IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Archibald Turner, of Leicester, Elastic Web Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
ELASTIC FABRICS."
Sealed the 23rd July 1861, and dated the 17th May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Archibald Turner at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
May 1861.
I, ARCHIBALD TURNER, of Leicester, Elastic Web Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS," to be as follows:-
My Invention of improvements in the manufacture of elastic fabrics consists
in using in such manufacture compound warp threads composed of an ordinary
warp thread with a colored thread wrapped round it, or the compound warp
may be composed of a colored ground thread with a white thread wrapped
round it. When these compound warp threads are worked up in the manu-
facture of elastic fabrics, they will impart to the fabric an ornamental mottled
appearance, something resembling a chêné fabric. In order to vary the
appearance and ornamentation part of the warp may be composed of these
compound colored threads and part of plain warp threads.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Archibald Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARCHIBALD
TURNER, of Leicester, Elastic Web Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Archibald Turner, Her special license that I, the said Archibald
Turner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Archibald Turner, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Archibald Turner, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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 Archibald Turner, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
1
My Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Elastic Fabrics"
consists in the employment in such manufacture of compound warp threads,
composed of an ordinary warp thread with a colored thread of cotton or silk
wrapped round it, or the compound warp threads may be composed of a
colored ground thread, with a white thread of cotton or silk wrapped
round it.
When these compound warp threads are worked up in the manufacture of
elastic fabrics they will impart to the fabric an ornamental mottled appearance,
something resembling a chêné fabric. In order to vary the appearance and
ornamentation of the elastic fabric part of the warp of such fabric may be
composed of these compound warp threads, consisting of colored threads
produced by dyeing in the skein and part of plain warp threads. By this

page_text: means the fabric will present a striped appearance, some portions of it being
composed of plain or compound warp threads, either white or colored, while
other portions will be made from the compound warp threads produced from
threads dyed in the skein, and will therefore present the mottled or chêné
appearance above mentioned.
It will be evident that by varying the arrangement and disposition in the
warp of the various colored, plain, or compound threads a great variety of
patterns or differences in appearance may be produced. I would also remark
that these compound threads may be composed either of cotton alone or of
cotton combined with silk or other lustrous fibres, and may be used in weaving
machinery in combination with elastic strands to produco elastic fabrics, or in
knitting machines to produce looped or stocking fabric.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture
of Elastic Fabrics," and having explained the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as
aforesaid, the employment in the manufacture of elastic fabrics of compound
warp threads composed of strands or threads of different colours or materials,
the one wrapped or wound round the other in the manner and for the purpose
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Archibald Turner, have hereunto, set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
A. TURNER.
(L.S.)