IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF TREATING WOOL, SILK, AND TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1878

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LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert and Com-
pany, Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF TREATING
WOOL, SILK, AND TEXTILE FABRICS." A communication from abroad by
Jacques Gabriel Jules Cazanave, of Cennes Monesties, in the Republic of
France
Sealed the 22nd October 1878, and dated the 2nd May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd May 1878.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MODE OF TREATING WOOL, SILK, AND TEXTILE FABRICS." A
communication from abroad by Jacques Gabriel Jules Cazanave, of Cennes Monesties,
in the Republic of France.
The improvements consist in the application and use of a current or currents of
compressed air saturated, combined, or charged with alkaline acids or gases under
any desired and practical temperature, for the purposes of effecting carbonization of
the ligneous matters contained in wool, fleeces, silk, and textile fabrics of all kinds
and conditions.
Also in the restoration and neutralisation of acids in such materials by means of
alkaline gases, after the ligneous particles therein have been carbonized as above
described.
The treatment can be performed in any suitable closed chambers; the air com-
pressed by any convenient power; the alkaline gases may be generated from
hydrochloric liquid acid.
In the chambers may be trays or other supports for carrying and extending the
materials treated, and stirrers or beaters may be revolved therein, or the supports
may be revolved themselves.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
November 1878.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MODE OF TREATING WOOL, SILK, AND TEXTILE FABRICS." A
communication from abroad by Jacques Gabriel Jules Cazanave, of Cennes Monesties,
in the Republic of France.
The improvements consist in the manufacture, application, and use of a current or
currents of compressed air, saturated, combined, or charged with alkaline acids or
gases under any desired and practical temperature, for the purposes of effecting the
carbonization of the ligneous matters contained in wool, fleeces, silk, and textile
fabrics of all kinds and conditions.
Also in the restoration and neutralisation of acids in such materials by means of
alkaline gases, after the ligneous particles therein have been carbonized as above
described.
The treatment can be performed in any suitable closed chambers; the air com-
pressed by any convenient power; the alkaline gases may be generated from
hydrochloric liquid acid or from other suitable material.
In the chambers may be trays or other supports for carrying and extending the
materials treated, and stirrers or beaters may be revolved therein, or the supports
may be revolved themselves.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of November, A.D. 1878.