IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRINGES AND UPHOLSTERERS' TRIMMINGS, APPLICABLE --
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Dixon, of Cockspur Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRINGES AND UPHOLSTERERS' TRIMMINGS, APPLICABLE
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by tho said George Dixon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th August 1872.
I, GEORGE DIXON, of Cockspur Street, in the County, of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ManufactuRE OF FRINGES AND UPHOLSTERERS' TRIMMINGS,
APPLICABLE ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS," to, be as
follows:-
This Invention is an improvement upon the Invention specified in the
Letters Patent granted to me No. 2285, September 14th, 1801, and has
reference to utilizing a wasto material hercafter mentioned for the

page_text: economical manufacture of fringes, ruches, curtain holders, loops, tassels,
drapery cords, and upholsterers' trimmings generally, being likewise
applicable in the manufacture of textile fabrics. The waste material.
aforesaid consists of silk droppings obtained during the process of dress-
ing silk, termed in the trade silk niles or niels, which is spun to the
requisite thickness and is made into fringes and general upholstery
trimmings, by being manufactured by the process described in the
Specification of my Patent No. 2285, A.D: 1861.
This material is first submitted to the action of a carding machine
so as to straighten the fibres, after which it is spun into yarn or thread ]
in accordance with the thickness of the article which it is intended to
be made up into, it is then reeled into hanks and dyed the requisite
colour. It is then made up into the article required by the process
described in the Specification of my Letters Patent No. 2285, A.D. 1861,
and is thus ready for the market.
In annlving the Invention to textile materials the waste material
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters. Patent,
filed by the said George Dixon in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 12th February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DIXON, of Cockspur Street, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Dixon, Iler special licence that
I, the said George Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Dixon, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thercafter 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,.

page_text: and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FRINGES AND UPHOLSTERERS' TEIKNINGS, APPLICABLE ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
George Dixon, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 George Dixon, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This Invention is an improvement upon the Invention specified in the
Letters Patent granted to mo No. 2285, A.D. 1861, and has reference
to utilizing a waste material hereafter mentioned for the economical
manufacture of fringes, ruches, curtain holders, loops, tassels, drapery
cords, and upholsterers trimmings generally, being likewise applicable
in the manufacture of the textile materials termed piled fabrics, such,
for instance, as carpets and rugs. The waste material aforesaid consists
of droppings obtained during the process of dressing silk, and termed
in the trade silk noils or niels which I spin to the requisite thickness,
and make into fringes, ruches, upholsterers' trimmings, and so forth,
by manufacturing the same as hereafter described, that is to say, I
manufacture the same by first submitting this material to the action
of a carding machine so as to straighten the fibres, after which it is
spun into yarn or thread in accordance with the thickness of the article
which it is intended to be made up into. It is then reeled into hanks
and dyed the requisite colour. Afterwards it is made up into the
article required by the process described in the Specification of my said
Letters Patent No. 2295, A.D. 1861, and in order to manufacture with
good effect and cheapness the ruches are to be cut up by means of the
cutting machinery described in the Specification of the Letters Patent
granted to myself, Thomas Hughes, and John Maddox, No. 1526,
A.D. 1872, and is then ready for the market.

page_text: woven or manufactured into ruches by my said patent process, and
otherwise treated as may be nccessary for the purpose required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or put
in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the herein described Invention 5
of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Fringes and Upholsterers'
Trimmings, applicable also in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics," tho
important point being the utilizing the waste materials aforesaid as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof; I, the said George Dixon, have hereunto set 1
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
S. F. R. JOHNSON,
22, Blossom St.,.
York.
GEORGE DIXON. (L.B.).