IMPROVEMENTS IN ELASTIC FABRICS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Macintosh, of North Bank, Regent's Park, ın
the County of Middlesex, and William Boggett, of Lindsey Houses,
Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN ELASTIC FABRICS"
Sealed the 15th January 1867, and dated the 18th July 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Macintosh and
William Boggett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 18th July 1866.
I, JOHN MACINTOSH, of North Bank, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, and I, WILLIAM BOGGETT, of Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ELASTIC FABRICS," to be as follows -
The object of our Invention is the production of elastic fabrics coated with
metal, and consists in taking small india-rubber tubes or strips of india-
rubber which we cover firstly with cotton or other fibious materials, by
preference dyed the same color as the metal employed as a protection to
the india-rubber, before putting on the metal wire, which we use alone or in
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page_text: combination with silk or other suitable fibrous material, and which may be
spirally wound round by means of a covering machine or braided on by a
braiding machine The tubes or strips of india-rubber, so covered may be
either used singly or be plaited together or woven in the manner of elastic
webbing, or the tubes or strips may be used as the warp and the wire thread
as the weft in weaving them. To prevent oxidation of the metal employed
we use a transparent varnish, preferring collodion or copal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Macintosh and William Boggett in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th January 1867
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MACINTOSH, of North Bank, Regent's Park, and I, WILLIAM BOGGETT, of
Lindsey-Houses, Chelsea, both in the County of Middlesex, send greeting
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heus and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Macintosh and William Boggett, Her special licence, that we, the
said John Macintosh and William Boggett, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Macintosh and William
Boggett, our 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, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURING ELASTIC FABRICS,"upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said John Macintosh and William Boggett, our executors or adminis-
tiators, by an instrument in writing under our, or then, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, 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 we, the said John Macintosh and William Boggett,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement
The object of our Invention is to give a coating of metal to elastic sub-
stances without destroying then elasticity With this intent we take india-
rubber, or a compound of india-rubber and paraffin or stearic acid, in small
tubes or strips, which in the first place we cover with cotton or other fibrous
materials dyed by preference of the same color as the metal employed as a
protection to the elastic materials, and then cover it with metal wire made
into a thread, as when employed in making gold lace, &c, by winding it on
spually with a covering machine, or braiding it, which we prefer by a braiding
machine The tubes or strips must be kept in a moderate state of tension by
a weight or other suitable means whilst being covered in order that they may
retain the proper degree of elasticity when finished. The fabric so produced
may then be plaited or sewn together to increase their width, or the stups or
tubes may, in place of being covered in the manner described, be woven with
the wire thread similar to elastic webbing by using one as the warp and the
other as the weft To prevent oxidation of the retal we use a transparent
varnish, preferring collodion oi copal
What we claim as our Invention is the method of coating elastic substances
in the manner herein-before described, and perfecting the metal from oxida-
tion by means of varnish.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Macintosh and William
Boggett, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day
of January, in the year of our Loid One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.
JOHN MCINTOSH.
(L.S)
WILLIAM BOGGETT. (LS)