Year: 1888

page_text: We, GIULIO MARCHETTI and HENRY NORMAN MELLOR, both of Dean Clough Mills,
Halifax, in the County of York, Carpet Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of a new kind of pile fabric composed
of threads of various colours suitable for carpets, rugs, and other goods the new fabric
having a novel and beautiful variegated or mottled and soft effect, such effect being
durable and hitherto not obtained.
When cut pile fabrics are woven with the pile warp or warps composed of ordinary
dyed threads of worsted, mohair, or other suitable material as long as the pile remains
creet and the ends of the fibres composing the pile are exposed to the light there
is very little lustre to be seen on the face of the fabric, but when the pilo is flattened
and the sides of the fibres composing the pile become more exposed to the light more
lustre is visible on the face of the fabric and the shade of colour appears to be lighter
than when the pile was erect, but in both cases any lustre which there may bc
is equally diffused throughout the whole surface of the fabric.
In manufacturing our new fabric the pile is formed as hitherto by means of threads
of different colours, the threads which have to be lifted to form the required pattern
being selected and operated by means of the Jacquard or other similar machine or by
healds, whilst those threads which are not required to form the pattern remain buried
in the back of the fabric, but according to our invention in order to obtain a
variegated or mottled effect in which shall be combined the appearance of the erect
pile with the appearance and colour and lustre of the flattened pile we compose
the warp forming the pile of threads of different colours of mohair, worsted or other
suitable material which, in addition to their having been dyed, have also been
so prepared as to produce a durable curl or wave in the
yarn.
The yarn may be rendered curly or wavy by any known method such as by
knitting or by plaiting or by twisting a number of threads together and the curl or
wave may be fixed by boiling or steaming or by subjecting to heat whilst in a
damp state or by any other suitable method as is well known.
By the use of such prepared yarn the curl or wave therein when the pile is cut

page_text: exposes in some places the ends of the fibres forming the pile to the light and in other
places the sides of the fibres forming the pile to the light and in this way a beautifully
variegated or mottled and soft effect is produced.
Although we have spoken of forming the pile warp or warps, exclusively of wavy
or curly yarn we in some cases make use of such yarn to form the pile in some parts
of the pattern and use ordinary yarn to form the pile in other parts of the pattern,
and the pile may either be cut throughout the whole of the pattern or may be cut in
some parts and uncut in other parts of the pattern.
said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
:-
1. The manufacture and use of a new kind of pile fabric, that is to say, a fabric
in which the pile is formed wholly or in part of a warp or warps composed of wavy
or curly threads of various colours and made of worsted, mohair, or other suitable
material substantially in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. The use in the manufacture of pile fabrics composed of threads of various colours
of curly or wavy threads of different colours for forming wholly or partly the pile
warp or warps as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 15th day of Wahruary 1888