Improved Padding for the Lining of Coats and other Garments, and Apparatus for Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Padding for the Lining of Coats and other Garments, and
Apparatus for Manufacturing the same.
I, FRANK MORDAUNT BIRTILL, of Phoenix Street, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Woollen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the padding inserted in the shoulders of coats and other
garments and is designed to provide a graduated padding of a shape suitable for
immediate use.
It consists essentially in the manufacture of a graduated padding of felted wool
manufactured in one piece in a hardening machine, the machine being constructed
with a dished or concave plate graduated to the desired degree to form the
padding.
In carrying out the invention I take a bat of wool in the carded state and add
two or more pieces on top of one another to give the required thickness. These
are placed together in the hardening machine and felted together to the desired
degree of hardness.
The lower or top plate of the hardening machine is dished or recessed to the
desired shape to form a graduated padding piece and the article when finished
may be cut into two or each may be manufactured separately. Either plate may
if desired be made convex to correspond with the cavity of the other plate.
A dozen or twenty more or less of these may be manufactured in the machine
at one operation or they may be manufactured separately if preferred.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
Improved Padding for the Lining of Coats and other Garments, and
Apparatus for Manufacturing the same.
1, FRANK MORDAUNT BIRTILL, of Phoenix Street, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Woollen 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 :-
This invention relates to the padding inserted in the shoulders and other parts
of coats and other garments and is designed to provide a padding of graduated
shape or varying thickness more even in form than others commonly in use and
suitable for use without any subsequent cutting, shaping or stitching.
It consists essentially of a lining pad for coats or other garments comprising a
single piece or layer of felted wool or other material of varying thickness graduated
or tapered from one side to the edges and in a hardening machine for the manu-
facture thereof constructed with a dished or concave bed or plate graduated to the
desired degree to form the padding.

page_text: It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. Front view of the pad.
Fig. 2. Longitudinal section of same on line x-x Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. Transverse section on line y-y Fig. 1.
| Fig. 4. Sectional elevation of hardening machine.
Fig. 5. Plan of bed or plate of same with top plate removed.
In the manufacture of these improved pads I take a batt of wool or other
suitable material in the carded state and add two or more pieces on top one of the
other to give the required thickness. These additional pieces of material are
narrower than the first and are then combed to gradually taper them from the
thickest part to the edges. These are then placed in a hardening machine of
special construction and felted together into one piece of the desired shape
and size.
The lower plate or bed A of the hardening machine is dished or recessed at a to
a shape corresponding with the form or shape of the pads tapered or inclined from
the centre to the edges to form the pads of varying thickness. The form of the
recesses a is preferably such as to form two pads in one piece which are then cut
down the centre. If desired however the pads may each be made separately the
recesses a being made of corresponding shape tapered or inclined from one side or
edge to the other edge.
The top plate B is preferably flat though it may be made with recesses to
correspond with the recesses in the bottom plate or bed A or the top-plate only
may be recessed and the bottom plate or bed may be flat or the top plate may be
made with convex projections to fit into the cavities or recesses a in the bottom
plate but at present I prefer to make the bed recessed and the top plate flat.
A reciprocating movement is given preferably to both plates though either of
them may be stationary and the other reciprocating.
The recesses a in the bed are perforated to allow steam to penetrate the pads
from the steam chest C during the operation of felting. The plate A is constructed
with six or more recesses and a corresponding number of pads are manufactured at
the one operation.
The pads may be sized before or during the process of felting and when removed
from the hardening machine are placed in drying frames of suitable shape heated
by steam or other means in which they are thoroughly dried and set to the required
shape with the top edge shaped to fit the form of the wearer.
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 1
claim is
1. A lining pad for coats or other garments comprising a single piece of felted
material of varying thickness tapered gradually from one point to the edges
formed to the desired shape by felting in a hardening machine substantially as
described.
2. A hardening machine constructed with a recessed or dished plate for felting
or hardening graduated or tapered pads substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 6th day of February 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.