AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WEAVING CARPETS COMMONLY CALLED SCOTCH OR KIDDERMINSTER, BY WHICH A NEW AND FIRMER TEXTURE AND LARGER PATTERNS CAN BE PRODUCED THAN BY ANY OTHER METHOD HITHERTO KNOWN
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HANBURY, the elder, of Bartlett's Buildings, in the City of London, Carpet
Manufacturer, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by.
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Nineteenth day of December, in the fifty-third year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John. Hanbury, the elder, His special licence that I, the
said John Hanbury, the elder, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Hanbury, the elder, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, ftom 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF WEAVING CARPETS COMMONLY CALLED SCOTCH OR KIDDERMINSTER, BY WHICH A
NEW AND FIRMER TEXTURE AND LARGER PATTERNS CAN BE PRODUCED THAN BY ANY
OTHER METHOD HITHERTO KNOWN;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso, obliging me, the said John Hanbury, the elder, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-;
formed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date:
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being,
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
F

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Hanbury, the elder, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention consists in a new method of weaving or manufacturing of carpets
and carpeting, thereby producing an article or manufacture which I call flush
carpets or carpeting, the method of weaving or manufacturing which said flush
carpets or carpeting is herein-after described, viz:-
After I have prepared a loom in the same manner as is usual for weaving or
manufacturing Scotch or Kidderminster carpeting in one thread or two threads
or more, I proceed as follows:-
For a plain ground and ribbed figure:- 1st, when I have woven as many
shutes as I choose to make the rib, I raise up the contrary lash to that
of which I form the figure, and the same ground plain which I had up
when I wove the last ground shute (by the word "plain" throughout these
several descriptions I mean a fourth part of the warp or chain, which warp
or chain consists of two coloured and two ground plains;) then I throw a
shute which I call the binding shute, which may consist of a thread or threads of
wollen, worsted, linen, cotton, silk, hair, wire, or any other material that will
produce the same effect, or raise up one ground plain or two ground plains,
and throw in the binding shute, or raise up the ground, and half the colours in
the ground and half ground in the figure, ribbed ground and plain figure.
2d, when I have thrown as many shutes as I chuse to make the rib, I
raise up one coloured plain or two coloured plains, or draw up the contrary
lash to that of which I form the figure, and the coloured plain also, then throw
in the binding shute as above.
Both ground and figure ribbed :-3d, when I have thrown sufficient shutes
for the rib, then raise up one half of the chain or warp, and throw in a binding
shute; then draw up the other half, and throw in another binding shute, or
raise up the contrary lash to that with which I form the figure, and throw in
a binding shute, or raise up the lash and one plain, throw in one binding shute,
and keep up the same lash, and raise up another plain, and throw in another
binding shute.
Ground and figure plain on both sides:-4th, when I have thrown as many.
shutes as I may want or choose, I raise up the ground plain and coloured plain
I had up when I wove the last two shutes, and throw in the binding shute; or
three plains in the ground and two in the figure will produce the same effect,
or the webs may be united with one of the shutes that form the figure, by
raising up half the ground and half colours in the ground, when I throw the
coloured shute with which I bind them together.

page_text: GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
1st. In producing any of the foregoing articles, a tail cord or tail cords may
be dropped occasionally, but the article in that case will not be so perfect as it
is without dropping a tail cord or tail cords.
pro-
2d. In any instance where I have to draw up the contrary lashes, I should
prefer an additional engine beam and box for that purpose, and when I
duce the article with rising up plains only, I should prefer additional treaddles
according to the number of plains I have to rise, except when black-up-loom
or draft loom, or open shade loom is used, in which case extra treaddles will
not be necessary for the plains. But in case of having an extra engine in the
black-up loom, one engine treaddle additional will be necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hanbury, the elder, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.