CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING OF CARPETING
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LEA, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Carpet Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirty-first day of October last, for Himself and His
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Lea, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilige and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Lea, my exors, admors, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Lea, my
exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my In-
vention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING OF CARPETING," within
England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all
His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad; in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Lea, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the above proviso, I, the said
Thomas Lea, do hereby describe and ascertain that my said Invention and
Improvement in the Making of Carpeting consists:-
First, in an improved manner of making or manufacturing Kidderminster
or Scotch carpeting, by introducing three or more warps and and shutes, and
three or more distinct and clear colors, so as that each color is distinct and
unmixed with others in the warp and shute upon the surface, and which is
to be done by mounting a loom with a harness, divided in three or more
distinct divisions, with the usual furniture of pullies or bowles, tail and simple
cords, weights, eyes or mails, and number of treddles and lambs to each
color, and other appendages employed in the manufacturing of Kidderminster
or Scotch carpeting, the said loom to be worked by winding the chain upon a
beam, and one end of the chain consisting of three or more distinct colors
(warped after the usual method), to be drawn through an eye or mail in the
harness, and cach color is to be kept seperate and distinct in each division of
the harness, six or more ends or two or more courses of the harness to be
drawn through a reed or sley. To work the loom draw the first lash and
tread down the right-hand traddle at same time, which rises half the front
division of the harness; then throw a shute and cloath it, then draw the
second lash, and tread down the second traddle as before, which rises half
the second division of the harness; throw another shute and cloath it, then
draw the third lash, and tread down the third traddle, as before, which rises
half the third division, or back part of the harness; throw another shute and
cloath it, then draw the fourth lash, and tread down the fourth traddle as
before, which rises the other half of the front division of the harness;
throw a shute and cloath it, then draw the fifth lash, and tread down the
fifth traddle as before, which rises the other half of the second division of the
harness; throw a shute and cloath it, then draw the sixth lash, and tread
down the sixth traddle as before, which rises the other half of the third or
back division of the harness; throw a shute and cloath it, and so on according
to the number of colors or divisions of the harness, and thus finishes the
course, to be repeated as aforesaid.
Secondly, in making and manufacturing Terry, Brussels, or pile carpeting, of
superior texture, richness, and extent of pattern or figure to any hitherto
manufactured, is done by introducing an improvement on the loom or
machinery used in weaving the above articles, by the multiplying the number
of pullies or bowles, tail and simple cords, lishes, and a finer sley, and other
appendages by which materials of finer texture may be worked in the loom,
and the nunter of three hundred and forty, and upwards, of single, double

page_text: or any other number of ends of worsted or other materials, seperate or twisted
together, in one or more harness and frames, may be wove in the space or width
of twenty-seven inches, and more or less, according to that proportion, and
by the use of finer or smaller wires, so as to compress twelve or more lashes
or wires into the space or extent of one inch of carpeting, the same to be
put into work and wove in the same manner as has been hitherto used in
manufacturing of Terry, Brussels, or pile carpeting.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Lea, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.