THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW OR IMPROVED UNWOVEN FABRIC
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hirst Hebblethwaite, of Huddersfield,
in the County of York, Wool, Cotton, and Silk Merchant, for the
Invention of "THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW OR IMPROVED UNWOVEN
FABRIC."
Sealed the 9th June 1876, and dated the 11th December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hirst Hebble-
thwaite, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 11th December 1875.
I, GEORGE HIRST HEBBLETHWAITE, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Wool, Cotton, and Silk Merchant, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW OR IMPROVED UNWOVEN
FABRIC," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the production of an unwoven fabric,
composed of silk noil or the waste made in the process of silk spinning,
and any gummy or adhesive substance combined therewith to cause
the silk noil to adhere the better; or I may also combine silk noil, or

page_text: the waste made in the process of silk spinning, with wool noil or
waste wool, cow or calf hair, mohair or mohair noils, or mohair waste,
alpaca, alpaca noils or alpaca waste, and may use adhesive substances
in addition if desirable.
The process of fabrication or manufacture is effected in a somewhat
similar manner to that adopted for the production of woollen felted
fabrics. Such fabrics may be used to substitute ordinary woven or felted
fabrics for carpets, druggets, or floorcloths, and as a packing to be laid
under carpets and other articles. Also as a foundation for cards or
card felt, for hats, hat bodies, or for cloth or skirtings, and is also
applicable to any purpose for which woollen felt is now used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Hirst Hebblethwaite in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HIRST HEBBLETHWAITE, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Wool,
Cotton, and Silk Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Hirst Hebblethwaite,
Her special licence, that I, the said George Hirst Hebblethwaite,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Hirst Hebblethwaite, 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 "THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW OR IMPROVED UNWOVEN
FABRIC," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Hirst Hebblethwaite, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should

page_text: 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 George Hirst Hebblethwaite, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the production of an unwoven fabric,
composed of silk noil or the waste made in the process of silk spinning,
and any gummy or adhesive substance combined therewith to cause
the silk noil to adhere the better; or I may also combine silk noil, or
the waste made in the process of silk spinning, with wool noil or waste
wool, cow or calf hair, mohair or mohair noils, or mohair waste, alpaca,
alpaca noils or alpaca waste, and may use adhesive substances in
addition if desirable.
The process of fabrication or manufacture is effected in a somewhat
similar manner to that adopted for the production of woollen felted
fabrics. Such fabrics may be used to substitute ordinary woven or felted
fabrics for carpets, druggets, or floorcloths, and as a packing to be laid
under carpets and other articles. Also as a foundation for cards or card
felt, for hats and foundation for hats, or for cloth or skirtings, and also
as a waterproof cloth for packing purposes, and for any other purpose
for which woollen felt is now used.
I claim the use of silk noil or the waste made in the process of
silk spinning, in the manufacture of an unwoven fabric, as and for the
purposes herein described.
In witness whereof I, the said George Hirst Hebblethwaite, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this third day of June, in the
GEORGE HIRST HEBBLETHWAITE. (L.S.)