MANUFACTURE OF VELVETS AND OTHER PILE-FABRICS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Mather at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th September 1881.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
WILLIAM MATHER, of the Firm of Messieurs Mather and Platt, of the Salford
Iron Works, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
5 MANUFACTURE OF VELVETS AND OTHER PILE-FABRICS."
My Invention relates to an improved process of treating velvets, velveteens, and
like fabrics, my object being to oxydise the coloring matters applied, and to
deodorise the fabrics, and rapidly and efficiently produce with great economy
10 strong currents of air heated or cold and moistened, if requisite, after the colouring
improved results. My process consists in submitting the fabric to the action of
matters have been applied to the fabrics in the usual manner, thereby obviating
the necessity of hanging the velvet or other pile fabric and allowing it to remain
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other radiators, as has hitherto been the practice.
In carrying out my Invention I use by preference an oblong chamber of wood,
brick, metal, or other material fitted with apparatus for carrying the fabric in
loops or folds continuously from one end of the chamber to the other. The fabric
is delivered into the chamber by rollers, which I cover with card fillet to avoid
I employ a fan or fans to force upward from the bottom of the chamber a
injury to the pile.
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continuous and
very powerful stream of fresh air, the air being heated, if necessary,
by passing it through pipes surrounded by steam or by other suitable radiator of
chamber, or steam may be admitted into the chamber. The pile side of the fabric
heat. When desirable the air may be moistened by steam before it enters the
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page_text: forms the outside of the folds, in so that the air may act on the surface of the pile
where the colour is applied, in order to oxydise and deodorise it. The air is
allowed to escape through suitable outlets at the upper part of the chamber. The
fabric is carried through and taken from the chamber by any suitable apparatus,
and the fabric is drawn from the chamber by rollers, which I cover with card
fillet, after which it is plaited down or otherwise disposed of, having been passed
continuously through the chamber in loose folds without injury to the pile by
squeezing. The fabric may remain stationary while it is submitted to the action
of the air.
By this improved process I am enabled to oxydise and deodorise velvet,
velveteens, and other pile fabrics in a few hours, which by the ordinary process
would require days or even weeks to effect, and I thereby obtain greatly improved
results with economy and efficiency.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Mather in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th March 1882.
WILLIAM MATHER, of the Firm of Messieurs Mather and Platt, of the Salford
5 Iron Works, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
MANUFACTURE OF VELVETS AND OTHER PILE FABRICS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
My Invention relates to an improved process of treating velvets, velveteens, and
like pile fabrics, my object being to oxydise the colouring matters applied and to
deodorise the fabrics, and rapidly and efficiently produce with great economy
0 improved results. My process consists in submitting the fabric to the action of
strong currents of air heated or cold, and moistened, if requisite, after the colouring
matters have been applied to the fabrics in the usual manner, thereby obviating the
necessity of hanging the velvet or other pile fabric, and allowing it to remain for a
long time in a large stove or drying room heated by means of steam pipes or other
5 radiators, as has hitherto been the practice.
In carrying out my Invention I use an oblong chamber of wood, brick, metal, or
other material fitted with apparatus of the kind ordinarily used with drying stoves
of well-known construction to carry the fabric in loops or folds continuously from
one end of the chamber to the other. The fabric is delivered into the chamber by
rollers, which I cover with card fillet to avoid injury to the pile.
I employ a fan or fans to force upward from the bottom of the chamber a
continuous and very powerful stream of fresh air, the air being heated, if necessary,
by passing it through pipes surrounded by steam, or by other suitable radiator of
heat. When desirable the air may be moistened by steam before it enters the
chamber, or steam may be admitted into the chamber. The pile side of the fabric
forms the outside of the folds, so that the air may act on the surface of the pile
where the colour is applied in order to oxidize and deodorize it. The air is allowed
to escape through suitable outlets at the upper part of the chamber. The fabric
is carried through and taken from the chamber by any suitable carrying apparatus,
and the fabric is drawn from the chamber by rollers which I cover with card fillet,
so as to protect the pile from injury, after which it is plaited down or otherwise
disposed of, having been passed continuously through the chamber in loose folds
without injury to the pile by squeezing. The fabric may remain stationary while
it is submitted to the action of the air.
By this improved process I am enabled to oxydize and deodorize velvet,
velveteens, and other pile fabrics in a few hours, which by the ordinary process
would require days or even weeks to effect, and I thereby obtain greatly improved
results with economy and efficiency.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into
practical effect,
I declare that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the berein before
in part recited Letters Patent is,-
5 similar piled fabrics, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.
1. The novel and improved process of treating velvets, velveteens, and other
2. The manufacture of velvets, velveteens, and other similar piled fabrics by

page_text: employing the improved oxydizing and deodorizing process in the manner and for
the purpose substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mather, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and
WILLIAM MATHER. (LS.)