CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING CARPETS, WHICH I DENOMINATE PRINCE'S PATENT UNION CARPET
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADAM
EVE, of Louth, in the County of Lincoln, Carpet Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-five, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Adam Eve,
His especial licence, that I, the said Adam Eve, my exors, adñors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Adam Eve, my exors, adññors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during 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, and also in His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING CARPETS,
WHICH I DENOMINATE PRINCE'S PATENT UNION CARPET,'" Communicated to me
by William Augustus Prince, residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Adam Eve, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of the 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 four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Adam Eve, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
The manner in which Kidderminster, Yorkshire, or Scotch carpeting have
always been wove or made is as follows, viz.:-The warp or yarn running
lengthways of the piece is divided into four parts, to each part of which a
treaddle is attached. Two parts of the said warp is operated upon by means
of the treaddles to receive the shute which forms the ground, and two parts of
the said warp is operated upon by means of the other treaddles to receive the
shute which forms the figure. Were. there no figure to the carpet the
manner of weaving would form two separate and distinct pieces of cloth, and
when the ground and figure is equally divided, there is as much ground on
one side as there is figure on the other side of the carpet, and it is the ground
warps and figure warps and ground shute and figure shute crossing or
passing each other which form the figure and fastens the ground and figures
together; therefore, the larger the figure is, the same dimention or size of
ground is hid under and separate from the figure,, and by that means leaves
a separation between the ground and figure, and it is only the formation of
the figure in the manner as above described which.forms the union throughout
the carpet. In the weaving or manufacturing of the improved carpeting-of.all.
widths, after ono or more of the ground shutes and one or more of the figure
shutes are thrown in them, one half part of the ground warp and one half
part of the figure warp is made to rise or cross the other half,parts by means
of two treaddles being pressed down at the same time, and a binding shute
or thread is then introduced, made of any material of which-a-shute ort-bread-
can be made, between the said warps while in that crossed position. The
warps are then made to resume their former position, and one or more
ground and figure shutes thrown in, as before, then the warps made to rise
or cross again, as in the first instance, and the binding shute again, intro-
duced, and so on alternately until the piece is wove and completed. It is
the using of the binding thread or shute, made of any materials of which a
thread can be made, and introduced or used in the manner above. described
between every one or more of the ground and figure shutes, in the manu-
facturing or weaving of Kidderminster, Yorkshire, and Scotch carpeting, of all
widths, and all carpeting under any other name or title that is wove on the
same principles, or in the same manner in which either of the other or above
kinds of carpeting is wove or manufactured, for which Letters Patent have
been obtained. The -binding thread being introduced in manner above

page_text: described, causes a combination or union of the ground and figure together,
the binding thread not being visible on either side of the carpet does not
lestroy the beauty of the figure. This description of carpeting the Patentec
designates by or under the name of "Prince's Patent Union Carpeting."
In witness whereof, I, the said Adam Eve, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.