Improvements in the Manufacture of Body Belts, Wraps, and Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Body Belts, Wraps, and
Garments.
I, IRA ICKRINGILL, of Laurel Mount, Keighley, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The object of this invention is to construct belts, wraps and garments for the
body of a material known as Utrecht velvet. The belts or wraps when so made
possess certain healthful advantages over every other known under garment. The
pile of the belt or wrap is close to the skin, and is of such a nature as to
facilitate the natural action of the skin in perspiring; when the skin is moist,
the pile is dry, this is owing to the construction of the pile which allows
the air to circulate through the pile between the skin of the body and the back
of the fabric.
The feeling of chilliness after perspiring common to most under garments is
totally absent when encircled by wraps or belts of Utrecht velvet.
A warm chamber encircles the body engendering a comfortable feeling of
warmth.
After a bath, on the application of a wrap, the body is warm in a moment,
that is to say, a reaction is set up, the absence of which prevents many persons
from indulging in the luxury of a bath.
It is well known that most of the ailments to which flesh is heir, are attribu-
table to abdominal disturbances. Now I have discovered that belts and wraps
constructed of this material reduces such disturbances to a minimum; the benefits
derivable from the use of such wraps can not be enumerated, the above are only
a few. I am unable to account for some of the benefits, such as prevention
of gout and rheumatism in persons predisposed to such complaints, but never-
theless such is the fact.
My improvement consists in the adaptation of this well known material to the
use and for the purpose herein set forth, the beneficial properties and qualities for
such purposes have never been known or used before.
Dated this 8th day of May 1893
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Body Belts, Wraps, and
Garments.
I, IRA ICKRINGILL, of Laurel Mount, Keighley, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to construct belts, wraps and garments for the
body of a material known as Utrecht velvet. The belts or wraps when so made
possess certain healthful advantages over every other known under garment. The
pile of the belt or wrap is close to the skin, and is of such a nature as to
facilitate the natural action of the skin in perspiring; when the skin is moist
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page_text: the pile is dry, this is owing to the construction of the pile which allows the
air to circulate through the pile between the skin of the body and the back of
the fabric.
The feeling of chilliness after perspiring common to most under garments, is
totally absent when encircled by wraps or belts of Utrecht velvet.
A warm chamber encircles the body engendering a comfortable feeling of
warmth.
After a bath, on the application of a wrap the body is warm in a moment, that
is to say, a reaction is set up, the absence of which prevents many persons from
indulging in the luxury of a bath.
It is well known that most of the ailments to which flesh is heir, are attributable
to abdominal disturbances. Now I have discovered that belts and wraps
constructed of this material reduce such disturbances to a minimum; the benefits
derived from the use of such wraps can not be enumerated, the above are only
a few. I am unable to account for some of the benefits, such as prevention of gout
and rheumatism in persons predisposed to such complaints, but nevertheless such
is the fact.
My improvements consist in the adaptation of this well known material to the
use and for the purposes herein set forth, the beneficial properties and qualities
for such purposes have never been known or used before.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
A pile fabric body belt or wrap, constructed in such a manner as to insure the
contact of the pile of the fabric with the skin, whereby, the heat of the body is
retained, the perspiration allowed to escape, the belt, by virtue of its construction,
is free from "clamminess" and a freedom from abdominal disturbances experienced
by the wearer.
Dated thin 8th dor of Fahm 1804
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.