Improvements in or connected with Finishing, Glazing, and Pressing Cotton and other Cloths.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1891
Complete Specification Luft, th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1592
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Finishing, Glazing, and Pressing
Cotton and other Cloths.
I, FREDERICK WHOWELL, of the firm of Charles Whowell, Two Brooks
Bleach Works, Tottington, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Bleachers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the final finish given to the outer layers of folded
cotton and other cloths in a press where considerable pressure is exerted.
In the pressing of these goods it has hitherto been customary to insert between
each piece or bundle a sheet of mill board, card board, or like material which
when the pressure is exerted gives a rather different finish to the outer surface than
to the inner surfaces where two surfaces of the cloth come together. I find that
this material absorbs moisture from the cloth and does not produce an uniform
result as it looses its surface.
By my invention I propose to use for insertion between the pieces or folds of
cloth a thin sheet of copper or other suitable metal with a polished surface in
substitution for the sheet of mill board already used as I find that a much more
highly glazed surface on the cloth is obtained without any increase of stiffness
thereto.
The cloth is prepared in the usual way and placed in an hydraulic, screw or
other press and between each piece of cloth (or if desired between layers of the
folded cloth) I insert a thin metallic sheet or plate preferably copper with smooth
or polished surfaces the pressure is then applied to any degree as the surface of the
copper is not affected by any moisture or damp in the cloth an uniform finish is
alway obtained when the plate is used again and again which has not been the case
with the material hitherto used.
Dated this 6th day of June 1891
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Finishing, Glazing, and Pressing
Cotton and other Cloths.
I, FREDERICK WHOWELL, of the firm of Charles Whowell, Two Brooks
Bleach Works, Tottington, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Bleachers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to the final finish given to the outer layers of folded
cotton and other cloths when subjected to considerable pressure in an hydraulic,
screw or other press.
In the pressing of these goods it has hitherto been customary to insert between
each piece or bundle a sheet of mill board, card board, or like material which
when the pressure is exerted gives a rather different finish to the outer surface
in contact therewith than is given to the inner surfaces where two surfaces of the
cloth come together. I find that this material absorbs moisture from the cloth and
does not produce an uniform result as it looses its surface and consequently each
succeeding piece is less highly finished than the preceding one.
This invention consists in the use for insertion between the pieces or folds of

page_text: cloth of a thin sheet of copper or other suitable metal with a polished surface in
substitution for the sheet of mill board already used as I find that a much more
highly glazed surface on the cloth is obtained without any increase of stiffness
thereto, and without any deterioration of the finish in succeeding operations.
The cloth is prepared in the usual way and placed in an hydraulic, screw or
other press and between each piece of cloth (or if desired between layers of the
folded cloth) I insert a thin metallic sheet or plate preferably copper with smooth
or polished surfaces the pressure is then applied to any desired degree.
The surface of the copper not being affected by any moisture or damp in the
cloth an uniform finish is always obtained when the plate is used again and again
which has not hitherto been the case as the material which has been used gradually
deteriorates until but a very poor finish can be obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
:-
In the finishing glazing and pressing of cotton or other cloths in hydraulic screw
or other presses the use of a thin plate of copper inserted between the pieces or
between the layers thereof whilst the pressure is being applied substantially as
and for the purposes described.
Dated this 7th day of March 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.