Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1836.
Complete Left, 11th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Mar., 1887.
JOHANN HLOUŠEK trading as J. Hloušek & Sohn (J. Hloušek a Syn) of Klein-
Cerma, Bohemia, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
According to this invention, wood is divided into fine fibres by means of any of the
well known machines employed for making what is called wood-wool. These fibres
are spun by hand or with the aid of spinning machines and moistened or oiled. From
the
yarn
tbus obtained, cords, ropes, woven fabrics and twists may be made; before so
using the said yarn it can be dyed in various colours; the fabrics woven from the yarn
can also be printed upon.
The spinning machines and looms suitable for the working of the wood fibres are
those now employed for coarse textile fibres.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, JOHANN HLOUŠEK, trading as J. Hloušek & Sohn (J. Hloušek a Syn) of Klein-
Cerma, Bohemia, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
Hitherto, the very thin and long chips or shavings to which white soft woods, such
as willow, poplar, and lime, are reduced by means of suitably constructed planes, have
been used, under the name of wood-wool, as a substitute for horse-hair and sea-weed,
as a packing for fragile articles, &c.

page_text: According to this invention, the said wood-wool is spun into a sort of yarn, either
by hand or by means of spinning-machines; for facilitating the spinning operation,
the wood shavings are by preference moistened or oiled. When spinning machines
are employed the wood-wool is first brought into the form of slivers, by means of a
carding machine, these slivers are drawn on a drawing-frame, and finally, they are
roved by means of a spindle roving frame. As the wood yarn thus obtained is not
very strong in consequence of the nature of its fibres, and as for this reason, it could
not be used for weaving or other purposes, several threads of the yarn, by preference
two threads, are twisted together. As the threads to be twisted together are of
comparatively considerable thickness, the doubling machines used for this purpose are
of a similar construction to rope-twisting machines, that is to say, the bobbins carrying
the wood-wool yarn to be twined, are arranged round a rotary spindle or vertical shaft,
the upper end of which is provided with guides for the yarn threads; the said bobbins
turn in a direction opposite to the vertical shaft. From the twined yarn obtained in
this manner carpet-like fabrics can be made, and by dyeing the wood-wool or the spun
yarn figured fabrics of this kind can be manufactured." It will be obvious that the
wood-wool yarn can if required be braided or plaited together so as to form laces or
cords.
Instead of spinning yarn from the wood wool and making fabrics or cords from such
yarn, the wood-wool may be worked into ropes. In this case, a coarse yarn is spun
from the wood wool by means of a ropemaker's reel, the yarn is made up into strands
and a certain number of strands are united in any well-known manner so as to form
a rope.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The use of yarns, woven fabrics, plaited goods, and ropes manufactured from
wood.
2. The process herein described for the manufacture of yarns, woven fabrics, plaited
goods, and ropes from wood substantially as hereinbefore described.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.