IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING
Year: 1856

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th April 1856.
I, SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER, of Bradford, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING," to be
as follows:-
My improvements in weaving consist in passing warps of cotton, wool, flax,
or other fibre through water, or oil and water, or otherwise wetting them, before
going through the slay, as such warps are very much stronger when woven
wet.

page_text: 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 14th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CUNLIFFE LISTER, of Bradford, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, för 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, administrators, 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," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, my executors or administrators, by an in-
strument 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
leclare 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 :-
My improvements in weaving consist in passing warps of cotton, wool, flax,
or other fibre through water, or oil and water, or otherwise wetting them,
before going through the slay, as such warps are very much stronger when
woven wet.
The plan which I adopt for wetting warps, whether of cotton, worsted, or
other fibre is as follows:-I place one or more steam pipes beneath the warps
betwixt the warp beam and the slay, pierced with small holes to allow the
steam to blow upon the threads, so as not alone to damp, but thoroughly
wet the fibres, as almost all yarns are much stronger when wet, and will stand
the stress in weaving better.
I have not thought it necessary to show Drawings, as a workman will easily

page_text: apply the pipes, either above or below, or both above and below the warp.
When placed above, of course the holes must be so made as to cause the
steam to blow down upon the warp. To prevent the steam from being diffused
in the room or tarnishing the working parts of the loom, the pipes and warp
may be enclosed to some extent betwixt metal plates. If the slays and other
should become oxidized by the damp, suitable metal must be used to
avoid it.
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What I claim is, wetting the warp threads of cotton, worsted, and other
fibre when being woven, so as to give additional strength to the yarn; but I
would have it understood that I not confine myself to the plan shown, as
other means of wetting may be used without departing from my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JAMES HAMILTON,
Of Manningham, County of York.
S. C. LISTER. (L.S.)