IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HEARTH RUes
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Smith, of Kidderminster, in the County:
of Worcester, Rug and Carpet Manufacturer, for the Invention of:
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HEARTH RUes.”
Sealed the 3rd July 1874, and dated the 22nd April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Smith at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd April 1874.
I, EDWARD SMITH, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester,
Rug and Carpet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HEARTH RUGS,"
to be as follows:-
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My Invention relates to an improved mode of producing what are
known as beam rug," whereby their texture is improved and a con-
siderable saving is effected in the labour and material employed in their
manufacture, and consists essentially in substituting chenille weft for
the ordinary method of lapping and fingering the end borders,
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* In carrying out my Invention, I first weave and prepare the chenille
weft in the usual and well-known way, and then "set" or weave the
ends of the rug therewith in a beam loom, the centre being woven
from the beam or warp in the ordinary manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
SMITH, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Rug and Carpet
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of April, 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 Edward Smith, Her special license
that I, the said Edward Smith, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Smith, my executors,
administrators, or 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 HEARTH RUGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward Smith, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Smith, do hereby declare;
the nature of my 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 :-
· My said Invention relates to an improved mode of producing what
are known as beam rugs, whereby their texture is improved and a con-

page_text: siderable saving is effected in the labour and material employed in their
manufacture, and consists essentially in substituting chenille weft for
the ordinary method of lapping and fingering the end borders.
In carrying out my Invention I first weave and prepare the chenille
weft in the usual and well-known way, and then "set" or weave the
ends of the rug therewith in a loom provided with worsted or woollen
beam chain, as in the ordinary "beam loom," the centre being woven
from such chain with grooved wires in the ordinary manner. This
process admits of a design being introduced, if desired, into the corners
of the rug, thereby rendering it of more saleable value.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the pro-
duction of beam rugs by weaving the end borders of the rug with
chenille weft in a loom provided with worsted or woollen beam chains,
as in the ordinary beam rug loom, the centre being woven from such
chain in the ordinary manner, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Smith, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.