A NEW OR IMPROVED DRESS FABRIC FOR LADIES' WEAR
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Crawford Munn, of the Firm of Munn &
Hughes, of the City of Glosgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
DRESS FABRIC FOR LADIES' WEAR."
Sealed the 15th December 1874, and dated the 21st October 1874.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Crawford Munn
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition;
on the 21st October 1874.
I, John CrawfORD MUNN, of the Firm of Munn & Hughes, of the
City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED DRESS FABRIC FOR LADIES' Wear,” to be as follows: —
This Invention consists in making the warp of the fabric wholly of
'angola" for plain cloth for producing effects in checked or striped
cloth of this dress fabric. This is done by means of very narrow strips
or lines of a few threads of ordinary coloured wool, the rest of the warp
being all as stated made of angola, and then in cither case having the

page_text: whole (or nearly the whole) of the weft woven in an ordinary manner
with mixed worsted and lustre weft, which produces a new or improved
fabric of a very strong, durable, and most elastic nature.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Crawford Munn in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CRAWFORD MUNN, of the Firm of Munn and Hughes, of the City of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Crawford Munn, Her
special licence that I, the said John Crawford Munn, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Crawford
Munn, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED DRESS FABRIC FOR LADIES' WEAR," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Crawford Munn, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Crawford Munn, 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 :-

page_text: My said Invention consists in making the warp of the fabric wholly
of "angola" (that is, as well known in the trade a yarn made partly of
short fibred wool or worsted "noil," and cotton mixed in the carding or
before spinning) for plain cloth, that is, without stripes or patterns, and
for producing effects in checks or stripes in this dress fabric, this is done
by very narrow stripes or lines of a few threads of ordinary colored
wool, cotton, angola, or worsted, the rest of the warp being all as stated
made of angola. In either case the whole (or nearly the whole) of the
weft is woven in the ordinary manner in plain, twilled, or jacquard
weaving with mixed or coloured "worsted" or "lustre" weft (or yarn
made from hard combed uncarded wool), which produces a new or
improved dress fabric of a strong, durable, and elastic nature.
Having thus particularly described the nature of my said Invention
and the manner of performing the same, or mode and means of carrying
it into effect or practice, I wish it to be understood that I make no claim
for the mere making of angola or worsted yarns, nor the merc use of such
yarns either as warps or wefts themselves, but what I do claim as the
Invention secured to me by the hercin-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the making of dress fabrics for ladies' wear wholly or almost
wholly of angola warps and with worsted or lustre weft, all substantially
as herein described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said John Crawford Munn, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
JOHN CRAWFORD MUNN. (L.S.)