IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OP DRESS OR APPAREL."
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Carter, of Trump Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OP DRESS OR APPAREL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Carter at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th November 1852.
I, JAMES CARTER, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
5 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF DRESS
OR APPAREL to be as follows:-
To give such a description of my Invention as will, it is presumed,
be sufficient for a Provisional Specification, I will take one article as
an example, say a tubular scarf or cravat. To manufacture a tubular
Oscarf or cravat, I make it on two rolls or canes, with one shuttle, the
same shoot making the top and bottom opening by passing over and

page_text: under alternately. The said scarf or cravat may be made with any tye,
or composed entirely of satin, Brussels, or Alleppo, or of tabby, or of
satin on one side and tabby on the other, or of tabby on one side and
barathea on the other, or, in fact, of distinct cloths, quite different on
cither side, and, where desirable, of different colors. It will require no
sewing or other fastening of edges or centre, the article being complete
when it leaves the loom. It is intended (always by the same process) to
make the centre of the cravat, which is required to regain its form,
stouter or firmer than the ends, so that it will keep its shape; while the
material, at or near the ends, being lighter, or more easily compressed,
and not so clastic, will take any fold or tie that may be desired.
Having described the manufacture of one of the articles it is
intended to make or produce under this Invention, it should be under-
stood that I do not confine myself to such article alone, but intend
making (always by the same process) other articles of apparel or dress,
which, as well as the manufacture thereof, will be fully and particularly
described in my Final or Complete Specification.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Carter in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 24th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES CARTER, of Trump Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Carter, Her special
licence that I, the said James Carter, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Carter, 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

page_text: therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF DRESS OR APPAREL," upon
condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Carter, by an
instrument 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 Carter, do hereby de-
clare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:
My Invention consists of forming certain articles of dress or apparel
denominated neck-ties, or scarves, fichus, or otherwise similarly defined.
I call the principal article manufactured by me under the aforesaid
Letters Patent, a "tubular scarf;" and such scarf, tie, or otherwise,
may be made of satin, tabby, barathea, or other suitable material, and
may be of any one color, or of several colors, as may be found desi-
rable, or as fashion may require. I use the loom ordinarily used with
battens, on the principle of the driver. Each scarf or tie will require
a separate space and shuttle, and is made with two rolls and two open-
ings, the shuttle passing alternately through the top and bottom open-
ing or canes, thus joining the top and bottom cloths at each edge, so as
to produce a circular or tubular cloth of any width, from one inch to
forty or upwards; and such cloth is made with thirty-two shafts and
sixteen lamms, which are entered to suit the top and bottom opening,
and can be made with one or more rolls to each scarf, so as to suit the
different ties of the upper and lower cloth, whether such cloth be of
satin, Brussels, barathea, or tabby, or satin on one side and tabby on
the other, or Brussels on the one side and satin on the other.
I con-
sider the foregoing description sufficient to enable all practical silk
weavers to make the objects of my Invention, whether such objects be

page_text: scarves, ties, fichus, or other similar tubular made articles of dress or
apparel.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Carter, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness, JOHN RIX,
JAMES CARTER. (L.S.)
No. 8 & 9, Trump St.,
King Street, Cheapside,
London.