A NEW OR IMPROVED WOVEN MATERIAL OR FABRIC SUITABLE FOR THE DRESSES OF LADIES, FOR TRIMMINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES, AND MODE. OF WEAVING THE SAME.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Peake, of Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
WOVEN MATERIAL OR FABRIC SUITABLE FOR THE DRESSES OF LADIES, FOR
TRIMMINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES, AND MODE. OF WEAVING THE
SAME.
"
Sealed the 4th March 1873, and dated the 7th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Peake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th September 1872.
I, BENJAMIN PEAKE, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature. of my said Invention for
" A NEW OR IMPROVED WOVEN MATERIAL OR FABRIC SUITABLE FOR THE
DRESSES OF LADIES, FOR TRIMMINGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES, AND MODE
OF WEAVING THE SAME," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object the manufacture of a new material
or fabric which shall on one side have a perfect silk face and upon
-the other a perfect cotton or linen face; which material moreover shall
not be liable to fray or crease, nor require any dress; and shall at the

page_text: a me time give the, qualities of strength, durability, and comparative
inexpensiveness,
This new material or fabrio is made of two distinct warps, one warp
of silk and the other warp of linen or cotton, one thread of each being
placed alternately in the leach and slay, and each thread of silk and
cotton or linen in each warp fastened by the woof exactly under
the float of the adjoining thread in the other warp, so that when
woven together to make a fabric it will shew a complete silk warp
face on one side and a complete cotton or linen warp face on the
other side.
It will be seen that whether broad or narrow the principle of making
is the same, and the effect on each side is the same.
The new or improved material or fabric can be made in self-colored,
or in various colours, either striped or plaided. It can also be made fine
and light, or coarse and heavy, just as may be required for the various
uses to which it is applicable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Peake in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
PEAKE, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Peake, Her special licence that
I, the said Benjamin Peake, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Benjamin Peake, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED WOVEN

page_text: MATERIAL OR FABRIC SUITABLE FOR THE DRESSES OF LADIES, POR TRIMMINGS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES, AND MODE OF WEAVING THE SAME," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin Peake, 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 Seal Patent
Office, within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Peake, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
I. My Invention has for its object the manufacture of a new material
or fabric which shall on one side have a perfect silk face, and upon
the other a perfect cotton or linen face; which material moreover shall
not be liable to fray or crease, nor require any dress, and shall at the
same time give the qualities of strength, durability, and comparative
inexpensiveness.
II. The new material or fabric is made of two distinct warps, one
warp of silk and the other warp of cotton or linen, one thread of each
warp being placed alternately in the leach and slay, and each, thread of
silk and cotton or linen in each warp fastened by the woof under
the float of the adjoining thread in the other warp, so that when woven
together to make a fabric it will shew a complete silk warp face on
one side and a complete cotton or linen warp face on the other side.
III. It will be seen, whether broad or narrow, the principle of making
is the same, and the effect on each side is the same.
IV. The new or improved material or fabric can be made in self-
coloured or in various colours, either striped or plaited. It can also be
made fine and light, or coarse and heavy, just as may be required for the
various uses to which it is applicable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
I wish it to be particularly understood that what I claim as my In-
vention is, the manufacture of a new or improved woven material or

page_text: fabric, the material or fabric itself, and the mode of weaving the same,
in the manner and by the means more particularly described in that
section of this Specification marked II.
In.. witness whereof, I, the said 'Benjamin Peake, have hereunto set
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my hand and seal,. this Eighteenth day of February, in the year
· of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.