IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED COLORED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED COLORED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREIN."-A communication from abroad by Edme Germain
Bossuat. of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd October 1861.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED COLORED FABRICS, AND IN
MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN," (communicated to me from abroad by Edme.
Germain Bossuat, of Paris, to be as follows:-
The first part of this Invention consists of improvements in the dipping
boxes (boites plongeantes), whereby India shawls and similar articles can be
made much more expeditiously and economically than heretofore.
By-this improved process the different threads instead of passing above and
below across the whole shawl, are used only where the figure appears; a great
economy of material is thus effected, it is the same also in the case of stripes.
The dipping box (shown in Figure 1) has already been employed in the

page_text: manufacture of embroidery to carry the weft over a certain distance of the
fabric, but in this Invention this box is applied to effect another purpose,
namely, to work or unite together the warp threads and embroidering threads
by crossing the threads or raised threads (armures), according to the different
intercrossings of the threads used in different tissues, such as serges, satins,
cloth, and the like. Thus a new result is obtained, namely, any kind of raised
work may be produced upon the figures, and especially the twill upon woven
shawls.
In the ordinary box each tooth contains a cylinder, and this cylinder can
only be worked under two-thirds of the threads in the space between two cogs,
so that if there are, for example, eight colors, eight teeth are required, and if
it should happen that only one color is worked it may be required eight, ten,
or perhaps twelve times to produce the desired effect, and this is almost
impracticable. In attempting to overcome this defect the Inventor first con-
structed an ordinary box with the teeth arranged at some distance apart, and
placed (if, for example, eight colors were to be used), eight cylinders in a
single tooth. In this arrangement the eight cylinders being driven by a
separate small bar or blade (barette) were brought one after the other in front
of the single slot, and each cylinder could cover with its color a number of
threads equal to two-thirds of the threads comprised between the two points
of the teeth common to the eight cylinders. Only one lowering was required
for each color, unless it was an exceptional case, where one color being
required for more than two-thirds of the threads two lowerings or dips were
required, but a thread escaped from each cylinder; the thread was attached to
the fabric and could only pass by the slot, so that there were eight threads
entering the slot at the same time, which becoming entangled rendered the
work almost impossible.
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Figures 1 and 2 illustrate a method by which this defect is overcome.
a kind of saw-cut or kerf, across the fore part of the box A, arranged in such
manner that the threads y issuing from the cylinder escape by the slot b
opposite the place they are, and only enter the said slot one after the other,
and at the moment they are required. This saw-cut extending the whole
length of the front part of the box prevents the threads from becoming
entangled.
Another difficulty to be overcome was the placing a greater number of
cylinders in each tooth. To accomplish this, the diameter of the cylinders is
decreased, as shown in Figures 3 and 4, and in order that more threads may
enter the slots they are somewhat enlarged. As shown in the Drawing, the

page_text: box is formed with small concavities i, in which the cylinders rest. The cover of
the box is provided with a ward or spring taking into as many notches as
there are cylinders in each tooth, so that the workman may move the cover
1, 2, or 3 notches, just as he wishes to work the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd cylinder.
Although hitherto this apparatus has worked extremely well, fear has been
entertained that in strong or heavy work the warp threads would not take into
the horizontal saw-cut x formed on the front part of the box A by serving
only the upper bar c, which is under the cover D, and in which the latter works.
To fix the cylinders without interfering with their working there is a small
roller or guide at the back, which takes into the bottom part of the box A, and
plate F having similar slots b as the box. In the Drawing A is the box,
the number of teeth g being variable. Each tooth is provided with four cups i,
each receiving a cylinder =. Between the cups i there is a plane surface h, on
which the bars or blades D are placed. Each cylinder is connected to its
washer or roller e in the groove m formed at the bottom of the box.
a
The operation is as follows:-The box A being ready for work the warp
covering the thread of the color marked 1 is raised, and the box placed on the
warp in such manner that all the threads of the piece take into the slot b, the
cover is pushed on one notch, cylinder No. 1 takes the place of No. 4, passing
under, the piece, No. 2 becomes No. 1, No. 3 becomes No. 2, and No. 4
becomes No. 3, the piece is then allowed to fall; the piece which raises No. 2
is then raised, and the operation is repeated. It will be understood that the
box has one tooth more than the number required to produce the to-and-fro
motion.
The second part of this Invention refers to the manufacture of Indian
fabrics by two boxes. The only difference between the improved box and the
ordinary one is that the two boxes A and b, Figures 3 and 6, have the teeth
of different dimensions. Two boxes have been already employed for tam-
bouring, in order to produce figures or bouquets, but up to the present time
the boxes have never been made with the teeth of different dimensions, as in
the arrangement shown, where one of the boxes carries the bottom wefts and
twine, while the other carries the colors for embroidering. The box A has
large notches; it is intended to make the bottoms of the stripes; the noteles
are the same size as the stripes, but are of different dimensions if the width
of the stripes varies. The box 6 is intended to carry the colors which produce
the flowers on the stripes, and there are as many notches as there are colors
of flowers in each stripe. If, for example, there is a stripe of four centi-
metres (1.5748 inches), on which four colors of flowers are to be placed, and

page_text: if there are, say, thirty-six stripes each 4 centimetres (1.5748 inches) com-
posing a shawl of, say, one metre 44 centimetres (56.6928 inches) in width, a
box having its bottom divided into thirty-six notches or teeth of four centi-
metres (1.5748 inches) each is used. Each of these notches carries the color
of the stripe it is intended to form. Supposing the stripe to be composed of
four colors, red, green, black, and blue, for example, these stripes have eighty
threads. Upon the first card we read the first forty threads in red, the first
forty green, the first forty black, and the other first forty blue. That is (as shewn
in Fig. 7), on the first card is read A, B, (red); C, D, (green); E, F. (black);
G, H; (blue).
Upon a second card we read the last forty red, the last forty
green, the last forty black, and the last forty blue. That is, upon the second
card is read B, C, (red); D, E, (green); F, G, (black); H, I, (blue).
First card, the box is dipped; the first notch passes A, B, in red; the second
notch C, D, in green, and the same for the other colors. Second card, the
same box is dipped; the first notch passes B, C, in red, the second notch
C, D, in green, and the same for the other colors.
Supposing there are four bars per stripe, the second & will have 144 notches
of one centimetre, so that four notches present just the same width as a notch
in the box A.
The four colors are read on four separate cards, and they are passed one
after the other, only the box a at each stroke enters the warp of the comb to
act as a preparer.
It ought to be observed that if there is one stripe with three colors and one
with five, the notches of one division can be used for the other. This arrange-
ment is equally applicable to other arrangements than stripes.
The third part of this Invention relates to the construction of an apparatus,
which the Inventor calls a preparer (preparateur). As the groove in the boxes
before described, is only about 3 millimetres (.118 of an inch) in breadth, i
often happens by reason of the requirements of the design that the raised
threads, or as we may call them, the "taken threads,") are composed of a grea
number of threads extending over 3, 4, 6, and even 7 centimetres, say, 1 to 2
inches, and consequently with difficulty enter the groove. To overcome thi
defect the apparatus shown at Figure 8 is employed. It is primarily com
posed of three planks or strips of wood b, c, d. The strip b, placed somewha
higher than the others, is held to the batten a by the screws e, which are fre
to slide in slots in such manner as to allow the strip a reefilinear motion
from right to left and from left to right of the frame. The strips c, d, ar
held to the strip 6 by screws f, which, like the screws e, allow the strips c, d

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to slide with facility from right to left, and independent of one another. Each
strip c, d, carries underneath a row of rods or points of iron or steel o, o', p; P,
and so on. The length of these points is regulated in such manner that when
the warp is at rest these points just touch it without penetrating. Two levers
or horizontal arms 9, 9', in a piece with the strip 6 rest on the strips c and d,
but without being firmly fixed to them; i, i¹, are caoutchouc or other springs,
connecting at z and the levers 9 and g¹ to the two strips c and d ;'h, h', are
two small projections on the strips c and d, for regulating the course of the
levers 9, 9', in their to-and-fro motion. A bent lever j, oscillating about the
point j', fixed to the frame of the machine at the back of the batten acts as a
guide to the strip b through the instrumentality of the cord k, passing upwards
over the pulleys 1, 2, and thence to each end of the strip b.
one or other of the arms j, the strip is moved either to the right or left, as
desired, by the attendant; but any other appliance or appliances may be
adopted for moving the strip b, as well as c and d; m is a cord, one end of
which is attached to the strip d, and the other to the end of the strip c; it
passes round two pullies n, n, in front of and at each end of the batten a, the
said cord passing underneath the machine round the pullies n, n. A caout-
chouc thread x, connect the ends of the cord m, whereby the latter is con-
tinually kept in a state of tension, the extent of which may be regulated at
will. It is divided at n", so that the attendant may stretch it more or less at
the knot. When the design occasions a large taking, in so much that the
attendant thinks it will prevent the action of the machine, he presses on one
of the arms of the lever until the parts are brought to that point that the
quantity taken in is enclosed between the points o, p, the machinery is pressed
down, the taken threads are raised, and the batten a returned to its place.
This motion stretches the cord m, and determines the traction to the right of
the blade c, and to the left of the blade d; the points o and p on the same
plane are distanced, and the taken threads are enclosed between the two points
p and o'. The position the parts assume under these circumstances is shown
in red ink lines. The taken threads then only form a closely packed group,
which easily enters the groove in the box before described. When this box
has finished its action the attendant mills with his batten, and the whole system
returns of itself to its first position.
There is another improvement, its object being to increase the facility with
which the box before mentioned is worked. This plan is shown at Figure 9.
Each end of the box A is held by a cord of caoutchouc B, attached to the top
of the frame C. The tension of this cord combined with the weight of the

page_text: box (when at rest), keeps it just above the warp, so that the attendant can
mill with facility, and in any direction without disturbing the box, and the
cylinders are kept in their proper position. The caoutchouc allows the box
to be dipped by a slight pressure, and returns automatically to its first posi-
tion, and so greatly relieves the work of the attendant. The box being sus-
pended in this manner is prevented from falling, is rendered lighter, and the
cylinders cannot become disengaged.
Another improvement consists in the employment of a regulator to facilitate
the labor of the attendant when he passes a cylinder from one of the teeth in
the box to the other, so that the embroidery thread may leave a track on the
fabric.
In Figures 1 to 2 each tube or cylinder is driven by small bars or
plates fixed to the cover, and it is necessary that this cover have a rectilinear
motion from right to left in the division between the two bars, so that a bar
may never enter the groove receiving the warp threads. The improved regu-
lator prevents all hesitation of the attendant, who while working the cover in
either direction cannot push it too far or too little. A small rack is fixed to
and in front of the box; the division of the teeth exactly corresponds to the
division of the bars. A dog with two heads or flat pieces of iron is fixed to
the cover, one for the right and the other for the left; these dogs are main-
tained by springs, and the arrangement is such that when the attendant pushes
the cover to the right one of the heads of the dog forms a stop, so that the
cover may not go too far, and the other head prevents the return of the cover.
When the attendant pushes the cover to the left, each head acts in a contrary
direction.
The last improvement consists in placing the different cards which form the
designs in a new manner, so that the threads may not become entangled.
Each of the colors has consecutively its own to-and-fro motion, from which it
follows that all the colors are always in their proper position, and they never
mix or cross one another.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my execu-
tors, 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
COLORED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN," (communicated to me
from abroad by Edme Germain Bossuat, of Paris, France,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
The first part of this Invention consists of improvements in the dipping
boxes (boites plongeantes) whereby India shawls and similar articles can be
made much more expeditiously and economically than heretofore. By this
improved process the different threads, instead of passing above and below
across the whole shawl, are used only where the figure appears; a great
economy of material is thus effected. It is the same also in the case of
stripes.
The dipping box (shown in Figure 1) has already been employed in the
manufacture of embroidery, to carry the weft over a certain distance of the
fabric, but in this Invention this box is applied to effect another purpose,
namely, to work or unite together the warp threads and embroidering threads
by crossing the threads or raised threads (armures) according to the different

page_text: intercrossings of the threads used in different tissues, such as serges, satins,
cloth, and the like. Thus a new result is obtained, namely, any kind of
raised work may be produced upon the figures, and especially the twill upon
woven shawls.
In the ordinary box each tooth contains a cylinder, and this cylinder can
only be worked under two-thirds of the threads in the space between two cogs,
so that if there are, for example, eight colors, eight teeth are required, and if
it should happen that only one color is worked, it may be required eight, ten,
or perhaps twelve times to produce the desired effect, and this is almost
impracticable. In attempting to overcome this defect the Inventor first con-
structed an ordinary box with the teeth arranged at some distance apart, and
placed (if, for example, eight colors were to be used) eight cylinders in a single
tooth. In this arrangement the eight cylinders being driven by a separate
small bar or blade (barette) were brought one after the other in front of the
single slot, and each cylinder could cover with its color a number of threads
equal to two-thirds of the threads comprised between the two points of the
teeth common to the eight cylinders. Only one lowering was required for
each color unless it was an exceptional case where one color being required
for more than two-thirds of the threads, two lowerings or dips were required;
but a thread escaped from each cylinder, the thread was attached to the fabric
and could only pass by the slot, so that there were eight threads entering the
slot at the same time, which, becoming entangled, rendered the work almost
impossible.
x is
Figures 1 and 2 illustrate a method by which this defect is overcome.
a kind of saw-cut or kerf across the fore part of the box A, arranged in such
manner that the threads y issuing from the cylinder escape by the slot b
opposite the place they are, and only enter the said slot one after the
other and at the moment they are required. This saw-cut extending the
whole length of the front part of the box prevents the threads from becoming
entangled.
Another difficulty to be overcome was the placing a greater number of
cylinders in each tooth. To accomplish this the diameter of the cylinders is
decreased, as shewn in Figures 3 and 4, and in order that more threads may
enter the slots they are somewhat enlarged. As shown in the Drawing, the
box is formed with small concavities i, in which the cylinders rest. The cover
of the box is provided with a ward or spring taking into as many notches as
there are cylinders in each tooth, so that the workman may move the cover 1,
2, or 3 notches, just as he wishes to work the first, second, or third cylinder.

page_text: Although hitherto this apparatus has worked extremely well, fear has been
entertained that in strong or heavy work the warp threads, would not take
into the horizontal saw-cut & formed on the front part of the box A, by serving
only the upper bar c, which is under the cover D, and in which the latter works.
To fix the cylinders without interfering with their working there is a small
roller or guide at the back which takes into the bottom part of the box A,
and a plate F having similar slots b as the box. In the Drawing A is the
box, the number of teeth g being variable. Each tooth is provided with four
cups i, each receiving a cylinder. Between the cups i there is a plane
surface h, on which the bars or blades D are placed. Each cylinder z is
connected to its washer or roller e in the groove m, formed at the bottom of
the box.
The operation is as follows:-The box A being ready for work, the warp
covering the thread of the color marked 1 is raised, and the box placed on the
warp in such manner that all the threads of the piece take into the slot b;
the cover is pushed on one notch, cylinder No. 1 takes the place of No. 4
passing under the piece, No. 2 becomes No. 1, No. 3 becomes No. 2, and
No. 4 becomes No. 3; the piece is then allowed to fall; the piece which
raises No. 2 is then raised and the operation is repeated. It will be under-
stood that the box has one tooth more than the number required to produce
the to-and-fro motion.
The second part of this Invention refers to the manufacture of Indian
fabrics by two boxes. The only difference between the improved box and the
ordinary one is, that the two boxes A and b, Figures 3 and 6, have the
teeth of different dimensions. Two boxes have been already employed
for tambouring, in order to produce figures or bouquets, but up to the
present time the boxes have never been made with the teeth of different
dimensions as in the arrangement shewn, where one of the boxes carries the
bottom wefts and twine, while the other carries the colors for embroidering.
The box A has large notches; it is intended to make the bottoms of the
stripes. The notches are of the same size as the stripes, but are of different
dimensions if the width of the stripes varies. The box is intended to carry
the colors which produce the flowers on the stripes, and there are as many
notches as there are colors of flowers in each stripe. If, for example, there is
a stripe of four centimetres (1.57 inches) on which four colors of flowers
are to be placed, and if there are, say, thirty-six stripes, each 4 centimetres
composing a shawl of, say, one metre, 44 centimetres (about 43 feet) in width, a
box baving its bottom divided into thirty-six notches or teeth of four centimetres,

page_text: each is used. Each of these notches carries the color of the stripe it is
intended to form. Supposing the stripe to be composed of four colors, red,
green, black, and blue for example, these stripes have eighty threads. Upon
the first card we read the first 40 threads in red, the first 40 green, the first 40
black, and the other first 40 blue. That is (as shown in Figure 7), on the
first card is read A, B, (red); C, D, (green); E, F, (black); G, H, (blue).
Upon a second card we read the last 40 red, the last 40 green, the last 40
black, and the last 40 blue. That is, upon the second card is read B, C, (red);
D, E, (green); F, G, (black); H, I, (blue).
First card, the box is dipped, the first notch passes A, B, in red, the second
notch C, D, in green, and the same for the other colors. Second card, the
same box is dipped, the first notch passes B, C, in red, the second notch C, D,
in green, and the same for the other colors.
Supposing there are four bars per stripe, the second, b, will have 144 notches
of one centimetre (.3937 inch), so that four notches present just the same width
as a notch in the box A.
The four colors are read on four separate cards, and they are passed one
after the other; only the box a at each stroke enters the warp of the comb to
act as a preparer.
It ought to be observed that if there is one stripe with three colors and one
with five, the notches of one division can be used for the other. This arrange-
ment is equally applicable to other arrangements than stripes.
The third part of this Invention relates to the construction of an apparatus
which the Inventor calls a preparer (préparateur). As the groove in the
boxes before described, is only about 3 millimetres (118 inch) in breadth,
it often happens by reason of the requirements of the design that the raised
threads (or as we may call them the "taken threads "), are composed of a
great number of threads extending over 3, 4, 6, and even 7 centimetres (say
from 1 to 2 inches), and consequently with difficulty enter the groove.
To
overcome this defect, the apparatus shown at Figure 8, is employed, it is
primarily composed of three planks or strips of wood b, c, d. The strip b
placed somewhat higher than the others, is held to the batten a by the screws
e, which are free to slide in slots in such manner as to allow the strip ba
rectilinear motion from right to left, and from left to right of the frame. The
strips c, d, are held to the strip b by screws f, which like the screws e allow
the strips c, d, to slide with facility from right to left, and independent of
one another. Each strip c, d, carries underneath a row of rods, or points
of iron, or steel, o, o', p, p', and so on. The length of these points is regulated

page_text: in such manner, that when the warp is at rest, these points just touch it
without penetrating. Two levers or horizontal arms g, g', in a piece with
the strip b, rest on the strips c and d, but without being firmly fixed to them;
i, i, are caoutchouc or other springs connecting at and the levers g and
g' to the two strips c and d; h, h', are two small projections on the strips c and
d, for regulating the course of the levers g, g', in their to-and-fro motion.
A bent lever j, oscillating about the point j', fixed to the frame of the machine
at the back of the batten, acts as a guide to the strip b through the instru-
mentality of the cord k, passing upwards over the pulleys 1, 1, and thence to
eacli end of the strip b. By pressing on one or other of the arms j, the strip
is moved either to the right or left as desired by the attendant, but any
other appliance or appliances may be adopted for moving the strip as well
as c and d; m is a cord, one end of which is attached to the strip d, and the
other to the end of the strip c, it passes round two pulleys n, n, in front of
and at each end of the batten a, the said cord passing underneath the machine
round the pulleys n, n¹. A caoutchoue thread a connects the ends of the
cord m, whereby the latter is continually kept in a state of tension, the extent
of which may be regulated at will; it is divided at n", so that the attendant
may stretch it more or less at the knot. When the design occasions a large
taking in, so much that the attendant thinks it will prevent the action of the
machine, he presses on one of the arms of the lever until the parts are
brought to that point that the quantity taken in is enclosed between the
points o, p, the machinery is pressed down, the taken threads are raised, and
the batten a returned to its place. This motion stretches the cord m, and
determines the traction to the right of the blade c, and to the left of the blade
d, the points o and p on the same plane are distanced, and the taken threads
are enclosed between the two points p and o'. The position the parts assume
under these circumstances is shewn in red ink lines. The taken threads
then only form a closely packed group which easily enters the groove in the
box before described. When this box has finished its action the attendant
mills with his batten, and the whole system returns of itself to its first
position.
There is another improvement, its object being to increase the facility with
which the box before mentioned is worked. This plan is shown at Figure 9.
Each end of the box A is held by a cord of caoutchouc B, attached to the
top of the frame C. The tension of this coil combined with the weight of
the box (when at rest), keeps it just above the warp, so that the attendant
can mill with facility, and in any direction without disturbing the box, and

page_text: the cylinders are kept in their proper position. The caoutchouc allows the
box to be dipped by a slight pressure, and returns automatically to its first
position, and so greatly relieves the work of the attendant. The box being
suspended in this manner, is prevented from falling, is rendered lighter, and
the cylinders cannot become disengaged.
Another improvement consists in the employment of a regulator to facili-
tate the labor of the attendant when he passes a cylinder from one of the
teeth in the box to the other, so that the embroidery thread may leave a track
on the fabric. In Figures 1 to 4 each tube or cylinder is driven by small
bars or plates fixed to the cover, and it is necessary that this cover have a
rectilinear motion from right to left in the division between the two bars, so
that a bar may never enter the groove receiving the warp threads. The im-
proved regulator prevents all hesitation of the attendant who, while working
the cover in either direction cannot push it too far or too little. A small rack
is fixed to and in front of the box, the division of the teeth exactly corresponds
to the division of the bars. A dog with two heads or flat pieces of iron is
fixed to the cover, one for the right, and the other for the left, these dogs
are maintained by springs, and the arrangement is such, that when the atten-
dant pushes the cover to the right, one of the heads of the dog forms a stop
so that the cover may not go too far, and the other head prevents the return of
the cover.
When the attendant pushes the cover to the left, each head acts
in a contrary direction.
The last improvement consists in placing the different cards which form
the designs in a new manner, so that the threads may not become entangled.
Each of the colors has consecutively its own to-and-fro motion, from which
it follows that all the colors are always in their proper position, and they
never mix or cross one another.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the "Improve-
ments in the Manufacture of Figured Colored Fabrics and in Machinery
employed therein."
First, the construction of dipping boxes, together with the method of sus-
pending the same, as herein-before described, and illustrated in the accom
panying Drawings.
Second, the employment in the manufacture of Indian fabrics of two
boxes with the teeth of different dimensions, the lower box carrying the bottom
wefts and twine, while the upper box carries the colors for embroidering
as herein-before described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: Third, the employment of a preparer (préparateur) constructed and acting
substantially in manner and for the purposes herein-before described, with
reference to Figure 8 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth, the employment of an apparatus for facilitating the working of
the dipping boxes, constructed and acting substantially in manner herein-
before described, with reference to Figure 9 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fifth, the employment of a regulator for facilitating the labour of the
attendant as herein-before described.
Sixth, arranging the cards which form the design as berein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.