A NEW OR IMPROVED QUILTED FABRIC FOR COVERING STEAM ENGINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED QUILTED FABRIC FOR COVERING STEAM
ENGINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad
by Charles Gaudefroy, fils, of Beaucamps-le-Vieux (Somme), France,
Merchant.
Sealed the 3rd August 1875, and dated the 5th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th February 1875.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED QUILTED FABRIC FOR COVERING
STEAM ENGINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a communication to me from
abroad by Charles Gaudefroy, fils, of Beaucamps-le-Vieux (Somme);
France, Merchant, to be as follows:-
The quilted fabric, the subject of this Invention, is intended to
protect the objects and apparatuses to which it is applied from the

page_text: effects of the surrounding atmosphere. This fabric is composed of two
superposed layers of animal hair or flock, between which is placed
a thick thread or weft of the same material, forming parallel lines
extending from one edge of the fabric to the other in the direction
of its breadth. The whole is united and sufficiently strengthened by
a double stitching, the threads of goat hair crossing each other between
each of the thick threads or weft which they intersect at a right
angle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her
special licence that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Edward Gedge, my exccutors, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED QUILTED FABRIC FOR
COVERING STEAM ENGINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a communication to
me from abroad by Charles Gaudefroy, fils, of Beaucamps-le-Vieux
(Somme), France, Merchant, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William
, 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

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 :-
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The novel fabric to which this Invention relates is intended to prevent
as much as possible loss of heat, by protecting apparatus containing
steam or hot water from the effects of the surrounding atmosphere.
Several kinds of material are used for this purpose; woven fabrics,
felt, plastic coatings, and other matters; but none of them are more
simple in manufacture than the fabric herein-after described, or cheaper,
a main point when saving of fuel is in question. This quilted fabric
is composed of two superposed layers of animal hair or flock, between
which is placed a thick endless thread of the same material, forming
lines parallel to each other and to the breadth of the fabric, the whole
united and held together by a double stitching, the threads of which
cross and twist between each of the aforesaid thick threads which they
intersect at a right angle.
This manufacture is exceedingly simple; there is firstly made a sheet
of flock as broad as the fabric it is intended to produce; there is then
laid upon this sheet a thick thread or weft of the same material
extending from one edge to the other of the sheet, and forming lines
at equal distance apart. This weft is covered with a second sheet
similar to the first, the whole is slightly settled down by pressing
with the hand, or using some broader apparatus, and the two sheets
or layers are united by a stitching with thread composed of two threads
of goats' hair. This thread is sufficiently strong to make the stitching
press the two layers of flock properly against the weft laid in the middle,
and which keeps the stitching from giving way, that is to say, cutting
the sheets or layers. The stitching running lengthwise of the fabric.
thus crosses the weft and forms lines parallel to each other slightly
spiral and at about the same distance apart as those of the weft laid
crosswise.
It should be observed that the weft thread placed across the band
gives sufficient strength to the fabric in the direction of its breadth,
while the double quilting forming warp in its length prevents its
separation or tearing in that direction.

page_text: It need scarcely be observed that this improved quilted fabric may
be of any desired thickness and breadth.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention,
communicated to me as aforesaid, I would observe that I do not propose
to limit the application of this improved quilted fabric to covering steam 8
engines; but that I claim as secured to me by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent, the use of a quilted fabric, made substantially
as herein-before described, for covering steam engines, and generally
for all the purposes to which analogous manufactures are applied.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have 1
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.