IMPROVEMENTS IN MOLESKINS, VELVETERNA CORDS: AND SUCH LIKE MATERIALS."
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Levy, of High Street, Sheffield, in the County
of York, Clothier, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOLESKINS,
VELVETERNA CORDS: AND SUCH LIKE MATERIALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Levy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd May
1857.
I, HENRY LEVY, of High Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Clothier,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MOLESKING, VELVETEENS, CORDS, AND SUCH LIKE MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
At present moleskins, velveteens, and such like materials are manufactured
with one side twilled or unfaced; my improvements consist in weaving or
combining with these materials in the process of manufacture a woollen facing
or lining. This will obviate the necessity of using loose lining in making up
these materials for wear, at the same time the integrant facing or lining which
I propose to introduce will operate as a non-conducter to repel excessive
heat or. cold. I make no claim for improvements in the manufacture of mole-
skins, velveteens, cords, and such like materials, taken separately; what I claim
as my Invention is, the combination of wool with these materials in the process
of manufacture in such manner that the manufactured article exhibits wool on
one side and moleskin, velveteen, or cord; &c., as the case may be, on the other.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Levy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
LEVY, of High Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Clothier, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Levy, Her special license that the said Henry Levy, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Levy, 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 MOLESKINS,
VELVETEENS, CORDS, AND SUCH LIKE MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Levy, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Levy, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement. (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in weaving or combining in the process of manu-
facture a woollen facing, back, or lining with velveteens, cords, and such like
materials, thus forming an integrant facing, back, or lining, which will operate
as a non-conductor to repel excessive heat or cold, and will obviate the neces-
sity of using loose lining in making up these articles for wear. The fabric
may be produced by the mode of manufacture which at present obtains in
weaving materials with different wefts, or wefts and warps on the face and
reverse side. The mechanism of the power loom, and harness connected
therewith, may be altered, but the Invention may be carried out without any
alteration or combination not at present known, to the trade. The shedding

page_text: of the warps and throwing of the weft with changing or drop boxes or with
compound shuttle boxes containing the different wefts must be regulated by
the quality of article (the combination and structure of which may be varied)
which it is designed to manufacture.
I make no claim for improvements in the manufacture of moleskins,
velveteens, cords, and such like materials, taken separately; but what I claim as"
the Invention to be secured to me by the above in part recited Letters Patent
is, the combination of wool, worsted, mohair, or other similar material in such
a manner that the manufactured article exhibits a facing, back, or lining of
wool on one side and moleskin velveteen, or cord, &c., as the case may be, on
the other.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Levy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
T. F. CASLIM.
HENRY LEVY. (L.S.)