IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE PREPARATION AND TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR TEXTILE MATERIALS, WOVEN FABRICS, AND CORDAGE
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Abbott, of the Firm of Anderson, Abbott, and
Anderson, of Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS, WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE PREPARATION AND TREATMENT OF
FIBRES OR TEXTILE MATERIALS, WOVEN FABRICS, AND CORDAGE,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Abbott at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th March 1877.
WILLIAM ABBOTT, of the Firm of Anderson, Abbott, and Anderson, of Queen
Victoria Street, in the City of London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF
DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE
PREPARATION AND TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR TEXTILE MATERIALS, WOVEN FABRICS,
AND CORDAGE."
This Invention relates,―
Firstly. To the preparation of textile and woven materials which are intended to
be employed either as driving bands, belts, or for similar purposes.
2nd. To the preparation of fibres which are intended to be employed for the pro-
duction of woven or for corded goods, or of such goods when manufactured.
In carrying out my Invention, I firstly either pass the fibres, fabrics, or goods
through or immerse them in the residue resulting from the distillation of ozokerite,
and which has been rendered fluid by the employment of heat, and then, by
preference, submitting the same after such treatment to pressure, or to such a process
as shall cause any excess to be eliminated therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Abbott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th Sep-
tember 1877.
WILLIAM ABBOTT, of the Firm of Anderson, Abbott, and Anderson, of Queen
Victoria Street, in the City of London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF
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page_text: DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE
PREPARATION AND TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR TEXTILE MATERIALS, WOVEN FABRICS,
AND CORDAGE."
My said Invention relates,-
1st. To the preparation of textile and woven materials which are intended to be
employed either as driving bands, belts, or for similar purposes.
2ndly. To the preparation of fibres which are intended to be employed for the
production of woven or for corded goods, or to the preparation of such goods when
manufactured.
In carrying out my said Invention I either pass the fibres, fabrics, or goods
through or immerse them in the residue resulting from the distillation of what is
known as ozokerite, and which has been rendered fluid by the employment of heat,
and then, by preference, submit the same after such treatment to pressure, or to
such a process as shall cause any excess to be eliminated therefrom.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I would
observe, in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore
claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent, is, the preparation of textile materials and fibres, and of woven or manu-
factured materials or fabrics, such as herein-before mentioned, by the employment
in a fluid condition of the residue obtained from the distillation of what is known
as ozokerite, the materials, fibros, or fabrics, being saturated therewith, substantially
as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Abbott, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
WILLIAM ABBOTT. (LS.)