A NEW OR IMPROVED CARPET
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, junior, of the
Firm of Mark Oldroyd and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of
York, Woollen Manufacturers, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED CARPET.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Oldroyd and
Mark Oldroyd, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 6th December 1871.
We, JOHN OLDROYD and MARK OLDROYD, junior, of the Firm of
Mark Oldroyd and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OB IMPROVED CARPET," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that class of carpets technically known as
"Brussels" or terry pile fabrics, and in which two warps of different
materials are used, the warp for forming the back of the fabric being of
linen or hemp yarn while the warp for forming the face or the terry or

page_text: pile of the fabric is of worsted, which is usually printed before being
woven; the weft usually used in these fabrics being also of linen or
hemp yarn. The worsted yarn used, as herein-before stated, for the
terry or pile being an expensive material it forms a considerable item in
the cost of such carpets or fabrics. Now to obviate or avoid this expense
or reduce the costs in the production of such terry or pile carpets we
employ cotton yarn for the terry or face warp, not printed as heretofore
in the yarn, and we print the woven fabric by ordinary block or other
means of surface printing, whereby we are enabled to produce this class
of carpet or terry fabric at a very greatly reduced price, and thus meet
the circumstances or means of the working classes in supplying their
wants in carpeting.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 5th June 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
OLDROYD and MARK OLDROYD, junior, of the Firm of Mark Oldroyd
and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Woollen Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said John Oldroyd Her
special licence that we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd,
junior, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, junior, 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 "A NEW OR
IMPROVED CARPET," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, junior, our executors
or

page_text: administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd,
junior, 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 (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to that class of carpets technically known as
"Brussels" or terry pile fabrics, and in which two warps of different
materials are used, the warp for forming the back of the fabric being of
linen or hemp yarn while the warp for forming the face or the terry or
pile of the fabric is of worsted, which is usually printed or dyed before
being woven; the weft usually used in these fabrics being also of linen
or hemp yarn. The worsted yarn used, as herein-before stated, for the
terry or pile being an expensive material it forms a considerable item in
the cost of such carpets or fabrics. Now to obviate or avoid this expense.
or reduce the costs in the production of such Brussels or terry pile
carpets we employ cotton yarn for the terry or face warp, not printed or
dyed as heretofore in the yarn, and we print the woven fabric by ordinary
block or other means of surface printing, whereby we are enabled to
produce this class of carpet or terry fabric at a very greatly reduced
price.
Such being the nature of our said Invention, the manner in which it
is to be performed will be readily understood by carpet weavers and
manufacturers and printers of textile fabrics that the same looms and
similar means or appliances are or may be employed for the production
of this fabric as are now used in the manufacture of the ordinary
Brussels or terry pile carpets, in which the pile warp is of worsted and
printed to the design required before the fabric is woven, and for which
the ordinary process of plain weaving is sufficient to effect or produce
the required design or pattern in the fabric, that is, without the aid of
jacquard or other figure indicating surface or apparatus. In this our
carpet or fabric however we employ cotton yarn for the terry pile or face
in either the single or (by preference) a series of folds of yarn, threads,

page_text: or strands twisted together. Then after the said carpet is woven it is
printed by the ordinary process of block printing or any other suitable
process of surface printing (or it may be used in the unprinted state
if desirable); so that by this Invention we are enabled to produce a
serviceable carpet in any design or pattern required at a much less 5
cost than heretofore.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of the said Invention,
we would have it understood that what we claim as of our Invention is,
the employment of cotton yarn neither printed nor dyed for the pile
warp in that class of carpets known as "Brussels" or terry pile 1
fabrics as herein described, and the printing in the piece of fabrics thus
produced.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd,
junior, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and 1
seventy-two.
Witness,
J. F. SADLER,
Dewsbury,
Warehouseman.
JOHN OLDROYD.
(L.8.)
M. OLDROYD, Jun³.
(L.S.)
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