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Cobble Brothers Machinery (attrib.), "Apparatus for making patterned tufted pile fabric" (GB853746A)

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Made by: J. L. Card (US inventor); Cobble Brothers Machinery Co. (attrib.)
Date: US original 1956; GB filed 1957; published 9 Nov 1960
Place: United Kingdom (US applicant)
Number: GB853746A
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Global diffusion of tufting

View at the source Cited in chapter 5, notes 31, 35

Cite this source

Cobble Brothers Machinery (attrib.), “Apparatus for making patterned tufted pile fabric” (GB853746A), US original 1956; GB filed 1957; published 9 Nov 1960. patents.google.com/patent/GB853746A/en.

Research notes

This is the British filing of Joseph L. Card's patterned-tufting apparatus, held in the database as US2935037A (pat-us2935037a). It was filed in Britain in 1957, about the time Cobble opened its Blackburn subsidiary. Grace's Guide says a wholly-owned Cobble Brothers Machinery subsidiary was set up in Blackburn in 1955 and became Singer-Cobble in 1960. A Cotton Town caption says Cobble took over Albert Mill in 1956. The two dates conflict. Verified Oct 2026 by web search only. patents.google.com and Espacenet could not be opened from the sandbox, so I did not read the document itself. The GB number, title and publication date come from Google Patents family and citation rows. I did not see the assignee on the GB record. Research note (Oct 2026): found through search results; the patent document itself wasn't opened. The Patent drawings job fetches the document from Google Patents; if drawings appear on this record, the number is confirmed.