AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING MIXED COLORED WOOLLEN AND OTHER THREADS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald 'Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF PRODUCING MIXED COLORED WOOLLEN AND OTHER THREADS."-
A communication from abroad by Stanislas Vigoureux, of Rheims,
France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th September 1861.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING MIXED COLORED WOOLLEN AND OTHER
THREADS," (communicated to me from abroad by Stanislas Vigoureux, of
Reims, France,) to be as follows:-
In the spinning of filamentous substances in order to produce mixed colored
thread, each shade or color is dyed seply, the different colored filaments
are afterwards united and passed through preparing and spinning machines.
Notwithstanding the greatest care to equalize the mixture of the colors,
especially when they are opposite, such as black and white, there remains in
the thread veins or stripes different from the ground.
The object of this Invention is to overcome this defect. The Invention

page_text: consists in dyeing or printing the filaments with "chinage," or marks of colors,
by any suitable means, upon part of their length, by sections or otherwise, and
in one or more colors, before being made into thread, and more particularly
the filaments of wool, which undergo subsequently the operations of mixing
by machine, in order to obtain a new kind of mixed thread.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to timo
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 Inven-
tion for AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING MIXED COLORED WOOLLEN AND OTHER
THREADS," (communicated to me from abroad by Stanislas Vigoureux, of Rheims,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archi-
bald Brooman, 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 I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
In the spinning of filamentous substances in order to produce mixed colored

page_text: thread, each shade or color is dyed separately, the different colored filaments
are afterwards united and passed through preparing and spinning machines.
Notwithstanding the greatest care to equalize the mixture of the colors,
especially when they are opposite, such as black and white, there form and
remain in the thread veins or stripes different from the ground.
The object of this Invention is to overcome this defect. The Invention
consists in dyeing or printing the filaments with "chinage," or marks of colors
by any suitable means, upon parts of their length in sections, and in one or
more colors, before being made into thread, prior to their being subjected to
the operations of mixing by the ordinary machinery, in order to obtain a new
kind of mixed thread suitable for manufacturing purposes. If, for example,
the filaments are 2, 4, 6, 8, 15 or 20 inches long, more or less, and if by dyeing;
printing, or other means of coloring the color is repeated, say, from inch to inch,
or any other regular or irregular distances, it will be understood that after
they have been subjected to the various. passages in the course of their pre-
paration, the resulting threads and fabrics will shew effects varied according.
to the length of the portions colored and repeated over the filaments. The
result of this method of coloring the filaments in sections, is to produce by the
ultimate sliding of the filaments over one another, and by the superposition of
the colors during the passage of the filaments through the preparing machines,
a conglomeration of colors, and consequently a regular well blended mixture
with different shades of threads.
This method of coloring filaments in sections is applicable to wool, cotton,
floss silk, flax, hair, and to all other textile or filamentous material, and it
can be applied to the filaments in any stage of their preparation prior to their
formation into threads for the manufacture of textile and other fabrics. If,
for example, carded or other wool is to be operated upon, when the card is
used as the preparing machine, the coloring of the filaments in sections may
bo performed when the wool is in its raw state, after washing, and after the
grease has been removed, or after the wool has undergone one or several
cardings, or when the wool has been submitted to some of the passages
through the preparing machines employed in spinuing to obtain the thread..
If combed wool is to be operated on the coloring of the filaments in sections
may be effected at any of the preceding cardings of the carded wool, or before
or after combing.
The coloring of filaments of any kind may be effected by dyeing or printing
by any of the known methods, or by any coloring process whatever that
practice may suggest. Thus, as an example of how the printing may per-
formed in sections on the filaments of combed wool:-Take slivers of combed
be

page_text: wool, place them on bobbins to unroll and unite in groups in order to draw
them out and present them flat to the action of printing rollers generally
employed for printing fabrics. On leaving the rollers the slivers are conveyed
úpon an endless wob, or otherwise to liave the impression dried by means of
heated pipes, fans, or otherwise. The shades and effects of the mixture may
bo varied either by, altering. the spaces between the colors or by mixing tho
filaments colored in sections with white filaments, or with filaments dyed or
colored all over, and not in sections. To hide the shade of tho raw material
in this method of coloring filaments in sections, the filaments may be dyed,
printed, or colored in one or in several colors, or the raw material may be
dyed any desired color, and the process before described of coloring in sections
may be afterwards applied.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the manufacture
of mixed colored woollen and other threads from filaments dyed, printed,
or colored in sections, in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.