IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL PILE FABRICS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Stewart Templeton, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTAL PILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 22nd April 1879, and dated the 23rd November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Stewart Templeton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd November 1878.
JOHN STEWART TEMPLETON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL PILE FABRICS."
This Invention has for its object the production of an ornamental pile fabric of a
novel character, and suitable for use as rugs and for other purposes.
In the improved fabrics ornamental effects are produced by the pile at certain
parts, according to the design being longer and projecting further than the pile at
other parts so that the general surface instead of being even, is as it were embossed,
but without the compressed appearance which ordinary embossing would produce.
The pile, both long and short, may be of one color, or the long pile may be of one
color and the short pile of another color or shade, or particolored patterns may be
produced in the long or short pile, or in both.
In weaving the improved fabrics chenille is employed, such chenille being of a
kind already in use for manufacturing ornamental pile fabrics having a pile of
uniform length. This chenille is produced by a weaving process in widths which
are subsequently cut into strips, and when the chenille is particolored it is woven
with variously colored wefts in such a way that when it is incorporated in the final
fabric its successive lines combine together to produce the intended pattern or effect,
all which is well understood. For the purposes of the present Invention the chenille

page_text: to form the short pile is woven in the ordinary way, excepting that the pile
material is omitted at the parts corresponding to those parts of the final fabric at
which the longer pile is to appear. A separate chenille is woven for forming the
long pile, but the pile material is introduced in it only at parts corresponding to
those at which the short pile material is omitted in the other chenille.
In the final fabric the two chenilles when used as wefts are woven in according
to the pattern by means of separate shuttles, or the two chenilles may be combined
and be woven in by means of a single shuttle.
In a similar way a more elaborate fabric may be produced by employing chenilles
with more than two different lengths of pile.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Stuart Templeton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th May 1879.
JOHN STUART TEMPLETON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL PILE FABRICS."
My said Invention has for its object the production of ornamental pile fabrics of
a novel character, and suitable for use as rugs and for other purposes.
In my improved fabrics ornamental effects are produced by the pile at certain
parts, according to the design being longer and projecting further than the pile at
other parts, so that the general surface, instead of being even, is as it were embossed,
but without the compressed appearance which ordinary embossing would produce.
The pile, both long and short, may be of one color, or the long pile may be of one
color and the short pile of another color or shade, or particolored patterns may be
produced in the long or short pile or in both.
In weaving the improved fabrics a pile material or chenille is employed, such
chenille being of a kind already in use for manufacturing ornamental pile fabrics
having a pile of uniform length. This chenille is produced by a weaving process in
widths which are subsequently cut into strips, and when the chenille is particolored
it is woven with variously colored wefts in such a way that when it is incorporated
in the final fabric its successive lines combine together to produce the intended
pattern or effect, all which is well understood.
I prefer to employ pile materials or chenilles made in the mauner described in
the Specification of Letters Patent granted to James Templeton and William
Quiglay, and dated 25 July 1839 (No. 8169), but other pile materials or chenilles
made so as to present the pile in a suitable manner may also be used in carrying
out my Invention.
For the purposes of my present Invention the chenille having the short pile is
woven in the ordinary way, excepting that the weft or material to form the pile is
omitted at the parts corresponding to those parts of the final fabric at which the
longer pile is to appear. A separate chenille is woven for forming the long pile,
but the weft or material to form the pile is introduced in it only at parts corres-
ponding to those at which the short pile material is omitted in the other chenille.
In the final fabric the two chenilles are used as wefts and are woven in according
to the pattern by means of separate shuttles, or the two chenilles may be combined
and be woven in by means of a single shuttle.
In a similar way a more elaborate fabric may be produced by employing chenilles
with more than two different lengths of pile.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I have to state that what I believe to be novel and original and
claim as the Invention secured to me by and in terms of the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is,-
The production of ornamental fabrics by means of pile materials or chenilles
having two or more different lengths of pile, and made and combined substantially
as hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Stuart Templeton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
JOHN S. TEMPLETON. (L.S.)