Improvements in or relating to Buoyant Fabrics.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Buoyant Fabrics.
I, JOHANN GOTTLOB HEINZE, Manufacturer, of Gera, in the German Empire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to textile fabrics rendered buoyant by means of quills or
other light tubular objects, or by the barbs of feathers. Said fabrics may be in
the form of sheets produced by weaving, knitting or analogous processes.
The said quills or other buoyant stalks are preferably laid on the said sheet
parallel to each other and at short distances apart, each quill or other stalk being
secured to its base by a series of loops projecting from the same, said loops being
either produced during the process of manufacture of the base (knitting or
be
weaving) or afterwards sewn on, and of such a size, that the quills may
introduced through the loops endways, and are then held by the same.
Instead of using a sheet of woven or knitted material as a base, I
may connect
the quills or stalks by two or more threads or rows of threads, which are plaited,
knitted, twisted or looped together to form two or more parallel strings.
Where the fabric is made of a woven or knitted sheet plain on one side, while the
other side or face carries the loops and quills, the entire fabric may be folded or
doubled, so as to place the quills in the interior, while the outside is plain, after
which the two halves are sewn together along their edges.
Buoyant fabrics as described may be used as linings for wearing apparel, or
placed between two layers of the material forming the article of wearing apparel.
Dated this 31st day of January 1894.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Buoyant Fabrics.
I, JOHANN GOTTLOB HEINZE, Manufacturer, of Gera, in the German Empire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to textile fabrics rendered buoyant by means of quills or
other light tubular objects, or by the barbs of feathers. Said fabrics may be in
the form of sheets produced by weaving, knitting, or analogous processes.
In the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a buoyant fabric embodying my invention,
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same,
Figs. 3, 4 and 5 represent modifications.
The said quills or other buoyant stalks k k are preferably laid on the said sheet
parallel to each other and at short distances apart, each quill or other stalk being
secured to its base by a series of loops h projecting from the same, said loops being
either produced during the process of manufacture of the base, Figs. 1 and 2,
(knitting or weaving) or afterwards sewn on, Fig. 3, and of such a size, that the
quill may be introduced through the loops endways, and is then held by the
game.

page_text: Instead of using a sheet of woven or knitted material as a base, I may connect
the quills or stalks by two or more threads or rows of threads, which are plaited,
knitted, twisted or looped together to form two or more parallel strings, as
indicated by Fig. 4.
Where the fabric is made of a woven or knitted sheet plain on one side, while
the other side or face carries the loops and quills, the entire fabric may be folded
or doubled, so as to place the quills in the interior, while the outside is plain, as
illustrated by Fig. 5, after which the two halves are sewn together along their
edges.
Buoyant fabrics as described may be used as linings for wearing apparel, placed
between the layers of the material forming the article of wearing apparel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
A buoyant fabric containing quills or similar objects which are fixed to a woven
or knitted fabric by means of loops h produced during the manufacture of the
fabric, or sewn on to the said fabric, or which are connected with one another by
plaited, knitted or twisted threads, substantially as described.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London, Agents.