AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN GIG MILLS AND MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING PILED FABRICS
Year: 1854

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Christopher Thomas Tiffany
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th July 1854.
1.
I, CHRISTOPHER THOMAS TIFFANY, of Leeds, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN GIG MILLS AND MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING
PILED FABRICS" to be as follows:--
The Invention consists of applying Brazilian grass, sometimes called
monkey bass, in place of or in combination with the materials now used for
making brushes used in gig mills or machines for brushing piled fabrics.
For this purpose the grass is employed in like manner to that in which
bristles and other materials have heretofore been used for such purposes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Christopher Thomas Tiffany in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
THOMAS TIFFANY, of Leeds, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Christopher Thomas Tiffany, Her special licence that I, the said Christopher
Thomas Tiffany, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Christopher Thomas Tiffany, my 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN GIG MILLS AND
MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING PILED FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Christopher Thomas Tiffany, by a 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Thomas Tiffany, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
The Invention consists of applying Brazilian grass, sometimes called monkey
bass, in place of or in combination with the materials now used for making
brushes used in gig mills or machines for brushing piled fabrics. For this
purpose the grass is employed in like manner to that in which bristles and
other materials have heretofore been used for such purposes.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same:-The Brazilian grass, or monkey
bass (para piassava), is first cut into lengths, according to the length it will
have to stand off from the back of the brush. The fibres are then drawn
through between the teeth of a brush maker's comb (fixed to the end of a
bench in the ordinary manner), by which the thin, weak, and broken fibres are

page_text: separated. Tufts of these fibres are then placed and fixed in backs of wood,
in like manner to that heretofore practised when using bristles and other
materials in making gig mill and machinery brushes for brushing piled fabrics;
and the ordinary forms of gig mill and machinery brushes are retained by me
when using the fibres above mentioned, instead of or in combination with
the bristles or materials heretofore used in the manufacture of such like
brushes. I would remark, that although such fibres may be combined with
others, I usually employ the fibres above mentioned alone.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would havo it understood that what I claim is, the
application of the fibres of Brazilian grass (para piassava) in the manu-
facture of gig mill and machinery brushes for brushing piled fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Thomas Tiffany, have here-
unto set my hands and seals, this Twenty-ninth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
CHARLES HEAPS.
C. T. TIFFANY. (L.S.)