IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL, EITHER PURE OR MIXED WITH OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, INTENDED TO BE SPUN INTO THREADS OR YARNS TO BE USED FOR WEAVING
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL, EITHER PURE
OR MIXED WITH OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, INTENDED TO BE SPUN INTO
THREADS OR YARNS TO BE USED FOR WEAVING."-A communication
from abroad by Emile de Labarre, of Ensival, Belgium.
Scaled the 19th July 1872, and dated the 20th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 20th January 1872.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL, EITHER
PURE OR MIXED WITH OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, INTENDED TO BE SPUN INTO
THREADS OR YARNS TO BE USED FOR WEAVING," a communication to me
from abroad by Emile de Labarre, of Ensival, Belgium, to be as
follows:-
1
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page_text: material employed in the preparation of pure or mixed wools, and it
offers great advantages over the methods at present in use by the entire
suppression of the system of greasing the fibrous materials.
To carry this Invention into operation the wool, pure or mixed, is
submitted to the first carding machine without subjecting it to any
greasing whatever, this being entirely opposed to the method at present
in use; but if the threads for weaving are required to be perfectly clean,
and the wools or other fibres are likely to prevent that object, the wool
and fibres are subjected to a complete washing before they are mixed
together, and then after the materials are mixed and carded they are
prepared and spun in the ordinary manner. Thus the spun thread is
entirely without grease, and is thereby capable of being at once wound
on bobbins or formed into hanks or skeins, and also be employed for
weaving without requiring washing.
It is evident that by this improved process there is great economy
arising from the entire suppression of the greasing matters; the labour of
the operatives in first applying the grease, and then removing it from
the hanks, skeins, or bobbins; and also in the prevention of the great
number of broken ends arising from the frequent manipulation of the
fibres and threads.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123, 1
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Thomas

page_text: Hughes, my executors, administrators; and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
* IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF WOOL, EITHER PURE OR MIXED WITH
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, INTENDED TO BE SPUN INTO THREADS OR YARNS TO BE USED
FOR WEAVING," a communication to me from abroad by Emile de Labarre,
of Ensival, Belgium, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement (that is to say):
The object of this Invention is to effect economy in labour and
material employed in the preparation of pure or mixed wools, and it
offers great advantages over the methods at present in use by the entire
suppression of the system of greasing the fibrous materials.
To carry this Invention into operation the wool, pure or mixed, is
submitted to the first carding machine without subjecting it to any
greasing whatever, thus being entirely opposed to the method at present
in use; but if the threads for weaving are required to be perfectly clean,
and the wools or other fibres are likely to prevent that object, the wool
and fibres are subjected to a complete washing before they are mixed
together, and then after the materials are mixed and carded they are
prepared and spun in the ordinary manner. Thus the spun thread is
entirely without grease, and is thereby capable of being at once wound
on bobbins or formed into hanks or skeins, and also be employed for
weaving without requiring washing.
It is evident that by this improved process there is great economy
arising from the entire suppression of the greasing matters, the labour of
the operatives in first applying the grease, and then removing it from

page_text: the hanks, skeins, or bobbins, and also in the prevention of the great
number of broken ends arising from the frequent manipulation of the
fibres and threads.
Having now described the said Invention as communicated to me, I
claim the "Improvements in the Preparation of Wool, either Pure or
Mixed with other Fibrous Materials intended to be used for Weaving,"
substantially as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.