IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE CARPETS, RUGS, AND OTHER PILE FABRICS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Brinton and John Lewis, of Kidderminster,
in the County of Worcester, Carpet Manufacturers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE CARPETS, RUGS, AND OTHER
PILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 21st June 1861, and dated the 29th December 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Brinton and John
Lewis at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 29th December 1860.
We, JOHN BRINTON and JOHN LEWIS, of Kidderminster, in the County of
Worcester, Carpet Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE CARPETS, RUGS, AND
OTHER PILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our improvements relate to the production of a novel combination of pile
fabrics, part or parts of such fabrics being composed of that known as patent
Axminster or chenille pile fabric, in which the figure of the pile surface is
produced by the introduction of shoots of cut chenille web or fur in the colours
adapted to produce the pattern or figure of such parts desired; the shoots of
such material being held in position by the ground warp, aided by the weft
and filling warp, and part or parts of the surface of such fabrics being

page_text: formed of dyed or printed pile warp supplied from bobbins or beams, the loops
being formed, as is well understood, over pile. wires, grooved or otherwise
adapted when desired to facilitate the cutting of the loops formed over them,
such loops being held in by the weft acting with the ground and filling warp.
When the pile from the chenille web is to be continued across from selvage to
selvage, or at other parts in the line of the pile obtained from bobbins or
beams, such pile warp from bobbins or beams will be kept out of the way till
the desired amount of chenille web has at such parts been introduced, when
the pile warp from bobbins or beams will again come into position, to be laid
over wires and tied down by the weft. By the combination of these means a
novel description of fabric may be obtained, viz., border of the one fabric and
the centre of the other, or vice versa, as well as other and very varied
effects.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Brinton and John Lewis in-the-Great-Seal-Patent-
Office on the 27th June 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
BRINTON and JOHN LEWIS, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester,
Carpet Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our.
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Brinton and John Lewis, Her special licence that we, the said
John Brinton and John Lewis, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said John Brinton and John Lewis, our 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 MANUFACTURE OF PILE CARPETS,
RUGS, AND OTHER PILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said John Brinton and John Lewis, our executors or administrators,
an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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 we, the said John Brinton and John Lewis, 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:-
Our improvements relate to the production of a novel description of pile
carpets, rugs, and other pile fabrics, by the combination in the production of
the surface thereof of the method adopted in the manufacture of what is
commonly called patent Axminster or chenille pile fabric with that adopted
when the pile is obtained from printed or dyed yarn formed over wires. For
this purpose we form the part or parts of such fabrics which are to have the
appearance of that known as patent Axminster or chenille pile fabric by the
introduction at such parts, in manner such as is well known in the production
of the fabric commonly called patent Axminster or chenille pile fabric, of
shoots of cut chenille web or fur, in the colors and in forms adapted to
produce the pattern or figure of such parts desired; the shoots of such
material to form the pile of such parts being held in position by the ground
warp, aided by the weft and filling warp. And we form the other part or
parts of the surface of such fabrics of dyed or printed pile warp supplied from
bobbins or beams, the loops being formed, as is well understood, over pile
wires, grooved or otherwise adapted when desired to facilitate the cutting of
the loops formed over them, such loops being held in by the weft acting with
the ground and filling warp. When the pile from the chenille web is to be
continued across from selvage to selvage, or at other parts in the line of the
pile obtained from bobbins or beams, such pile warp from bobbins or beams
will be kept out of the way till the desired amount of chenille web has at such
parts been introduced when the pile warp from bobbins or beams will again
come into position to be laid over wires and tied down by the weft. By the
combination of these means a novel description of fabric may be obtained, viz.,
border of the one fabric and the centre of the other, or vice versa, as well as
other and very varied effects.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the means we
adopt in carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that what
we claim is, the manufacture of pile carpets, rugs, and other pile fabrics by
the combination therein of the processes adopted when manufacturing what is

page_text: commonly called patent Axminster or chenille pile fabric with that adopted
when forming the pile surface from dyed or printed pile yarn over wires.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Brinton and John Lewis, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
JOHN BRINTON: (L.S.)
JOHN LEWIS.
(L.S).