AN IMPROVED FABRIC APPLICABLE FOR CATASPLASMS AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I CHARLES LESLIE of Spread Eagle Mills Trentham Street Hulme Manchester
in the County of Lancaster Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for AN IMPROVED FABRIC APPLICABLE FOR CATASPLASMS AND FOR
OTHER SIMILAR THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES' and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of this invention is to manufacture from unsized and unbleached
cotton yarn a woven fabric of a thick soft spongy nature, which can be used as a
substitute for the material known as "
spongio-piline" for cataplasms, poultices
fomentations or compresses, and for other similar therapeutic purposes being much
less expensive and more absorbent and effective in its action than " spongio-piline."
I propose to call this compound fabric by the name of "Xylo-piline."
The fabric consists of two cloths simultaneously woven together in a loom
forming a front and a back cloth (the front being the side applied to the person of
the wearer) and between these two cloths are a series of very loose open cloths or
fillings interwoven with the back and front and with each other as hereafter
described.
These loose cloths form a cellular filling between the front and back cloths
which serves to retain moisture and heat in a very great degree in some cases
increasing the latter.
The back cloth of the fabric is very closely woven and the front cloth is by
preference woven with a satin face, so as to be soft to the touch and also more
absorbent.
I will now proceed to describe one method by which my invention may be
carried out.
The warp of the entiro fabric comes from one beam, half being used for the
closely woven back; the remainder serving to form the face and filling.
The two sets of warp being passed over two rods or bearers (before going to the
mails) the one slightly higher than the other in order to keep them separato.
Of the latter half threo fifths are used for the face or front cloth and tho
remaining two fifths for the filling half of which is not interwoven with either
back or front cloth in order to make the said filling loose. The fabric is woven in
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page_text: a Jacquard loom and as the weaving of such a fabric is somewhat complicated
I will illustrate one method of weaving the same by a set of 34 cards, so much of
the same being shewn on the accompanying drawing as will enable a competent
card cutter to cut them.
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These cards should be used in what is known as a 500 needle Jacquard machine
i,e a machine with 10 rows of 50 hooks each.
The warp threads forming the back cloth are, actuated by the hooks corre-
sponding to rows No 1. 3. 5. 7. and 9.
Those forming the filling by those corresponding to rows Nos 2 and 4. and those
forming the front cloth by those corresponding to rows Nos 6. 8 and 10.
Cards Nos 1. 2. 3. 4. correspond to picks of weft forming alternately part of the
front and back cloths.
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Cards Nos 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. correspond to picks forming the filling cloths
Card No 8. by raising all the front and filling warp threads causes the weft to join
the loose cloths interwoven with the front to those interwoven with the back and
thus forms one fabric of the same.
Cards NOB 12. 13. 14. 15. 16 and 17. form the satin face to the front fabric.
Cards Nos 18. 19. 20. 21. correspond to picks of weft forming alternately part of
the back and front cloths respectively.
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Cards Nos 22, 23. 24. 26. 27. and. 28. form the filling and No 25 joins the same
in a similar manner to card N° 8.
Cards NoB 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. and 34 are the same as No 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
and form the satin face of the front cloth.
Should a thicker fabric be required Cards Nos 5 to 11. and 22 to 28. may
repeated before the satin face is woven.
be
I have illustrated my invention by these cards but it will be readily understood
that other patterns might be adopted to weave a similar fabric.
I prefer to make the same of pure unbleached unsized cotton yarn so that it shall
be free from any chemical matter which might in some cases be injurious when
applied to the person. Such pure yarn also makes a softer fabric but the fabric
may also be made from any other pure and suitable fibrous substance. I also
prefer to coat the back cloth of the fabric with a suitable waterproof substance but
it may be used without such conting simply employing a piece of oil silk or other
similar material to keep in the moisture as in the case of an ordinary plaster.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is the manufacture from unbleached and unsized cotton or other suitable
yarn in a Jacquard loom of two cloths simultaneously with a thick, soft, spongy
filling united therewith substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before set forth and
Secondly I claim as a new manufacture the thick soft compound fabric
herein before described consisting of a back and a front cloth united together by
loose filling, all woven together into one fabric at one operation in the loom
substantially as described.
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SNmber 198.1.