An Improved Hygienic Fabric, Tissue, or Material.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hygienic Fabric, Tissue, or Material.
I, JENNY NYSSEN of 95, Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris in the Republic of
France, Widow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce an electric fabric, tissue, or material,
for wearing apparel and other purposes, which will be veritably hygienic, and
exempt from all the dangers and all the imperfections to be found in similar fabrics
hitherto produced.
To this end, I seek to utilise natural materials susceptible of becoming electric,
or conveying electricity, by simply rubbing on the skin of the wearer.
In carrying out this invention, I employ the hair of the cat, wbich fulfils the
required conditions to an extraordinary extent, and I mix this material, in quantities
varying according to the degree of electrisation required, with the wool or other
material of which the fabric is to be composed. The mixed materials are made
into threads in the usual way, and from the threads thus produced the fabric is
manufactured.
Or the fabric may be made of alternate threads of wool or other material, and
of the electric material. In both cases the electricity given off is the result of the
friction of the material on the skin-of the-wearer.
Dated this 8th day of December 1891.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hygienic Fabric, Tissue, or Material.
I JENNY NYSSEN of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris in the Republic of
France, Widow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Up to the present time, electric hygienic tissues have been produced either by
employing threads coated or treated with metallic salts or oxides, or by immersing
the tissues, when manufactured, in solutions of metallic salts, with the view to effect
the production of local batteries actuated by their contact with the skin. Besides the
fact that these preparations were susceptible of producing injurious hygienic effects,
by reason of the presence of metallic salts, the industrial result realised left much
to be desired, for the fabrics obtained had not the desired suppleness.
To produce a fabric (flannel or other) positively hygienic, exempt from all the
dangers and all the imperfections above mentioned, I have sought to utilise natural
materials susceptible of powerful electrisation by simple friction on the skin of the
wearer.
In carrying out this invention, I employ the fur or hair of the cat as fulfilling
the conditions required.
My process consists in mixing, either with the wool or with other textile material,
a quantity of this hair, variable according to the degree of electrisation to be
obtained. It will be understood that the wool or other textile material can,
according to this degree, be reduced to a strict minimum, to preserve the cohesion
necessary for weaving.
The electric threads thus obtained can be employed for weft or warp, or both,
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page_text: according as it may be judged useful, according to the degree of electrisation that
it may be desired to communicate to the fabric.
It is evident that the fabric may be produced of threads alternated in any
proportion according to any indetermined series, in such manner, that it will be
possible to obtain the desired suppleness, and a determined resistance, and that it
is possible with the threads thus composed, to manufacture flannels, tissues, and
objects of hosiery, such as vests, drawers, stockings, socks, felt for socks for shoes,
certain material destined to take the place of cat skin chest protectors, knee caps,
and similar articles, employed in the treatment of rheumatism and other pains or
ailments
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In the manufacture of electric hygienic tissues or fabrics, or materials, the
employment of threads composed of any textile material mixed with the fur or
hair of the cat, which is susceptible of developing by friction against the skin of
the wearer, an appreciable quantity of electricity, with the view to obtain articles
useful for treating various human ailments by natural electricity.
Dated this 29th day of December 1891.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.