IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BED COVERS, TOILET COVERS, TOILET MATS, TOILET CASES, AND ANTI- MACASSARS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Jones, Managing Director of the Company of
Barlow and Jones, Limited, of Manchester and Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BED COVERS, TOILET COVERS, TOILET MATS, TOILET CASES, AND ANTI-
MACASSARS."
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Sealed the 25th October 1878, and dated the 8th May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th May 1878.
THOMAS JONES, Managing Director of the Company of "Barlow and Jones,
"IMPROVEMENTS
Limited," of Manchester and Bolton, in the County of Lancaster.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BED COVERS, TOILET COVERS, TOILET MATS, TOILET
CASES, AND ANTIMACASSARS."
My Invention consists in manufacturing the articles above referred to by a
combination of weaving and printing, whereby various ornamental effects can be
produced at a comparatively small cost.
The articles referred to are first woven in the ordinary manner with patterns
produced by a jacquard or other equivalent, as in weaving toilet or Marseilles
quilts, leaving spaces of small sced-work or other fine ground that are afterwards
printed upon by the ordinary block printing process or in a printing machine; or
the whole surface of the article can be covered with the woven pattern, and the
printing can then be applied on any portion of the same.
In manufacturing antimacassars, the fabric is woven either plain or with figures
produced by a jacquard or other equivalent, and the printing is afterwards effected
upon the plain or figured surface as above described.
By thus combining patterns produced in the weaving with others produced by
printing in the manufacture of bed covers, toilet covers, toilet mats, toilet cases, and
antimacassars, I obtain novel, useful, and ornamental effects.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd November
1878.
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THOMAS JONES, Managing Director of the Company of "Barlow and Jones,
Limited," of Manchester and Bolton, in the County of Lancaster. IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BED COVERS, TOILET COVERS, TOILET MATS, TOILET
CASES, AND ANTIMACASSARS."
My Invention consists in manufacturing the articles above referred to by a com-
bination of weaving and printing, whereby various ornamental effects can be pro-
duced at a comparatively small cost.
The articles referred to are first woven in the ordinary manner, with patterns
produced by a jacquard or other equivalent, as in weaving toilet or Marseilles quilts,
or other similar fabrics, leaving spaces of small seed-work or other fine ground that
are afterwards printed upon by the block printing process or in a printing machine.
In manufacturing antimacassars, the fabric is woven either plain or with figures
produced by a jacquard or other equivalent, and the printing is afterwards effected
upon the plain surface as above described.
By thus combining patterns produced in the weaving with others produced by
printing in the manufacture of bed covers, toilet covers, toilet mats, toilet cases, and
antimacassars, I obtain novel, useful, and ornamental effects, which cannot be
obtained by either weaving or printing separately.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the manner of
performing the same, I declare that I claim the improved mode of manufacturing
bed covers, toilet covers, toilet mats, toilet cases, and antimacassars, in which the
pattern or design is obtained partly in the weaving by jacquard or otherwise, and
partly by printing as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Jones, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this First day of November, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight