IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DAMASKS AND SIMILAR FANCY GOODS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George James Wainwright and Charles Timothy
Bradbury, of Dukinfield, in the County of Chester, Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DAMASKS AND
SIMILAR FANCY GOODS."
Sealed the 12th March 1861, and dated the 15th September 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George James Wainwright
and Charles Timothy Bradbury, at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th September 1860.
We, GEORGE JAMES WAINWRIGHT and CHARLES TIMOTHY BRADBURY, of
Dukinfield, in the County of Chester, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
DAMASKS AND SIMILAR FANCY GOODS," to be as follows:-
We manufacture damasks and similar fancy goods by using two or more
single threads of weft not twisted together beyond what is unavoidable in the
process of winding two or more threads on one cop, the said single threads
being shot over by one passage of the shuttle, thus having two or more threads
for one opening of the shed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George James Wainwright and Charles Timothy Bradbury
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
JAMES WAINWRIGHT and CHARLES TIMOTHY BRADBURY, of Dukinfield, in the
County of Chester, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George James Wainwright and Charles Timothy Bradbury, Her special licence,
that we, the said George James Wainwright and Charles Timothy Bradbury,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
George James Wainwright and Charles Timothy Bradbury, our 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF DAMASKS
SIMILAR FANCY GOODS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said George James Wainwright and Charles Timothy Bradbury, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their,
or one of our or 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.
AND
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George James Wainwright and
Charles Timothy Bradbury, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that
is to say) :-
We manufacture damasks and similar fancy goods by using two or more
threads of weft not twisted together beyond what is unavoidable in the process
of winding two or more threads on one cop, the said threads being shot over
by one passage of the shuttle, thus having two or more threads for one opening
of the shed.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be distinctly
understood that we claim as our Invention, and which, to the best of our
knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within the realm, the use of
two or more threads of weft in weaving damasks, not twisted together beyond
what is unavoidable, both of the said threads being shot over by one passage
of the shuttle.
In witness whereof, we, the said George James Wainwright and Charles
Timothy Bradbury, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named George James Wain-
wright and Charles Timothy Brad-
bury, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.
G. J. WAINWRIGHT. (L.S.)
C. T. BRADBURY.
(L.S.)