IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF PRODUCING DESIGNS OR PATTERNS UPON WOVEN FABRICS."
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hodgkinson, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF PRODUCING DESIGNS OR PATTERNS UPON WOVEN FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hodgkinson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th March 1868.
I, GEORGE HODGKINSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF PRODUCING DESIGNS OR PATTERNS UPON WOVEN FABRICS," to
be as follows:-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of producing designs or.
patterns upon the upper and under surfaces of double cloth goods, such
as quilts, counterpanes, or articles of a similar manufacture during the
process of weaving. The "cards" of the jacquard apparatus now
employed in looms for such purpose are arranged and so constructed
that the set of "cards" for forming the under "shed" will weave a
plain under or foundation cloth, whilst the cards forming the upper

page_text: "shed" are arranged to produce a design or pattern on the upper cloth
during manufacture.
"
The improvements consist in arranging and constructing the "cards."
now employed to form the plain bottom cloth in such a manner as to
produce a pattern or device thereupon in a similar manner to the
regulating the weaving of the pattern in the upper cloth; or
the two "sets" of cards may be so arranged that they will simulta-
neously produce two separate and distinct patterns, the surfaces of which
will be produced outward by their respective cards so as to effect a
pattern or finish on the two outer surfaces of the double fabric.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Hodgkinson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HODGKINSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Hodgkinson, Her special license
that I, the said George Hodgkinson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Hodgkinson, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE METHOD OF PRODUCING DESIGNS OR PATTERNS UPON WOVEN
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Hodgkinson, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hodgkinson, 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) :-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of producing designs or
patterns upon the upper and under surfaces of double cloth goods, such
as quilts, counterpanes, or articles of a similar manufacture during the
process of weaving. The cards of the jacquard apparatus now employed
in looms for such purpose are arranged and so constructed that the set
of "cards" for forming the under "shed" will weave a plain under or
foundation cloth, whilst the cards forming the upper "shed" are arranged
to produce a design or pattern on the upper cloth during manufacture.
The improvements consist in arrangeing and constructing the "cards"
now employed to form the plain bottom cloth in such a manner as to
produce a pattern or device thereupon in a similar manner to the
"cards" regulating the weaving of the pattern in the upper cloth, or the
two sets of "cards" may be so arranged that they will simultaneously
produce two separate and distinct patterns, the surfaces of which will
be produced outwardly by their respective cards so as to effect a pattern
or finish on the two outer surfaces of the double fabric.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be
distinctly understood that I claim, producing or effecting designs or
patterns upon the upper and lower surfaces of double woven fabrics by
the method and means herein-after described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hodgkinson, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
30 Witnessed by,
JOHN L. DAVIES,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
GEORGE HODGKINSON. (L.S.)

page_text: DESIGNS OR PATTERNS UPON WOVEN FABRICS," within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, during
the term of fourteen years thence next ensuing.
And whereas in pursuance of a condition in the said Letters Patent
contained, I, the said George Hodgkinson, by a Specification or instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, bearing date the Twenty-third
day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, did
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same was and is to be performed, and did cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within the time and in
the manner by the said condition required in that behalf.
pattern
And whereas since the filing of my said Specification I have discovered
that a certain part of the Invention set forth and described in such
Specification (referring to the production of a similar on each side of
the cloth) was not so new as at the time of filing such Specification I
verily believed it to be, and I have also discovered that by certain clerical
the words
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errors occurring in the said Specification arrangeing" and "herein-
after" have been substituted for the words "arranging" and "herein-
before," which were intended to have been written), for which reasons
and with a view of limiting the Invention protected by the said Letters
Patent to so much as was new at the time of the said grant, I am desirous
(by and with the leave of Her Majesty's Attorney Genera of making
and filing the Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alterations as herein-after
expressed or contained.
"
NOW KNOW YE, therefore, that by and with the leave of Her
Majesty's Attorney General, and for the reasons aforesaid, I do hereby
disclaim and erase from the said Specification the word "arrangeing'
(line thirteen, page 3, in the printed copy thereof as published at the
Great Seal Patent Office), and also the word " herein-after" (line
twenty-five on the same page), and do substitute therefor respectively
the words "arranging" and "herein-before." And I do hereby also
claim and crase from the said Specification the words "and con-
structing the 'cards' now employed to form the plain bottom cloth in
such a manner as to produce a pattern or device thereupon in a
similar manner to the 'cards' regulating the weaving of pallern in
the upper cloth or the" (lines thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen in
the said printed copy); and also the words "may be" and " arranged"
the
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(line seventeen); and for the said reasons I also alter and amend such
Specification by inserting the word "different" before the word
"pattern" in the nineteenth line, and also before the word "designs"
in the twenty-line on page three of the said Specification, and by
and with such leave I do hereby alter and amend the said Specification
so that the same shall (in pursuance of the aforesaid Disclaimer and
Memorandum of Alterations) be in the words following, that is to say,
"My Invention is designed for the purpose of producing designs.or
"patterns upon the upper and under surfaces of double cloth goods,
"such as quilts, counterpanes, or articles of a similar manufacture
during the process of weaving. The cards of the jacquard apparatus
now employed in looms for such purpose are arranged and so con-
"structed that the set of 'cards' for forming the under 'shed' will
weave a plain under or foundation cloth, whilst the cards forming the
46 upper 'shed' are arranged to produce a design or pattern on the upper
"cloth during manufacture. The improvements consist in arranging
"two sets of 'cards' so that they will simultaneously produce two
"separate and distinct patterns, the surfaces of which will be produced
"outwardly by their respective cards, so as to effect a different pattern
66 or finish on the two outer surfaces of the double fabric.
SE
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"
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together
"with the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to
"be distinctly understood that I claim, producing or effecting different
"designs or patterns upon the upper and lower surfaces of double woven
"fabrics by the method and means herein-before described."
And I, the said George Hodgkinson, do hereby declare that the above
written Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alterations do not nor is any
part thereof intended to extend the exclusive right granted by the said
Letters Patent, and that these presents shall not extend the said exclusive
right in any way whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hodgkinson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witnessed by
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
GEO. HODGKINSON. (L.S.)

page_text: I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named George
Hodgkinson to file in the Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification
to which the same relates, the above written Disclaimer and Memorandum
of Alteration.
Temple,
R. P. COLLIER,
18th August 1869.
Attorney General.