IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING ORNAMENTAL FABRICS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Andrew Taylor, of Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING
ORNAMENTAL FABRICS."
Sealed the 25th February 1868, and dated the 26th September 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Andrew Taylor at the
Omce of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th September 1867.
IN
I, ANDREW TAYLOR, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
WEAVING ORNAMENTAL FABRICS," to be as follows, that is to say:--
This Invention relates to the manufacture of ornamental fabrics having
spottings or tufts of pile of any suitable material spaced over a ground woven
with or without pile. The ground may be plain or ornamentally woven and both
it and the spottings are susceptible of any desired colorings.
For producing
the spottings a cord or thread is prepared according to any known mode of
making chenille, but with the chenille material at intervals only, the core
threads being bare in the intervening spaces; the core threads may be of
the same color as the ground of the intended fabric, or they may be of a
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page_text: different color, or they may consist of differently colored or printed threads
twisted together. The cords or threads thus prepared are according to one
modification used as warps, being disposed at suitable intervals along
with the ordinary or plain ground warps, and the fabric is very economically
completed by being woven in the simplest manner and without harness.
In another modification the prepared cords or threads are used as weft, being
simply woven in at suitable intervals and also without harness. The spottings
may be formed without projecting pile by making the chenille material with
threads long enough to be completely caught in in the weaving, or the chenille
threads may be made to adhere to the core threads by means of gum or other
adhesive matter. Fringes or similar fabrics may be made with the chenille
spottings in a similar way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Andrew Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANDREW
TAYLOR, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Andrew Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said Andrew Taylor, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Andrew
Taylor, 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
ORNAMENTAL FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Andrew Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hand 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 Andrew Taylor, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, that is to say ;-
My said Invention relates to the manufacture of ornamental fabrics
having spottings or tufts of pile of any suitable material spaced over a ground
woven with or without pile; and by means of my said Invention richly orna-
inental effects can be obtained in a very simple and economical manner. The
ground of the fabric may be plain, or it may be more or less ornamentally
woven, that is to say, with a twill or diaper such as is producible by well
known heddle mountings. Both the ground and the spottings are susceptible
of any desired colorings.
In practically carrying out my Invention, I use a cord or thread which is
manufactured or prepared according to any known suitable mode of making
chenille but with the chenille material disposed at intervals only, the cote
threads being bare in the intervening spaces. The core threads of the
chenille cord may be of the same color as the ground of the intended fabric
or they may be of a different color; or they may consist of differently colored
or printed threads twisted together. The cords or threads thus prepared are
according to one modification used as warps, being disposed in the loom at
suitable intervals along with the ordinary or plain ground warps, and the
fabric is very economically completed by being woven in the simplest manner
and as ordinarily practised with heddles or healds or heddle mountings and
without jacquard or other pattern harness.
In another modification the prepared cords or threads are used as weft,
being simply woven in at suitable intervals and also without jacquard or other
pattern harness. In using the prepared chenille cords as weft it is in some
cases advantageous to cause intermediate portions of the core threads to float
so that they may afterwards be cut away. With this view spaced heddles are
used which cause only so much of the chenille core threads to be woven in as
will firmly secure the spottings in the fabric when the chenille spotting weft
is put in; the weaver sets it by hand so as to adjust the spottings in their proper
places, and this operation is the more necessary when two or more shots of
the chenille weft are employed to form each row of spottings. The spottings
may in some cases be formed without projecting pile by making the chenille
material with threads long enough to be completely caught in in the weaving;
or the chenille threads may be made to adhere to the core threads by means
of gum or other adhesive matter. Fringes or similar fabrics may be made
with the chenille spottings in a manner analogous to what is herein-before
described.

page_text: Taylor's Improvements in Weaving Ornamental Fabrica.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and in the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I have to state that I do not claim
the producing of chenille or pile figurings by means of jacquard or other pattern
harness; but that what I believe to be novel and original, and do claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the producing of ornamentally spotted fabrics by weaving spotted chenille
threads along with ordinary warps and wefts and by means of heddles or
healds, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Andrew Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
ANDREW TAYLOR. (L.S.)