IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE FABRICS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Wild, of Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and John Smith, of Halifax, in the
County of York, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE FABRICS."
Bealed the 17th June 1870, and dated the 20th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Wild and John
Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 20th December 1869.
We, JOHN WILD, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, and JOHN SMITH, of Halifax, in the County of York, Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS:
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that description of pile fabrics commonly
called weft plushes, and consists in improved arrangements of warp and
weft for the purpose of making a better back or foundation and also a
better face than hitherto obtained.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are three
weavers' diagrams representing three of our improved arrangements of

page_text: the warp threads in the leaves of the healds, the warps being raised and
lowered in the positions shewn for the weft to pass through the shed, and
both the weft and warp threads or yarns are made of silk, cotton, flax, or
other fibrous materials.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Wild and John Smith in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 20th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
WILD, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Ootton Spinner, and
JOHN SMITH, of Halifax, in the County of York, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said John Wild and John Smith, Her
special license that we, the said John Wild and John Smith, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
John Wild and John Smith, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE FABRICS," upon
the condition, amongst others, that we, the said John Wild and John
Smith, by an instrument in writing under our 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 we, the said John Wild and John Smith, 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 description of pile fabrics commonly
called weft plushes, and consists in improved arrangements of warp and

page_text: weft for the purpose of making a better back or foundation and also a
better face than hitherto obtained.
On the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 are weavers' diagrams representing
our improved arrangements of warp threads in the leaves of the healds,
the warps being raised and lowered in the positions shewn for the weft
to pass through the shed, and both the weft and warp threads are made
of silk, cotton, flax, or other fibrous materials.
In our Provisional Specification we only represented the first three
diagrams, and those we now shew in addition are simply modifications of
the same principle adapted to various weights of cloth and length of pile,
as will be readily understood by any practical weaver, and we find by
experience that our improvements entirely prevent the appearance
the cloth of the welts or cracks which have hitherto appeared alternately
at certain regular distances.
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Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be
understood that we claim, the improvements in the manufacture of pile
fabrics as shewn by the weavers' diagrams on the accompanying two
Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Wild and John Smith, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
JOHN
(L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named John Wild and John
Smith, in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester..
JOHN SMITH. (L.S.)