Improvements in the Manufacture of Crimpled Fabrics.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1899
Improvements in the Manufacture of Crimpled Fabrics.
I, GEORGE DOUGLAS, of Bowling Dye Works, Bowling, Bradford, in the County
of York, Dyer and Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows;-
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This invention relates to improvements in the means or method of making
that class of crimpled textile fabrics in which the crimpled effect is produced by
the "mercerising" process.
The object of my invention is to produce a textile fabric-in which the whole or
a portion of the component threads showing the crimpled effect consists of cotton.
or other vegetable fibre as well as the threads which are subsequently shrunk to
crimple the fabric.
For this purpose I employ cotton or other vegetable yarn that has been previously
shrunk by mercerising to form that portion of the fabric which is required to
show the crimpled effect. And I introduce as well a sufficient quantity of unmer-
cerised yarn to shrink and produce the crimpled effect when the fabric is subse-
quently submitted to the mercerising process. Animal or other non-vegetable
yarn or fibre may be used together with the mercerised and shrunk yarn.
Crimpled knitted fabrics may be produced in a similar way by the combined
use of mercerised and unmercerised yarn and afterwards mercerising the whole.
Dated this 4th day of Fahru 1900
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents,
Bradford.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Crimpled Fabrics.
I, GEORGE DOUGLAS, of Bowling Dye Works, Bowling, Bradford, in the County
of York, Dyer and Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to improvements in the means or method of making
that class of crimpled textile fabrics in which the crimpled effect is produced by
the "mercerising
process.
The object of my invention is to produce a textile fabric in which the whole or
a portion of the component threads showing the crimpled effect consists of cotton

page_text: or other vegetable fibre as well as the threads which are subsequently shrunk to
crimble the fabric.
For this purpose I employ cotton yarn or linen yarn or China grass yarn or other
suitable vegetable yarn that has been previously shrunk by mercerising it to form
that portion of the fabric which is required to show the crimpled effect. And I
introduce as well a sufficient quantity of unmercerised yarn to shrink and cause
the crimpled effect when the fabric is subsequently submitted to the mercerising
process. Animal or other non-vegetable yarn or fibre may be used together
with the mercerised and shrunk yarn.
Crimpled knitted fabrics may be produced in a similar way by the combined use
of mercerised and unmercerised yarn and afterwards mercerising the whole.
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:-
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1. A crimpled woven fabric produced by weaving together mercerised cotton
or other suitable vegetable yarn and cotton or other suitable vegetable yarn that
has not been mercerised and subsequently mercerising the fabric, substantially
as herein described.
2. A crimpled woven fabric produced by weaving mercerized vegetable yarn and
animal yarn together with vegetable yarn that has not been mercerized and subse-
quently mercerising the fabric, substantially as herein described.
3. A crimpled woven fabric produced by weaving a yarn composed of mercerised
vegetable fibres and non-vegetable fibres together with a vegetable yarn that has
not been mercerised and subsequently mercerising the fabric, substantially as
herein described.
4. A crimpled knitted fabric produced by knitting together mercerised cotton
or other suitable vegetable yarn and cotton or other suitable vegetable yarn that
has not been mercerised and subsequently mercerising the fabric, substantially
as herein described.
5. A crimpled knitted fabric produced by knitting mercerised vegetable yarn
and animal yarn together with vegetable yarn that has not been mercerised and
subsequently mercerising the fabric, substantially as herein described.
6. A crimpled knitted fabric produced by knitting a yarn composed of mercerised
vegetable fibres and non-vegetable fibres together with a vegetable yarn that
has not been mercerised and subsequently mercerising the fabric, substantially
as herein described.
Dated this 1st day of December 1898.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents,
Bradford.