IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOOPED FABRICS, AND IN THE MAKING OF GLOVES AND HAT BANDS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
DUNINGTON, of Nottingham, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of April, One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the twelfth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Dunington, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Dunington, my exors, admors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Dunington, my exors, adññors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
LOOPED FABRICS, AND IN THE MAKING OF GLOVES AND HAT BANDS;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Henry Dunington, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Dunington, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and 5
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:
My Invention consists, first, of improvements in the manufacture of looped 1
fabrics made in warp machines, whereby a raised surface may be produced on
one side of such fabrics by the introduction of woollen or other materials (on
one side of such fabrics) suitable for having a nap raised thereon, and sub-
sequently raising a nap by means of wire cards or teazles.
Secondly, my Invention consists of improvements in cutting materials into 1
peculiar shapes to facilitate the making of gloves.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
In carrying out the first part of my Invention, I employ ordinary warp
machinery, which being well understood it will not require to be described, and
I will simply call attention to two cuts of wheels suitable for carrying out my
Invention. I would however state that I only give these as examples of
means for carrying out my Invention, which consists of a new description of
looped fabrics made by raising a nap on one side from woollen or other suitably
soft spun yarn introduced into the fabric in order to have the nap produced
therefrom, whether the other side or face and general body of the fabric be of
silk, cotton, or other fibrous warps looped into each other, the object being to
obtain a warp looped fabric of a warm character by having a raised nap on one
side. Figures 1, 2, and 3 show cuts of wheels to be used in a warp frame, and
they are to produce what is known in the trade as lap and press work, the frame
working with a full set of threads to each bar. Figure 1 works the top bar,
carrying a silk warp suitable for making fabrics for gloves, shirts, drawers,
or for other purposes, traversing under one needle and over one needle. The
bottom bar is worked by Figure 3, and the guides are threaded by similar silk,
and traverses under two needles and over one needle. The middle bar is
worked by Figure 2, with woollen yarn, or yarn of other fibre suitable for being
raised by wire cards or teazles into a nap; this bar simply lays in the yarns
in the manner of gymp, traversing three needles. I have mentioned silk as the
warp for making the body and face of the fabrics, but cotton or other thread

page_text: may be used, so long as there be additional yarn introduced so as to be raised
into a nap.
Figures 4, 5, and 6 show another cut of wheels varying the pattern or
texture of the fabric. The top and second bars (Figures 6 and 5) are threaded
with full sets of silk or other proper warps for making the body and the face
of the fabric. The bottom bar, worked by Figure 4, is threaded with a full set
of woollen or other yarn suitable for allowing a nap to be raised therefrom.
In this arrangement the woollen or other yarn for the production of the nap
is lapped on to the needles and looped thereby, which was not the case in the
former instance given. I would remark in respect to this part of my
Invention, that silk goods made in warp frames have before had hard spun
cotton worked into the back, in order to give substance thereto, but not suitable
for being raised into a nap, nor have they been raised into a nap by wire
cards or teazles, and fabrics made of woollen yarn in warp machines without
additional warp (for the purpose) have been raised by teazles or by wire cards,
and other fabrics have been made in warp frames having additional yarns of
woollen and other fibrous material, which additional warp being made into
projecting loops like terry weaving have been subsequently cut, and the ends
have then been carded out. I mention these in order to state that I do not
claim the additional warp separately, nor the use of teazles or wire cards
separately; this part of my Invention consisting of introducing additional warp
suitable for being raised into a nap, such introduction not requiring additional
apparatus to produce projecting loops in the nature of terry weaving, and then
causing a nap to be raised on such fabrics by carding or teazling out the
additional warp.
I will now describe the second part of my Invention. Figure 7 shows the
form into which the material is to be cut for the chief portion of a glove;
Figure 8 shows the three other portions necessary for completing a glove,
when made according to this part of my Invention. A, A, constitutes the
part which comes to the front of the hand; B, B, the part which comes to
the back of the hand; C is the opening to receive the thumb, marked (2) in
Figure 8, the parts marked (3) and (4) in Figure 8 come at the back of the
third and fourth fingers, and are attached to the parts D, in Figure 7, by
sewing the edges a, a, together; the upper edges b, b, of the parts (3 and 4)
being sewed to each other; the edges c, c, of (3 and 4) are sewn to the
edges c, c, of Figure 7. The forefinger of the glove will be produced by
sewing the edges d, d, of Figure 7 together, and the sewing together of the
edges e, e, of Figure 7 will produce the little finger, and the glove will be
completed by the sewing together of the edges f, f. By this arrangement

page_text: gloves will be more readily cut out and put together, and the various small
parts heretofore employed will be dispensed with.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the details, so long as the peculiar character of either part
of my Invention be retained; but what I claim is, the manufacture of warp
looped fabrics, herein described.
And, secondly, I claim the manufacture of gloves, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Dunington, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-nine.

page_text: In the Matter of a Patent granted to Henry Dunington, of Nottingham,
Manufacturer, for his Invention of "Improvements in the Manu-
facture of Looped Fabrics, and in the Making of Gloves and
Hat Bands," bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of April,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
DISCLAIMER proposed to be entered by the said Henry Dunington with the
Clerk of the Patents of England, pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth
and sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the
Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent
for Inventions."
I, the said HENRY DUNINGTON, do declare that since I obtained the said
Letters Patent I have discovered that that part of the Invention which was
intended to have been described under that part of the title which is contained
in the following words, "and hat bands," is not new, for which reason I am
desirous to, and do hereby disclaim all that part of the title which is contained
in the following words, "and hat bands."
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Dunington, have hereunto set
my hand and son this Second dow of
This is to certify, that Henry Dunington, of Nottingham, Manufacturer, has
applied to me for leave to enter with you the above-written Disclaimer of a
certain part of the title of an Invention for which Letters Patent were duly
granted to him under the Great Seal, dated the Third day of April, Onc
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. I have accordingly granted leave to
the said Henry Dunington to file his said Disclaimer, pursuant to the
Statute passed in the 6th year of the reign of His late Majesty, entitled
"An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
Dated this 2nd day of October 1849.
JOHN JERVIS.
Entered with and filed by the Clerk of the Patents of England, this 3rd day
of October 1810

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid Henry Dunington came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.