CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE of COUNTERPANES QUILTS QUILTINGS TOLLETINGS AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Nuttall and Richard Nuttall, both of
Walmersley, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers,
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE of
COUNTERPANES QUILTS QUILTINGS TOLLETINGS AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS.
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Sealed the 14th June 1870, and dated the 4th January 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left, by the said Thomas Nuttall and
Richard Nuttall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 4th January 1870.
We, THOMAS NUTTALL and RICHARD. NUTTALL, both. of Walmersley,
near Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, do.hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF COUNTERPANES, QUILTS, QUILTINGS, TOILETINGS, AND OTHER
SIMILAR FABRICS," to be as follows :-
Our Invention is applicable to the manufacture of counterpanes,
quilts, quiltings, toiletings, and other similar fabrics in which a pattern
is produced on both sides, the raised part on one side corresponding to
the plain part on the other; or in weaving fabrics of two colors, one

page_text: color on one side corresponding to the other color on the other side, or
fabrics having a pattern on one side only.
In performing our Invention we employ a jacquard loom of the usual
description and an ordinary harness, through which the warp is drawn.
The improved tie-up or diagram for lifting the warps to form the sheds
to govern the order of succession in which the shuttle or shuttles are
worked and to indicate the tension of the warps is arranged so as to
produce the fabrics above referred to with a raised portion on one side
corresponding to a plain or twilled surface on the other side, or a colored
pattern on one side and a white or other ground on the other side, and
vice versa, or a pattern on one side.only.
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Another part of our Invention consists in an improved tie-up or
diagram by which the fabrics above referred to, but with a raised pattern
on one side only, can be produced in an ordinary jacquard loom with a
single warp and a single shuttle.
Another part of our Invention consists in an improved tie up or
diagram by which the fabrics above referred to, but with a combined
welted and diamond pattern, or a raised and stitched pattern, similar to
Marseilles quilt, on one side only, can be woven in an ordinary jacquard
loom with two warps and two shuttles; or the pattern can be produced
by colored warp on a welted ground, the welts being made of any
desired size.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters, Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Nuttall and Richard Nuttall in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd July 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
NUTTALL and RICHARD NUTTALL, both of Walmersley, near Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of January; in the year of 3
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her. reign, did, for Herself, Her 'heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Thomas. Nuttall and Richard Nuttall, Her
special license, that we, the said Thomas Nuttall and Richard Nuttall,
our executors, administrators,, and assigns, or such others as we, the said 3

page_text: Thomas Nuttall and Richard Nuttall, our 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF COUNTERPANES, QUILTS, QUILTINGS, TOILETINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas
Nuttall and Richard Nuttall, our executors or administrators, by au
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or their hands
and scals, 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 we, the said Thomas Nuttall. and Richard
Nuttall, do hereby declare the nature of our 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):
Our Invention is applicable to the manufacture of counterpanes,
quilts, quiltings, toiletings, and other similar fabrics in which. a. pattern
is produced on both sides, the raised part on one side corresponding to
the plain part on the other; or in weaving fabrics of two colors, one
color on one side corresponding to the other color on the other side, or
fabrics having a pattern on one side only.
In performing our Invention we employ a jacquard loon of the usual
description and an ordinary harness, through which the warp is drawn..
The improved tie-up or diagram for lifting the warps to form the sheds.
to govern the order of succession in which the shuttle or shuttles are
worked, and to indicate the tension of the warps is arranged so as to
produce the fabrics above referred to with a raised portion on one side
corresponding to a plain or twilled surface on the other side, or a.colored.
pattern on one side and a white or other ground on. the other. side, and.
vice versa, or a pattern on one side only..
Another part of our Invention consists in an improved tie-up or:
diagram by which the fabrics above referred to, but with a raised pattern.
on one side only, can be produced in an ordinary jacquard : loom with. a.
single warp and a single sluttle.. **

page_text: Another part of our Invention consists in an improved tie-up or
diagram by which the fabrics above referred to, but with a combined
welted and diamond pattern, or a raised and stitched pattern, similar to
Marseilles quilt, on one side only, can be woven in an ordinary jacquard
loom with two warps and two shuttles, or the pattern can be produced
by colored warp on a welted ground, the welts, being made of any
desired size.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
sheet of diagrams or tie-ups; which represent several modes of per-
forming our Invention.
The diagram, Fig. 1, illustrates the mode of drawing the warp threads
through the eyes of the healds; and Fig. 2 illustrates the order of
succession in which the shuttles are picked. The loom is of the ordinary
description, having two warps and two shuttles with fine and coarse
weft. These diagrams are adapted to produce a figured pattern with a
raised portion on one side corresponding to a plain or twilled surface on
the other side, and by changing the fine weft for colored weft the figured
pattern will be partially colored on one side corresponding to a white
twilled surface on the other side, and vice versa. In the draught, Fig. 1,
the horizontal lines represent the healds, and the vertical lines the dents
or splits in the reed, and the order of succession in which the warp
tbreads are drawn through the eyes of the healds, and also into the reed.
In Fig. 2 the horizontal lines represent the healds, and the vertical lines
the picks of weft, and the marks on the intersecting lines represent the
order in which the healds are raised, and also the order in which the
shuttles are picked, say, one pick of coarse and one pick of fine
alternately. To produce large figured patterns of the same description
of fabric we employ a jacquard machine and a mounted harness.
The diagrams, Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, illustrate an improved mode
of weaving counterpanes and other similar fabrics with a single warp
and a single shuttle, having a diamond or dice figured pattern on one
side corresponding to a twilled figured pattern on the other, and vice
versa, or a figured pattern on one side only; and by introducing colored
weft and white warp the dice figure will be partially colored on one side
corresponding to a partial white-figure on the other side, and vice versa.
In the draughts, Figs. 4 and 7, the horizontal lines represent the healds,
and the vertical lines the dents or splits in the reed; and the order in

page_text: which the warp threads are drawn through, the eyes of the healds; and
in Figs. 3, 5, 6, and 8 the horizontal lines represent the healds, and the
vertical lines the picks of weft, and the marks on the intersecting lines
represent the order in which the healds are raised and the shuttle
picked. To produce large figured patterns of the same description of
fabric we employ a jacquard machine and mounted harness with two,.
three, or more warp threads to one hook in the jacquard machine.
The diagrams, Figs. 9 and 10, illustrate the mode of weaving striped
quilts and other similar fabrics with two warps and shuttles with fine
and coarse weft, having a stripe of diamonds and a stripe of welts:
alternately up the length or warp way of the quilt, the stripes being of
any desired width. Fig. 9 represents the order in which the warp
threads are drawn through the eyes of the healds. Fig. 10 represents
the order in which the healds are raised by the tappet, and also the order
in which the shuttles are picked, say six picks of fine weft and two picks
of coarse weft, and four picks of fine weft and two picks of coarse weft
alternately.
The diagrams, Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, up to 45 and 46,
illustrate an improved mode of weaving diamond quilting and quilts, for
which we use two warps and shuttles with fine and coarse weft, but
Figs. 13, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 39, and 40, may be woven with one
quality of weft. The draughts for the odd numbers, Figs. 11, 13, and 15,
up to 45, represent the order in which the warp threads are drawn
through the eyes of the healds, and the even numbers, Figs. 12, 14,
and 16, up to 46, represent the order in which the healds are raised by
the tappet (the marks on the intersecting lines being risers), and also
the order in which the shuttles are picked. In the odd numbers, Figs.
11 to 45, the horizontal lines represent the healds, and the vertical lines
represent the dents in the reeds, and in the even numbers, Figs. 12
to 46, the horizontal lines represent the healds, and the vertical lines
the picks of weft.
The diagrams, Figs. 47 and 48, illustrate an improved mode of
weaving quilts similar to Marseilles quilts, with a raised and stitched
face and a coarse back, having two warps and shuttles with fine and
coarse weft. The draught, Fig. 47, represents the order in which the
warp threads are drawn. through the eyes of the healds, and Fig. 48
represents the order in which the healds are raised, and also the order in
which the shuttles are picked, say four picks of fine weft and two picks

page_text: of coarse weft alternately. To produce large figured patterns of the
same description of fabric we employ a jacquard machine and a mounted
harness.
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Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described several
modes of performing the same, we wish it to be understood that we do
not limit ourselves to the details given, as they may be varied without
departing from the peculiar character of our Invention; but what we
do claim is, the various improvements in the manufacture of counter-
panes, quilts, quiltings, toiletings, and other similar fabrics, as described
and illustrated by the diagrams or tie-ups.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Nuttall and 'Richard
Nuttall, have hereto set our hands and seals, this First day of
July One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
THOMAS NUTTALL.
(L.S.)
RICHARD NUTTALL. (L.S.)