AN IMPROVED SIZING MATERIAL TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZING OR DRESSING YARNS PREPARATORY TO WEAVING
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Schaub, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SIZING
MATERIAL TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZING OR DRESSING YARNS PREPARATORY
TO WEAVING."-A communication from abroad by John Ulric Billwiller,
of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Sealed the 9th January 1866, and dated the 21st July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Schaub at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
July 1865.
I, EDWARD SCHAUD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SIZING
MATERIAL TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZING OR DRESSING YARNS PREPARATORY TO
WEAVING," (being a communication to me from abroad by John Ulric
Billwiller, of St. Gallen, Switzerland,) to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to an improved material possessing antiseptic or
preservative qualities for sizing, dressing, and stiffening yarns, which is com-
posed of the following constituents, and to be employed and applied after the
same manner as ordinary size.
The improved sizing material consists of a combination of water, glue,
licorice, blue vitriol, starch, or similar farinaceous sizing material, powder
blue, and cherry brandy, which are to be combined and mixed in about the
following proportions:-Take one hundred litres of boiling water, and mix
therewith four and a half kilogrammes of ordinary joiner's glue, then dissolve
five hundred and sixty grammi of gum arabic, and three hundred grammi of

page_text: licorice in a portion of the glue and water, and when dissolved add it to the
bulk of glue and water, to which add five hundred and sixty grammi of blue
vitriol, then dissolve four and a half kilogrammes of starch and one hundred
grammi of powder blue, and add to the aforesaid mixture; and, lastly, add
half a litre of cherry brandy to the bulk, and thoroughly mix; the latter is
employed to impart a gloss or lustre to the yarn. When these components
are duly mixed they require to be boiled together for about half a minute,
after which the size so manufactured is ready for use. I would remark that
if the atmosphere in which this is used be more than usually dry, a small
quentite of notash or common soan may be added to the size.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Schaub in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
SCHAUB, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Edward Schaub, Her special license that I, the said Edward Schaub,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Schaub, my. executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "AN IMPROVED SIZING
MATERIAL, TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZING AND DRESSING YARNS PREPARATORY TO
WEAVING," a communication to me from abroad by John Ulric Billwiller, of
St. Gallen, Switzerland, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Schaub, 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 1, the said Edward Schaub, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to an improved material possessing antiseptic or
preservate qualities for sizing, dressing, and stiffening yarns, which is
composed of the following constituents, and is to be employed and applied
after the same manner as ordinary size.
Tbe improved sizing material consists of a combination of water, glue, gum
arabic, Spanish juice or liquorice, blue vitriol, starch, or similar farinaceous
sizing material, powder blue, or washing blue, and cherry brandy, or other
similar liquid known in Germany as kirschwasser, which are to be combined
and mixed in about the following proportions:-Take one hundred litres of
boiling water and mix therewith four and a half kilogrammes of ordinary
joiner's glue, and stir them until the latter is completely dissolved, then
dissolve five hundred and sixty grammes of gum arabic, and three hundred
grammes of Spanish juice or liquorice, and when dissolved each separately
add them to the bulk of glue and water, to which add five hundred and sixty
grammes of blue vitriol, then dissolve, also separately, four and a half
kilogrammes of starch, and one hundred grammes of powder blue, or washing
blue, and add them to the aforesaid mixture, the whole to be constantly
agitated; and, lastly, add half a litre of cherry brandy or kirschwasser to the
bulk, and thoroughly mix. When these components are duly mixed they
require to be boiled together for about balf a minute longer, after which the
size so manufactured is ready for use. I would remark that if the atmosphere
in which this is used be more than usually dry, a small quantity of potash or
common soap may be added to the size to prevent the drying too quickly.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Schaub, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
EDWARD SCHAUB. (L.S.)
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
4, St. Ann's Sq., Manchester.