IMPROVEMENTS IN COLORING OR STAINING YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Schischkar, of the firm of James
Akroyd and Sou, of Halifax, in the County of York, Manufac
turers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLORING OR
STAINING YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 7th May 1858, and dated the 18th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Schischkar
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th December 1852.
I, EDWARD SCHISCHкAR, of the firm of James Akroyd and Son, of
Halifax, in the County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS. IN COLORING OR STAINING
YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS" to be as follows:-
I arrange revolving brushes opposite the yarn or fabric to be stained
or colored, and by supplying them with coloring matter, and imparting
motion to them, they sprinkle or scatter small masses of coloring
matter on the yarn or fabric.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Schischkar in the Great Scal Patent
Office, on the 18th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
EDWARD SCHISCHKAR, of the firm of James Akroyd and Son, of Halifax,
in the County of York, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Schischkar, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Schischkar, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Schischkar, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the termi
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COLORING OR STAINING YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Schischkar, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Schischkar, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what nianner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My Invention consists in producing a speckled effect upon woollen,
linen, worsted, cotton, or silk yarns and textile fabrics by means of
cylindrical brushes made to revolve in front of the yarn or fabric, and
to dip into baths or troughs of coloring matter.
By way of exemplification I have shewn in the Drawing hereunto

page_text: annexed the manner in which my Invention may be carried into effect.
The Figure represents a sectional elevation of the apparatus I employ.
A, A, is a frame work. B, B, two cylindrical brushes, which I have
found best to make of Indian bassweed, and which revolve on their
axes b, b, in the frame work A, A. C, C, are troughs or baths con-
taining coloring matter, into which the brushes dip in their revolution.
D, D, are driving gear for imparting motion from some prime mover
to the brushes B, B, and rollers E, E, over and between which the
warps, yarns, or fabrics are caused to pass in front of the brushes. F', is
a friction roller for drawing off the yarn or fabrics.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the
staining or coloring of yarns and fabrics for producing a speckled
effect thereon by means of revolving brushes, as herein-before de-
scribed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Schischkar, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
20 Witness,
JOHN BANCROFT.
JOHN INGHAM.
EDWARD SCHISCHKAR. (L.S.)