Improvements in the Manufacture of Down, Wool, and other Padded Quilts or Coverlets.
Year: 1886

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Down, Wool, and other
Padded Quilts or Coverlets.
HANNAH MARIA MATTHEWS 3 York Place Newport Monmouthshire do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement in my Invention consists of any material of suitable size or
dimensions to be placed as for ordinary style of quilt one piece or layer upon the
other, and to be stitched, or woven, or otherwise connected, in rows about 6 or 8
inches apart, more or less, leaving one or both ends open, (preferably both ends
open) which open ends, shall have button, or buttons, with corresponding hole or
holes or other fastening.
2nd, Bags, pockets, or recptacles, the same or any more suitable length and
width, corresponding with the apertures between the stitched divisions of the
coverlet or quilt, which bags or pockets, will (in preference) be made of closely,
woven thin material or any other material may be used and filled with down, wool,
or any other suitable stuffing, and when charged, to be drawn through or mado to
enter the apertures formed in the quilt or coverlet, as before described, each bag
or pocket will have a loop or loops at both ends, to fit on the button or buttons or
other fastening on outer casing in order to keep them compactly in their place-
they can easily be drawn in by an ordinary bodkin threaded with tape attached to
the ends of the bags.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Down, Wool, and other
Padded Quilts or Coverlets.
HANNAH MARIA MATTHEWS Draper 3 York Place Newport Mon. do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
DOWN, WOOL & OTHER PADDED QUILTS & COVERLETS and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
Two pieces of material of suitable size or dimensions to be placed as for other
style of quilt one piece or layer upon the other and' to be stitched woven or
otherwise connected in rows 6 or 8 inches apart, more or less, leaving one, or both
ends open (preferably both ends open) which ends shall have a lap covering the
opening or be otherwise closed.with button & loop or other fastening.
2nd. Bags pockets or receptacles the same or any more suitable length & width
corresponding with the apertures between the stitched divisions of the quilt or
coverlet which bags or pockets will (preferably) be made of closely woven material
or any other material, and filled with down, wool, or any other suitable stuffing,
and when charged, to be drawn through, or made to enter, the apertures formed
in the quilt or coverlet as before described.
1st. The object of my Invention is to diminish the difficulty of cleaning &
washing quilts of the kind as the bags can be quickly withdrawn & easily replaced
when the covering requires washing.
2. The ease with which the down can be regulated should it by any means work
into the corners or sides as it sometimes does in the ordinary kind.
3. When used during infectious sickness the bags can be withdrawn, placed in an
oven of proper temperature & thus disinfected while the covering is being washed.
11.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is―..
That inasmuch as all other quilts are made by the stuffing. being placed in one
large bag & afterwards quilted-inine is made by the said bag being stitched in
lines thereby causing apertures between, which apertures are made to receive ‹à
corresponding number of bags containing down, wool, or other kind of stuffing, or
material, each aperture to have a lap covering the opening (or to be enclosed by
any other means) the lap to be neatly closed with loop & button.
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Did hamns
At 1988