IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITIONS SUITABLE BAD BRING ABDLIED TO WOVEN FABRICS AND OTHER SURFACES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Ritchie, of Folkestone, in the County.
of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITIONS SUITABLE
BAD BRING ABDLIED TO WOVEN FABRICS AND OTHER SURFACES."
Scaled the 15th June 1869, and dated the 16th December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Ritchie at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the.
16th December 1868.
I, GEORGE RITCHIE, of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COMPOSITIONS SUITABLE FOR BEING APPLIED TO WOVEN FABRICS. AND OTHER
SURFACES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in compositions.
suitable for being applied to woven fabrics and other surfaces. I take
flock of the colour required for the composition, and I mix it with
india-rubber cement, colored or otherwise, and with or without other
varnish or gum, and thinned by means of solvent to the consistency
required.
Compositions so prepared when applied to a surface of calico give.to

page_text: the fabric the appearance of a woollen cloth, and at the same time
render the fabric waterproof. Such fabrics may be used for the manu-
facture of various garments, also as carpets, and for many other similar
Durposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Kitchie in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 16th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
RITCHIE, of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand-eight-hundred-and-sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Ritchie, Her special licence that I,
the said George Ritchie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Ritchie, 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 term 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 COMPOSITIONS SUITABLE
FOR
BEING APPLIED TO WOVEN FABRICS AND OTHER SURFACES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Ritchie, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 George Ritchie, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in compositions suitable
for being applied to woven fabrics and other surfaces. Heretofore flock

page_text: when used upon surfaces of fabric has been reduced to powder; its
purpose being to decorate, but not at the same time to render the fabric
upon which it has been used or spread waterproof, and when used
adhesively upon any surface the flock having no fibre would at any
time be easily scratched or worn off.
This Invention has for its object the making a composition of flock
with cement suitable for permanently coating fabric or surfaces to
resemble cloth or carpet, and at the same time to render the same
waterproof. I take therefore flock which I have reduced, cut, or ground
to a short fibre, but sufficiently long to lay hold of the fabric upon which
it shall be used, and to leave a proportion raised upon its surface, the
fibre would thus vary from th part of an inch to th or more, according
to the purpose for which it may be applied. Having thus reduced or
prepared my flock I mix it with a cement of india-rubber, colored or
otherwise, and with or without varnish or gum. I reduce it to a con-
sistence suitable for spreading upon surfaces by means of camphine or
other well-known solvents, to which small quantities of a pigment of
proper color and spirit varnish or gum may be added. The fabric to
receive the compound should be of a color to correspond with it; it may
conveniently be calico or an open woollen cloth of low quality. I
spread on this fabric a thin film of the composition, which I allow to
remain until it becomes tacky; I then pass it between rollers or other-
wise press it to amalgamate more completely with the fabric, and
afterwards cleanse the surface with an alkaline solution, or with spirit
in some cases, and well brush the same.
•
Compositions thus prepared and applied to the surface of calico or
other surfaces give to the fabric the appearance of a woollen cloth, and
at the same time render them waterproof, and they may be used for the
manufacture of various garments, also as carpets, and for many similar
purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Ritchie, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
GEO. RITCHIE. (L.S.)