IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS AND RUGS
Year: 1851

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CURZON, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Civil Engineer,
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 Ninth day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, in the fifteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Curzon, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her especial license, full
power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said Henry Curzon, niy
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Curzon,
my exors, admors, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS AND RUGS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Henry Curzon, 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in

page_text: 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 Curzon, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being bad to the
Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of employing additional warp, together with additional
throwing in of weft to each wire inserted; 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. I will, however, first remark, that in
weaving Brussels and velvet-piled carpets, when using printed or party colored
warp, it has been a common practice to have three warps, one consisting of
the printed yarn for making the surface, a thick filling warp for making the
body, and a finer linen warp for weaving and binding the fabric together, by
throwing one shoot of weft over, one under, and one over, after introducing a
wire, and which is commonly called "three shoot." Now, my improvements
consist, as before stated, of employing additional filling warp with additional
throwing in of weft.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The Drawing, Figure 1, shows so much of the section of a loom as will
enable me to describe my Invention, and Figure 2 shows a magnified section
of a weaving. According to my Invention, a is the ordinary thick filling warp
of any suitable fibre, and I prefer that the yarns in this and the other thick
warp should be as large as the reed will conveniently admit of this. This
thick warp remains stationary; is an additional thick warp which is moved
up and down in forming sheds, and the working is performed in such manner
as to introduce four shoots to each wire, and all the shoots may be of the same
weft, or part may be of thicker weft. I do not, however, make any claim
to the use of thick weft, various modes of using thick weft having before
been employed, and I would state that if still thicker fabrics are required
than can be produced by the use of the second thick or filling warp, another
may be added thereto.
In working with the loom arranged as shewn
in the Drawing, a shed is to be opened for receiving a wire, then a
she is opened by raising one half (that is every other yarn) of the
binder warp, and a shoot of weft is thrown in over the worsted; the same
half of the binder warp is then depressed, and the other half, together with

page_text: the warp b, are raised, and a second shoot is thrown in; half the binding
warp is then raised, the other warps being depressed, and a third shoot
is thrown in. The several warps then assume the position shown in the
Drawing, that is, the additional filling warp is depressed, all the others being
above, and a fourth shoot of weft is thrown in, by which it will be seen that
there is at all times a shoot of weft between the two filling warps for each
wire introduced. After putting in the next wire the half of the binder warp
which in the above description was raised, will be depressed, and the other
half raised.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details herein shown and described, so long as the peculiar character
of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is the mode of weaving
carpets and rugs herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Curzon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.