A NEW MANUFACTURE OF UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS WOVEN OF SILK, WORSTED, AND COTTON
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Arnold Dalton and George Samuel Barton,
both of the City of Coventry, Manufacturers, for the Invention of
"A NEW MANUFACTURE OF UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS WOVEN OF SILK,
WORSTED, AND COTTON."
Scaled the 30th April 1869, and dated the 13th November 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Arnold Dalton
and George Samuel Barton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th November 1868.
We, ROBERT ARNOLD DALTON and GEORGE SAMUEL BARTON, both of
the City of Coventry, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW MANUFACTURE OF UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS WOVEN
OF SILK, WORSTED, AND COTTON," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to that description of upholstery trimmings
which is applied to window and bed curtains and other purposes as
a border to the curtain or other fabric. Hitherto these trimmings
have been cut from a fabric having in the direction of its breadth
several repeats of the design of the trimming; these cut trimmings have

page_text: had raw edges, which were apt to become roved out. Now the object
of our Invention is to manufacture these trimmings with fast edges or
selvages, so that the edges will always remain perfect; we thus obtain
a better appearance and a more durable fabric. For this purpose we
manufacture trimmings in a ribbon loom, and employ as the materials 5
silk, worsted, and cotton, whereby we obtain an upholstery trimming
woven of the said materials with a fast edge at both sides.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Arnold Dalton and George Samuel Barton
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th May 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
ARNOLD DALTON and GEORGE SAMUEL BARTON, both of the City of
Coventry, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Robert Arnold Dalton and George Samuel
Barton, Her special licence that we, the said Robert Arnold Dalton and
George Samuel Barton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Robert Arnold Dalton and George Samuel
Barton, 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 MANUFACTURE OF UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS WOVEN OF SILK, WORSTED,
AND COTTON," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Robert Arnold Dalton and George Samuel Barton, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of 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 Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Arnold Dalton and George
Samuel Barton, 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 thereof, that is to
say:-
Our Invention relates to that description of upholstery trimmings
which is applied to window and bed curtains and other purposes as a
border to the curtain or other fabric. Hitherto these trimmings have
been cut from a fabric having in the direction of its breadth several
repeats of the design of the trimming; these cut trimmings have had
raw edges, which were apt to become roved out. Now the object of our
Invention is to manufacture these trimmings with fast edges or selvages,
so that the edges will always remain perfect; we thus obtain a better
appearance and a more durable fabric. For this purpose we manufacture
trimmings in a ribbon loom, and employ as the materials silk, worsted,
and cotton, whereby we obtain an upholstery trimming woven of the
said materials with a fast edge on both sides.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Arnold Dalton and
George Samuel Barton, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Seventh day of May One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.