An Improvement in Finishing Woven Fabric known as Oloth" and other similar Fabrics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 10th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 15th June, 1888
An Improvement in Finishing Woven Fabric known as
Oloth" and other similar Fabrics.
Italian
I GASTON URBAIN of 8 College Land Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed principally to be applied to the woven fabric known as
"Italian cloth" and composed of a mixture of cotton and wool which is used chiefly
for lining coats and other garments but it is also applicable to other similar woven
fabrics which are finished by having a gloss or polish imparted to the surface by means
of hot pressure.
This gloss or polish as ordinarlily applied and finished is liable to be removed and
the surface made dull by the application accidentally or otherwise of water or
moisture thereto, such as would be the effect of exposure to rain or of being damped
and ironed in the process of finishing a garment and it is to remedy this defect in the
finish and to prevent the gloss or polish from being removed by moisture that my
invention is designed.
The invention consists in the application to the cloth after it has been glossed and
finished in the usual manner of steam under considerable pressure (say) from sixty
to seventy pounds to the square inch. This application of steam under pressure to
the glossed and finished cloth will be found to fix the gloss and to prevent the same
from being made dull or removed by the application of water, steam, or other moisture
thereto. And by this means the principal defect of this kind of cloth is entirely
obviated and its value is consequently increased.
I do not bind myself to any particular method of or apparatus for applying steam
under pressure to the cloth for this purpose, but the method which I recommend and

page_text: have found to be efficacious for the purpose is to take the cloth after it has been
completely finished and glossed in the usual manner and to place it in its folded state
in a hydraulic press and apply a moderate pressure thereto. The bottom plate or
table of this press is made hollow and perforated and while the cloth is under the
hydraulic pressure, steam at a pressure of about sixty to seventy pounds or more to
the square inch is admitted into the hollow perforated plate and is forced by its own
pressure through the mass of folded cloth, and thus the gloss is permanently fixed on
the face of the fabric and will not be removed or deteriorated by the application of
water steam or other moisture.

page_text: I GASTON URBAIN of 8 College Land Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Engineer 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 is designed principally to be applied to the woven fabric known
as "Italian cloth" and composed of a mixture of cotton and wool which is used
chiefly for lining coats and other garments but it is also applicable to other similar
woven fabrics which are finished by having a gloss or polish imparted to the surface
by means of hot pressure.
This gloss or polish as ordinarily applied and finished is liable to be removed and
the surface made dull by the application accidentally or otherwise of water or
moisture thereto, such as would be the effect of exposure to rain or of being damped
and ironed in the process of finishing a garment, and it is to remedy this defect in
the finish and to prevent the gloss or polish from being removed by moisture that my
invention is designed.
The invention consists in the application to the cloth, after it has been glossed and
finished in the usual manner of steam under considerable pressure (say) from sixty
to seventy pounds to the square inch. This application of steam under pressure to
the glossed and finished cloth will be found to fix the gloss and to prevent the same
from being made dull or removed by the application of water, steam or other moisture
thereto, and by this means the principal defect of this kind of cloth is entirely
obviated and its value is consequently increased.
I do not bind myself to any particular method of or apparatus for applying steam
under pressure to the cloth for this purpose but the method which I recommend and
have found to be efficacious for the purpose is to take the cloth after it has been
completely finished and glossed in the usual manner and to place it in its folded state
in a hydraulic press and apply a moderate pressure thereto. The bottom plate or
table of this press is made hollow and perforated and while the cloth is under the
hydraulic pressure, steam at a pressure of about sixty to seventy pounds or more to
the square inch is admitted into the hollow perforated plate and is forced by its own
pressure through the mass of folded cloth, and thus the gloss is permanently fixed on
the face of the fabric and will not be removed or deteriorated by the application of
water steam or other moisture.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The application to Italian cloth and other similar fabrics, after being glossed and
finished in the usual manner, of steam under considerable pressure for the purpose
of fixing the gloss and preventing it from being made dull or removed by the applica-
tion of water steam or other moisture thereto.