IMPROVEMENTS IN UTILIZING WOVEN OR KNITTED WOOLLEN, WORSTED, OR SILK FABRICS OR MATERIAL IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REVERSIBLE PLAIN AND FANCY CLOTHS, WORSTED COATINGS, RUGS, BLANKETS, TABLE CLOTHS, DAMASE, CARPETS, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, AND SILK HOSIERY, HANKS, YARNS, AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS, BY HAND OR POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Rydill at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th March 1882.
GEORGE RYDILL, of Sheffield, in the County of York "IMPROVEMENTS IN
UTILIZING WOVEN OR KNITTED WOOLLEN, WORSTED, OR SILK FABRICS OR MATERIAL
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REVERSIBLE PLAIN AND FANCY CLOTHS, WORSTED COATINGS,
RUGS, BLANKETS, TABLE CLOTHS, DAMASE, CARPETS, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, AND SILK
HOSIERY, HANKS, YARNS, AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS, BY HAND OR POWER"
.
This Invention consists in utilizing machine woven or hand, knitted once worn
or used worsted, woollen, alpacca, mohair, silk, or cotton yarns or threads, undyed,
printed, or dyed, from old rags, such as stockings, socks, comforters, mitts, ribbons,
leggings, jackets, petticoats, shawls, braid, or other cast off articles or garments,
made on the hosiery stocking frame, hosiery loom, circular machine, silk loom, or
band knitted fabrics, which are first sorted into various colours and qualities, then
the cast off hosiery fabrics or garments are unravelled by hand or machine, and the
unravelled wool, woollen, worsted, silk or cotton yarns or threads are run on to a
reel to be made into hanks, or the yarn thread or threads are run on to a bobbin,
bobbins, ball, or balls for re-manufacture on the stocking hosiery frame, hosiery
loom, circular machine, silk loom, or for hand knitting into stockings, socks,
comforters, mitts, scarfs, silk fabrics, gloves, shirts, jackets, caps, leggings,
embroidered goods, petticoats, shawls, braid, or other articles or garments, made
on the hosiery or stocking frame, stocking loom, or circular machine.
These unravelled yarns or threads are re-utilized without the expense of pulling
up into shoddy or mungo wool, re carding, combing, or spinning, and are used for
warp.or warps, face weft or wefts, or for backing in the loom, for the manufacture
of reversible plain, figured, dyed or printed fancy cloths, worsted cloths and
coatings, rugs, blankets, damask, tapestry, Scotch or other carpets, hearth rugs,
table cloths, dress pieces imitation sealskin or silk velvet pile, quilts, petticoats,
Bruggets, horse rugs, pilots, naps, witneys, beevers, devons, president, tweeds,
friezes and other cloths.
Or cloth piece goods and fabrics are made either plain or faucy, with a cotton,
inen, or other vegetable warp, or spun silk, alpacca, mohair, camels hair, extract

page_text: wool, wool or woollen warp, with an unravelled worsted yarn face weft, from
stockings or other knitted or woven unravelled woollen or worsted material, and
the same may be backed with a weft yarn of alpacca, silk from pulled up silk rags,
mohair, camels hair, extract wool, or woollen material, as weft on the back side.
Or cloth piece goods or fabrics are made plain, figured, fancy, or imitation seal
skin pile, with a cotton, linen, or other vegetable warp, or spun silk, alpacca,
molair, camels hair, extract wool, wool or woollen warp with an unravelled
worsted, wool or woollen yarn for the face weft, and an unravelled worsted, wool
or woollen yarn weft on the back side.
Or piece good or fabrics are made with a woollen, silk, or vegetable warp,
having a silk velvet pile, from pulled up silk rags, down or wool, or a cotton
velvet pile, cut and raised on the face side, with a reversible unravelled worsted or
woollen weft on the back side.
Or piece goods or fabrics are made having a vegetable, silk, wool or woollen
warp, with an unravelled worsted or woollen yarn weft on the face side, and with
a shoddy or mungo weft yarn on the back side.
Or piece goods are made having a vegetable, silk, wool or woollen warp, with a
shoddy, mungo, or woollen weft on the face side and an unravelled "worsted,
woollen, or silk weft on the back side.
The piece goods are ornamented or figured on the face or back, according to
taste or design in the ordinary course of dyeing, printing and weaving in the
hosiery frame or woollen loom, with undyed, dyed or printed warp or warps, weft
or wefts of unravelled hosiery wool, woollen or silk yarns.
When the curling of the yarn threads through having been previously knitted
require to be taken out, I subject the same to the action of steam or soak them
in water.
To produce small yarns for a finer class of goods I untwist the several small yarn
threads which have been twisted together to form a thick or strong yarn and run
the untwisted yarns on to separate bobbins for weaving or knitting purposes.
Or to improve the appearance of the unravelled yarns for producing fancy or
mixed goods I combine a separate undyed, dyed or printed yarn of wool, woollen,
alpacca, mohair, camels hair, silk, or extract wool with the unravelled yarn in the
spinning frame and twist the same together to give strength and to improve the
appearance of piece goods and fabrics, or a cotton or other vegetable thread may be
twisted with the unravelled yarn of the same colour, or they may vary in colour,
or the unravelled yarns or threads may be worked up with silk or form part of the
threads or yarns for producing any required class of woven or knitted fabrics.