IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRINGES, GYMPS, AND BULLIONS
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DALTON, of Coventry, Silk Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of June
(One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight), in the eleventh year of Her
reigu, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Dalton, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Dalton,
my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Dalton,
my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRINGES, GYMPS, AND BULLIONS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Thomas Dalton,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what, manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of

page_text: the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Dalton, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists,-
First, of printing fringes made of silk twist or sewings, and also fringes
when made of linen, and also of printing silk gymps with patterns.
Secondly, my Invention consists of a mode of making fringes and bullion
by applying printed silk twist or linen sewings in such manufactures.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
In the manufacture of fringes it is usual to weave them in looms with warp
sufficient for making two selvages at a distance apart equal to that of the
width of two pieces of fringe, and the weft of silk (sewings or twist) is thrown
across, and weaves in with such warp, and produces two woven selvages or
heads for two pieces of fringe, and the fabric thus produced forms when cut
in a line parallel with the selvages (but intermediate of them) two widths of
fringe. Now it is in the state before dividing the weft (which forms the open
or unwoven fringe parts of the fabrics) into two (each having its head or
selvage) that the first part of my Invention can, with most advantage be
performed, because the whole fabric may readily be spread on a table or
suitable surface, and bo printed with hand block, or other suitable printing
surfaces, the two heads or selvages facilitating not only the stretching it
evenly in the way of the length but also in the width, and in this state the
fringes may be readily printed in like manner to printing completely woven
fabrics. The fringes being thus printed, or for discharging color, are to be
finished and treated in the ordinary manner, as if the printing had been done
on other woven fabrics of silk, and as is well understood, and which forms in
itself no part of my Invention. It is not essential to this part of my Invention
that the process of printing fringes should be performed before cutting apart
the two pieces which are woven together. On the contrary, it will be desir-
able in some cases to cut the two pieces by dividing the weft longitudinally of
the pieces before performing the printing process thereon, particularly in cases
where the two pieces are to be printed with different patterns or colors; in
such cases it will be desirable to employ several warp threads intermediate of
whero the two selvages or heads are to be produced, and so to work that this

page_text: intermediate warp may (by throwing across the weft) be woven into a fabric
in like manner to the selvages or heads, and then to cut the two pieces of
fringe apart by dividing the stripe of woven fabric produced, intermediate of
the selvages, by which the unwoven portions of the weft of each piece of
fringe will still be held even and regular, the cut woven portion acting as a
selvage in order to facilitate the spreading out and keeping, even the fringe
during the process of printing; and when the process of printing, has been
completed the extra woven portion may be cut away and the fringe will be
complete. In the weaving of the heads or selvages of fringes preparatory for
printing, they may be, woven plain and be printed with the other parts, or they
may be woven in pattern with or without different colored warps, as in, weaving.
other fringes, and such heads or selvages may be woven with gymps if desired,
as heretofore. In printing silk gymps the same are first manufactured in the
ordinary manner, and then laid on a printing table, or surface and printed.
This part of my
Invention is more particularly applicable to gymps of close,
texture, as a defined pattern may be produced on such gymps; but I do not
confine myself to such textures. The gymps having been painted with a
pattern are to be steamed and finished, as when treating other silk fabrics after
printing.
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In carrying out the second part of my Invention I would remark, that
warps of silk have been, heretofore printed, and the process of doing so is well
understood; and it has been proposed to print weft, but I am not aware that
the same has ever been brought into practice. I mention these circumstances
in order to state, that although this part of my Invention consists of employing
printed silk twist or sewings, as weft in the manufacture of fringes and bullion,
yet I do not claim the simple process of printing weft, but the application
thereof in this branch of the manufactures; and I use such printed weft of
silk twist or sewings in like manner to what imprinted silk twist or sewings
havo before been used. By this mode I obtain a new manufacture of silk
fringes and bullion, with printed designs thereon with a mottled appearance, or
with more or less regular design, according as the printing and weaving is
conducted with care.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein described, so long as the peculiar
character of either part of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is,
First, the mode of manufacturing fringes made of silk twist or sewings of
linen, and also when made of linen, by printing them with patterns after