IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRIC
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Tebbutt, of Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRIC."
Sealed the 7th January 1873, and dated the 8th November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Tebbutt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th November 1872.
I, JOHN TEBBUTT, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRIC," to be as follows :-
Fabrics have been heretofore made of an elastic character by the use
of surface weavings comparatively loosely woven combined together by
intermediate sheet, and also by thread india-rubber and india-rubber
solution; but by the means heretofore employed such combined fabric
has been limited in substance or body as well as in the degree of
elasticity obtained to it, and was thinner in proportion to the fineness of
the weavings composing the face of the combined fabric, except when

page_text: increased substance was obtained by the use of increased substance of
rubber.
The object of this Invention is to enable such elastic fabric to be
produced with either surface thereof of any degree of fineness, whilst the
substance or body of it may be increased to a considerable extent without
increasing the substance of the india-rubber employed. For this purpose
the weaving to be united by the india-rubber for either one or both of
the surfaces of the elastic fabric is formed according to my Invention by
top and bottom sheds, with one or two wefts, one shoot of weft acting for
the face and the other for the back of such surface weaving, with a fine
or other face warp for the outside, and a thicker or coarser or filling warp
for the interior surface, or that in the combined fabric to be next the
india-rubber, and with or without binding warp for uniting the other two
warps together.
A corresponding effect may be obtained by one of the wefts or by:
shoots of weft being employed to form the outer surface or face to be
bound to the other weft or shoots of weft by a binder warp, with a single
back or filling warp next the india-rubber.
By these means more open surface weavings may be employed, and
greatly increased substance and elasticity of the combined fabric may be
obtained with economy of manufacture.
Elastic fabric thus formed is particularly applicable for use in the
formation of boot and shoe gussets, garter and brace webs, as well as for
other uses.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said John Tebbutt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TEBBUTT, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and

page_text: grant unto me, the said John Tebbutt, Her special license that I, the
said John Tebbutt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Tebbutt, 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 MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRIC," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Tebbutt, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands 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 John Tebbutt, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Fabrics have been heretofore made of an elastic character by the use
of surface weavings comparatively loosely woven, which were combined
together by intermediate sheet india-rubber and also by thread india-
rubber aided by india-rubber solution; but by the means heretofore
employed, such combined fabric has been limited in substance or body as
well as in the degree of elasticity obtained to it, and was thinner in
proportion to the fineness of the weavings composing the face of the
combined fabric, except when increased substance was obtained by the
use of increased substance of rubber.
The object of my Invention is to enable elastic fabric of the character
referred to to be produced with either surface thereof of any degree of
fineness, whilst the substance or body of it may be increased to a
considerable extent without increasing the substance of the india-rubber
employed. For this purpose the weaving to be united by the india-
rubber for either one or both of the surfaces of the elastic fabric is formed
according to my Invention by top and bottom sheds, with one or two
wefts, one shoot of weft acting for the face and the other for the back of
such surface weaving, with a fine or other face warp for the outside, and

page_text: a thicker or coarser or filling warp for the interior surface, or that in the
combined fabric to be next the india-rubber and with or without binding
warp for uniting the other two warps together.
A corresponding effect may be obtained by one of the wefts or by
shoots of weft being employed to form the outer surface or face to be
bound to the other weft or shoots of weft by a binder warp, with a single
back or filling warp next the india-rubber.
By these means more open surface weavings may be employed, and
greatly increased substance and elasticity of the combined fabric may be
obtained with economy of manufacture.
Elastic fabric thus formed is particularly applicable for use in the
formation of boot and shoe gussets, garter and brace webs, as well as for
other uses.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details referred to, as variations may be
made therein without departing from the peculiar character of my
Invention; but what I do claim is, the manufacture of elastic fabric of
the character referred to, capable of a fine elastic surface with a thick
back or filling thereto substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Tebbutt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of May in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
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