IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF LACE AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste and Jean Le Roy and Eugène
Pavy, all of Paris, France, Manufacturers, and of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PRODUCTION OF LACE AND OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 26th October 1853, and dated the 26th April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste and Jean
Le Roy and Eugène Pavy at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th April 1853.
We, AUGUSTE & JEAN LE ROY, and EUGÈNE PAVY, all of Paris,
France, Manufacturers, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, do
hereby declare that the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE PRODUCTION OF LACE AND OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in the application of the fibres of the following
plants, that is to say-the yucca gloriosa, the pine apple tree, the
tuko kem, a kind of Chinese reed, and of the dwarf palm tree, to the
manufacture of a great variety of tissues, lace work, &c. &c.
I can use the fibres of the above plants either separately, mixed
together, or mixed with silk, cotton, flax, hemp, or wool.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Auguste and Jean Le Roy and Eugène Pavy,
in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 26th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
AUGUSTE and JEAN LEROY and EUGENE PAVY, all of Paris, France,
Manufacturers, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty Queen, Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Auguste and Jean Leroy and Eugene Pavy, Her
special licence that we, the said Auguste and Jean Leroy and Eugene
Pavy, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Auguste and Jean Leroy and Eugene' Pavy, 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 PRODUCTION OF LACE AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said. Auguste and Jean Leroy and
Eugene Pavy, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of. one of us, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of our 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 we, the said Auguste and Jean Leroy and
Eugene Pavy, 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 the r
that is to say:
Our Invention consists in the application of certain textile plants,

page_text: either alone or in combination with other known fibrous substances, for
the manufacture of various fabrics.
The textile plants are the yeuca gloriosa, the pine, jute, and the
dwarf palm, which I employ either separately or together, or which I
mix with cotton, wool, flax, hemp, or silk, and with which I form the
warp or weft of tissues, and also the bodies of gimp, fringe, and other
like fabrics.
The textile plants are treated by known chemical or mechanical
means for the extraction of the fibres, which are bleached, if required,
and put alone, or together with other fibrous materials, upon the ordinary
hand or jacquard loom. The fabrics may be dyed or printed by known
processes, according to their intended application. They are applicable
with advantage, on account of their strength and low price, to the
manufacture of clothing for men and women, gimp, fringe, and other
similar fabrics, bed furniture, curtains, coverings for chairs, and other
similar articles of furniture, carpets, horse and waggon cloths, for which
purposes they may be used in place of fibrous materials hitherto
employed, of a much higher price.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of carrying out the same, we would have it understood, that
what we claim as our Invention is the application of the fibrous plants
herein-before enumerated, either alone, or combined with other fibrous
substances, for the manufacture of various fabrics, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Leroy, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three
AUGTE LE ROY. (L.B.)
Witness, HY. GILBEE.