IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN, TEXTILE, OR OTHER FABRICS, AND IN PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Pidding, of the Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN, TEXTILE, OR OTHER FABRICS, AND IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Pidding at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 5th April 1853.
I, WILLIAM PIDDING, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN, TEXTILE,
OR OTHER FABRICS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED
THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
I take silk or other material of close texture saturated with gelatin
or gum, stretching it on a framing, and then form a design thereon,
and pass through the fabric points of needles (assorted and fixed into
an instrument). When the fabric is dry I withdraw the needles, and
insert studs or other forms of metal, glass, electroplated silica, or other
materials, into the holes so punctured. If wood, paper, or millboard be
used, they may be rendered waterproff by saturating them with drying

page_text: oils, solution of india-rubber, gutta-percha, or other coatings of similar
properties. This fabric or fabrics I affix to articles of furniture or other
articles by any adhesive substance, pressing or otherwise treating the
same, in some cases grinding the surface of the fabric after it has been
affixed by adhesion to any article, and previous to varnishing such
surface. The whole of the above will be fully described in my Final
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Pidding, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 5th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM PIDDING, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of
our Lord 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 me, the said William Pidding, Her special licence that
I, the said William Pidding, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Pidding, 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 ex-
pressed, 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
MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN, TEXTILE, OR OTHER FABRICS, AND IN THE MA-
CHINERY CONNECTED THEREWITH," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Pidding, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 I, the said William Pidding, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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
I take silk or other material of close texture (including paper),
saturate the material with gelatin or gum, stretch it on a frame, and
pass through the silk or other material thus prepared points of wire or
needles arranged and fixed in an instrument in accordance with the
design previously made on the fabric, or in equidistant places. I
produce a fabric by means of inserting studs or other forms of material
described in a former Specification of Patent 598, dated Ninth March,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, into the holes so punctured,
which are made to retain their form by allowing the gelatinized or
gummed fabric to dry before withdrawing the pointed wires or needles.
If wood, paper, or millboard be used for the groundwork of such fabrics
they may be rendered waterproof by saturating them with drying oils,
solution of india-rubber, varnish, or other coatings of similar properties;
when the fabrics are prepared with gelatin, the gelatin may be rendered
insoluble, or turned into leather by tannin, either before or after
inserting the studs or other material, into the perforations.
materials, besides studs of every material, I insert into the perforations,
are threads of every description, and spun glass, gelatinized or gummed,
and allowed to dry, and then cut into studs by means of numerous
knives placed in a frame fastened or pinned to a support at one end,
and worked by a handle at the other or nearer end; that end of the
knife frame which is fastened is allowed to move on a pivot; the knives
act simultaneously against numerous threads at a time placed parallel
to each other; the knives also to be placed parallel and equidistant to
such distance as the length of the studs may be required. After the
studs are inserted in the perforations I wash the gelatin or gum out of
them with hot or cold water. Some of these fabrics I affix to articles
of furniture or other articles by an adhesive substance, pressing or
otherwise treating the same, in some cases grinding the surface of the
fabric after it has been affixed by adhesion to any article; and previous
to varnishing such surface after adhesion and grinding, I put on it a

page_text: transparent and hard varnish, which I polish by any ordinary method,
and with the ordinary materials used in polishing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pidding, have herein-
before affixed my hand and seal, this Fifth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
WILLIAM PIDDING.
Witness, JAMES PIDDING,
3, Crown Court, Threadneedle Street.