IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING SILK AND COTTON VELVETS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Cunliffe Lister, Manufacturer, of Brad-
ford, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WEAVING SILK AND COTTON VELVETS."
Sealed the 14th June 1870, and dated the 19th April 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th April 1870.
I, SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER, Manufacturer, of Bradford, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for " IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING SILK AND COTTON VELVETS," to be as
follows:-
As silk and cotton velvets are now manufactured where the pile is
made by the warp they are very thin, and for many purposes have not
sufficient substance and warmth in them. I have discovered that by
using two shuttles and additional warp I can give any required substance
to the cloth, one shuttle being used to tie in the pile, and the other to
form the back, and in that way I can also use two kinds of weft. For
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page_text: instance, I can use cotton to tie in the pile, and wool, silk, or hair to
give warmth, substance, and elasticity to the pile fabric. One shuttle
and one kind of weft and the same warp may be used, but not so well.
This system of weaving is especially adapted to velvets woven face to
face.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CUNLIFFE LISTER, Manufacturer, of Bradford, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister,
my 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 WEAVING SILK AND COTTON VELVETS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 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 Samuel Cunliffe Lister, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: As silk and cotton velvets are now manufactured where the pile is
made by the warp they are very thin, and for many purposes have not
sufficient substance and warmth in them. I have discovered that by
using two shuttles and additional warp I can give any required substance
to the cloth, one shuttle being used to tie in the pile and the other to
form the back, and in that way I can also use two kinds of weft. For
instance, I can use cotton to tie in the pile, and wool, silk, or hair to
give warmth, substance, and elasticity to the pile fabric. One shuttle
and one kind of weft and the same warp may be used, but not so well.
This system of weaving is especially adapted to velvets woven face to
face.
And I would have it understood that what I claim is, the weaving
silk and cotton velvets face to face by the system above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
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