IMPROVEMENTS IN CARPETS, SACKINGS, CHECKS, BED-TICKS OR TICKINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Addison Cox, of Lochee, Dundee, in the
County of Forfar, North Britain, Jute and Flax Spinner and Power
Loom Linen Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARPETS, SACKINGS, CHECKS, BED-TICKS OR TICKINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 28th October 1868, and dated the 28th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Addison Cox
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th April 1868.
I, GEORGE ADDISON Cox, of Lochee, Dundee, in the County of Forfar,
North Britain, Jute and Flax Spinner and Power Loom Linen Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CARPETS, SACKINGS, CHECKS, BED-TICKS OR TICKINGS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements in certain classes of textile
fabrics, and is applicable to sackings, bed-ticks, checks, and other
similar fabrics, either made entirely of jute or partly of jute and other
materials herein-before set forth; it consists in printing aniline or other

page_text: colours by means of blocks or machinery upon yarn- or cloth made
wholly of jute or partly of jute with a mixture of flax or flax, tow, or
other coarse fibre used in the manufacture of textile fabrics. By this
process checked, striped, or figured goods which have hitherto had the
check, stripe, or figure formed in them by the ordinary process of
weaving with coloured yarns may now have the check, stripes, or figures
formed on them by printing with blocks or machinery in any number of
aniline or other colours after the fabrics are woven; or part of the
pattern may be produced by the usual process of weaving with coloured
yarns, and the other part of the pattern by the process herein-before
described, that is to say, that the cloth is woven partly of coloured yarn
and partly of white or ground yarn, so that the parts which are woven
of white or ground yarn may be printed after weaving.
As constituting this Invention, and as novel and original, it is
intended to claim the printing of those classes of fabrics herein-before
referred to in place of weaving the colours therein; also the manu-
facture of coloured fabrics, partly by weaving the colours into it, and
partly by printing the colours on the uncoloured parts after weaving, in
order that these printed parts may have brighter and improved
appearances than is obtained by weaving the colours therein, whilst
the general result of the Invention is the effecting considerable
economy.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Addison Cox in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ADDISON Cox, of Lochee, Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North
Britain, Jute and Flax Spinner and Power Loom Linen Manufacturer,
send greeting.
2
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Addison Cox, Her special license
that I, the said George Addison Cox, my executors, administrators, and 3
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Addison Cox, my executors,

page_text: administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
rend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARPETS, SACKINGS, CHECKS, BED-TICKS OR TICKINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR TEXTILE
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Addison Cox, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Addison Cox, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 :-
My said Invention relates to improvements in certain classes of textile
fabrics, and is applicable to carpets, crumb cloths, stair coverings,
sackings, bed-ticks, checks, and other similar fabrics either made entirely
of jute or partly of jute and other materials herein-after set forth. It
consists in printing any colours by means of blocks or machinery
upon yarn or cloth made wholly of jute or partly of jute with a
mixture of flax, or flax, tow, or other fibre used in the manufacture of
textile fabrics. By this process checked, striped, or figured goods which
have hitherto had the check, stripe, or figure formed in them by the
ordinary process of weaving with coloured yarns may now have the
checks, stripes, or figures formed on them by printing with blocks or
machinery in any number of colours after the fabrics are woven, or
part of the pattern may be produced by the usual process of weaving with
coloured yarns, and the other part of the pattern by the process herein-
before described, that is to say, that the cloth is woven partly of coloured
yarn and partly of white or ground yarn, so that the parts which are woven
of white or ground or the coloured yarn or both may be printed after
weaving. The general result of this Invention is that the printed parts
have a brighter and more improved appearance than is obtained by
weaving the colours therein, whilst considerable economy in the manu-
facture is effected.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in or under which the same is or may be used or practically
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the printing of
those classes of fabrics herein-before referred to in place of weaving
the colours therein, also the manufacture of coloured fabrics partly by
weaving the colours into it and partly by printing the ground or colours
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in or under which the same is or may be used or practically
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the printing of
those classes of fabrics herein-before referred to in place of weaving
the colours therein, also the manufacture of coloured fabrics partly by
weaving the colours into it and partly by printing the ground or colours
after weaving.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Addison Cox, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEORGE ADDISON COX. (L.S.)