IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING CUT-PILED FABRICS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Holt, of Stockport, Cheshire, Foreman
to Messieurs Christy and Company, of the same place, and of
Gracechurch Street, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WEAVING CUT-PILED FABRICS."
Sealed the 17th January 1853, and dated the 15th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Holt at
the Office of the Commissioners "of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th November 1852.
I, SAMUEL HOLT, of Stockport, Cheshire, Foreman to Messrs.
Christy & Co., of the same place, and of Gracechurch Street, London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WEAVING CUT-PILED FABRICS" to be as follows: -
This Invention relates to improvements in looms used for weaving
two pieces of plush, or such like fabrics, at one time; such pieces
being cut apart as the weaving progresses. And the improvements
consist of dispensing with the use of jacquard apparatus, both in
respect to moving the warp and also the cutting apparatus, and in
employing four treddles having the lathe suspended from above.
The motion of the take-up of the fabrics is divided from the lathe,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Holt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SAMUEL HOLT, of Stockport, Cheshire, Foreman to Messieurs Christy
and Company, of the same place, and of Gracechurch Street, London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth 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 Samuel Holt, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel Holt, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Holt, 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 for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING CUT-PILED FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Holt, 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 im
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Holt, do hereby declare
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 thereof (that is to say):
This Invention relates to improvements in looms used for weaving

page_text: two pieces of plush, or such like fabrics, at one time; such pieces being
cut apart as the weaving progresses. And the Improvements consist.
of dispensing with the use of jacquard apparatus, both in respect to
moving the warp and also the cutting apparatus, and in employing
four treadles having the lathe suspended from above. The motion.
of the take-up of the fabrics is derived from the lathe, in place of
from jacquard apparatus; and the knife or cutter is worked by
levers and treadles, in place of by jacquard apparatus.
And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood, I
will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
two pieces of plush, or such like fabrics, at one time; such pieces being
cut apart as the weaving progresses. And the Improvements consist.
of dispensing with the use of jacquard apparatus, both in respect to.
moving the warp and also the cutting apparatus, and in employing
four treadles having the lathe suspended from above. The motion.
of the take-up of the fabrics is derived from the lathe, in place of
from jacquard apparatus; and the knife or cutter is worked by
levers and treadles, in place of by jacquard apparatus.
And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood, I
will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
Figure 1, is a side view, and Figure 2, a transverse section of a
loom arranged or combined according to my Invention. Figure
is a plan of the treadles. The Figures are to show the tie-up, or
how the treadle cords are to be tied to the harness to produce the
sheds required, and also the knife motion; and I would state that
the knife apparatus is the same as that for which a patent was
granted to Thomas Christie junior, of Gracechurch Street, in the
City of London, on the First day of October last.
There are fourteen lambs or headles, six top and eight bottom
ones, each being numbered in order, as seen in the Drawing; the
numbers being marked on the points of the treadles a, b, c, d.
Figure 3, shows that the cords are to be tied to the lambs indi-
cated by the numbers on the treadles, and in the same order that
they are placed on them.
It will be seen that the treadle marked b, is indicated as being
trodden down, thus acting on the lambs numbered upon it, by which
ineans a shed is produced in the three warps; see Figure 1. The
blue lines show the pile warp, the red lines show the two ground
warps.
The two lambs marked 1, and 8, connected with the two levers i, i,
Figures 1, and 2, work the cutting apparatus.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would

page_text: remark that I make no claim to the several parts separately; nor do
I confine myself to the precise details. The tie-up also may be
varied. But what I claim is the mode of combining the parts of a
loom for weaving cut-piled fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Holt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
Witness,
SAMUEL KIRK,
Stockport.
SAMUEL HOLT. (L.S.)