IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF - WEAVING TERRY LOOPED OR PILED COUNTERPANES, TOILET COVERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Knowles, of Droylsden, in the County
of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF -
WEAVING TERRY LOOPED OR PILED COUNTERPANES, TOILET COVERS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS."
Scaled the 0th March 1869, and dated the 11th January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Knowles at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th January 1808.
I, JOHN KNOWLES, of Droylsden, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF WEAVING TERRY LOOPED OR PILED COUNTERPANES, TOILET
COVERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of terry looped or piled
counterpanes, toilet covers, stair carpet covers, and other similar woven
goods of cotton or other fibrous substances.
The Invention consists principally in "floating" the terrys or thick
threads for forming the loops of the pattern or figure in the following

page_text: manner: When making the plain or ground cloth, the terry ar.thick
thread (or threads) is floated three picks on the under side or back part
of the cloth and one over or on the front side of the same, but when
required for the figure or pattern it is floated two picks above and two
below. This method of weaving makes the plain cloth or ground much
smoother than the ordinary method and causes the figure or pattern to
stand out much more prominently and gives a much superior appearance
to the article woven.
In carrying out this Invention instead of using the jacquard apparatus
as a slackening motion for drawing the yarn (required for the loops) 1
off the creel, I place the jacquard apparatus nearer to the front of the
loom and between the healds and the back of the reed, using it only as
harness to float the threads required for the pattern, and then cause
the beating up of the "slay" in knocking up the weft to the cloth to
draw the terry or thick threads from the creel and throw up the loops, 1
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Knowles in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 9th July 1869,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
KNOWLES, of Droylsden, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Knowles, Her spécial license that I,
the said John Knowles, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Knowles, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and nó 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 METHOD OF WEAVING
TERBY LOOPED OR PILED COUNTERPANES, TOILET COVERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR

page_text: FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John'
Knowles, 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 bo
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 John Knowles, 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 (that is to say) :-
--
This Invention relates to the manufacture of torry looped or pilod
counterpanos, toilet covers, stair carpet covers, and other similar woven.
goods of cotton or other fibrous substances.
The Invention consists principally in floating the terry or thick
threads for forming the loops of the pattern or figure in the following
mannor:-When making the plain or ground cloth, the terry or thick
thread (or threads) is floated threo picks on the 'under sido or back
part of the cloth and one over or on the front side of the same, but
when required for the figure or pattern it is floated two picks above
and two below. This method of weaving makes the plain cloth or
ground much smoother than the ordinary method and causes the figure
or pattern to stand out much more prominently and gives a much
superior appearance to the article woven.
In carrying out this Invention instead of using the jacquard apparatus
as a slackening motion for drawing the yarn (required for the loops)
off the creal, I place the jacquard apparatus nearer to the front of the
loom and between the healds and the back of the reed, using it only as
harness to float the threads required for the pattern, and then cause tho
beating up of the "slay" in knocking up the weft to the cloth to draw
the terry or thick threads from the creel and throw up the loops.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together
with tho method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to
be understood that I claim as my Invention, forming the loops in such
fabrics by "floating" the terry or thick threads by means of tho
jacquard apparatus in the manner described, using the said apparatus
for "floating" merely, whilst the slay in knocking up the weft to tho

page_text: cloth draws the terry threads off the creel and throws them up into loops,
substantially in the manner herein-before described.
'In witness whereof, I, the said John Knowles, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
JOHN KNOWLES. (L.s)