AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS A D... D PROAL AND OTHER PILE FABRICS, ALSO DRUGGETS AND OTHER FABRICS WITH UNRAISED SURFACE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Brooke, of the Firm of Joseph Brooke
and Company, of Huddersfield, in County of York, Merchant, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS
A D... D
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Brooke at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd December 1869.
I, JOSEPH BROOKE, of the Firm of Joseph Brooke and Company, of
Huddersfield, in County of York, Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BLANKETS AND OTHER PILE FABRICS, ALSO DRUGGETS AND OTHER FABRICS WITH
UNRAISED SURFACE," to be as follows:-
The objects of the Invention are firmness of texture together with
brilliancy or lustre in the dyeing and finishing. For this purpose in

page_text: place of woollen yarns, I employ in the weaving yarn formed of cow or
calf hair. This hair is for this purpose treated by carding before the
spinning into thread or yarn, and in some cases, especially for the finer
qualities of thread, it is combined with cotton. In some cases both the
weft and the warp may be composed of the same material. In other
cases one of them may be composed entirely of cotton or other material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Brooke in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BROOKE, of the Firm of Joseph Brooke and Company, of Huddersfield,
in the County of York, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Brooke, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Brooke, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Joseph Brooke, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS AND OTHER PILE FABRICS, ALSO DRUGGETS AND OTHER
FABRICS WITH UNRAISED SURFACE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Joseph Boooke, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Brooke, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The objects of the Invention are firmness of texture together with
brilliancy or lustre in the dyeing and finishing. For this purpose in
place of woollen yarns, I employ in the weaving yarn formed of cow or
calf hair. This hair is for this purpose treated by carding before the
spinning into thread or yarn, and in some cases, especially for the finer
qualities of thread, it is combined with cotton. In some cases both the
weft and the warp may be composed of the same material. In other
cases one of them may be composed entirely of cotton or other material.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the improvement in the manufacture of blankets and other pile
fabrics, druggets, and other fabrics with unraised surface, substantially
as described.