AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING OR MANUFACTURING A CERTAIN ARTICLE OR FABRIC COMPOSED OF SILK AND WORSTED, FOR USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jonn
FRANCIS, of the City of Norwich, Shawl and Bombazine Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present- Majesty King George the Fourth, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twelfth day of April now last past, did give and grant unto me, the said
John Francis, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Francis, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and such others as I, the said John Francis, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE PROCESS OF MAKING OR MANUFACTURING A CERTAIN ARTICLE OR FABRIC
COMPOSED OF SILK AND WORSTED, FOR USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Francis, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said recited Letters
Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Francis, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained by the following description thereof, that is to say:-
My said Invention consists in the manufacture of an article or fabric called
crape, composed of silk and worsted, with a satin or other stripe raised above
the surface, by forming in the ground a plain or tammit work, either with or
without figures thereon; and also in the ground being formed by a twill or
weal, both which grounds are produced by one or more ends or threads of
silk in a hook, an eye, or a meal being drawn into the plain part of the harness
in the loom, as the different qualities of the article may require. The satin or
other stripes are raised above the plain or tammit and twill or weal grounds,
whether the said grounds be with or without figures, by the draft part of the
harness being drawn with one, two, three, or more threads or ends of silk in a
hook, an eye, or a meal, as the quality of the goods may require. The raised
stripe may also be made to vary in its appearance by different weals, and by
various alterations of the tie, the cords being changed on the shafts, lambs,
and treadles, so as to produce the intended variety of pattern. And the said
stripe is also produced by plain or tammit work, by such greater or smaller
proportions of silk in the hook, eye, or weal, as the quality intended may
require. All the different stripes will run in an upright line in every pattern,
and from end to end in each piece, the silk warp being previously drawn into
the reed or slaie in the usual manner.
The materials of which the said crape is composed consists of a silk warp
and woollen or worsted weft for the shoot. It is manufactured in the grey
state, and dyed in the piece after it is wove in the loom. The said crape may
also be manufactured from silk and worsted materials dyed in the skein. or
hank before they are wove in the loom; but I do not claim the mere use of
such materials previously dyed as any part of my Invention.
The silk warp which forms the raised stripe is put on a beam or roll by
itself, and the silk warp which forms the ground part, whether that ground be
plain, tammit, or wealed work, with or without figures, is put on another
beam or roll, which works separately from the first-mentioned beam or roll, so
that each pattern or figure is made from distinct beams or rolls of silk warp
working separately from each other.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Francis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
JOHN FRANCIS. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twelfth day of May,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Francis came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
5 the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of June, in the year above written.