CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR WEAVING OF PILED FABRICS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Clegg, of High Crompton, near Oldham, in
the County of Lancaster, Spinner and Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR WEAVING OF PILED
FABRICS."
Sealed the 21st June 1864, and dated the 31st December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Clegg at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st December 1863.
I, JOSEPH CLEGG, of High Crompton, near Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR WEAVING
OF PILED FABRICS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates principally to that description of piled fabrics termed
fustians or corduroys, but it is applicable to other piled fabrics, in which the
pile is cut to form ribs of short plush or "nap," and the improvements consist
in weaving the fabric in such a manner (by the ordinary loom or machinery
usually employed) that the weft employed to form the loops or "terry" may
be taken into the "back" or body of the cloth at intervals, so that the
regularity or sequence of the loops may be "broken" or divided so as to
form squares of pile when cut instead of ribs. For instance, six or other

page_text: number of "picks" may be made into "terry," and the next four, or six, or
other number may be woven into the back, and so on, which is to be effected
by the action of the healds in the ordinary manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Clegg in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
June 1864.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
CLEGG, of High Crompton, near Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Ilerself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Clegg, Her special license that I, the said Joseph Clegg,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Clegg, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR WEAVING OF PILE FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Clegg, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Joseph Clegg, 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 and accompanying Diagram (that is to say):
My Invention relates principally to that description of piled fabrics termed
fustians or corduroys, but it is applicable to other piled fabrics, in which the
pile is cut to form ribs of short plush or "nap," and the improvements consist
in weaving the fabric in such a manner (by the ordinary loom or machinery
usually employed) that the weft employed to form the loops or terry may
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be taken into the "back or body of the cloth at intervals, so that the
regularity or sequence of the loops may be "broken" or divided, so as to
form squares of pile when cut instead of ribs. For instance, six or other
number of "picks" may be made into "terry," and the next four or six or
other number may be woven into the "back," and so on, which is to be effected
by the action of the healds in the ordinary manner.
The "tye-up" of the healds to produce the effect may be arranged in a
variety of ways, many of which are shewn from Fig. 1 to Fig. 15 in the
Diagrams attached.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to distinctly
understood that I claim dividing the ribs of pile or terry into sections by the
method of weaving the same as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
illustrated in the Diagrams attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Clegg, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOSEPH CLEGG. (L.S.)