THE PRODUCTION OF THREAD CORDAGE AND WOVEN TEXTILE FABRICS FROM PREPARED FIBRE OF HEMP OR ANY OF THE PLANTS KNOWN OF THE ORDER OR GENUS CANNABIS,' AND IN MIXING SUCH PREPARED FIBRE WITH COTTON, SILK, OR ANIMAL WooL
Year: 1863

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said St. George Gregg and
Thomas Gray at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition and Declaration, on the 24th November 1863, pursuant to the
9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Sr.
GEORGE GREGG, of No. 3, Austin Friars, in the City of London, and THOMAS
GRAY, of Mitcham, in the County of Surrey, Bleacher, send greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention for "THE PRODUCTION
OF THREAD CORDAGE AND WOVEN TEXTILE FABRICS FROM PREPARED FIBRE OF HEMP
OR ANY OF THE PLANTS KNOWN OF THE ORDER OR GENUS CANNABIS,' AND IN MIXING
SUCH PREPARED FIBRE WITH COTTON, SILK, OR ANIMAL WooL," and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn declaration
that we are the true and first Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said St. George Gregg and Thomas Gray,
do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under our hands
and seals, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following state-
ment:-
Our Invention consists in the adaptation of the fibre of prepared hemp or
any of the plants known of the order of genus cannabis, and in mixing such
prepared fibrous material in the production of thread cordage or woven textile
fabrics, which material and the mode of preparing and bleaching it is fully
described in Thomas Gray's Patents Nos. 886, 8th April 1863, and 1403,

page_text: 5th June 1863 respectively, his process being to prepare and bleach hemp
either by cutting into short lengths, or otherwise, and then treating it as
therein described, and after drying it will be ready for the carding engine
or any other process to produce slivers or roving for spinning of any size yarn,
and then producing a woven or spun fabric from such material. Or we take
hemp prepared as therein described, and mix it with either cotton, silk, or
animal wool, and produce from such mixed material a yarn which when
woven into a fabric is a cloth of a new compound or nature, and is capable,
either separate or mixed, of being made into a cloth bearing a beautiful soft
and silky lustre.
Claim. What we claim as of our Invention is, firstly, the making of a
woven fabric or cordage with hemp, in the manner specified in the Patents
herein referred to; secondly, the making of such fabrics by mixtures of
prepared hemp, as herein described, with cotton, silk, or animal wool, either
of which will produce a fabric of a novel and useful description, all of which
is fully described for the preparation of such fibre. But this Invention being
exclusively for the use of such prepared fibre and the admixtures thereof in
the making of a new cloth or cordage from such simple or compound materials
as herein specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said St. George Gregg and Thomas Gray,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three.
S. G. GREGG.
(L.S.)
THOMAS GRAY. (L.B.)