A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD, OR NEW OR IMPROVED METHODS, OF ORNAMENTING WINDOW FURNITURE, AND ARTICLES OF UPHOLSTERY IN GENERAL
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PEMBERTON, Junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer;
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of February,
in the ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Thomas Pemberton, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Pemberton, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Pemberton,
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 "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD, OR NEW OR IMPROVED METHODS, OF ORNAMENTING WINDOW
FURNITURE, AND ARTICLES OF UPHOLSTERY IN GENERAL;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Thomas Pemberton, shall cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of 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 Pemberton, 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 description thereof, reference being
had unto the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists,-
Firstly, in ornamenting window furniture and articles of upholstery in
general by constructing the fringe- used in the said window furniture and
articles of upholstery either wholly or in part of metal, or of metal combined
with glass, china, earthenware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substances,
or of metal combined with silk, worsted, or other fibrous substances.
Secondly, in constructing those parts of window furniture and articles of
upholstery which are or may be made of metal in imitation of rope or ropes
and tassels; and also in substituting parts or ornaments of metal or of metal
combined with glass, china, earthenware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous
substances, or of metal combined with silk, worsted, or, other fibrous substances
in place of the rope or ropes and tassels usually employed in window furniture,
and articles of upholstery, the said parts or ornaments, being maderin imita-
tion, of rope, or of ropes and tassels.
The accompanying Drawing represents an elevation of a window, and window
furniture, in which window furniture both. parts of my Invention
are illustrated.
One; method of carrying into. effect the first part of my Invention, that is to
say,, the construction of fringe used in window. furniture and upholstery in
general,, either wholly or in part of metal, or of metal, combined with glass,
china,, earthenware,, or other vitrious or, semi-vitrious, substances, or of metal
combined, with, silk,, worsted, or other fibrous substances is, represented in
that part. of, the, Drawing, marked a. Those, parts of the fringe which are
marked bare. made of worsted, silk, or other fibrous substance, and the
hangers. or those parts of the fringe marked c, and which are usually made of
wood covered with,, worsted,, silk, or other, fibrous substance, are made, after
the manner of my Invention, of, brass or other metal or metallic alloy, or of, a
metal or metallic, alloy, combined, with glass, china, earthenware,., or., other
vitreous or, semi-vitreous substances, or. of metal combined with silk, worsted, or
other fibrous substances. I sometimes, construct the whole of the fringe of a
series of metallic hangers, or, of hangers made of metal combined with glass,
china, earthenware, or, other.. vitrious or semi-vitrious substances, or, of, metal

page_text: combined with silk, worsted, or other fibrous substances. I sometimes also
construct the links, or 'those 'parts of the fringe marked d, of brass' or other
metal or metallic alloy, or of metal combined with glass, china, earthenware,
or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substances, or of metal combined with silk,
worsted, or other fibrous substances.
The second part of my Invention, that is to say, the constructing of 'those
'parts of window 'furniture and articles of upholstery which are or may be made
of metal, in imitation of rope or ropes and tassels, and also in substituting
parts or ornaments of metal, or of metal combined with glass, 'china, earthen-
ware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substances, or of metal combined with
silk, worsted, or other fibrous substances, in place of the rope or ropes and
tassels usually employed in window furniture and articles of upholstery, the
said parts or ornaments being made in imitation of rope or ropes and tassels, is
illustrated in those parts of the Drawing marked e, e¹, f, g. e represents a substi-
tute for the ordinary curtain band, commonly employed for supporting window
curtains. It consists of a pin attached to the window frame, the said pin
being ornamented by a metallic ornament made in imitation of a rope and
tassel. e¹ represents (partly in dotted lines) à substitute for the rope and
tassel sometimes used for supporting window curtains; it is made of metal
and in imitation of a rope or ropes and tassel, and holds or supports the
curtains in the same manner as the ordinary rope and tassel. It is affixed to
the wall or window case in any convenient manner. The same method of
ornamenting other parts of window furniture and articles of upholstery in
general is also illustrated at f and g. The parts of the Drawing marked f
represent cornice ends, ornamented by metallic ornaments in imitation of ropes
and tassels. Those parts of the Drawing marked 9 represent cornice rings
ornamented in the manner of my Invention, that is to say, by being made in
imitation of rope.
g
The first part of my Invention, that is to say, the ornamenting of window
furniture and articles of upholstery in general, by constructing the fringe used
in the said window furniture and articles of upholstery either wholly or in part
of metal, or of metal combined with glass, cliina, earthenware, or other vitreous
or semi-vitreous substances, or of metal combined with silk, worsted, or other
fibrous substances, is applicable to fringes of all sizes and kinds. And the
second part of my Invention, that is to say, the constructing of those parts of
window furniture and articles of upholstery which are or may be made of metal
in imitation of rope or ropes and tassels, and also in substituting parts, or orna-
ments of metal or of metal combined with glass, china, earthenware, or other
vitrious or semi-vitrious substance, or of metal combined with silk, worsted, or

page_text: other fibrous substances, in place of the rope or ropes and tassels usually
employed in window furniture and articles of upholstery, the said parts or
ornaments being made in imitation of rope or of ropes and tassels, is applicable
to cornice or curtain poles, cornice ends, pole-rings, and cornice brackets, curtain
pins, or bands or holders, or other articles for supporting curtains, festoon rings,
and bell ropes.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the precise methods of carrying my Invention into effect herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying Drawing, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my said Invention, that is
to say, I do not limit myself to any particular form or size of the hangers
described in reference to the first part of my Invention, and represented at c
in the accompanying Drawing; neither do I limit myself to the use of any
particular metal or metallic alloy, as I construct them of different metals, and
sometimes also of metals coated or plated upon non-metallic substances; neither
do I limit myself, with regard to the second part of my Invention, to any particular
pattern or design in the production of ornaments in imitation of rope, as the
same may be varied and the same general effect produced. But I claim,-
Firstly, the ornamenting of window furniture and articles of upholstery in
general by constructing the fringe used in the said window furniture and
articles of upholstery either wholly or in part of metal, or of metal combined
with glass, porcelain, earthenware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substances,
or of metal combined with silk, worsted, or other fibrous substances, herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly, the constructing of those parts of window furniture and articles of
upholstery which are or may be made of metal in imitation of rope or ropes and
tassels, and also substituting parts or ornaments of metal or of metal combined
with glass, china, earthenware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substances, or
of metal combined with silk, worsted, or other fibrous substances, in place of the
rope or ropes and tassels usually employed in window furniture and articles of
upholstery, the said parts or ornaments being made in imitation of rope or
ropes and tassels, as herein-before described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Pemberton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
THOMAS (L.S.) PEMBERTON, Junior.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Thomas Pemberton, junior, came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.