AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF RAISED OR BROCADED FABRICS WOVEN IN COTTON OR FLAX EITHER ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH WOOL
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Barr, of Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Designer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE
OF RAISED OR BROCADED FABRICS WOVEN IN COTTON OR FLAX EITHER ALONE
OR IN COMBINATION WITH WOOL."
Sealed the 9th December 1862, and dated the 23rd June 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Barr at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd June
1862.
I, WILLIAM BARR, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Designer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF RAISED OR BROCADED FABRICS WOVEN IN COTTON OR FLAX EITHER
ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH WOOL," to be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in making raised or brocaded fabrics such as are or
may be employed for ladies under garments, collars, trimmings, and other like
uses, and which require to be formed of a cotton, linen, cambric, muslin, or
other similar material or of any or all of such materials in combination with
wool by weaving the same in a jacquard loom forming the pattern or brocade
from the weft.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Barr in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
December 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BARR, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Designer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Barr, Her special licence that I, the said William Barr, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Barr, 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 "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF
RAISED OR BROCADED FABRICS WOVEN IN COTTON OR FLAX EITHER ALONE OR IN
COMBINATION WITH WOOL," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Barr, 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 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 William Barr, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment (that is to say)
1
My Invention consists in making raised or brocaded fabrics such as are
or inay be employed for under garments, collars, trimmings, and other like uses,
and which require to be formed of. a cotton, linen, cambric, muslin, or other
suitable material, or of any or all of such materials in combination with wool by
weaving the same in a jacquard loom forming the pattern or brocade from the
weft.
And in carrying out this my Invention I employ a jacquard loom with.
either single, double, or more .battens according to the pattern or width
of fabric required, the warp being of cotton or flax according to the material
which I wish to manufacture, and the weft from which the pattern is formed

page_text: being in some instances cotton, in others flax, and in others wool. I am
aware that patterns have already been produced in cotton goods the pattern
being formed from the warp by a single batten loom, which goods have after-
wards to be dressed and calendered and are made to resemble silk, but this
in no way interferes with my Invention which consists in producing patterns
resembling needlework or embroidery in cotton, flax, or wool raised or brocaded
upon the warp or base of the fabric by the weft or shoot, and by which means
I can produce highly ornamental trimmings, edgings, or insertions employed for
linen or calico garments and a variety of other similar uses at a comparatively
low cost.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I claim the improved manufacture of
raised or brocaded fabrics woven in cotton or flax, either alone or in com-
bination with wool, by producing the brocaded or raised pattern of such fabrics
from the weft or shoot in a jacquard loom as herein more fully set forth and
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Barr, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM (L.S.) BARR.