IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS AND FABRICS
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VICTOR
EMILE WARMONT, of Neuilly, Seine, in the Republic of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the fourteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Victor Emile Warmont, my exors, admiors, and assigns, Her especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Victor.
Emile Warmont, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Victor Emile Warmont, my exors, adññors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS AND FABRICS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Victor Emile Warmont, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled.
in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months.next and.

page_text: immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Victor Emile Warmont, do hereby declare that the nature of the Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reférence being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-.
The Invention consists of improvements in the mode of dyeing wool and
other fibrous materials in the skein or fabrics of skein or fabrics of various
colors.
The apparatus that I employ is composed of small blades of wood, or other
suitable material. I prefer to make them of fir wood, having four surfaces,
the width of which will be varied according to the extent of color desired to be
obtained by each blade. Upon the front of the blades are affixed pieces of
cloth or felt, or other suitable material. The blades being thus prepared, are
to be connected together by means of rods (or otherwise) which pass through
them, and so arranged as to leave spaces between them; the arrangement and
extent of each of these spaces may be varied as required, as exemplified in the
Drawings Nos. 1 and 2. The blades thus joined together form a series of
surfaces retained at determined distances apart. Upon these blades, thus
prepared, the coloring matter is to be placed, the skein of wool or of
other fibre or fabric intended to be dyed, being previously moistened, is
then stretched thereon, another frame of blades of a similar description,
having the same colors applied thereon as in the previous ones, is then
placed thereon, the section of which is shewn at No. 3, so that the
surface of the blades both of the under and the upper, and the spaces
between them, coincide. By the application of the apparatus, the parts
of the wool or other fibre and fabrics which should receive the shades
of color from the bath into which the apparatus is introduced, will be
in the spaces which separate the blades, and those parts which are shut
between the blades will receive all the tints upon the blades. Upon these
two frames of blades others may be placed of a similar description, and
those may be increased to any amount when it is required to dye a large
number of skeins at one operation; but in order to keep them in a
perfect state, they will require to be kept pressed together, and this will
require to be done with great care; and for that purpose I arrange
another frame E, see No. 4, into which 1 place a series of other

page_text: frames, having small pieces of hard wood C above them at small distances
apart, these pieces of wood having holes at each end, through which are
passed rods with screws and nuts D, by which means they are enabled to be
sufficiently screwed together as to prevent any movement of the different
parts taking place; and in order to keep them in a still further state of
security, I place other pieces of wood B, B, as shewn at No.. 4 in the.
Drawings. The wools or other fibres or fabrics thus arranged, and the
framing of the blades being well secured together, they are to be immersed
in the bath and allowed to remain therein half an hour or longer, according
to the colors required to be fixed. In removing the apparatus from the bath,
it should be turned over upon one face, and cold water is to be thrown
over the whole. The frames of blades are then to be separated and the
skein removed and washed in water, and afterwards removed to be dried;
they are then to be wound, and if the yarns catch or hold together in winding,
I submit the skeins to steam during the winding. By, this process any
descriptions of shades may be obtained, and upon all descriptions of wools
and other fibrous materials and fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Emile Warmont, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
VICTOR EMILE (L.s.) WARMONT.
Taken and acknowledged by Victor
Emile Warmont (party hereto), at
Paris, in the Republic of France,
this Twenty-second day of April,
1851 before me
Samuel Carpmael, of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
maketh oath and saith, that he is acquainted with the manner and character

page_text: of the handwrittng of Thomas Pickford, Her.Britannic Majesty's Consul at
Paris, in the Republic of France; and this Deponent further saith, that the
signature "Thomas Pickford," set, subscribed, or written in the margin of the
Specification hereunto annexed, and marked A, and dated the Twenty-second
day of April instant, and purporting to be executed by Victor Emile Warmont,
of Neuilly, Seine, in the Republic of France aforesaid, whereby it is stated
that the said Specification was acknowledged by him, the said Victor Emile
Warmont, before the said Thomas Pickford, on the said Twenty-second day
of April, at Paris aforesaid, is of the proper handwriting of the said Thomas
Pickford
Enrolled the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one.