IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OR APPLICATION OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES FOR SIZEING OR FINISHING YARN OR THREAD, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR SIZEING OR STIFFENING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1857

page_text: of Lancaster, Doctor of Medicine, and Thomas Southworth, of the same
Place, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OR
APPLICATION OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES FOR SIZEING OR FINISHING YARN OR
THREAD, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR SIZEING OR STIFFENING WOVEN AND OTHER
FABRICS."
Sealed the 3rd September 1857, and dated the 5th March 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Kinder Cheetham
and Thomas Southworth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 5th March 1857.
We, JAMES KINDER CHEETHAM, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Doctor of Medicine, and THOMAS SOUTHWORTH, of the same Place, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
USE OR APPLICATION OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES FOR SIZEING OR FINISHING YARN OR
THREAD, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR SIZEING OR STIFFENING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRICS,"
to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to sizeing or finishing yarn or thread, also sizeing
or stiffening woven and other fabrics, and consists in the use or application
of "xyloidine" or "pyroxyline" dissolved by suitable menstrua to form a
solution, through which the aforesaid materials are passed in any convenient
manner. The above-mentioned substances may, if required, be combined
with coloring substances.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Kinder Cheetham and Thomas Southworth in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th September 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
we, JAMES
KINDER CHEETHAM, of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Doctor of
Medicine, and THOMAS SOUTHWORTH, of the same Place, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James Kinder Cheetham and Thomas Southworth, Her especial license
that we, the said James Kinder Cheetham and Thomas Southworth, our
executers, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James
Kinder Cheetham and Thomas Southworth, 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 THE USE OR APPLICATION OF CERTAIN SUB-
STANCES FOR SIZING OR FINISHING YARN OR THREAD, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR SIZING
OR STIFFENING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition, amongst others,
that we, the said James Kinder Cheetham and Thomas Southworth, or one
of us, 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 I, the said Thomas Southworth, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement and accompanying Drawing, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in the use of xyloidine, pyroxyline, or chemically
analogous substances dissolved by suitable menstrua to form a solution,
through which the materials or fabrics are passed. It is applicable to yarns
or threads of cotton, silk, or other materials, and to fabrics woven in a loom,
and to lace or other such manufactured goods, and if desired the aforesaid

page_text: solutions may be treated with coloring matter,in order to impartadesired tint,
or to suit the colours already obtained by ordinary processes of dyeing. The
apparatus employed for effecting the passage of the articles through the solu-
tion may be of simple and ordinary arrangement, but in order to illustrate the
application of our Invention we will shew a plan which may be adopted.
This is represented in section in the accompanying Drawing,in which a repre-
sents a vessel of glass or other material of any suitable width, to this a cork
stopper b is adopted, from which there projects downward a rod c provided
with a horizontal part d. Within the vessel a we will suppose a solution of
xyloidine or pyroxyline in ether and alcohol (commonly called collodion), to
be placed; the stopper bis then adapted, the material (thread we will suppose)
having been adjusted so as to pass in and out, as indicated by the red lines;
at the point where it enters a small recess may be made in the side of the
vessel or in the stopper, so as to allow it to pass freely, but at the side where
it makes its exit it should be pressed by the stopper, according to the strength
of the thread and the amount of solution required to be left on. The mate-
rial under operation may proceed from bobbins, reels, or other usual apparatus,
and be drawn forward at e, so as to be wound into a hank, bobbin, or other
desired form.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be
understood that we claim, as secured to us under the above iu part recited
Letters Patent, the use of the aforesaid materials for the purposes above
mentioned
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Southworth, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS SOUTHWORTH. (L.S.)