A NEW OR IMPROVED FABRIC AND MODE OR MEANS OF MANUFACTURING OR PREPARING THE SAME
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Thompson Corr at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th December 1876.
WILLIAM THOMPSON CORR, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain.
General Manager of "The Glasgow Jute Company, Limited." "A NEW OR
IMPROVED FABRIC AND MODE OR MEANS OF MANUFACTURING OR PREPARING THE
SAME."
This Invention has reference to the discovery, construction, and use of a new or
improved cheap kind of compound soft or elastic web fabric, specially for laying on
floors below carpets or other floorcloths for protecting these and giving softness of
tread and warmth by preventing currents through the fabric and joints of the floor,
but suitable also for many other analogous purposes as a soft padding or packing
cloth or fabric for the covering or packing of furniture, pictures, glass, pottery ware,
or other articles liable to injury or breakage in boxes or crates, or otherwise in
transit or shipment. And the nature and novelty of the Invention consist in
making this new or improved fabric with a central web or body part of loose short
carded jute fibre (not generally utilized or heretofore found suitable in the ordinary
manufacture of jute fabrics), and in making one or both of the outsides or surfaces
of web paper, or it might be of a cheap woven or felt fabric, the three webs being
all led or fed in and pressed together between a pair of pressing and delivering
rollers fitted in front of an ordinary jute carding engine or machine (such as that
used for making ordinary jute slivers ready for spinning), having the jute served or
spread out on a front feeding table so that the carding cylinders and doffer deliver
the jute slivers on to a downward slanting conductor to the delivery rollers in a
regular thin web of the breadth desired, corresponding to that of the said two outer
webs of paper or other fabric, the sliver web being conducted forward from the
delivery cards and doffer on a flat tin or other spout or conductor to the central
inner side of the feed rollers, over both of which the paper webs are also fed in
from a roll mounted and placed above and below these rollers from time to time as
they are emptied or used up. The three-ply or compound fabric so far prepared is
thus delivered in a continuous web in front of the said pressing and delivering
rollers, where the whole may be sewed together at the edges or along the middle in
being fed over a broad sewing machine table with as many needles as it is desired
to have rows of stitching in the width. When thus finished it might be rolled or
lapped in long lengths or webs ready for removal for sale and use, as carpets and
[Price 201

page_text: other fabrics and cloths are; or otherwise, the fabric as it comes from the delivery
rollers before being sewed might be loosely folded in long lengths and heaps by the
ordinary folding mechanism used for folding woven fabrics at the delivery ends of
various kinds of finishing machines all ready for removal to be subsequently sewed,
as described, in sewing machines for the purpose, arranged to suit the different
width of fabric and the purpose for which it is to be used.
In some cases the outside paper or other covering material might be served by a
revolving brush or other equivalent with strong paste or other cheap adhesive
mixture on the side next the central jute web or body before passing between the
combining delivery rollers so as to unite the whole compound web together instead
of the sewing for some purposes, or in connexion with it, either to strengthen the
whole or render loss sewing necessary.