An Improved Manufacture of Yarn.
Year: 1896

page_text: An Improved Manufacture of Yarn.
We, JAMES LEECH BOTTOMLEY of 7 Leamington Avenue, Burton Road,
Didsbury near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, and SAMUEL
CAREY ROGERS GAUNTLETT, of Yerbury Mills, Trowbridge, in the County of
Wilts, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of yarn to be used for weaving into
fabrics or for other purposes.
The invention consists in the admixture of cotton fibres with those of peat, the
peat fibres being obtained by eliminating by known or suitable means the non
fibrous parts of peat, especially of very fibrous peat.
The peat and cotton fibres may be united in varying proportions according to
the uses to which the yarn is to be applied. The fibres may be combined by any
convenient means and are carded together; and care must be taken in spinning
the yarn sufficiently slowly as the combined fibre is occasionally somewhat short
in staple.
We have found that yarn made as above described can not only be used grey
but will bleach perfectly white.
Dated this 15th day of January 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
An Improved Manufacture of Yarn.
We, JAMES LEECH BOTTOMLEY, of 7 Leamington Avenue, Burton Road,
Didsbury, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, and SAMUEL
CAREY ROGERS GAUNTLETT, of Yerbury Mills, Trowbridge, in the County of
Wilts, Machinist, 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:-
Our invention relates to the production of yarn for use in the weaving of fabrics,
and for other purposes; whereby considerable economy is effected, while the
essential qualities of the yarn are not impaired but improved in feel and
appearance.
Our invention consists essentially in the combination of peat fibre with that of
cotton, for the production of a composite yarn.
In carrying our invention into effect we disintegrate the peat after drying, and
further extract the impurities from the fibrous residue by scutching. The lap so
produced we pass through a carding engine until the fibre is thoroughly cleansed
and reduced to a short staple, and a fine and soft sliver produced. The slivers

page_text: may then be drawn into a composite strand of peat, and subsequently submitted to
the slubbing and roving operations.
The cotton sliver, similarly produced is then spun with the peat sliver and the
composite strand or yarn is completely formed. The peat sliver may however be
first spun independently and then doubled with the cotton sliver, which may also
have been previously spun. The fibres of peat and cotton may be combined in
such proportion as may give the desired quality in a composite yarn for any
particular purpose, while the combination may be effected by carding the peat and
cotton together and subsequently combing, drawing, slubbing, roving, and spinning
the composite sliver, or in fact the combination may be effected at any stage in the
production of the yarn.
We do not limit ourselves to any particular series of processes for the production
of our composite yarn but we preferably employ the existing machines and
operations with such modifications in either as are necessary, nor do we limit
, ourselves to the combination of peat with cotton as we may utilize in combination
wool, silk, or any other fibre, or such as may be commonly used for the manufacture
.of fabrics, without departing from our invention.
A composite yarn made as bereinbefore described may be bleached or dyed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is ;-
1. The production of a yarn by the combination of peat fibres or sliver with
the fibres or sliver of cotton, wool, silk, jute or any other such suitable fibres
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A composite yarn of peat fibres or sliver and the fibres or sliver of cotton,
wool, silk, jute or any other such suitable fibres substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 15th day of Santamber 1906
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.