The Manufacture of a Certain Yarn or Thread.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 8th May: 1889-Accepted. 9th Aug. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture of a Certain Yarn or Thread.
We, JAMES SCOTT LINGS and WALTER EDWIN FAIRLIE both of Reddish in the
County of Lancaster Cotton Spinners, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
"
Our invention relates to the manufacture of yarn or thread composed wholly or
chiefly of fibrous or filamentous materials obtained from plants of the Callatropis
Gigantea which materials possess the strength necessary to bear the processes of
preparing and spinning.
As far as our experiments have gone at present we find that the said fibrous
material alone does not possess the necessary cohesive properties to enable it to
undergo the preparing process on the ordinary machinery now used in the manufacture
of cotton yarn.
We therefore propose to combine with such fibrous materials obtained from the
Callatropis Gigantea a certain quantity of cotton or other suitable fibre which has been
opened and-feed the fibres together into a scutching or lap machine in which they become
thoroughly mixed and intermingled and formed into a lap which is then fed into a
carding engine the cotton fibre among the other fibrous materials causing the whole
mass of fibres to cohere sufficiently to form a web which can be conducted from
the doffer as usual in the form of a sliver for the subsequent operations of drawing
and spinning.
Yarn manufactured as described has the appearance and feel of silk yarn or yarn
in which silk predominates.
It may hereafter be found practicable to manufacture yarn entirely from the
Callatropis Gigantea fibre and therefore we wish to reserve the right of using such
fibre alone or in combination with cotton, wool or other fibre.
Dated this 8th day of August 1888.
H. B. BARLOW,
Acent
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture of a Certain Yarn or Thread.
We, JAMES SCOTT LINGS and WALTER EDWIN FAIRLIE, both of Reddish, in the
County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinners, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of yarn or thread composed wholly or
chiefly of fibrous or filamentous materials obtained from plants of the Callatropis
gigantea which materials possess the strength necessary to bear the processes of
preparing and spinning.
As far as our experiments have gone at present we find that the said fibrous
material alone does not possess the necessary cohesive properties to enable it to undergo
the preparing process on the ordinary machinery now used in the manufacture of
cotton yarn.
.
We therefore propose to combine with such fibrous materials obtained from the
Callatropis gigantea a certain quantity of cotton or other suitable fibre which has
been opened and feed the fibres together into a scutching or lap machine in which
they become thoroughly mixed and intermingled and formed into a lap.
We find in practice that the combined fibres cling so closely to the ordinary lap
rod that we prefer to cover the said rod with a tube upon which the lap is wound.
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The lap with the tube in it is then removed and the lap is fed into a carding
engine the cotton fibre among the other fibrous.materials causing the whole mass of
fibres to cohere sufficiently to form a web which can be conducted from the doffer as
usual in the form of a sliver for the subsequent operations of drawing and spinning.
which can be carried out in the usual way.
Yarn manufactured as described has the appearance and feel of silk yarn or yarn
in which silk predominates.
It may hereafter be found practicable by means of improved or special machinery
to manufacture yarn entirely from the Callatropis gigantea fibre and therefore we
wish to reserve the right of using such fibre alone as well as in combination with
cotton wool or other fibre as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
-we claim is :-
The manufacture of yarn or thread from fibrous or filamentous materials obtained
'from the plant Callatropis gigantea said materials being used alone or in combination
with cotton, wool or other fibre substantially as herein described for the purposes and
with the advantages specified.
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H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agont for Applicants. »