Tous ces messieurs ont vu fonctionner les métiers de l'invention de M. C. G. Cilroy, et ils ont donné à l'excellence de ces métiers leur entière approbation. W. W. I have seen the looms at work in London and in Paris and have great pleasure in giving evidence to their excellence. 19 April, 1841. HENRY WOOD. We have seen Mr. Gilroy's machines working both silk and linen; and workmen of ours have superintended them here and in France, and we can speak of the inventions and the manner in which they work in the most favourable terms. L. & E. WILSON. Merchants and Silk Manufacturers, 124 Wood St. Cheapside, London. March 11th, 1841. From what I have seen of Mr. Gilroy's former inventions in machinery for weaving figured goods by power, I have every confidence that the present one, (alluding to Poole's patent of May 12th, 1839,) will in all respects meet the wants of manufacturers of silk and woollen textures, such as gros de Naples, vesting stuffs, &c. January 10th, 1841. Messrs. Editors: MICHAEL ANDREWS. Damask Manufacturer, Ardoyne, Belfast. A patent was obtained about a year since by Mr. C. G. Gilroy, now of New York, for improvements in the power loom for weaving figured goods of various kinds, either of silk, wool, linen or cotton, which looms are now in successful operation. The writer has seen specimens of the work executed upon them from each of these materials, some of them in a style which the manufacturers of Lyons would not be ashamed to own, and of a texture differing from every previous manufacture. Mr. Gilroy has spent a number of years in France, England, Belgium, and Prussia, in which countries he has obtained upwards of thirty patents for various improvements in the manufacture of textile substances; and he has in his possession the highest testimonials from the first manufacturers of France, and from others eminent in judgment and station, showing the estimation in which his improvements are held in that land of art and taste. Mr. G. has recently deposited in the Patent Office another model, exhibiting various new improvements in the loom, and which is intended for the weaving of table-cloths, shawls, piano-forte-covers, window curtains, and other articles of a similar character. By the action of this loom the business of weaving will be much facilitated, as by its means he will be enabled to work at the rate of from eighty to a hundred and thirty picks per minute, and to produce perfect goods in patterns of great complexity. Thomas P. Jones. Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, D. C., April 6, 1843. Patent Office, March 10, 1842 Sir: A very numerous collection of specimens of your silk weaving have been received for exhibition in the "National Gallery of Manufactures and Agriculture," also a sample of carpet weaving. Their extreme richness and brilliancy, entitle them to great praise, and will afford me much gratification in the display. Mr. C. G. Gilroy, New York. Respectfully Yours, H. L. ELLSWORTH, Commissioner of Patents, Washington. WOOL MOSAIC CLOTH.-A new invention has recently been introduced into London from Berlin, and, as we learn, is soon to be introduced into our American cities, in which the brilliancy and variety of colours of Berlin wool are blended together in devices of surpassing elegance and richness. The manufacture has all the appearance of painted velvet, with the texture and lasting qualities of a woven fabric. In the process of manufacture the figures, with their various hues, are woven in a thick pile several inches long, and the fabric is then divided into lamina and fixed on to flexible India rubber ground work, each slice of the pile producing a separate picture in wool. Some of the groups of flowers produced by this process are exquisitely beautiful, and are admirably adapted for the decoration of palatial drawing-rooms. The attempts to copy paintings and to take likenesses are comparative failures, but for ornamental designs the mosaic cloth is almost unrivalled in beauty.-[Boston Transcript. This invention is described at page 249, to which the reader is referred. INDEX. Abyssinia, discovery of looms and spinning machinery in, by Dr. Lepsius, Aholiab and Bezaleel, specimen of lace made by, Alarm loon, Alexis Kersivenus, letters, from, on Arphaxad's inventions, Angora or Cashmere goats, origin and progress of the new race of, PAGE. 3 44 Arts and manufactures, evidence on, before the House of Commons, Arts and manufactures in India, state of, Arybas, Lemuel P., of Sidon, inventor of the nipper or jaw-temple, • 485 424-499 9-59 32-410 ແ Gilroy's improvements on the, . 191 . 27 58 Bowman's power loom, Brains, preservation of, Bronze power loom, vertical, Brussels carpet, Buchanan, Alex., inventor of chenille, compliment to, Burr's power loom, Burt and Boyds' power loom, Calderhead's loom, Card-cutting plates, 66 rugs, &c., Templeton and Quiglay's improvements in, . 261 . 239 Carpets, rugs, &c., manufacture of, by cementing a nap or pile on plain Carpets, rugs, &c., Whytock's improvements in, 249-563 . 215 66 and velvets, cutting the pile of, . 214 Cashmere or Angora goats, origin and progress of the new race of, . 270 Decorations of Solomon's Temple, specimens of the, . 395 47 84 . 148 . 176 . 232 . 180 . 102 . 161 . 413 . 278 . 90 124 45-296 424 108-427 Discovery of looms and spinning machinery in Abyssinia, by Dr. Lepsius, PAGE. . 112 . 112 . 5 Electrical machine, ancient, discovery of, Embalming, 40-55 . 299 Figured weaving, 66 66 by power, Figuring machinery, ancient, on the Jacquard principle, 66 regular " Fletcher's vertical power loom, with detached shuttle-boxes, แ 66 Four leaf tweel, double cloth, French weavers, taste of, Full-harness power loom, Gilroy's, . 423 |