft threads, or it may be to both warp and weft, either simply
by threading them on threads of sufficient size to fill up the holes through the
beads, or it may be effected by thickening the thread at the points desired, or
by choosing beads with small holes, after which the weaving operation securely
fixes the beads in the fabric, either in given positions, or here and there only,
so as to form regular or irregular lines or patterns as may be desired. After
the weaving is terminated the fabric is treated either wet or dry, fulled, and the
pile cut and dressed without danger of detaching the beads fixed or threaded
on the threads and woven in the fabric as before mentioned. A material thus
formed presents the same softness and aspect as an ordinary napped or pilo
fabric, but in addition being studded with glittering dots or points having a
surpassing effect.
I also reserve the application of beads of all kinds, either fixed or strung tightly,
either regularly or irregularly on the warp or weft, or on both the warp and
weft threads of fabrics on which a nap is raised or finished in other ways
after the weaving operation.
I also claim the application of portions of purled wire wound tightly round
the threads forming an ornament or bead of greater or less length according
as the loops or purling of the wire are made closer or wider apart. I also
reserve the application of this mode of ornamentation to all imitations of
fulled or piled fabrics made of the same materials, but which do not undergo
the fulling or other operations for raising the nap and producing a pile
surface.

page_text: I also reserve the application of an additional thread to each warp thread
twisted round it and serving to fix the beads in position thereon and pre-
vent their being removed by the combs or reeds during the weaving.
The introduction or mixing of beads or ornaments of all kinds capable of
being strung on the threads of which the fabric is composed produces highly
decorative effects, and although I have described this mode of ornamentation
as applied more especially to all kinds of fulled and piled fabrics it is also
applicable for ornamenting fabrics of other kinds.
Having described the nature of this Invention, and the minner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the exclusive right of
applying beads of all kinds and other similar ornaments to the threads of
which fabrics are composed, the said threads being sufficiently large or the
holes in the beads sufficiently small to prevent their sliding freely, as also the
method of fixing such beads by the addition of a supplementary thread twisted
or entwined thereon with a view to prevent the displacement of the bead or
other ornament during the weaving.
I also claim the use and application of such threads having beads applied
in the manner described to form the warp or weft threads of fabrics of all kinds
for the purpose of ornamenting the same:
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
W. CLARK. (L.B.)