An Improved Compound Fabric, applicable for Bed, Sofa, and other Coverings, Mattresses, Beds, and Pillows, Capes, Skirts, and other Articles of Dress, and for other analogous purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Compound Fabric, applicable for Bed, Sofa, and other
Coverings, Mattresses, Beds, and Pillows, Capes, Skirts, and other
Articles of Dress, and for other analogous purposes.
I FREDERICK EVANS JACKSON of 43 Piccadilly Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to procure an improved compound fabric which
possesses the properties of warmth and lightness combined with thorough venti-
lation, being at the same time economical in cost, capable of being easily washed,
and very durable in use.
The invention consists principally in the combination of a lining and covering
of suitable open or porous woven fabrics enclosing a wadding or filling of a
substance known in the trade aɛ "wood-wool."
This wadding or filling is placed between the covering and lining of open or
porous woven fabrics, and the whole united together into one compound fabric by
quilting, preferably by means of a sewing machine.
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The precise nature of the open or porous woven fabrics may be varied to a
considerable extent and they may be either plain or ornamental according to the
particular use for which the compound fabric is to be employed; and the strength
of the fabrics and the thickness of the wadding or packing of "wood wool "
also be varied according to the purpose required, being of course very much
thicker when to be used for a bed mattress, pillow or for upholstery purposes or
sofa cushion or the like than when the compound fabric is to be used only as a
quilt or other covering, or for a travelling rug or article of dress or other
like uses.
The "wood-wool" used for the wadding or filling may either be employed in the
crude state as it is manufactured or when the covering material is woven of a very
open design a pleasing effect may be produced by dyeing the "wood-wool" in
bright colors.
I also propose in some cases to medicate the "wood-wool" by steeping it in,
or otherwise applying thereto antiseptic, or other sanitary or medicinal solutions
or compounds.
Dated this 18th day of November 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Compound Fabric, applicable for Bed, Sofa, and other
Coverings, Mattresses, Beds, and Pillows, Capes, Skirts, and other
Articles of Dress, and for other analogous purposes.
I FREDERICK EVANS JACKSON, of 43 Piccadilly, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to produce an improved compound fabric which
possesses the properties of warmth and lightness combined with thorough venti-
lation, being at the same time economical in cost, capable of being easily washed,
and very durable in use.
The invention consists principally in the combination of a lining and covering
of suitable open or porous woven fabrics, enclosing a wadding or filling of a
substance known in the trade as "wood-wool."
This wadding or filling is placed between the covering and lining of open or
porous woven fabrics, and the whole united together into one compound fabric by
quilting, preferably by means of a sewing machine.
can
The precise nature of the open or porous woven fabrics may be varied to a
considerable extent and they may be either plain or ornamental according to the
particular use for which the compound fabric is to be employed; and the strength
of the fabrics and the thickness of the wadding or packing of "wood wool"
also be varied according to the purpose required, being of course very much
thicker when to be used as a bed mattress, pillow or for upholstery purposes, or
sofa cushions or the like than when the compound fabric is to be used only as a
quilt or other covering, or for a travelling rug or article of dress or for other
like uses.
The "wood wool" used for the wadding or filling is by preference made finer
than usual, say, about as thick as ordinary horse hair, and it may either be employed
in the crude state as it is manufactured or when the covering material is woven of
a very open design a pleasing effect may be produced by dyeing the "wood-wool"
in bright colors.
I also propose in some cases to medicate the "wood-wool" by steeping it in,
or otherwise applying thereto antiseptic, or other sanitary or medicinal solutions
or compounds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
An improved compound fabric consisting principally of a lining and covering of
suitable open or porous woven fabric combined with a wadding or filling of
"wood wool" substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set
forth.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.