IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE SELVAGES OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS AND OTHER STuffs."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Berck, of Herve, in the Kingdom of Belgium,
Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
THE SELVAGES OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS AND OTHER STuffs."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Berck at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th May 1860.
I, CHARLES BERCK, of Herve, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Spinner, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF THE SELVAGES OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS AND OTHER STUFFS," to
be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of an improved selvage for woollen..
cloths and other stuffs or fabrics, and consists in employing for the manufac
ture of such selvages a thread of cotton, flax or other vegetable textile
substance combined with a thread of hair of any kind, and twisted together;.
or in lieu thereof a thread of cotton flax, or other vegetable textile substance
with a thread of wool twisted together; the selvage is made by the ordinary.
means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Berck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BERCK, of Herve, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Berck, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Berck, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Berck, 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 Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
THE SELVAGES OF WOOLLEN CLOTHS AND OTHER STUFFS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Berck, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Charles Berck, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
Selvages employed 'until now for cloths and stuffs are either made with a
thread of hair mixed with a thread of wool, or with a thread of cotton, or with
a thread of pure wool.'
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When such selvages are submitted to the fulling operation they shrink,
and the shrinking prevents the proper dressing of the cloth, besides which to
provide for this' shrinking the weaver has to use a selvage much longer than
the warp of the cloth, and has to introduce the excess of 'selvage into the
cloth. "This process gives rise to many inconveniences and loss of time to the
weaver; besides which the selvages in question offer but little resistance to
the dressing operations.
And my Invention has for object the obviating of the above mentioned

page_text: defects, and consists in employing for the manufacture of selvages of woollen
cloths and other stuffs or fabrics a thread of cotton, a thread of flax, or other
like vegetable substance united with a thread of hair of any kind, and twisted
together; or in lieu thereof a thread of cotton, or a thread of flax, or other
like vegetable material united with a thread of wool and twisted together.
These threads are spun so as to form the selvage by the ordinary known
process.
The advantages of this new selvage are that it does not shrink in
the fulling, & does not impede the dressing of cloths and stuffs.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, what I claim as my Invention is, the employment in the
manufacture of selvages of woollen cloths, and other stuffs of a thread of cotton,
of flax, or other vegetable substance united with a thread of hair of any kind
and twisted together.
Secondly, the manufacture of selvages with a thread of cotton, a thread
of flax, or other vegetable material united to a thread of wool and twisted
together.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Berck, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year
of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
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