IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBOSSED CUT PILE FABRICS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Widnell, of Lasswade, County of Edinburgh,
Scotland, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
EMBOSSED CUT PILE FABRICS."
"
Sealed the 29th June 1860; and dated the 16th February 1860..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Widnell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th
February 1860.
I, HENRY WIDNELL, of Lasswade, County of Edinburgh, Scotland, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF EMBOSSED CUT PILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the. manufacture of
embossed cut pile fabrics, and consists in combining the process of embossing
with that description of cut pile fabrics wherein printed or parti-colored yarns
are used for producing the ornamental patterns of such fabrics, and the process
of embossing such cut pile fabrics is so conducted as to leave, or for the most
part to leave the printed ornamental cut pile portions or parts of the face of
a fabric in relief or unembossed, whilst the surrounding or contiguous
ground of the face of the fabric or parts thereof, is or are embossed or pressed
below the ornamental parts of the face of the fabric in each case by which
very ornamental and novel fabrics may be produced, whether the pile bo of
worsted or other yarn.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Widnell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WIDNELL, of Lasswade, County of Edinburgh, Scotland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand, eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Widnell, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Widnell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Widnell, 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
the condition
THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBOSSED CUT PILE FABRICS,"
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Widnell, 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.
upon
☐ NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Widnell, 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 :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
embossed cut pile fabrics, and consists in combining the process of embossing
with that description of cut pile fabrics wherein printed or parti-colored yarns
are used for producing the ornamental patterns of such fabrics, and the process
of embossing such cut pile fabrics is so conducted as to leave or for the most
part to leave the printed ornamental cut pile portions or parts of the face of a
fabric in relief or unembossed, whilst the surrounding or contiguous ground of
the face of the fabric or parts thereof is or are embossed or pressed below the
ornamental parts of the face of the fabric in each case, by which very orna-

page_text: mental and novel fabrics may be produced, whether the pile be of worsted or
other yarn.
The following is the manner in which I prefer to carry my Invention into
effect.
I produce, as is well understood, a cut pile fabric with a pattern in different
colors on its face, by using printed yarns for the pile warp of the fabric or for
a part thereof if the pattern is in stripes running lengthways of the fabric.
Usually I employ a pile warp of worsted, and in this case the fabric is similar
to that known as Utrecht velvet, except it has a parti-colored pattern upon it.
This fabric I then emboss in the same manner as Utrecht velvet, and other
similar fabrics have heretofore been embossed; I, however, adapt the pattern
of the embossing to the woven pattern. In some cases I cause the whole of
the ground of the pattern to be embossed or pressed down, or by embossing I
produce a second pattern on the ground of the woven pattern, or other
arrangements may be made as may be considered desirable; the pattern on
the embossing block should, however, be so arranged that no exact joining up
of the pattern shall be required at the edges of the block, as in weaving
figured fabrics from printed yarns it is difficult to regulate exactly the length
over which tho pattern extends, and it is necessary in placing the embossing
block on the fabric to set it to the colored pattern thereon by register pins or
otherwise. A gum or dressing is applied to the fabric, as is usual in embossing
such fabrics. Embossed cut pile printed warp fabrics with a pile warp of silk
or cotton may be similarly produced.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Widnell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
HENRY WIDNELL. (L.S.)