Improvements in the Manufacture of Bookbinders' Cloth.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Bookbinders' Cloth.
We THOMAS ASHLEY SUTTON and WILLIAM HALE SUTTON both of 5 Worsley
Street Salford in the County of Lancaster, Gum Starch and Chemical Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The objects of this invention are to improve the quality and appearance of
bookbinders' cloth and to make it more durable and better adapted for the purpose
for which it is intended to be used.
For the purposes of our invention we take grey calico or other suitable plain or
twilled woven cloth either in the grey or bleached state, and by means of a raising
machine or other known method we raise upon one or both sides a pile or nap upon
the surface.
We then dye or pad onto this piled or napped cloth the color and shade required,
and we then proceed to stiffen, glaze, calender or otherwise finish the cloth, and if
required emboss a grain or pattern thereon in the usual manner.
By our improved process of raising a pile or nap upon the surface of the cloth
previously to dyeing or padding the color onto the same, it takes the color much
more evenly, retains it better, and gains both in density and solidity and when
calendered embossed or otherwise finished afterwards its appearance durability and
"feel
are greatly improved and it is much superior in many respects to the
bookbinders' cloth hitherto made in the ordinary manner.
By this improved process also a cheaper and coarser cloth can be used than for
the process as now carried on.
Dated this 1st day of August 1891
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
+, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Bookbinders' Cloth.
We THOMAS ASHLEY SUTTON and WILLIAM HALE SUTTON both of 5 Worsley
Street Salford in the County of Lancaster Gum Starch and Chemical Manu-
facturers, 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 objects of this invention are to improve the quality and appearance of
bookbinders' cloth and to make it more durable and better adapted for the purpose
for which it is intended to be used.
The invention consists principally in raising a pile or nap upon the surface of the
woven cloth, previously to applying the color thereto by dyeing or padding and
stiffening glazing or otherwise finishing the same.
For the purposes of our invention we take grey calico or other suitable plain or
twilled woven cloth, either in the grey or bleached state, and by means of a raising
machine or other known method we raise upon one or both sides a pile or nap upon
the surface.
We then dye or pad onto this piled or napped cloth the color and shade required;
we then proceed to stiffen, glaze calender, or otherwise finish the cloth, and if
required emboss a grain or pattern thereon in the manner usually adopted in the
manufacture of bookbinders' cloth.
By our improved process of raising a pile or nap upon the surface of the cloth

page_text: previously to dyeing or padding the color onto the same it takes the color much
more evenly, retains it better, and gains both in density and solidity and when
calendered, embossed or otherwise finished afterwards, its appearance, durability,
and "feel" are greatly improved, and it is much superior in many respects to the
bookbinders' cloth hitherto made in the ordinary manner.
By this improved process also a cheaper and coarser cloth can be used than is
required for the process as now carried on, and a considerable economy is thereby
effected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The improvements in the manufacture of bookbinders' cloth, consisting in raising
a pile or nap upon the surface of the woven cloth previously to applying the color
thereto by dyeing or padding, and stiffening, glazing or otherwise finishing the
same.
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$1 1002
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.