IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Heptonstall and William Lunn, of Kirk-
burton, in the County of York, Stay Manufacturers, for the Invention of
Sealed the 15th July 1864, and dated the 21st January 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Heptonstall
and William Lunn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 21st January 1864.
We, CHARLES HEPTONSTALL and WILLIAM LUNN, of Kirkburton, in the
County of York, Stay Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to stays for the human body, and to that kind which
are woven whole or in one piece to the shape or form required. Heretofore
in the weaving of such fabrics parti-coloured or mixture yarns on what are
technically called "grandrell" yarns have been used for producing variety of
effect thereto.
Now our improvements consist in the employment of single coloured yarns,
and mixing two or more different colours of such in the warp, or in arranging
different colours of ends or threads alternately side by side, or in any other
desirable order, so that by the aid of jacquard or other figure-producing

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Heptonstall and William Lunn in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 20th July 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
HEPTONSTALL and WILLIAM LUNN, of Kirkburton, in the County of York,
Stay Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Charles Heptonstall and William Lunn, Her special licence that
we, the said Charles Heptonstall and William Lunn, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles Heptonstall and
William Lunn, 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
THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Charles Heptonstall and William Lunn, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 we, the said Charles Heptonstall and William
Lunn, 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 :-
This Invention relates to stays for the human body and to that kind which
are woven whole or in one piece and without seam to the shape or form
required. Heretofore in the weaving of such fabrics party-coloured or mixture
yarns, or what are technically called "grandrell yarns," also printed yarns,
have been used for producing variety of effect thereto.

page_text: Now our improvements consist in the employment of single coloured yarns
for the weft, and mixing two or more different colours of yarns or ends in the
warp, or in arranging different colours of ends or threads alternately side by
side, or in any other desirable order so that by the aid of jacquard or other
figure-producing apparatus we are enabled to effect a variety of designs or
figures in different colours on such fabrics.
The manner in which this Invention is performed or carried into practical
operation will be readily understood by every practical weaver accustomed to
the use of jacquard apparatus or figure weaving from the foregoing statement
of the nature of the Invention without any further description thereof or of
the various methods of "gearing up," or of the arrangements which may be
made in the harness and the cards or other indicating means to effect this
object of producing variety of designs or patterns in different colours in such
fabrics.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we would have it understood that we claim
the improvements in the manufacture of stays substantially as herein set forth
and explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Heptonstall and William Lunn,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of July,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named Charles
Heptonstall and
and William
Lunn, in the presence of
CHARLES HEPTONSTALL. (L.S.)
WILLIAM LUNN.
(L.S.)
WM. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.