CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS AND RUGS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HUMPHRIES, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of August, in the
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said John Humphries, my exors, adiñors, and assigns,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
John Humphries, my exors, adñors, and assigns, and such others as I, the
said John Humphries, my exors, admňors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CARPETS AND RUGS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
I, the said John Humphries, shall, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly describe my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Humphries, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully and clearly shewn
by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and by the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
The Drawing shews the back or bottom of a carpet or rug with the addi-
tional ply attached to it. A represents this additional ply or warp and weft
attached, connected, and added by any suitable means to the back or bottom
B of carpeting and rugs, generally known by the name of Brussels, Wilton,
royal Wilton, (called by the weavers double shuttle, and by some velvet pile,)
Saxony, imperial, embossed imperial, super Wilton, and high pile. The
method of attaching the additional ply to carpets and rugs is very simple, as
represented at A. The additional thick weft is laid upon the bottom and
secured to it by means of threads h passing alternately over and under the
thick weft, and through or into the carpet or rug, and thereby securing
and connecting and combining them all together, as represented at 9; the
threads of the warp pass transversely over the thick weft and are secured to
the bottom of the carpet or rug by means of threads i passing under the
transverse threads of warp and into the carpet or rug, thus confining both the
transverse threads, thick weft, and the carpet or rug together.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as my
Invention is, the attaching to the back or bottom of carpeting and rugs known
by the names of Brussels, Wilton, royal Wilton, (sometimes called by the
weavers double shuttle or velvet pile,) imperial, embossed imperial, super
Wilton, and high pile, made with or of any material whatsoever, an additional
ply rib, knit substance or body of material of warp and weft, as herein-before
described. And in this I refer to carpeting and rugs where the figure or pat-
tern is produced by means of a harness machine or draw boy. And such my
Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief new, and never before
used within that part of Her said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and
that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects,
fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-

page_text: before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby claim to
maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Humphries, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid John Humphries came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One