IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBROIDERING OR ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS, FELTS, OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adolphe Drevelle, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
EMBROIDERING OR ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS, FELTS, OR OTHER SIMILAR
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 6th August 1861, and dated the 8th February 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolphe Drevelle at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th February 1861..
I, ADOLPHE DREVELLE, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lan-
5 caster, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBROIDERING OR ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS, FELTS, OR
OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
I take two pieces of cloth or other material and embroider or ornament
them both together, either by an embroidering machine, sewing machine,
jacquards, pentagraph, or other process of sewing, and I then separate the
two materials by cutting the threads which constitute the plain or embroidered
figures, and either before or after so separating them I attach, if desirable, to
the back of each material any fabric by means of some suitable glutinous
matter, which strengthens the material, and also gives a better pile to the face

page_text: or embroidered part of it. And in order to secure a good raised pile, 1 place
a canvass or other suitable material between the two pieces to be embroidered,
and when they are separated I remove the canvass or material so used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Adolphe Drevelle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADOLPHE
DREVELLE, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Adolphe Drevelle, Her special licence that I, the said Adolphe Drevelle,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Adolphe
Drevelle, my 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
EMBROIDERING OR ORNAMENTING WOVEN FABRICS, FELTS, OR OTHER SIMILAR
MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Adolphe
Drevelle, 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 Adolphe Drevelle, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say)
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I take two pieces of cloth, silk, or other material, and connect them both
together, either plainly or ornamentally by an embroidering machine, sewing
machine, jacquard, pantograph, or other process of sewing. I then separate

page_text: the two pieces of joined fabric or material by cutting the threads, which
constitute plain sewing, or the embroidered or other figures, by means of a
knife or fine saw, either straight or circular, and applied vertically, horizontally,
or in any other direction. Either before or after so separating the aforesaid
pieces, I attach, if desirable, to the back of each piece or material another
piece of fabric or material by means of some suitable glutinous matter, which
strengthens the material, and also gives a better pile to the face or embroidered
part of it. And also in order to secure a good raised pile, I place canvas or
other suitable material between the two pieces to be embroidered, and when
they are separated by cutting them in two, I remove the canvas or material
so used.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I claim
as my Invention, and which to the best of my knowledge and belief has not
been hitherto used within the realm, the improvements for producing pile
fabrics either plain or figured, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolphe Drevelle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Adolphe Drevelle in
the presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.
A. DREVELLE. (Ls.)