IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE.COVERS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Ward, of No. 44, Newgate Street, in the
City of London, for the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE.COVERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Ward at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
November 1864.
I, WILLIAM WARD, of No. 44, Newgate Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLE
COVERS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in making table covers of two textile fabrics of
different texture or appearance, united together, back to back, by button hole
stitching round their edges, made by machinery such as described in the
Specification to certain Letters Patent granted to Leonard Lindley and
Frederick Taylor, bearing date the 4th day of April 1862 (No. 957), or by
any other machinery capable of producing the same or a similar description
of stitching.
By this means the said table covers are provided with two wearing surfaces
of a different texture or appearance, and have an ornamental border produced
by such before described stitching.
The one fabric may be embroidered over its surface, and the other being of
the same or of a different material, may be left plain or may have a woven
pattern or design, or it may be printed upon
in colours.

page_text: In some cases I furthermore connect the surfaces of the two fabrics together
by embroidery, by preference such as is produced by machinery described in
the Specification to certain Letters Patent granted to Henry Bock, bearing
date the 2nd day of May 1829 (No. 5788), and commonly known as
"Heilmann's machine."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Ward in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th May 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WARD, of No. 44, Newgate Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her reign; did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Ward, Her special licence that I, the said William Ward,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Ward, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
TABLE COVERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Ward, my executors 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 William Ward, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in making table covers of two textile fabrics of the
same or different texture or appearance united together, back to back, by
button hole stitching round their edges, made by machinery such as described
in the Specification to certain Letters Patent granted to Leonard Lindley and

page_text: Frederick Taylor, bearing date the 4th day of April 1862 (No. 957), or by
any other machinery capable of producing the same, or a similar description
of stitching.
By this means the said table covers are provided with two wearing surfaces
of the same or a different texture or appearance, and have an ornamental
border produced by such before described stitching.
The one fabric may be embroidered over its surface, and the other being of
the same or of a different material, may be left plain or may have a woven
pattern or design, or it may be printed upon in colours.
In some cases I furthermore connect the surfaces of the two fabrics together
by embroidery, by preference such as is produced by machinery described in
the Specificatiou to certain Letters Patent granted to Henry Bock, bearing
date the 2nd day of May 1829 (No. 5788), and commonly known as
"Heilmann's machine."
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
it is to be performed, what I claim is,―
First, making table covers of two fabrics united back to back by stitching
round their edges, made by machinery such as herein-before mentioned.
Second, making table covers of two fabrics united back to back stitching
round their edges and by embroidery upon their surfaces, by preference made
by machinery such as herein-before mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Ward, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.