US Patent: 5,495X
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| Making Woollen Carpet or Carpeting
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Patentee:
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| William Harrington (exact or similar names) - Harrison, Westchester County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Jun. 11, 1829 |
| Reissue Information: |
| Reissue of 5,394X (Mar. 03, 1829) |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| First patented March 3d, 1829. Afterwards surrendered for the purpose of correcting the specification, and re-issued June 11th; William Harrington, Harrison, West Chester County, New York.
“I do not claim as my invention any one of the machines used in the above described method of manufacturing woolen cloth, nor any particular part of any one of the machines; but I claim that I am the first person who, by passing sheep's wool through the above described or similar operations, and by a combination of the above described or similar machinery, has been able successfully to manufacture woollen cloth of sufficient firmness of texture, strength, and durability, to answer the valuable purposes named in this specification, without spinning, or weaving, upon the principles of felting. The subscriber is not aware, that any one has heretofore been able successfully to avail himself of the well known felting properties of sheep's wool, for the purpose of manufacturing cloth, suitable for carpeting and other valuable purposes named in this specification.
Within two months, five patents, we believe, have issued for a purpose similar to the foregoing; we are therefore likely to have the practicability, or rather the eligibility of the thing fairly tested; and it is highly probable also, that the claims of the patentees to originality, may likewise have to pass the ordeal of the law.
Numerous attempts have been made, and large sums invested, in this manufacture. A patent was obtained in England, for the manufacture of cloth by felting, upwards of thirty-five years ago, and several different establishments formed, but all eventually abandoned, because the cloth made, was less durable than that which was woven.
We recollect a similar attempt made in the vicinity of Philadelphia about thirty years ago, by two Englishmen, who came over with the express determination of establishing the manufacture. We saw specimens of the cloth, the appearance of which was good; but the state of the country was not then favourable to such a project, and the intrinsic defect of want of strength in the texture, was urged against it.
The claim of the present patentee is, as appears to us, to his having succeeded; we hope this claim may be a durable one. In the enumeration of the articles, his new patent is much broader than the old; the correctness of this admits of some doubt; we have always entertained the opinion that an amended specification may omit old, but ought not to contain new claims; and that the principal intention was to afford an opportunity for giving that precision and clearness to the instrument which had been at first unwittingly neglected."
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pg. 170
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only. |
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