Buildings and Erections, and for other Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Buildings and Erections, and for other Purposes.
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I THOMAS RANSOME of Hest Bank near Lancaster in the County of Lancaster
Analytical Chemist do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED
FABRICS OR MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF FIRE
IN THEATRES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS WAREHOUSES, SHOPS, OFFICES,
FACTORIES, MILLS, AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND ERECTIONS AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES, to be as follows:-
My invention relates to fabrics or materials to be employed for preventing the
spread of fire in theatres, public and private buildings, warehouses, shops, offices,
factories, mills and other buildings and erections and for other purposes and
consists in fabrics or materials composed of metallic wire combined or united in
any suitable manner with suitable fibrous or other materials or with suitable
fibrous and other materials or with paper or paper-pulp. I employ the metallic
wire in the form of wire-gauze, wire-cloth or wire-netting and cover or coat such
metallic wire on one or both sides with the suitable fibrous or other material or
suitable fibrous and other materials in the form of a coating or layer or coatings
or layers or in the form of a woven or felted fabric or woven or felted fabrics or
with paper or paper-pulp or I combine or unite the said metallic wire and the
suitable fibrous or other materials or suitable fibrous and other materials or paper
or paper-pulp by weaving, knitting, twisting or felting or.in any other suitable
manner The suitable fibrous, or other materials or suitable fibrous and other
materials or paper or paper pulp above mentioned are or may be treated with or
mixed with any suitable chemical or other material or substance or materials or
substances by which such suitable fibrous or other materials or suitable fibrous and
other materials or paper or paper-pulp may be rendered more capable of resisting
the action of flame or fire.

page_text: The fabrics or materials in which my invention consists may be employed for
preventing the spread or passage of flame or fire in public and private buildings,
warehouses, shops, offices, factories and mills and other buildings and erections by
being used for covering, coating or being employed in walls, floors, ceilings, roofs,
partitions or in or for curtains, screens, floor-cloths, doors or shutters and the said
fabrics are also suitable for use in theatres and other similar buildings for the
construction of scenery and for curtains or screens for separating one part of the
theatre or other similar building from another part of such theatre or other similar
building in ordinary circumstances or in case of fire or for any other purpose.
Dated this fourth day of December 1885.

page_text: Improved Fabrics or Materials to be Employed for Preventing
the Spread of Fire in Theatres, Public and Private Build-
ings, Warehouses, Shops, Offices, Factories, Mills, and other
Buildings and Erections, and for other Purposes.
I THOMAS RANSOME of Hest Bank near Lancaster in the County of Lancaster
Analytical Chemist do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED
FABRICS OR MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF FIRE
IN THEATRES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS, WAREHOUSES, SHOPS, OFFICES,
FACTORIES, MILLS, AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND ERECTIONS AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to fabrics or materials to be employed for preventing the
spread of fire in theatres, public and private buildings, warehouses, shops, offices,
factories, mills, and other buildings and erections and for other purposes and
consists in fabrics or materials composed of metallic wire combined or united in
any suitable manner with suitable fibrous or other materials or with suitable
fibrous and other materials or with paper or paper-pulp.
I employ the metallic wire in the form of wire-gauze, wire cloth or wire-netting
and cover or coat such metallic wire on one side or both sides with the suitable
fibrous or other material or suitable fibrous and other materials in the form of a
coating or layer or coatings or layers or in the form of a woven or felted fabric or
woven or felted fabrics or with paper or paper pulp or I combine or unite the said
metallic wire and the suitable fibrous or other materials or suitable fibrous and
other materials or paper or paper-pulp by weaving, knitting, twisting or felting or
in any suitable way.
The suitable fibrous or other materials or suitable fibrous and other materials
or paper or paper-pulp above mentioned are or may be treated with or mixed with
any suitable chemical or other material or substance or materials or substances
by which such suitable fibrous or other materials or suitable fibrous and other
materials or paper or paper-pulp may be rendered more capable of resisting the
action of flame or fire.
Wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-netting having from twelve to twenty meshes
to the inch is very suitable for use in carrying my invention into effect but wire-
gauze wire-cloth or wire-netting having finer or coarser meshes may be employed.
According to one method of covering or coating the wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-
netting on one side or both sides with the suitable fibrous or other materials or
suitable fibrous and other materials treated or mixed with any suitable chemical or
other material or substance or materials or substances I take sheets of materials
which material may be cloth made of cotton, flax, hemp, jute or any, other suitable
fibrous material or asbestos or may be paper, and saturate or coat the said sheets
with any suitable fire-resisting material or substance or materials or substances
such as for instance tungstate or phosphate of soda either alone or combined with
any other suitable fire-resisting material or substance or materials or substances.

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The said sheets of material are then dried and each of such sheets is afterwards
coated upon one side with silicate of soda or other like material, and while such
sheets of material are still moist the wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-netting is
enclosed between two sheets of material prepared as above described the sheets of
material being so applied to the wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-netting that the side
which is coated with silicate of soda is next to the wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-
netting The sheets of material and the wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-netting are
then subjected to pressure or passed between rollers or subjected to pressure and
passed between rollers.
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In some cases I apply the sheet of material prepared as above described to one
side only of the wire-gauze wire-cloth or wire-netting.
The fabrics or materials in which my invention consists may be employed for
preventing the spread or passage of flame or fire in public and private buildings,
warehouses, shops, offices factories and mills and other buildings and erections by
being used for covering, coating or being employed in walls, floors, ceilings roofs,
partitions or in or for curtains, screens floor-cloths, doors or shutters, and the said
fabrics are also suitable for use in theatres and other similar buildings for the
construction of "scenery" and for curtains or screens for separating one part of the
theatre or other similar building from another part of such theatre or other similar
building in ordinary circumstances or in case of fire or for any other purpose.
The said fabrics or materials in which my invention consists may also be
employed to form covers to be placed over articles or objects in order to protect
such articles or objects from fire or flame. Among the articles or objects which
may be protected from fire or flame by means of covers formed of the fabrics or
materials in which my invention consists, may be mentioned as instances, papers
or other articles or objects placed or lying upon tables in offices or articles or
objects exposed for sale or for any other purpose in shops or other places.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is—
1. For use in preventing the spread of fire in theatres, public and private
buildings, warehouses, shops, offices, factories, mills and other buildings and
erections and for other purposes substantially as hereinbefore described a fabric or
material composed of metallic wire combined or united with suitable fibrous or
other materials or with suitable fibrous and other materials or with paper or paper.
pulp substantially as herein before described.
2. For use in preventing the spread of fire in theatres, public and private
buildings, warehouses, shops, offices, factories, mills and other buildings and
erections and for other purposes substantially as hereinbefore described a fabric or
material composed of metallic wire combined or united with suitable fibrous or
other material or with suitable fibrous and other materials or with paper or paper
pulp treated or mixed with any suitable chemical or other material or substance or
materials or substances by which such fabric or material is rendered more capable
of resisting the action of flame or fire substantially as herein before described.
Deted this third day of Santambor 1986
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Agent to the Applicant.