IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING COLORED QUILTS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Grime, of Bolton, in the County of:
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING COLORED
QUILTS."
Sealed the 5th December 1874, and dated the 16th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Grime at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th June 1874.
I, ROBERT GRIME, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING
COLORED QUILTS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to produce a novel effect in colored
quilts by forming the whole pattern by "floating" the colored warp
upon the face of the cloth, the ground being formed of what is known
by weavers as seed work."
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I employ the ordinary "jacquard" power loom usually employed for
weaving quilts, and I mount two warps therein (one white and one:

page_text: drawn in "
colored) on two separate beams. These warps are
the "mails" of the jacquard machine in the usual manner.
through
The chief feature of novelty in the Invention consists in so designing
the pattern and in so perforating the cards of the jacquard machine that
the whole of the pattern shall be produced by what is known as
floating" the colored warp over the face of the cloth whilst the ground
is what is known as "seed work," the result being a novel and pleasing
effect not hitherto produced.
The back is all woven in, the pattern appearing as plain white cloth,
and the ground as "seed work," that is, mixed white and colored.
There is no floating of the warp or weft on either side, excepting the
floating of the colored weft on the face to form the pattern, as hercin-
before explained.
The method of designing the pattern and of perforating the cards of
the jacquard machine to produce colored quilts of the peculiar character 1
above described will be readily understood by the practical pattern
designer and weaver without any further description.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Grime in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th December 1874.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
GRIME, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did; for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Grime, Her
special license that I, the said Robert Grime, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Grime, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times

page_text: 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 COLORED QUILTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Grime, my execu-
tors 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Grime, 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 (that is to say) :-
The object of this Invention is to produce a novel effect in colored
quilts by forming the whole pattern by "floating" the colored warp
upon the face of the cloth, the ground being formed of what is known
by weavers as "seed work."
I employ the ordinary "jacquard" power loom usually employed for
weaving quilts, and I mount two warps therein (one white and onc
colored) on two separate beams. These warps are
"drawn in through.
the "mails" of the jacquard machine in the usual manner.
"
The chief feature of novelty in the Invention consists in so designing
the pattern and in so perforating the cards of the jacquard machine
that the whole of the pattern shall be produced by what is known as
floating" the colored warp over the face of the cloth whilst the ground
is what is known as "seed work," the result being a novel and pleasing
effect not hitherto produced.
"
The back is all woven in, the pattern appearing as plain white cloth,
and the ground as "seed work," that is, mixed white and colored.
There is no floating of the warp or weft on either side, excepting the
floating of the colored weft on the face to form the pattern, as herein-
before explained.
The method of designing the pattern and of perforating the cards of
the jacquard machine to produce colored quilts of the peculiar character

page_text: above described will be readily understood by the practical pattern
designer and weaver without any further description.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Grime, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.