An Improved Batting for Carpet Lining and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE UNION CARPET LINING COMPANY, of
No. 179, Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts, a corporation established.
under the laws of the State of Maine, United States of America.]
An Improved Batting for Carpet Lining and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake and Co., Patent Agents,
15 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 of my invention is to produce a cheap, simple, convenient, and
durable compound batting which shall serve for many of the purposes for which.
the common or cheaper grades of cotton batting are now employed; and it consists
in a compound batting composed of cotton fibre and wood excelsior in about
equal parts, more or less, as a new article of manufacture, as hereinafter more.
fully set forth.
The accompanying drawing represents a perspective view of a portion of a sheet
of batting embodying my invention.
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A represents cotton fibre, and B represents the wood excelsior, which should be
cut or formed in the usual manner from cedar or other wood in fine shavings or
thread-like pieces, the finer the better. Then I take of any poor or short staple-
waste cotton fibre or sweepings from cotton-factories and mix the two together
evenly by running the same through a picker, or in any other suitable manner.
prefer about one-half each by weight; but these proportions may be varied. This
mixture of cotton fibre and excelsior is then passed through a batting-mill and
formed into sheets in the usual manner, when it is ready for use, that is to be
placed between two sheets of paper, or other sheet material, for carpet lining, or
the like.
By means of the excelsior I am enabled to use a very cheap short fibre of cotton.
or waste and produce a comparatively strong batting, the excelsior serving to hold
the cotton in position in the sheet of batting, so as to permit of its being more
readily handled in the act of placing it between or upon the print cloth, paper, or
other outside covering material employed in the construction of carpet-lining, and
the like, thus reducing the cost very materially, and rendering the articles more
durable and saleable, as the excelsior not only serves to increase the bulk or
thickness, but holds the cotton together or in its desired position, and thus prevents
its easy displacement and consequent formation into bunches or lumps, as heretofore,.
wherein cotton-batting was employed, and thereby reducing the cost of construction,.
as less stitching is required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven--
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
An improved batting, composed of cotton fibre and wood excelsior formed into.
sheets, substantially as described as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 22nd der of March 1802
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant..