IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, WEBS, BRAIDS, TAPES, LACES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES PRODUCED BY WEAVING, PLAITING, OR TWISTING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Briggs, of Blackley, in the County of
Lancaster, Engraver and Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, WEBS, BRAIDS, TAPES, LACES,
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES PRODUCED BY WEAVING, PLAITING, OR
TWISTING."
Sealed the 3rd October 1862, and dated the 2nd August 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Briggs at the
Offico of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
August 1862.
I, JAMES BRIGGS, of Blackley, in the County of Lancaster, Engraver
and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, WEBS, BRAIDS, TAPES, LACES,
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES PRODUCED BY WEAVING, PLAITING, OR TWISTING," to
be as follows :-
My Invention relates to such articles as belts, webs, braids, laces, tapes,
bindings, and other similar articles known in the trade as "small wares,"
and consists in manufacturing such articles with a figured surface, the designs
or patterns to be obtained by printing either one or both sides with cylinders.
or other means, in contradistinction to producing such patterns. by means of
jacquard weaving.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Briggs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BRIGGS, of Blackley, in the County of Lancaster, Engraver and Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign; did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Briggs, Her special license that I, the said James Briggs,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Briggs, 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 Ire-
land, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS, WEBS, BRAIDS, TAPES, LACES, AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES PRODUCED BY WEAVING, PLAITING, OR TWISTING," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Briggs, by an instru-
ment 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Briggs, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to such articles as belts, webs, braids, laces, tapes,
bindings, and other similar articles known in the trade as small wares, and
consists in manufacturing such articles with a figured surface, the designs or
patterns to be obtained by printing either one or both sides with engraved
cylinders, in contradistinction to producing such patterns by means of jacquard
weaving and by block printing.
The machinery I employ for printing braids is the same as now employed
to print calico, the pattern cylinder being engraved with the required 'design,
and the braid or web passing between the said engraved cylinder and another

page_text: or bed cylinder, and I arrange or adapt thereto a guide plate or pins to insure
the said braid passing correctly under the engraved surface as it is fed thereto.
The designs may be engraved on the cylinder side by side according to the
width of the braid, and the guide plate so arranged as to pass or conduct
each braid or web directly and exactly beneath the particular design intended
to be printed on it.
The arrangement of apparatus for supplying color and other parts of the
machine are similar to those now in use for printing woven fabrics. I would
remark that I am aware that braids have hitherto, in some few instances, had
designs printed upon them by blocks or surface printing, but with a very
imperfect result consequent upon the block or surface printing yielding such
rough or imperfectly defined edges in the pattern, which defect is entirely
obviated by the use of the engraved cylinders.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with tho
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the manufacture or production of braids having
patterns or designs printed on their surfaces by means of engraved (intaglio)
cylinders, and in contradistinction to the production thereof by means of
jacquard weaving, or block or surface printing, which I disclaim as not novel
or of utility, as herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Briggs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JAMES BRIGGS. (LS.)