An Improved Absorbent Clout for Household or other Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Absorbent Clout for Household or other Purposes.
I, ERNEST WARDLE JOHNSON, of the Firm of John Johnson & Sons, of
23 Portland Street, Manchester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The improvements relate to the manufacture of an absorbent clout, and have for
object the production of a convenient piece of specially woven cloth or fabric
of an absorbent nature to be employed in any mean use for household or other
purposes.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I prepare a warp composed
for the most part of bleached or half bleached cotton threads of coarse count; but,
at a short distance from each selvage, by preference about an inch, I substitute a
few red or other coloured cotton warps for the purpose of producing a coloured
stripe near each border, as will be readily understood.
I actuate the treading apparatus in the loom employed for weaving this cloth so
that the warp threads will be so shedded as to produce a loose form of weaving,
such for instance as a broken twill, or other similar loose weaving in which both
warp and weft are caused to float, and by preference so as to make both sides of
the cloth exhibit the same kind of woven appearance. The weft employed is
composed of linen or flax, except at stated distances, when a cross-over stripe is
produced from a separate shuttle of coloured cotton weft; the result being a
loosely woven mixture of linen and cotton fabric, which, when cut off in stated
lengths, forms a clout of the character of cloth described, and having a coloured
border or stripe surrounding the same at a little distance from the edges of such
fabric; which clout possesses the useful faculty of absorbing wet or moisture when
used for that purpose in the mean domestic offices for which it is intended.
Variations in the material and treading of the warp threads to form the loose
condition of weaving described, together with the nature and width of the coloured
stripes at the borders, may be made without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention.
Dated this 28th day of September 1895.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64 Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
An Improved Absorbent Clout for Household or other Purposes.
I ERNEST WARDLE JOHNSON, of the Firm of John Johnson and Sons, of
23 Portland Street, Manchester, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The improvements relate to the manufacture of an absorbent clout, and have for
object the production of a convenient piece of specially woven cloth or fabric,
of an absorbent nature, to be employed in any mean use for household or other
purposes.

page_text: To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I prepare a warp composed
for the most part of bleached or half bleached cotton threads, of coarse count, but,
at a short distance from each selvage, and by preference about an inch therefrom,
I substitute a few red or other coloured cotton warps, for the purpose of producing
a coloured stripe or stripes near each border, as will be readily understood.
I actuate the treading apparatus in the loom employed for weaving this cloth so
that the warp threads will be so shedded as to produce a loose form of weaving,
such, for instance, as a broken twill, or other similar loose weaving in which both
warp and weft are caused to float, and by preference so as to make both sides of
the cloth exhibit the same kind of woven appearance.
.
The actuation of the warps may be by means of tappets or dobbies or otherwise,
as found most convenient for the particular loom employed for the purpose.
The weft employed is composed of linen or flax, except at stated distances, when
a cross over stripe, or stripes, is produced from a separate shuttle of coloured cotton
weft; or, as will be obvious, the materials forming the warp and weft of the body
of the fabric may be reversed, by employing linen warps and cotton weft, the result
being a loosely woven mixture of linen and cotton fabric which, when cut off in
stated lengths, forms in each length a clout of the character of cloth described, and
having a coloured border or stripe or stripes surrounding the same at a little
distance from the edges of such fabric; which clout possesses the useful faculty of
absorbing wet or moisture when used for that purpose in the mean domestic offices
for which it is intended.
Variations in the material and treading of the warp threads to form the loose
condition of weaving described, together with the nature and width of the coloured
stripes at the borders may be made without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Absorbent clouts formed by loosely weaving a fabric baving a plain ground and
coloured border of cotton warps of coarse count, and ground wefts of linen or flax,
or linen warps and cotton weft in reverse, and periodical coloured cross over wefts
of cotton, which fabric is afterwards cut into short lengths, each length bordered
on its four sides, for the purpose and in manner substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 15th day of June 1896.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64 Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.