AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBOSSED AND CRAPED FABRICS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas and William Hemsley, of Melbourne, near
Derby, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
EMBOSSED AND CRAPED FABRICS."
Sealed the 18th January 1856, and dated the 13th October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas and William
Hemsley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 13th October 1855.
We, THOMAS and WILLIAM HEMSLEY, of Melbourne, near Derby, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF EMBOSSED AND CRAPED FABRICS" to be as follows:-
Heretofore in the manufacture of embossed and craped fabrics it has been
usual to employ woven fabrics composed of warp and weft, which in weaving
have been laid at right angles to each other in the fabrics; these classes of
weavings are practically inelastic in the direction of their length and width.
Now, the object of.our Invention is to obtain greater elasticity in embossed and
craped fabrics, by applying looped fabrics made of warps or longitudinal threads
looped into each other. For these purposes we prefer to use warp fabrics, the
warp threads of which, in addition to looping into each other, also traverse from
selvage to selvage, but it is not essential that the warp threads should so

page_text: traverse. By these means, when the fabrics have been embossed or craped by
the usual processes, they retain a peculiarly elastic: character, and consequently
the manufactures of embossed and craped. fabrics present a very novel
character.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas and William Hemsley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
and WILLIAM HEMSLEY, of Melbourne, near Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, 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 us,
the said Thomas and William Hemsley, Her special licence that we, the
said Thomas and William Hemsley, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Thomas and William Hemsley, our 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
EMBOSSED AND CRAPED FABRICS," upon the condition, amongst others, that we,
the said Thomas and William Hemsley, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument' in writing under our 'or their hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 William Hemsley, on behalf of myself
and the said Thomas Hemsley, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention; and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:
Heretofore in the manufacture of embossed and craped fabrics it has been

page_text: usual to employ woven fabrics composed of warp and weft, which in weaving
have been laid at right angles to each other in the fabrics; these classes of
weavings are practically inelastic in the direction of their length and width.
Now, the object of our Invention is to obtain greater elasticity in embossed
and craped fabrics, by applying looped fabrics made of warps or longitudinal
threads looped into each other. For these purposes we prefer to use warp
fabrics, the warp threads of which, in addition to looping into each other, also
traverse from selvage to selvage, but it is not essential that the warp threads
should so traverse. By these means, when the fabrics have been embossed or
craped by the usual processes, they retain a peculiarly elastic character, and
consequently the manufactures of embossed and craped fabrics present a very
novel character.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
The warp fabrics having been made in the ordinary manner, as is well
understood, preferring traverse-warp warp fabrics for the purpose, they are to
be stiffened or dressed, using more or less stiffening, according to the extent of
stiffness it is desired the finished craped or embossed fabrics should possess, and
such dressing is performed in like manner to that in which warp fabrics have
before been dressed or stiffened. The fabrics are then subjected to the ordinary
process of embossing or of craping, by which means, by reason of the peculiar
elasticity possessed by warp fabrics, and also by traverse-warp warp fabrics,
new classes of craped and embossed fabrics are produced.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hemsley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
WILLIAM HEMSLEY. (L.S.)