IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR FABRICS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philippe Amédée Devy, of 10, Old Jewry Chambers,
Old Jewry, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR FABRICS."-
A communication.
Sealed the 5th February 1856, and dated the 8th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philippe Amédée Devy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th August 1855.
I, PHILIPPE AMÉDÉE DEVY, of 10, Old Jewry Chambers, Old Jewry, do
5 hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR
FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in producing a fabric from the human hair in the
state in which it can be procured from hair dressers. The hair is to be spun
into a yarn, and woven either as weft with linen or cotton warps, or with warp
and weft of the same material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Philippe Amédée Devy in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIPPE
AMÉDÉE DEVY, of 10, Old Jewry Chambers, Old Jewry, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Philippe Amédée Devy, Her special licence that I, the said Philippe
Amédée Devy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Philippe Amédée Devy, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time 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 Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN HAIR FABRICS," (a communication;) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Philippe Amédée Dévy, 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 Philippe Amédée Devy, 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:-
This Invention consists in producing a fabric from the human hair in the
state in which it can be procured from hair dressers: The hair is to be 'spun
into a yarn, and woven either as weft with linen or cotton warps, or with warp
and weft of the same material.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same."
The hair is first to be made into a sliver or roving, and this may be done in
the usual manner resorted to for treating wool and other classes of hair, and
this may be done with the longer classes of human hair, by combing the same,
and then getting, as desired, a more even sliver by screw gills or otherwise, as
is well understood; and, as respects the shorter descriptions of hair, they may

page_text: be carded, or carded and combed, before spinning into yarn, and the spinning
may be performed in like manner to that heretofore resorted to in spinning
wool and other fibres of a like length of staple. The hair, when desired, may
be dyed of a darker colour than its natural one, or the fabrics may be topically
printed. The yarn is to be woven into fabrics in the ordinary manner of
weaving other fabrics.
I would remark that I make no claim to the combing, carding, spinning, or
weaving of fabrics generally, but only the treating human hair, and the manu-
facture of fabrics therefrom, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philippe Amédée Devy, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.