IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Hopwood Hutchinson, of Blackburn, in
the County of Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON FABRICS
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Sealed the 9th October 1874, and dated the 20th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Hopwood
Hutchinson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 20th April 1871.
I, ROBERT HOPWOOD HUTCHINSON, of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON FABRICS,"
to be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to cotton fabrics known as "Oxford shirts,"
"satteens," "Italian cloths," "sarsinetts," shirtings," twilled and
plain, and "jeans." These have heretofore been woven from yarn spun
from cotton in its natural state, and the yarn so spun has been dyed or
printed specially for the manufacture of these goods; or yarns of
different colours have been doubled and the cloth afterwards bleached

page_text: and finished; or the pieces when woven of yarn produced from
cotton in its natural state have afterwards been dyed or printed.
In the manufacture of these and other like fancy cotton fabrics, I
employ an admixture of dyed cotton and plain or undyed cotton; these
may be of any relative proportions and colours, and when worked up and
spun produce mottled and fancy yarn which may be used in combination
with a like fancy yarn spun either for warp or weft, or a plain warp may
be used with a fancy weft, or the reverse.
The manufacture of fancy cotton fabrics, as above described, not only
reduces the cost of production but secures a combination of colours and
effects not attainable by doubling, whilst also dispensing with the dying,
printing, or finishing of pieces so made.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Hopwood Hutchinson in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 20th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
HOPWOOD HUTCHINSON, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Hopwood
Hutchinson, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Hopwood
Hutchinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
'is I, the said Robert Hopwood Hutchinson, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 COTTON FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Robert Hopwood Hutchinson, my executors or admi

page_text: nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their bands 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 Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Hopwood Hutchinson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to cotton fabrics known as Oxford shirts,
satteens, Italian cloths, sarsinetts, shirtings, twilled and plain, and jeans.
Theso have heretofore been woven from yarn spun from cotton in its
natural state, and the yarn so spun has been dyed or printed specially
for the manufacture of these goods; or yarns of different colours have
been doubled and the cloth afterwards bleached and finished; or the
pieces wlien woven of yarn produced from cotton in its natural state
have afterwards been dyed or printed.
In the manufacture of these and other like fancy cotton fabrics, I
employ an admixture of dyed cotton and plain or undyed cotton; theso
may be of any relative proportions and colours, and when worked up
and spun produce mottled and fancy yarn which may be used in com-
bination with a like fancy yarn spun either for warp or weft; or a
plain warp may be used with a fancy weft, or the reverse.
The manufacture of fancy cotton fabrics, as above described, not only
reduces the cost of production, but secures a combination of colours and
effect not attainable by doubling yarns, whilst also dispensing with the
dyeing or printing of pieces so made.
Such being the nature and object of this my Invention, its practical
application will be understood from the following description :—
This Invention relates to cotton fabrics known as Oxford shirts,
sattcens, Italian cloths, sarsinetts, shirtings, twilled and plain, and jeans,
velveteens. These and similar cloths have heretofore been woven from
yarn spun from cotton in its natural state, and the yarn so spun has
been dyed or printed specially for the manufacture of these goods; or
yarns of different colours have been doubled and the cloth afterwards

page_text: bleached and finished; or the pieces when woven of yarn produced
from cotton in its natural state have afterwards been dyed or printed.
In the manufacture of these and other like fancy cotton fabrics,
according to this Invention, I employ an admixture of dyed cotton and
plain or undyed cotton; these may be of any relative proportions and 5
colours, and when worked up and spun produce fancy yarn, which may
be used in combination with a like fancy yarn spun either for warp or
weft; or a plain warp or a dyed warp may be used with a fancy weft, or
the reverse.
The manufacture of fancy cotton fabrics, as above described, not only 1
reduces the cost of the production, but secures a combination of colours
and effect not attainable by doubling yarns or doubling of different dyed
yarn, while also dispensing with the necessity for dyeing or printing of
pieces so made.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Hopwood Hutchinson, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four
Witness,
ROT. HOPWOOD HUTCHINSON. (L.s.)
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.