IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING PLUSH AND OTHER SUCH TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Dickins, Albert Lungley Dickins, and
Harvey Heywood, of Middleton, in the County of Lancaster, Dyers and
Printers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING PLUSH AND
OTHER SUCH TEXTILE FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Dickins, Albert
Lungley Dickins, and Harvey Heywood at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd February 1863.
We, THOMAS DICKINS, ALBERT LUNGLEY DICKINS, and HARVEY HEYWOOD, Of
Middleton, in the County of Lancaster, Dyers and Printers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING PLUSH
AND OTHER SUCH TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to those fabrics which after the manner of woollen
or other plush are provided with loose, floated, or raised fibres, produced
either during the process of weaving or by a subsequent process, such as
"raising." These fabrics we dye by the usual operations, and then protect
any desired portions thereof so that they will resist a further application of
dyeing or printing materials. The surface is then brushed over, or is other-
wise treated with a colouring matter, whereby the face or raised fibres are
tinted, leaving the back or groundwork with its original tint; the protected
portions, however, not having been submitted to the secondly-named dyeing
process, constitute the desired pattern. The protected parts above named
may be obtained by the application of plates, or by the processes commonly
known as resist or discharge.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Thomas Dickins, Albert Lungley Dickins, and Harvey
Heywood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
DICKINS, ALBERT LUNGLEY DICKINS, and HARVEY HEYWOOD, of Middleton, in
the County of Lancaster, Dyers and Printers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Dickins, Albert Lungley Dickins, and Harvey Heywood, Her
special licence that we, the said Thomas Dickins, Albert Lungley Dickins,
and Harvey Heywood, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Dickins, Albert Lungley Dickins, and Harvey
Heywood, 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 ORNAMENTING
PLUSH AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Thomas Dickins, Albert Lungley Dickins, and Harvey Heywood,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, 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 Albert Lungley Dickins, do hereby
declare the nature of our 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) :-
Our Invention relates to those fabrics which, after the manner of woollen or
other plush, are provided with loose, floated, or raised fibres, produced either
during the process of weaving or by a subsequent process, such as "raising."
These fabrics we dye by the usual operations, and then protect any desired
portions thereof, so that they will resist a further application of dyeing or
printing materials. The surface is then brushed over, or is otherwise treated
with a coloring matter, whereby the face or raised fibres are tinted, leaving
the back or groundwork with its original tint; the protected portions, however,

page_text: not having been submitted to the secondly-named dyeing process, afford the
desired pattern.
In carrying our Invention into practice, we take the dyed woollen plush
or other such fabric, and having adapted it to a flat surface, apply metal or
other plates to its face, and fix them thereon in any required positions by
weights or by nailing, and thus certain portions of the fabric are protected.
We now take a hand brush, and apply therewith any desired dyeing material
to those parts of the fabric which are not covered by the above-mentioned
plates, the result of which will be a pattern in two colours, that originally
dyed being kept pure by the protection afforded by the plates, and in addition
to this a peculiar effect will be produced by the brushing operation, the ends
only of the fibres constituting the face being tinted, leaving the back of
the original dyed colour, any subsequent operations of the dying process, if
required, are conducted after the ordinary manner. We have above spoken
of a hand brush for applying the dyeing material, but, if desired, a rotatary
or other brush, and driven by power, may be used.
Instead of the above described method of protecting certain portions of the
fabric, the object may be accomplished by the processes commonly known as
resist and discharge.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be under-
stood that we claim as secured to us under the above in part recited Letters
Patent, and as applied to such fabrics as aforesaid, protecting portions thereof
after they have been dyed, and applying a dyeing or tinting material to the
exposed parts by brusbing or other means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Lungley Dickins, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
ALDERT L. DICKINS. (L.B.)