IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING FANCY DESIGNS ON PILED OR LONG-HAIRED FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of the Firm of A. C.
Henderson and Company, British and Foreign Patent Agents, of
No. 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR
CUTTING FANCY DESIGNS ON PILED OR LONG-HAIRED FABRICS."--A com-
munication from abroad by Maric Alexandre-Stanislas Aubert, of
Reims, in the Department of the Marne, France, Manufacturer of
Piled and other Fabrics.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles
Henderson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 1st June 1874.
I, ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of the Firm of A. C. Henderson
5 and Company, British and Foreign Patent Agents, of No. 6, Southampton
Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the

page_text: nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING FANCY DESIGNS. ON PILED OR LONG-HAIRED FABRICS," a
communication to me from abroad by Marie Alexandre Stanislas Aubert,
of Reims, in the Department of the Marne, France, Manufacturer of
Piled and other Fabrics.
This Invention relates to cutting fancy designs on the pile or nap of
long haired fabrics, such, for instance, as velvet, and other analogous
substances.
Up to the present time such matters are regularly cut by shearing
machines, and if fancy designs are to be produced such effects are per-
formed in weaving; but by the present Invention designs of any
description are produced on a plain tissue or fabric without previous
preparation by weaving. This is effected by aid of a movable table or
a rotating cylinder raising the fabrics in the different directions where it
is desired they should be hollowed on the surface whilst passing under
the shearing machine.
The table is furnished at its upper part with indentations, or with
projections of any desired form and dimensions, or this table may be
replaced by a cylinder grooved horizontally or diagonally, so that the
shearing machine cuts the pile where the surface of the tissue is raised
during the rotation of the cylinder or on the movable table, so that the
raised parts are reproduced hollow or sunken, whilst the sunken parts
appear in relief on the material when it is withdrawn from the
machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
CHARLES HENDERSON, of the Firm of A. C. Henderson and Company,
British and Foreign Patent Agents, of No. 6, Southampton Buildings, 3
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.

page_text: Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, Her special
licence that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Charles
Henderson, my exccutors, 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 THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING FANCY
DESIGNS ON PILED OR LONG-HAIRED FABRICS," a communication to me from
abroad by Marie Alexandre Stanislas Aubert, of Reims, in the Depart-
ment of the Marne, France, Manufacturer of Piled and other Fabrics,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Charles
Henderson, my exccutors 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 Arthur Charles Henderson, 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 :-
:-
This Invention relates to cutting fancy designs on the pile or nap of
long haired or napped fabrics such, for instance, as velvet and other
analogous substances.
. Up to the present time such matters are regularly cut by shcaring
machines, and if fancy designs are to be produced such effects are pro-
duced in, weaving; but by the present Invention designs of any
description are produced on a plain tissue or fabric without previous
preparation by weaving, such as vertical or horizontal stripes, checks,
figured or fancy designs of every description. This is effected by a
movable table, or by a cylinder raising the tissue or fabric in the
different directions where it is desired they should be hollowed on the
surface whilst passing under the shearing machine.

page_text: The table is furnished at its upper part with indentations, or with
projections of any desired form and dimensions; or this table may be
replaced by a cylinder grooved horizontally or diagonally, so that the
shearing machine cuts the pile where the surface of the tissue is raised
during the rotation of the cylinder or on the movable table, so that the
raised parts are produced hollow or sunken, whilst the sunken parts
appear in relief when it is withrawn from the machine.

page_text: are reproduced hollow or sunken, whilst the sunken parts appear in
relief on the material when it is withdrawn from the machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.