A New or Improved Material, specially applicable for Use in Pressing or Finishing Cloth, Italians," Alpaca Linings, and the like Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1896-Accepted, 13th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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A New or Improved Material, specially applicable for Use in
Pressing or Finishing Cloth, Italians," Alpaca Linings, and
the like Fabrics.
We, JOHN KIRK, ROBERT SAMUEL KIRK, and ARTHUR Kirk, trading
as Samuel Kirk and Sous, of Woodhouse Dyeworks Leeds, Dyers and Finishers,
and BENJAMIN LEE, of Woodhouse Dyeworks, aforesaid, Finisher, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to produce a new or improved material, to take the
place of press papers or pressing sheets as heretofore used in finishing cloth,
Italians," alpaca linings, and the like fabrics, which shall present a continuously
even surface to the fabric, and shall not be liable to become damaged through the
pressure or to injure the fabric during the pressing or finishing.
According to our invention we employ canvas or other fibrous material, woven,
knitted, or otherwise made so as to produce a fabric having preferably open spaces
between the threads. The said fabric is coated on one or both sides with paper,
either in the form of pulp, or in layers, so as to produce a solid and even surface or
face upon one or both sides.
Instead of paper the fabric may be coated with a layer or layers of india-rubber
or gutta-percha or any other suitable composition.
The material may also be treated so as to be waterproof and fireproof, if
required, by any suitable known processes. The said material is made in the form
of sheets, of any required length.
Dated this 8th day of August 1895
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicants.
A New or Improved Material, specially applicable for Use in
Pressing or Finishing Cloth, ‘Italians,” Alpaca Linings, and
the like Fabrics.
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We, JOHN KIRK, ROBERT SAMUEL KIRK, and ARTHUR KIRK, trading as
Samuel Kirk and Sons, of Woodhouse Dyeworks, Leeds, Dyers and Finishers, and
BENJAMIN LEE of Woodhouse Dyeworks, aforesaid, Finisher, 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 object our invention is to produce a new or improved material, to take the
place of
press papers or pressing sheets as heretofore used in finishing cloth
Italians," alpaca linings, and the like fabrics, which shall present a continuously
even surface to the fabric, and shall not be liable to become damaged through the
pressure or to injure the fabric during the pressing or finishing.

page_text: According to our invention we employ canvas or other fibrous material woven,
knitted, or otherwise made so as to produce a fabric having preferably open spaces
between the threads. The said fabric is coated on one or both sides with paper,
either in the form of pulp, or in layers, so as to produce a solid and even surface or
face upon one or both sides.
Instead of paper the fabrio may be coated with a layer or layers of india-rubber
or gutta-pêrcha or any other suitable composition.
The material may also be treated so as to be waterproof and fireproof, if required,
by any suitable known process.
The said material is made in the form of sheets, of any required length.
The said material is much superior in action and much more durable than press
papers, as heretofore in use, as with ordinary press papers they often break
or become damaged at the corners during the feeding or placing process by the
operative, which does not occur with our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A material, specially applicable for use in pressing or finishing cloth, Italians,
alpaca linings, and the like fabrics, composed of a fibrous material having a
coating, covering, or surface of paper, india-rubber, gutta pêrcha, or equivalent, on
one or both sides, applied so as to produce a solid and even surface, such as and for
the
purposes shown and described.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicants.