IMPROVE- MENTS IN TREATING PILE AND CUT PILE FABRICS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE OP CERTAIN NEW PILE FABRICS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Flect Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TREATING PILE AND CUT PILE FABRICS, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP CERTAIN NEW PILE FABRICS."-A communication from Charles Arthur
Callou.
Scaled the 19th June 1857, and dated the 24th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th December 1856.
I
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do, hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING PILE AND CUT PILE FABRICS, AND IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN NEW PILE FABRICS," (communicated to me by Charles
Arthur Callou, a foreigner residing abroad,) to be as follows:-
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This Invention consists in a method of treating all kinds of pile fabrics,
whether the loop or pile be cut or not, by fulling, teasling, and drawing by
means of teasels upon straight or oblique teasling machines or emery rollers,
the whole being followed by shearing.
The Invention also consists in certain new fabrics, which the Inventor styles
moquette mousseuse."

page_text: The pile fabric after the loop has been formed is passed through scouring
vats, where the colors become cleaned and revived by soap or by mordants,
then it is fulled, whereby it takes body, and the loops swell out. The fabric
next passes on to the straight teasel or to the emery roller, the action of which
destroys or opens the loops, then it goes to the oblique teasel, whereby the
fibres composing the pile become mixed, then on to a shearing machine,
which equalizes the whole surface. After being sized or not at back the
fabric is ready for the market. The process may be applied to convert old
pile fabrics, such as carpets and others, into "moquette mousseuse."
For pile fabrics, in which the pile is not so high as carpets, they are first
scoured and fulled, and passed directly to the shearing machine.
By this Invention a cloth suitable for garments is manufactured, which he
calls "moquette cloth;" only in this cloth instead of a single weft and a single
warp there must be two warps and one weft. One of the warps and the weft
are cotton, flax cotton, jute, or other textile matter, while the warp or thread
to form the loop is in wool. This method may, however, be varied, provided
there are two warps and one weft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING PILE AND CUT PILE FABRICS, AND IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN NEW PILE FABRICS," (communicated to me by

page_text: Charles Arthur Callou,) upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 thereof:-
This Invention consists in a method of treating all kinds of pile fabrics,
whether the loop or pile be cut or not, by pulling, teasling, and drawing, by
means of teasels upon straight or oblique teasling machines or emery rollers,
the whole being followed by shearing. The Invention also consists in certain
new fabrics, which the Inventor styles "moquette mousseuse," and which are
produced by the foregoing process.
In carrying out the Invention, the pile fabric after the loop has been formed
is passed through scouring vats, where the fabric becomes cleaned and the
colors revived by soap or by mordants, then it is fulled, whereby it takes body,
and the loops swell out. The fabric next passes on to the straight teasel or to
the emery roller, the action of which destroys or opens the loops, then it goes
to the oblique teasel, whereby the fibres composing the pile become mixed,
then on to a shearing machine, which equalizes the whole surface. After being
sized or not at back the fabric is ready for the market. The process may
be applied to convert old pile fabrics such as carpets and others into "moquette
"
mousseuse."
For pile fabrics, in which the pile is not so high as in carpets, they are first
scoured and fulled, and passed directly to the shearing machine.
By this Invention a cloth suitable for garments is manufactured, which he
calls "moquette cloth;" only in this cloth instead of a single weft and a single
warp there must be two warps and one weft. One of the warps and the weft
are cotton, flax cotton, jute, or other textile matter, while the other warp or
thread to form the loop is in wool. This method may, however, be varied,
provided there are two warps and one weft.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, treating all kinds of pile fabrics, whether the loop be cut or not, by
fulling, teasling, and drawing by means of teasels upon straight or oblique

page_text: teasling machines or emery rollers, the whole being followed by shearing; as
herein-before described.
Second, the production of the fabrics called respectively moquette
mousseuse and moquette cloth," by the aforesaid mode of treatment, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set his hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)