A NEW OR IMPROVED SYSTEM OF GOFFERING WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED SYSTEM OF GOFFERING WOVEN
FABRICS." A communication from abroad by Auguste Chiffray,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 3rd November 1874.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare, the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED SYSTEM OF GOFFERING
WOVEN FABRICS," a communication to me from abroad by Auguste Chiffray,
of Maromme (Seine), France, Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
The goffering, embossing, or figuring of woven fabrics, either in
squares or other pattern in the ordinary way has (amongst others) the

page_text: defects that the goffering becomes effaced or nearly so by the slightest
contact with water, or by the effect of brushing.
The object of this Invention is to remedy these defects. I will not
here describe the methods of printing or of goffering, because on the
one hand they are set forth in the Specification of Auguste Chiffray's
Letters Patent, of 26th November 1872, No. 3545, and on the other
there are various systems of goffering, but I confine myself to describing
the process, the subject of this Invention, which is as follows :—
The woven fabrics after having been dyed and goffered in a heated
state arc passed once or several times (according to the nature of the
cloth) over a shearing machine which removes the wool still standing
upright.
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To raise the nap originally goffered the fabric is submitted to several
washings in water, more or less warm, and thus designs in relief are
obtained, which will not become effaced or obliterated under any influence.
This Invention therefore consists in the method of first goffering and of
after the goffering cutting in a shearing machine all that has not been
goffered, that is to say, all that the goffering has not touched; then
.after the operation of the shearing machine again raising the goffered
nap, that is to say, the flattened nap which then forms the design or
.pattern.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge,
Her special licence, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said

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William Edward Gedge, 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, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, -the Channel Islands, and . Isle
of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED SYSTEM OF GOFFERING
WOVEN FABRICS," a communication to me from abroad by Auguste
Chiffray, of Maromme (Seine), France, Manufacturer, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 William Edward Gedge, 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 :-
The goffering, embossing, or figuring of woven fabrics, either in
squares, or other patterns in the ordinary way, has (amongst others) the
defects that the goffering becomes effaced, or nearly so, by the slightest
contact with water, or by the effect of brushing.
The object of this Invention is to remedy these defects. I will not
here describe the methods of printing or of goffering, because on the
one hand they are set forth in the Specification of Auguste Chaffray's
Letters Patent, of 26th November 1872, No. 3545, and on the other.
there are various systems of goffering, but confine myself to describing
the process, the subject of this Invention, which is as follows:-
The woven fabrics after having been dyed and goffered in a heated
state are passed once or several times, according to the nature of the
cloth, over a shearing machine which removes the wool still standing
upright.
To raise up the nap originally goffered the fabric is submitted to
several washings in water, more or less warm, and thus designs in relief
are obtained which will not become effaced or obliterated under any
influence. This Invention therefore consists in the method of first

page_text: goffering the fabric, and of after the goffering cutting in a shearing
· machine all that has not been goffered, that is to say, all that the
goffering has not touched, then after the operation of the shearing
machine again raising the goffered nap, that is to say, the flattened nap
which then forms the design or pattern.
In witness whereof, I, the said Aguste Chiffray, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five