A NEW OR IMPROVED FELTED STUFF OR MATERIAL
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Guy Wilson, of the Office for British and Foreign
Patents, 71, Market Street, in the City of Manchester, Mechanical Engineer
and Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED FELTED STUFF
OR MATERIAL." A communication from abroad by Gustav Müller, of Fulda,
Hessen-Nassau. in the Empire of Germany.
Sealed the 19th December 1879, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
and the 11th Tun 1970
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Guy Wilson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th June 1879.
JOHN GUY WILSON, of the Office for British and Foreign Patents, 71, Market
"A
Street, in the City of Manchester, Mechanical Engineer and Patent Agent.
NEW OR IMPROVED FELTED STUFF OR MATERIAL." A cominunication from abroad
by Gustav Müller, of Fulda, Hessen-Nassau, in the Empire of Germany.
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of a woollen or half woollen
stuff or inaterial by a combined weaving and felting process, which will not only
be more durable than the ordinary woollen or half woollen millings, fulled or
unfulled cloths, or woven or felted cloths now in use, but will be of a smoother and
better appearance.
A material so produced is suitable for all kinds of ladies' and gentlemen's clothing,
underdress, and generally for all purposes for which woven or felted cloths have
hitherto been used, such as for covering furniture, for curtains, flags, shawls, wraps,
carpets, and other analagous uses.
In carrying out the Invention I cover a woollen single or fancy web or woven
material of any desired thickness, and manufactured of twisted or doubled combed
or carded yarn with a coating of woollen or half woollen carded, raw, mixed, or
dyed fleece of wadding-like-texture. I then submit the coated material to the
felting process by means of machinery, and thus produce on one or both sides of
the woven material a felted covering or surface.
The combined material is then submitted to a milling or fulling process to unite
the felt covering and the web intimately and permanently together, after which it
may be washed, dyed, dried, and finished in the ordinary manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Guy Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
December 1879.
"A
JOHN GUY WILSON, of the Office for British and Foreign Patents, 71, Market
Street, in the City of Manchester, Mechanical Engineer and Patent Agent.
NEW OR IMPROVED FELTED STUFF OR MATERIAL." A communication from abroad
by Gustav Müller, of Fulda, Hessen Nassau, in the Empire of Germany.
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of a woollen or half woollen
stuff or material by a combined weaving and felting process, which will not only
be more durable than the ordinary woollen or half woollen millings, fulled or
unfulled cloths, or woven or felted cloths now in use, but will be of a smoother and
better appearance.
A material so produced is suitable for all kinds of ladies' and gentlemen's clothing,
underdress, and generally for all purposes for which woven or felted cloths have
hitherto been used, such as for covering furniture, for curtains, flags, shawls, wraps,
carpets, and other analagous uses.
In carrying out the Invention I cover a woollen single or fancy web or woven
material of any desired thickness, and manufactured of twisted or doubled combed
or carded yarn with a coating of woollen or half woollen corded, raw, mixed, or
dyed fleece of wadding-like-texture produced on a carding engine fitted with a
fleece transporter of suitable length for the purpose. I then submit the coated
material to the felting process by means of machinery and steaming, and whereby
I obtain an intimately united product or material in which the single or fancy web
employed produces the pattern required either in one colour or more, according to
the colour or colours employed in such web.
The combined material is then submitted to a milling or fulling process to unite
the felt covering and the web intimately and permanently together, after which it
may be washed, dyed, dried, and finished in the ordinary manner.
In this manner a cloth is obtained having relief patterns on one or both surfaces,
and which is suitable according to the thickness and strength of the web and
wadding fleece employed for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention so communicated to me as aforesaid, together with the best methods
with which I am acquainted for carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to
be understood that I claim, the manufacture of a cloth or combined material,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Guy Wilson, bave hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
1879.