IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO FABRICS COMPOSED OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OR COMBINA- TIONS OF THESE OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Cresswell, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Merchant, and Henry Lister, of the same Place, Manufacturer and
Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO FABRICS
COMPOSED OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OR COMBINA-
TIONS OF THESE OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 26th November 1860, and dated the 1st June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Cresswell and
Henry Lister at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 1st June 1860.
We, THOMAS CRESSWELL, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Merchant,
and HENRY LISTER, of the same place, Manufacturer and Finisher, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE
TO FABRICS COMPOSED OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OB
COMBINATIONS OF THESE OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in applying and attaching to the back or face of
such textile fabrics flocks composed of wool, cotton, silk waste, or other
fibrous substances, or combinations, or mixtures of these or other fibrous
substances, so as to produce a more woolly and thicker fabric. The flock is
felted or pressed into the fabric by means of a brush or card, to which
suitable motion is given, and secured therein by fulling or milling; such fabrics.
are then finished in the ordinary way.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry Lister, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 1st December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
CRESSWELL, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Merchant, and HENRY
LISTER, of the same Place, Manufacturer and Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry Lister, Her special license that we,
the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry Lister, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry
Lister, our 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 OR
APPLICABLE TO FABRICS COMPOSED OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES, OR COMBINATIONS OF THESE OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry
Lister, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, 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 we, the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry Lister,
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 (that is to say):-
This Invention consists in applying and attaching to the back or face
or on both sides of such textile fabrics, flocks composed of wool, cotton,
silk waste, or other fibrous substances, or combinations or mixtures of these
or other fibrous substances, so as to produce a more woolley and thicke
fabric.
In carrying this Invention into practice various means may be adopted
for applying the flocks to the fabrics, viz., by passing the fabrics over rollers

page_text: or other suitable apparatus, and spreading the flocks on the surface thereof,
(either back or face, or both,) by either hand or mechanical means; and by
employing a brush or card surface to press the flocks into the fabrics, which
may be actuated either by hand or mechanical means, and the fabrics then
placed in a fulling stock, or milling or fulling machine of suitable construction,
whereby the flock are secured to the fabrics. Or, instead of spreading the
flocks on the surface of the fabrics first, they may be put in the stock or
milling or fulling machine along with the fabrics, when by the action of the
said machine the flocks will be worked into the fabrics, and thereby felted or
fastened therein. By applying flocks, and felting or milling them into the
fabrics, as herein explained, a thicker and more woolly fabric is produced.
Such fabrics may or may not undergo the process of finishing in the ordinary
manner.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be performed, we would have it understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the precise details or means of applying flocks to
textile fabrics as herein set forth; but we claim as our Invention, and
which to the best of our knowledge has not hitherto been used within
the realm, the application of, or the applying and attaching flocks to textile
fabrics by any suitable means or apparatus, and the securing them therein,
or causing them to adhere thereto, by fulling or milling process as herein
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Cresswell and Henry Lister,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-seventh day
of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Thomas Cresswell
and
Henry Lister, in the
presence of
THOMAS CRESSWELL. (L.S.)
HENRY LISTER.
W. TASKER, Patent Agent,
Halifax.
(L.S.)