PROVE- MENTS IN THE WEAVING OF SEAMLESS ARTICLES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Whitehall Mulloney, of Coventry, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Lavention of IXPROVE-
MENTS IN THE WEAVING OF SEAMLESS ARTICLES."
Sealed the 28th June 1870, and dated the 29th January 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Whitehall
Mulloney at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 29th January 1870.
I, SAMUEL WHITEHALL MULLONEY, of Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WEAVING OF SEAMLESS ARTICLES," to
be as follows:-
Hitherto in the manufacture of seamless articles it has been found
necessary to secure the raw edges formed in cutting up the length of
woven fabric into separate articles by folding over the edges and sewing
them down. To avoid the necessity for this operation I now propose to
weave the articles (still in lengths) with a selvage or selvages. This
[Price 8d.1

page_text: result I attain by weaving the articles transversely of the warp threads
and of the piece. The articles which I propose to manufacture are bags,
sacks, and coverings, also petticoats, trousers, jerkins, shirts, caps, and
other articles of wearing apparel.
In carrying out my Invention I use by preference an ordinary jacquard
loom, and I employ two shuttles, which I operate simultaneously; these
shuttles working in separate and distinct sheds will form two distinct
fabrics, which in order to produce a tube will require to be joined or
blended together by the weaving operation. Any approved kind of tie
may be introduced in the junction of these fabrics, care being take that
the tendency of the fabric to ravel in the line of its severance shall be
avoided as far as practicable,
In weaving petticoats or skirts, for example, according to my Invention
I alternate or reverse their position so that the narrow width of the
waist end may compensate for the extra width of the bottom end, and as
the weft threads extend from end to end of the fabric they will form a
selvage at both extremities of the skirt. A diagonal cut transversely of
the fabric will sever the skirts from each other, and after being boarded
and finished by pressure they will be ready for the market.
In a similar manner I manufacture trousers, shirts, and other like
tubular articles; but when manufacturing tubular articles with a closed
end, such, for example, as bags or sacks, I form a selvage on one edge
only of the piece, and so lift the warp threads as to produce at the
opposite edge of the piece a tie of sufficient width to unite the double
fabric; or by shifting the shuttles from one shed to the other the upper
and lower fabrics will be united to form the closed end of the bag.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Whitehall Mulloney in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 29th July 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Samuel
WHITEHALL MULLONEY, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, send greeting.

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the, said. Samuel. Whitehall Mulloney, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel Whitehall Mulloney, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Whitehall
Mulloney, 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 THE WEAVING OF SEAMLESS ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Whitehall Mulloney, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their bands 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 Samuel Whitehall Mulloney, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):
It has been usual in the manufacture of seamless articles to form raw
edges by cutting up the length of woven fabric into separate articles,
which edges require to be secured by folding over the edges and sewing
them down. To avoid this necessity and at the same time to weave
articles of irregular shape, as garments, in lengths and with a selvage or
selvages I employ a jacquard loom and weave the articles transversely
of the warp threads and of the piece. The articles which I
propose to
manufacture are sample bags and such like articles of regular shape
which admit of being woven two together transversely of the warps,
and also petticoats, trousers, jerkins, shirts, caps, and other articles of
wearing apparel.
In carrying out my Invention I use by preference an ordinary jacquard
loom, and I employ either one or two shuttles.
The two shuttles may
be operated simultaneously, the same working in separate and distinct

page_text: required to produce the article desired. In all these cases the selvage
formed will be at the extremities of the work.
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Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of Improvements
in the Weaving of Seamless Articles," and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the
above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, weaving articles transversely
of the warps in jacquard looms in the manner and for the purpose above
described with reference to the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Whitehall Mulloney, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.
S. W. MULLONEY. (L.S)