IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF TERRY FABRICS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Tebbutt, of Cranbourn Street, Belgrave
Road, Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Manufacturer of
Patent Elastic Fabrics, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Tebbutt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd November 1871.
I, JOHN TEBBUTT, of Cranbourn Street, Belgrave Road, Leicester, in
the County of Leicester, Manufacturer of Patent Elastic Fabrics, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF TERRY FABRICS," to be as follows: :-
The object of my Invention is to manufacture or produce a fabric
which shall imitate woven terries in cotton, lustre, worsted, mohair,
lamb's wool, merino, cachmere, spun silk, schappe and pure silk, both

page_text: in white, black, and colours, or in any other material of which woven
terries are made. I produce this material as follows:-I employ two
or more rising or floating shafts in an ordinary loom, which material
when elasticated represents the ordinary woven terry.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a solution of naptha, india-
rubber, or their equivalent or agent, for producing this fabric, which
when brought in contact with the ordinary sheet or thread rubber, also
having a coat or coats of solution, will then pass through pressure rollers;
the fabric will then represent woven terry webs, plain or otherwise;
hence I thus produce fabric with either plain or crimped edges.'
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Tebbutt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TEBBUTT, of Cranbourn Street, Belgrave Road, Leicester, in the
County of Leicester, Manufacturer of Patent Elastic Fabrics, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Tebbutt, Her special
license that I, the said John Tebbutt, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Tebbutt, 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 OR PRODUCTION OF TERRY FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Tebbutt, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of

page_text: 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 John Tebbutt, 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 thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:
The object of my Invention is to manufacture or produce a fabric which
shall imitate woven terries in cotton, lustre, worsted, mohair, lamb's
wool, marino, cashmere, spun silk, schappe and pure silk, in white,
black, and colours, or in any other material of which woven terries are
made. I produce these materials as follows:-I employ an ordinary
calico or silk weaving loom with two or more shafts, in which I weave
the different kinds of materials as above mentioned.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a solution of naptha, india-
rubber, or their equivalent or agent for coating this fabric, which when
brought in contact with the ordinary sheet or thread rubber having also
a coat or coats of solution thereon, and passing through pressure rollers,
the fabric will then represent woven terry webs, plain or otherwise;
hence I thus produce fabrics either with plain or crimped edges.
Having thus set forth the nature of the said Invention, I now proceed,
with reference to the accompanying Drawings, to describe more fully
the manner of performing the same.
As previously indicated, the object of my Invention is to manufacture
or produce an elastic fabric which shall imitate wove elastic terry gusset
webs, garters, belts, and other articles of a similar character in cotton,
lustre, worsted, mohair, merino, cashmere, silk and cotton mixed, spun
silk, schappe, pure silk, and velvet, in white, black, and colors, or in any
other materials in which wove terries are made. I produce these
materials as follows:-I employ an ordinary calico or silk weaving loom
with, say, two or more shafts, or a jacquard loom, in which I weave the
different kinds of materials I require, as above mentioned. The warps of
these materials when elasticated produce the same appearance as the

page_text: woven terry webs. To produce this appearance I draw in the warps,
say, of a four shaft loom as follows, see Fig. 1, showing rising or face
shafts, which Diagram will represent one shaft down forming the back
side of the cloth, and three shafts up forming the looped or face side of
the cloth. The back side of the cloth receiving the coat or coats of
solution, and the front or face side of the cloth making a loop of from
one-twentieth of an inch long, more or less, to one-eighth of an inch,
more or less, according to quality required, which when elasticated
represents or looks in aspect like the ordinary wove elastic terry web.
By this mode of weaving materials for applying either to sheet or
thread rubber I can produce plain, patent, and corrugated terry webs,
twilled, diagonal, jacquared, figured webs, or any kind of terry web
whatever.
I employ a solution of naptha and india-rubber, or their equivalent or
agent, with which I coat the back side or back portion of these materials,
and which when brought into contact with the ordinary sheet or thread
india-rubber, passing through the same process or machinery as the
ordinary patent (Bedell's) web, also the ordinary corrugated machine in
which are several pressure rollers, the fabric then produced will represent
wove elastic terry webs, plain or otherwise; hence I thus produce elastic 2
fabrics with plain and crimped edges, and also with the ordinary patent¨
(Bedell's) faces made from alpacas, Coburgs, Italian cloth serges,
Sardinian alpaca, Thibet, and other twilled Bradford goods, also silk
with terry back with plain or crimped edges, and vice versa, terry faced
with plain or ordinary twilled backs, in all widths or qualities required, 2
from three-quarters of an inch wide to eight inches and upwards as
required.

page_text: These goods I produce in all qualities, using from twelve to one
hundred and forty threads per inch in the warps in their production, yet
I do not confine myself to the use and number of these threads, but
employ more or less of them as occasion may require. In order that
my Invention may be the more clearly understood I place some of the
Diagrams herein indicated upon a separate Sheet of Drawings.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is,
the improvements in the manufacture or production of terry fabrics,
substantially as herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Tebbutt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
JOHN TEBBUTT. (L.S.)